Spending time understanding my relationship with makeup products is one of the things I'm glad to discover during the first half of this year. What started as an attempt to minimise my stash turned into a serious attempt to be more conscious of what I buy and what I put on my face. Thus, in today's post, I want to share my makeup goals for the next 6 months.
Pan some of my makeup items
For this goal, I want to focus on makeup items that are about to expire by December 2021. These makeup items include powders I have since last year and a mascara I bought several months ago. Although I'm confident to pan my powders before December, I'm worried that I'll have difficulty in using my mascara before it reaches its expiration date.
Mascaras are known for its shot shelf life, and since I rarely wear mascara, I'm planning to not purchase any mascaras in the future. Instead of mascara, I'm planning to just curl my lashes and leave my lashes as is.
Only buy 3 makeup products
I also want to limit the number of makeup items that I'll purchase since I want to allocate my money on more important things. Of the three goals, I know that this goal will be the most difficult to achieve since makeup brands are constantly releasing new makeup collections. I'm actually beginning to think that makeup brands are slowly turning into fast fashion brands in terms of the number of collections they release every season.
Anyway, the temptation to buy new makeup items is hard to resist especially when people are raving about it. It's hard to resist the urge to try what the other person says as the most pigmented in the market. I've been in several situations during the last 6 months when I almost bought an eyeshadow palette and several lip tints because I kept on seeing makeup reviews on Youtube. Thankfully, there were work tasks that kept me occupied.
2 down, 1 to go
As of today, I already bought a skin tint and a lip product. The skin tint I got is from Blk Cosmetics. Although I mentioned in my previous posts that I don't use any makeup base, I bought this tint because I want to cover the redness on my face sans the heaviness of foundations. Prior to buying this, I was contemplating on whether I should go for this or the Issy & Co. tint which looks promising. However, I opted for the Blk tint since it's the brand that has kiosks at malls near our place. Although it can be quite inconvenient to buy makeup products in stores than online, buying makeup items in store allows me to try and test the product before buying it. It saves money since I will get the shades that really match my skin tone.
As for the lip product, I was contemplating on whether I should buy this Happy Skin Tint or a Romand velvet tint. I've read a ton of great reviews for the Romand lip tint. The brand also offers a wider variety of shades. The only thing that kept me from buying the Romand velvet tint was the lack of a physical store that could've allowed me to swatch the velvet tints. Again, the decision to go for Happy Skin stems from my personal choice of swatching the products before buying it.
And just like that, I was able to check 2 boxes on my 3 makeup item rule. Whatever will be the last makeup item that I'll buy for this year, I hope that I'll buy it for all the right reasons.
Find make-up looks as my peg
The quest to look for a makeup peg still continues for a number of reasons:
- A makeup peg allows me to enjoy using the makeup items on my stash;
- Having a makeup peg is an exercise on temperance, innovation, and creativity; and
- Having a makeup peg saves so much of time because it minimises the time I spend on overthinking.
As much as I want to say that Francoise Hardy will be my makeup peg for the rest of the year, I know that I need to be more creative and look for other makeup pegs to try. Someone who has the same complexion as mine is a factor to take note of. Another, in case I can't find someone whose complexion matches mine, is that the makeup look should be easy to do.
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