Quite pleased with myself. The PC, MN & Huggables collections were my final permitted splurge before the official low-buy starts. Have/will still haul plenty from them (waiting for online department store release to get loyalty points) but... Only got 2 PC lipsticks instead of the 3 I planned to, after I saw how similar Studded Kiss is to Diva. I can B2M for that later in the year if I really decide I need it. Huggables, I ordered Commotion to try the formula, and swatched the rest at counter today. I was still considering 3 others, but after seeing them IRL there's only 1 left on the list, and that's a maybe. Considering What a Feeling - I don't have a cool light pink like that in my stash and I can see it being a good office staple. OTOH, I'm not a huge fan of the bullet shape, and if it feathers on me as much as Commotion I should probably wait to find something similar in a better formula for me. I think I'll end up passing on it TBH MN - I was originally looking at: 2 l/s, 2 l/g, 1 blush, 1 f/l, 1 edsf, 1 e/s - up to 8 items total. Swatched this today, and have cut down the list further. Only getting 1 lippie (Morning Rose, exactly the kind of colour where I identified a relative gap in my collection). The lg I am skipping completely. Steel Kiss, which I thought was a definite buy looks so unique and beautiful in the tube, but on the lips it could be almost any other neutral gloss. Also skipping the fluidline - looks pretty but I know it would dry up before I could use most of it. Blush (Autoerotique), e/s (Silver Dawn) and edsf (superb - a surprise, I thought for sure FP would be my pick) remain on the list. I picked up Superb straight away as that's one of the few things sold out on the Mac site, the rest I will wait for online elsewhere, and won't cry (too much lol) if I miss any of them. So... although it's a final splurge, even that was cut down to 7 items from 3 collections instead of up to 15 on my original list. I guess this low buy mentality is starting to kick in already, hurrah!
