Goat Goat Etc.
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I need to abolish my polish again.
The Purge
- Thread starter DILLIGAF
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I tossed roughly half my nail polish stash fairly recently.
DILLIGAF
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Here I am again. My lipstick storage tipped over and while I was putting items back in their place I decided to purge. Actually I started playing and doing lip swatches and some of them had to go.
- NYX Wicked Lippie in Betrayal. I love the color but I noticed there was silver glitter in it. I'm not a fan. Besides the NYX Simply Vamp Lip Cream in Temptress is the same color without the glitter
- MAC lipstick in High Tea. That Luster is doing nothing for me.
- MAC lipstick in High Def. I love this color but the scent has changed. Too bad its been discontinued.
- MAC lipstick in Chatterbox.
- Maybelline lipgloss in Mirrored Plum. A lipgloss has to be amazing for me to pay it any attention lately. This one isn't pigmented at all. It looks great with some of my purple lipsticks but its not good enough for me to keep it.
Twinkle_Twinkle
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Good to know!
I also purged recently. I have a little give away bag for my friends that I throw items into. I put a few WnW palettes in there, the last of my HC single eye shadows (the new iteration, not the original Sephora line), a free Maybeline luquid lipstick that I got with a ACW purchase, and MAC's Sunspill Loose Beauty Powder.
I also had the bright idea to go through all of my palettes and collect the sponge tip applicators and what nots out of them so that now I have a readily available stash.
I'm been tempted to have a major pigment sale/purge but I don't know... Maybe just putting myself on a pigment challenge for the month will change that.
DILLIGAF
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I feel you on this. Some of the older MAC mineralized products just aren't what I'm willing to use now. The mineralized formula has gotten better over the last few years. I think I will revisit most of they mineralized products especially the eyeshadows on my next purge.
Rebby Writer
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I actually just did a throw away, recently! I got rid of
Revlon Photoready primer because it would peel off of my face like a got a sunburn or something.
A couple of powder foundations. I think they were Covergirl..anyway, they were too dark.
I had some old liquid eyeliners that had dried out.
A L'oreal foundation stick that would always crease.
A tube of Rimmel eye primer that did nothing for me. It also was shimmery for some reason???
I had some flavored lip glosses that were old and seperating
L'oreal illuminating primer. Everytime I pumped some of it out, it was basically water. No matter how many times I shook it, it just wouldn't mix.
and not thrown away but used for something else. I have a L'oreal lip liner that I bought to match a dark lipstick but it ended being lighter than the lipstick I bought. I used it to mark something but I'm going to throw it away after I'm done with it.
Things I am thinking of trashing:
Lime Crime Cosmopop lipstick. The color makes me look like I have a case Howard the Duckface. I just think the tube is so cute and it's the most expensive lipstick that I have.
Maybellines The Nudes palette. Near impossible to get a good amount of color onto my eyelid. Too much effort to keep it but I got it only a few months ago..
Revlon photoready..skinlights, I think it's called in pink. It's a liquid highlight. A nice color but every time I put it on, it eats away at my foundation/wears it off. Also, I have some of the Colourpop highlights and I like them better.
I have a two-step mascara lying around somewhere that was too wide to grip and made my lashes stick together.
Revlon Photoready primer because it would peel off of my face like a got a sunburn or something.
A couple of powder foundations. I think they were Covergirl..anyway, they were too dark.
I had some old liquid eyeliners that had dried out.
A L'oreal foundation stick that would always crease.
A tube of Rimmel eye primer that did nothing for me. It also was shimmery for some reason???
I had some flavored lip glosses that were old and seperating
L'oreal illuminating primer. Everytime I pumped some of it out, it was basically water. No matter how many times I shook it, it just wouldn't mix.
and not thrown away but used for something else. I have a L'oreal lip liner that I bought to match a dark lipstick but it ended being lighter than the lipstick I bought. I used it to mark something but I'm going to throw it away after I'm done with it.
Things I am thinking of trashing:
Lime Crime Cosmopop lipstick. The color makes me look like I have a case Howard the Duckface. I just think the tube is so cute and it's the most expensive lipstick that I have.
Maybellines The Nudes palette. Near impossible to get a good amount of color onto my eyelid. Too much effort to keep it but I got it only a few months ago..
Revlon photoready..skinlights, I think it's called in pink. It's a liquid highlight. A nice color but every time I put it on, it eats away at my foundation/wears it off. Also, I have some of the Colourpop highlights and I like them better.
I have a two-step mascara lying around somewhere that was too wide to grip and made my lashes stick together.
Twinkle_Twinkle
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SAME!! Last year I gave away at least 8 of those suckers. I sold a lot of them previously. I still have 3 or 4 and I never reach for them. The staying power is abysmal and I don't love the finish...
Erica53094
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I get rid of stuff if it smells, separates, texture changes. I go through my stash seasonally but I will toss on a reg.basis if I notice texture is wrong etc. I probably need to do more but...I got rid of an eyeliner. Navy is not for me. Got rid of some mascaras. It was time. And the maybelline bb cream. The color was not right. And a couple lipsticks Different brands I don't remember which bc they smelled funky.
Erica53094
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Also I no longer buy makeup palette which is one reason I own no naked palette. No Lorac pro. I hardly use them. I usually only like one color in them so... I am not the biggest e/s wearer so I either stick to a few specific colors or if I do buy a new single it has to go w what I have. And my rule is no new primer, foundation, mascara until I use what I have. No having a cabinet full of half used foundations. Which is why I continually pass on EL Double Wear. Cannot buy until my current foundation is used. But tbh I am way worse w shampoo/conditioner so yup not buying any more until ALL are gone. I did toss the Loreal shampoo JLO promotes. Too drying! And I don't do the dupe thing. You end up w a bunch of close enough colors you still never use and you are still longing for the org product. What a waste!
Twinkle_Twinkle
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So what do you do when you separate undesirables from your collection with the intention of gifting them and people don't want them? I feel bad just throwing it away, but I guess I don't really have another option.
DILLIGAF
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If one group doesn't want them someone else will. I used to take my bag of undesirables to work if my firiends had gone through it and didn't want the rest. If its unused you can give it to a woman's shelter. If all of those options have been exhausted I throw it out. If I keep it around too long I start to think about adding back to my stash. I refuse to have do that anymore.
Twinkle_Twinkle
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That is exactly what is starting to happen!!
DILLIGAF
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Get it out your house NOW!!!!!
Erica53094
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I donate them to Goodwill.
Twinkle_Twinkle
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Does the GW take makeup?
Goat Goat Etc.
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I don't think it's impossible that they would but I think if they knew the brand well enough they'd put it up for auction in a glass cabinet.
Another avenue could be a battered womens shelter.
Erica53094
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I think Goodwill takes it. They sell makeup all the time. I live in a small town so Idk about a battered women's shelter but that is a terrific idea!
Twinkle_Twinkle
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New makeup means more purging and playing Tetris with my storage. This purge includes:
- Cargo blushes x5 (which includes the last of my Beach Blushes)
- Hard Candy Metero-eyes Baked Glitter Shadows x7 (the whole lot of them)
- Hard Candy Hot Smudge Cream Eyeliner
- HArd Candy Walk the Line Liquid Eyeliners x8 (the last of my HC d/s collection!!!)
- MAC Iridescent Powder Pressed (I think I'm going to B2MAC this actually)
- MAC Liquid Last Liners x8 (B2MAC!!)
- MAC Paint Pots x4 (dried out/never used colors)
- MAC Magically Cooling Liquid Powder (Cajun from Villainous Villans. I know...)
- Maybeline Color Tattoo, Tough as Taupe (What was I thinking?)
- Maybeline Lip Gloss
- Revlon Lipstick
- MUFE Lipstick Sample
- Stila Collectable Palette
- Stila Eyeshadow Trio
- Urban Decay Lounge blush (oldie, real oldie)
- Wet n Wild eyeshadow trio
- Various kabuki brushes
I really hope someone takes these. I don't think the GW takes opened makeup so I'd have to find a battered women's shelter (that what Temptalia does I believe).
- Cargo blushes x5 (which includes the last of my Beach Blushes)
- Hard Candy Metero-eyes Baked Glitter Shadows x7 (the whole lot of them)
- Hard Candy Hot Smudge Cream Eyeliner
- HArd Candy Walk the Line Liquid Eyeliners x8 (the last of my HC d/s collection!!!)
- MAC Iridescent Powder Pressed (I think I'm going to B2MAC this actually)
- MAC Liquid Last Liners x8 (B2MAC!!)
- MAC Paint Pots x4 (dried out/never used colors)
- MAC Magically Cooling Liquid Powder (Cajun from Villainous Villans. I know...)
- Maybeline Color Tattoo, Tough as Taupe (What was I thinking?)
- Maybeline Lip Gloss
- Revlon Lipstick
- MUFE Lipstick Sample
- Stila Collectable Palette
- Stila Eyeshadow Trio
- Urban Decay Lounge blush (oldie, real oldie)
- Wet n Wild eyeshadow trio
- Various kabuki brushes
I really hope someone takes these. I don't think the GW takes opened makeup so I'd have to find a battered women's shelter (that what Temptalia does I believe).
DILLIGAF
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When I saw Urban Decay Lounge I freaked out for a second. Then I realized you meant the blush not the newly released eyeshadow.
