My First YSL Lippie & my Sephora VIB Swag Bag Disappointment

I went on a mission to Sephora to  get a gift bag of samples called a “VIB Swag Bag” that I had gotten an email about a few days prior from Sephora with a bar code on it – good for August 6th to the 8th while supplies lasted.   So, I figured it would be a great time to get my first Yves Saint Laurent lipstick since I had to buy at least one thing (I didn’t actually need anything at the time) in order to get the VIB Swag Bag.  PERFECT!   First, the lipstick in which I love…there were not many to choose from, but that was OK.  I can find a needle in haystack if you paid me to.  Anyway, here is my very FIRST YSL lipstick called…

…YSL Rouge Volupte (SPF 15) in # 23 Ultraviolet- $34.00 – (my most expensive lipstick to date and worth it to me) which is described as a silky, sensual, radiant lipstick.  I describe the color as a medium-dark, corally color that has some pink  in it.  My pictures puts the color out as pink, but it isn’t.  My swatch show the truer color much better.  The lipstick goes on creamy and smooth and shows up opaque which I like.  Do not expect this lipstick to last long on your lips if you decide to eat or drink or wear all day because you will need to reapply.  After wearing this lipstick for a few hours with no eating or drinking I found that this lipstick can become somewhat drying so I had to reapply a little more to get the silky texture back.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a lipgloss to put over it and I don’t think I want to  put anything over an expensive YSL lipstick like this so I won’t be doing that.

The packaging is beautiful and it’s a joy to pull it out and apply my lipstick on the days I wear it.  It’s heavier than the normal lipstick because the gold parts of the packaging is made of some kind of metal which is nice.  I like how you can see the lipstick color through the packaging for easy access too.

Overall, I love this lipstick and I will definitely will be buying a few more in the future.  I had gone into Sephora thinking I was going to pick up the new YSL lipstick in Mesmerizing, but they they didn’t have it.  All they had were the new lipglosses.  I’m guessing I’m going to have to go to a department store for that because I want to swatch it before I buy.  Anyway, that’s my review on my first YSL lippie.

Now, on to the Sephora VIB Swag Bag drama.

Call me a baby or whatever you like, but when I expect something to be the way it is said to be then I expect nothing different.  And no, samples were not noted as subject to change.  Yes sh!t happens, but I can’t see how this kind of sh!t could have happened – it’s samples for crying out loud.  I get my YSL lipstick up to the counter to pay for it and to redeem my VIB Swag Bag and the girl behind it said that she had no more bags like the particular one in my email printout, but she said that the same samples on the email were in the bag she was going to give me.  Cool!  Cool because the bag that she was giving me was much better for me than the one in the email.

I didn’t check the contents of my samples because, one,  she assured me  (I’ll never trust again like that), some customer had knocked over one of the Sephora brush holders behind us (small plastic beads every where), my man was ret tah go eat and the Sephora reps wanted us out of there for fear that he’d fall since he was carrying my sleeping 2 year old.

We leave Sephora, I hit up another store and we go have dinner.  I get home and none of the samples that were promised was in my VIB Swag Bag.  I immediately felt sad because I wanted my buttons and I wanted to test out my samples which were supposed to be…

- two Sephora buttons

- Clarins Multi Active Serum (.35 oz)

- Smashbox Photo Op Under Eye Brightner (.13 oz)

- Laura Mercier mini Nude Tinted Moisturizer (.5 oz)

- Urban Decay Stardust EyeShadow in Retrograde (.035 oz)

- Sephora Collection Atomic Volume Mascara (.1 oz)

- Dr. Brandt Collagen Booster (.17 oz)

- Phyto Phytodefrisant (.5 oz)

-  black swag bag

…and I didn’t get it.  Instead I got some lame (lame to me) samples from Juicy Beauty, Philosophy, Kate Somerville, Strivectin, bleh.

On the brighter side, I got this cool (the coolest shopping bag I own now and I have A LOT of shopping bags) black and silver Sephora shopping bag that reflects when you move it around in light, has some cool pics of skeletons, skulls, wings, totally inspired by Kat von D’s tattoos I’m thinking that has silver studs holding the bag handles on.  The bag is not cloth, but soft plastic like yet durable.  It’s dark, gory and so me.  Sweet.  So, I love the shopping bag and I wish I had a back up. *wink*

Here are the pics of my super cool Sephora shopping bag (lol) and my so so lame product samples…

Last, but not least.  I sent a correspondence (not a complaint!) to Sephora corporate sharing how disappointed I was  like I always do when stuff like this happens so they are aware of it.   I love Sephora and they know it because I tell them every time I get at them.  I just really wanted those samples.  Oh well, maybe next time.  Thanks for looking!