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Sunday, April 26, 2020

I had a problem...

I am a make-up and beauty Junkie. There were YEARS where I was a VIB Rouge member with Sephora- that's at least $1000 a year on make up and beauty products. 
Over the last year and a half I have been working to reduce my addiction to pretty things I don't really use that often. 
Last year I did a Low-buy, where I reduced purchases each month, but didn't limit myself if I "Really wanted something".
This year I am 4 months through a No-buy.  That is NO new purchases in the WANT category.  So this does not include: Shaving creme, shampoo or conditioner, body wash or face wash. But I am using up all of my sample sizes this year before buying more.
I will say that I do have a subscription to FabFitFun where I do get some beauty products Once a quarter so that's my exception this year. 
At Christmas the plan has been to get myself a nice product that I have been wanting for the year instead of lots of mid-range and cheap products throughout the year.

So what exactly am I trying to use up: YEARS of makeup hording, lotions, foundations and concealers, eye shadows, mascaras, Masks so many masks. So today I am taking stock of what I have so I can refer back to this when I think about what I have completed each month.

Primers: 11
Foundations: 11 full size, 3 sample size
Highlighters:20
Blushes:10
Bronzer/contour: 7
Finishing Powder: 2 full size, 4 sample sizes
Eye shadow Pallets: 6
Individual Eye shadows: 11
Eyeliners: 8
Mascaras: 3 (only 1 open at a time)
Brow products: 4
Lip products; Glosses, sticks, pencils: At least---41 I have many hiding in bags and purses that I am not going to track down for this count
Lotions: 2 open an additional 6 after that to work through
Face masks: 5 sheet masks, 5 full size mask products
Peels: 3
Serums: 8

Just in making this list there are clearly some products I may never need to buy again.  Blush and highlighter take the top of that list. 

I also need to be okay with getting pretty with no where to go. It's okay to look nice for myself during quarantine and in fact I need to if I want to make progress on any of these products this year. 

Okay well that's it for me for now...
-C

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