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Originally Posted by arctical
what if you're trying to build up a COLLECTION? how will you collect if you have to keep throwing things out every 2-3 years? i know it's not realistic to say im "collecting" and not ever going to use the products.
But i've started collecting and don't plan to open about 3/4 of what i buy until much later, or when i particularly need something.
if none of these products are OPENED, how long should they last?
blush, shadow, anything powder i know i can expect to last quite a long time if its still in its package. but what about things like gloss and lipsticks? what about shadesticks??
i know there aren't published professional answers to all of this, but what do you guys think?
how long have you ever kept your makeup, and how long would you say it kept until it went bad?
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I can understand the wish of having a huge make-up collection, but I guess the limits come from that this is a product which can change, in contrast to other collectibles like, well, books, clothes, CDs (even though these also will not last forever, but you get the idea) which stay the same, especially when not used or not used often.
It´s the same with collecting perfume, also there the product ingredients put a limit to this. There are people who keep perfume for a long time, and of course cool and dark, but still the product can change.
Thus the make-up which is more dry, like the powders and eyeshadows, are going to last for a longer time, as you also mentioned (several years probably) but everything with oils in it, such as lipstick or cremes, will inevitably go rancid after latest five years.
My personal experience is that powders, blushes and e/s absolutely never went bad, and some things I´ve had for over 7 years -and of course un-used things lasted longer. Lipsticks by MAC have lasted very well so far, too, but no longer than 4 years (when in use and still kept cool / dark), then they started smelling funny.
Most n/p I have (by other brands) started to separate already a few months after purchasing
and Lipgloss is hard to store, too, so unopened 2 years would be the maximum as well.
Probably when you build up a collection you can plan in a few years for your products, but it can happen that the money is wasted and stuff goes bad before you´ll even start using it.
