Sephora is now shipping to the UK, so many lemming! I have created an account and a loves list, now going to try sitting on my hands to prevent me ordering! Following my full investory of my stash at the weekend, I have been doing a lot of thinking, I am a long way off my ideal stash sizes and I recognise I can't get there overnight, equally I don't want to ban myself from buying anything as I suspect that could be counter productive. Instead I am making March a consolidation month, so here is what I plan 13 (6) primers
- concentrat on using up the minis and sample sizes 23 foundations
Already doing quite well here, a large proportion are half used, I am concentrating on using up by having 2-3 different formulas in rotation. 15 (6) concealer
only 11 are opened, I am going to try to use up those that have less than 50% left first. 11 bronzers
Umm I never wear bronzer so why do I have so many! I think I could get away with 3-4 so I am going to test them out over the next 2 months and work out which ones I like best. maybe I will get rid of surplus drugstore ones too/ 14 powders
I can't believe I had so many!, I want to keep the hourglass ones and the guerlain ones, the drugstores are on there way out I suspect and the mac ones I will try to use up 7 highlighters
Umm like bronzer I don't where these a lot! I think I need 3-4 a gold, champagne and a pink one and maybe a cream ? Like bronzers I will look to get rid of the drugstore ones. 2 setting sprays
Fix + is nearly finished so I will be down to one in the next month or so, no real action required here! 57 blushes
My biggest weakness I wear it everyday, not sure how to tackle this one for now so I am going to leave these as is for now and concentrate on tackling ares where I think I can make progress. 58 mac shadows
I reorganised these to put my favourites in a 15 pan palette and a Quad, I think if i purchased another quad I might be close to the right number, I know there is at leasts 7 shadows I never wear so maybe I will try to get this to 30 shadows then condense down from there. I also know that I don't like my chunky double palette so I am going to sell this and get another 15 pan palette for now until I condense down to 15 shadows. 35 single shadows
Umm not sure how to attack this so I am going to leave this for now. 18 duos/trios/quads
I think I can do quite alot of stash reducing her I prob only use around 8 of them so I may get rid of the drugstore ones then I can think more about the higher end ones. 21 palettes
Tempted to do a seriously bit of clearing out. I am definitely keeping my yaby palette as I love the mini sizes of the colours and use the pearl paint formula as eyeliner a lot. I am also going to keep my naked basics and laura mercier artist palettes. Drugstore palettes that never get touched will prob go. The hardest descision will be what to do with my Naked 1,2, & 3 palette, they don't get used much ? I might make these my april challenge to use these as my only shadows and see if I fall in love with them, if not it might be time to say goodbye ? 37 cream shadows
oh dear, this was the biggest shock I think, I can't believe I have soo many! This area needs some significant work in my opinion as cream shadows don't last forever. i want to keep my Laura Mercier Cavier sticks and the estee lauder cream shadows. The bobbi brown ones are BNIB still so maybe I should sell those. The maybelline ones are not far off drying out so they should go out in the next couple of months. The biggest culprit thought is my sue devitt chunky cream shadow pencils, I got them cheap in tk maxx before christmas and bought every shade, now I need to decide which to keep and which should go. 7 brow products
Not too fussed by this, its one pencil, 2 powders, one of which I can already see a lot of pan on and 3 brow gels, 2 open and 2 BNIB. I think I can get this to my ideal this year without a lot of effort. 14 (11) mascaras
Again only 3 opened a sample a full size and my bottom lash mascara. I get through mascara quickly and a lot of these are sample sized so I think I will be close to target by the end of the year. 49 high end lipsticks
i just need to work through them slowly and identify the formulas and colours that don't work for me and slim this down gradually. 41 drugstore lipsticks
I just need to slowly work through them and see which ones I don't like the colour or formula and get this down gradually 30 (15) lip glosses
At least 15 are BNIB right ? I might sell those that are not opened that are not drugstore, I might gift some to give and make up and then I need to check those that are open are still usable. 23 lip crayons
I know that some of the colours/formulas don't work too well on me, so again I need to go through them slowly and test to get this down. 7 lip pencils
This is okay, some are close to finishing, not too worried about this. 7 gel liners
3 are BNIB and of the other 4 I think 3 are past there best. As the 3 BNIB are all black ones I will only open one at a time. 55 pencil liners
Not sure where to start! 11 liquid liners
7 of these are unopened, so I am going to concentrate on the opened ones for now! 7 cream blushes
i am going to try to use these up this year and just keep one, I seem to go to powder versions before I go for a cream. 38 loose shadows
5 of these are my MAC FS pigments which don't get enough love, 8 are bare minerals shadows which i need to slim down to just 2-3 that i use. The rest are fyrinnae and mac pigment samples. I might put these in the swap thread as I don't think they will get enough use given the volume of single shadows and palettes above! On the whole I feel slightly down about it, but I now just want to attack each category in a calm manor, I think by taking out the stuff that doesn't work for me and those which might be past its best I should be able to get closer to my ideal. I plan to re-do the inventory at the end of June to see where I am getting too!
The tracking the spending is a great idea!! I started yesterday since it was the first of the month. Now to see where to cut corners of useless spending. Off to 'mother and son day' at my sons school. The boys get to take mommy out on a date and to a special show. I'm so excited. $75 for me and him so better be somewhere good! LOL (he's 5) 
