Hi and thanks for dropping by my blog. This blog will be dedicated to my love for makeup and for controlling my shopping habit. I have been buying too much makeup and clothes. It's time to slow it down and use what I have more efficiently. I am running out of places to put them and makeup do expire. Here are some no buy tips that I found online, youtube and some that I came up with on my own.
1) Organize your stash. If you have a large enough stash look around and find something that you hardly use. You might end up loving it and if it does not work out, put it up on swap.
2) Swapping is a great way to get new or used makeup. You are also getting rid of something that you no longer use. Makeupalley is a great place to do that but beware of swaplifters.
3) Check out make up looks that are trendy at the moment and recreate the looks with your current stash especially with the new MAC collections. Chances are you already have really similar colors.
4) Try going on a project 10 pan. This is where you pick out a certain amount of products (It does not have to be 10, it could be any amount you want) and you use them up and you cannot open anything new until you finish them. I never went on one. It looks too tough.
5) Remember that swatches may look different but once they are applied they will look really similar.
6) Before you purchase something new, think about all the other makeup you have.
7) Try out different combinations of primer base and eyeshadows, or lipliner, lipstick and gloss to achieve different looks.
8) Rotate your makeup. If you are going through a makeup rut as EmilyNoel would put it, try switching the usual products you use. Give all your makeup a fair chance of usage.
9) Stop purchasing back ups. If you are like me and you loving having back ups of your favorite make up, you should rethink this since makeup expires. Once you get a chance to open it in a few years it might of went bad already.
10) Avoid sales. This is extremely hard for most people but think about how much you can save if you avoid them.
Good luck for all of you who are on a low or no buy.
Here's my NOTD-LA splash in french sparkle
