Hello ladies just checking in after taking some time to catch up on the weekends posts. Nice to hear everybody's progress and general thoughts about consumption as well. Alot of interesting points have been brought up, and although there's really too much to respond to everything the things that really stood out to me right now were the idea of getting away from the 'fantasy world' that we are surrounded by, and also the idea that instant gratification of all our wants will not necessarily make us happy. We need to have dreams and hopes as well. (Maybe for other things than the perfect mlbb lipstick, but maybe not). A few years ago, before I got fully immersed in makeup madness, I already felt I had 'too much makeup'. (It was nothing compared to now, but still more than your average person.) To help myself keep my acquisitions in check, I use to remind myself that there was no product I could buy that was going to make me more beautiful or more desirable. Strange thing to say, but it worked. I managed to get through three years buying only mascara replacements, one eye shadow quad, one lipstick and a random drugstore multitasking cream product. I'm not sure what happened, but maybe it was the accessibility of makeup counters and drugstores near where I was living, combined with the increasing ease of online shopping and a little dose of boredom? Boom! I feel like I went back to my old ways and then some. I've been doing alright in my low-buy...one nail polish, one fluid line and a bunch of empty pro palettes to help me organize. Last night I depotted 16 eye shadows that had been floating around my makeup drawer causing major morning havoc... All cleared up! And it made me focus on those 16 shades and think about how much i love them...so i feel excited about incorporating them in this week's looks. Next week i'll be depotting blushes, and the week after large size shadows and pressed pigments. I've decided to include swaps in my purchases. So far I'm in the process of two swaps, and they've each cost me $17. I'm going to include that as part of my monthly spending on makeup. I feel like even the pro palettes, although they are organizational, I also would like to include them because I'd like to control my spending in general. I'd like to get to the point where apart from replacing my staples when they are depleted, I only purchase other makeup items occasionally, so that i can enjoy them as the luxuries they really are.
