Lately I have been so overwhelmed by the amount of makeup that I own, so to help combat that I have been going through my makeup and decluttering it, using up products, and actually trying products out more than once. I remember in high school when I would wear makeup everyday, yet I only had a little concealer kit for dark circles from physicians formula (which I think you can still buy? you can!), the maybelline one by one mascara, a smokey eyeshadow quad from maybelline, an eyeliner (it varied what one I got each time), and one lip gloss from bath and body works. That was it.
It all fit in a small makeup bag I stole from my older sister! Then I graduated high school and bought a foundation and powder set from covergirl the clean one for sensitive skin and then my oldest sister gave me an Avon lipstick and boom I was hooked. I found out about beauty youtubers and man did I watch so much youtube right away! I would make a list of all of the products that the beauty vlogger would recommend and eventually try to purchase all of them, thinking that each new product would be better and be awesome and make me so happy. But that product didn't do it, so I need to try a different one, maybe that one will, on and on until I had way more makeup than one person could use.
I now have a three drawer sterilite container full of makeup, granted that is after an entire year of working to get everything to fit in there from a nine drawer craft supply stand, plus a small bin with all of my high end eyeshadow palettes. It was ridiculous! I have cut my makeup collection in half over the last year and I am extremely proud of that, but I still have a ways to go before I am fully happy with the makeup that I own. For a long time, I foolishly thought that I needed a drugstore counterpart to every high end item I had, which is ridiculous. I so badly wanted to be rich, beautiful, and look like I had it all together like all of the beauty youtubers. But I am not them, I'm awkward (and not in the cute way), and weird, and sometimes really loud, I cry a lot at stupid things (just ask my sisters), I talk about poop way more than anyone should (also I have a bowel disease, which kind of explains this one), frankly I'm super poor right now because I just graduated college, I get gout (which is a type of arthritis that normally middle aged men get, of which I am neither), my life is crazy but not in a way that makes for good stories and I'm not that good at makeup. I am not them, I am me.
Anyway, back to culling my makeup, this year I plan to spend at least a week with basically every single product I own and determine what I actually love and will use. Like for example, a year ago I had 9 (omg yikes) contouring type palettes now I have 2 but only 1 is the traditionally contouring palette with 6 shades, because I don't contour a lot because I have a weird face shape and chubby cheeks that look weird when contoured too much. I definitely did not need 9! I just went back and looked at my inventory from January 2016 and counted, I didn't even know I had had that many! I still think 2 is a little much but I'm going to use them up and then I'll probably repurchase one of the wet n wild contouring duos or just use a bronzer, who knows. I want to eventually have like a capsule makeup collection, simply because I don't think I could get down to what would be considered a minimalist collection (like what I had in high school lol). This whole post is happening simply because I couldn't decide between three blushes that looked similar, the only three that look like that in my collection, but I think having three is excessive because two are dupes for each other and one is similar but has a lighter base color but very similar shimmers and glitters. (In case you were wondering it is the japonesque blush in shade 03, nars orgasm, and thebalm's hot mama (which is a itty bitty sample size)). I would eventually like to get down to 100 or less products, I'm currently in the mid 200's, hopefully by 2018 I will have it culled down and I will love all of the products I have. My one main issue now is that I like, genuinely like, trying out new products, but then I have a hard time deciding which I like better or what I am going to keep or get rid of.
Wow, sorry for the super rambley post. It is basically just a stream of consciousness from my brain to the computer
TL;DR I hoarded makeup and now I don't want to hoard it anymore and weird life story/motivational pep talk
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| The one on the far right was the one I had and it was the bomb |
It all fit in a small makeup bag I stole from my older sister! Then I graduated high school and bought a foundation and powder set from covergirl the clean one for sensitive skin and then my oldest sister gave me an Avon lipstick and boom I was hooked. I found out about beauty youtubers and man did I watch so much youtube right away! I would make a list of all of the products that the beauty vlogger would recommend and eventually try to purchase all of them, thinking that each new product would be better and be awesome and make me so happy. But that product didn't do it, so I need to try a different one, maybe that one will, on and on until I had way more makeup than one person could use.
I now have a three drawer sterilite container full of makeup, granted that is after an entire year of working to get everything to fit in there from a nine drawer craft supply stand, plus a small bin with all of my high end eyeshadow palettes. It was ridiculous! I have cut my makeup collection in half over the last year and I am extremely proud of that, but I still have a ways to go before I am fully happy with the makeup that I own. For a long time, I foolishly thought that I needed a drugstore counterpart to every high end item I had, which is ridiculous. I so badly wanted to be rich, beautiful, and look like I had it all together like all of the beauty youtubers. But I am not them, I'm awkward (and not in the cute way), and weird, and sometimes really loud, I cry a lot at stupid things (just ask my sisters), I talk about poop way more than anyone should (also I have a bowel disease, which kind of explains this one), frankly I'm super poor right now because I just graduated college, I get gout (which is a type of arthritis that normally middle aged men get, of which I am neither), my life is crazy but not in a way that makes for good stories and I'm not that good at makeup. I am not them, I am me.
Anyway, back to culling my makeup, this year I plan to spend at least a week with basically every single product I own and determine what I actually love and will use. Like for example, a year ago I had 9 (omg yikes) contouring type palettes now I have 2 but only 1 is the traditionally contouring palette with 6 shades, because I don't contour a lot because I have a weird face shape and chubby cheeks that look weird when contoured too much. I definitely did not need 9! I just went back and looked at my inventory from January 2016 and counted, I didn't even know I had had that many! I still think 2 is a little much but I'm going to use them up and then I'll probably repurchase one of the wet n wild contouring duos or just use a bronzer, who knows. I want to eventually have like a capsule makeup collection, simply because I don't think I could get down to what would be considered a minimalist collection (like what I had in high school lol). This whole post is happening simply because I couldn't decide between three blushes that looked similar, the only three that look like that in my collection, but I think having three is excessive because two are dupes for each other and one is similar but has a lighter base color but very similar shimmers and glitters. (In case you were wondering it is the japonesque blush in shade 03, nars orgasm, and thebalm's hot mama (which is a itty bitty sample size)). I would eventually like to get down to 100 or less products, I'm currently in the mid 200's, hopefully by 2018 I will have it culled down and I will love all of the products I have. My one main issue now is that I like, genuinely like, trying out new products, but then I have a hard time deciding which I like better or what I am going to keep or get rid of.
Wow, sorry for the super rambley post. It is basically just a stream of consciousness from my brain to the computer
TL;DR I hoarded makeup and now I don't want to hoard it anymore and weird life story/motivational pep talk
