hi everyone! i’m sure you’re wondering what in the f*cking world is going on with this weather like i currently am. i was out earlier trying to live my life in the sunny 70 degree weather, aka get a bougie salad for lunch at protein bar, when next thing i know the temperature dropped like 10 degrees and tbh so did my mood but i refuse to let the sudden gloomy weather bring me down!!!!! what better way to remedy that then with talking about makeup, am i right?!
today i’m talking about makeup that no longer sparks joy (yup i just said that) and that i never reach for anymore. a few weeks ago i started slowly transitioning my clothes from winter to spring/summer and was able to really look at what i’m still interested in wearing or not. side note: it’s interesting to see how much my style choices change whenever i do this during season transitions. i also realized i really needed to get rid of a lot of makeup that i have no business keeping on my vanity anymore. here is all the makeup i’m saying goodbye to, but before i do, i thought i’d write a post as somewhat of a send off.
i have a lot of products that don’t work out for me for one reason or another, and they accumulate in the back of my makeup collection where they start collecting dust. this is what i call my makeup graveyard. it’s where makeup that i purchased, didn’t like or never used, and never returned them, goes to die. i know myself and what products i truly obsess over, so these are the products that i’ve just totally moved on from. some of them i just really didn’t like, and others i just happened to find other products i liked better, so i never looked back.
let’s start with the primers in this pic. there’s technically nothing wrong with the too faced hangover rx primer, i just never reach for it anymore. before i discovered the smashbox primerizer (read my post where i rave about it if you haven’t yet!) the hangover rx was my SH*TTTTT. i used it on the regz, even when i wasn’t wearing any foundation because i loved the coconut smell, and i felt like it was moisturizing. it legit smells like you’re putting a pina colada on your face. but it’s long been abandoned for the smashbox one for about a year now, so time to say goodbye. as for the nyx angel veil, i never really loved or hated it, but it does hold a special place in my heart as being one of the first primers i ever tried.
now onto the foundations that are going buh-bye. i won’t go too in depth on why they didn’t work for me because i wrote a whole post on them which you can check out here! i was keeping these in my collection for absolutely no reason other than false hope i might use them again. i’m on the verge of decluttering my nars one, but i’m still convinced i might use it and fall in love with it again. i’m likely just in denial because it was esssspensive and i love nars as a brand in general. but who am i kidding, i can’t stop using my loreal pro glow and too faced born this way foundations. they’re so perfect for me that i don’t even have my eyes on any other foundations!
y’all know i love colourpop with all my heart, so i was sad to admit that these concealers just really didn’t work out for me personally. i know there are people who loveeeee this concealer, but i think because it’s matte, it just really wasn’t my thang. i even purchased a couple shades to try and match my typical concealer shade but even that didn’t sway me. i definitely wanted it to work for me, given that it’s only $6 !!!!! but unfortunately i just wasn’t wow’d by it so i only reach for my tarte shape tape and maybelline fit me concealers. i just purchased the new(ish) jouer concealer, so will likely be dedicating a post to concealers sometime soon!
and finally – one of the products i think i might be pickiest about – bronzers. i used this rimmel bronzer a few times and i didn’t necessarily have any problems with it, but at the end of the day, i just wasn’t in love with it. on the other hand, that thrive causemetics bronzer is a godd*mn travesty. the first time i used it i almost had a panic attack. it looked like i had thrown mud on my face and left it there for a week. i was getting ready to go out so it reminded me i should never try new products when i’m going somewhere even semi-important. the only reason i’ve had a hard time saying goodbye to this sooner is because that sh*t wasn’t cheap!
the moral of the story here is that i realized that decluttering things that i don’t love and never use is so therapeutic for me. it’s actually wonderful to only be surrounded by products (and literally anything else in life) that make me happy. the way i see it, i’m making room for other products to try and possibly love or hate. i was kind of on a no-buy for a few months to save money but i also didn’t really have space for new stuff. now i’ve got hella space for all the new things! and if you’re trying to figure out how to declutter your makeup collection, i’d recommend thinking of what you would take on a trip with you, which is how i came to figure out my tried and true products. ok bye happy saturday!!!!!
