A self professed make up junkie since I ‘borrowed’ some
lilac eyeshadow from my Barbie head box and added some purloined Great Lash
mascara. Fortunately some level headed
adults helped and so my I never really did go crazy, unless you consider
continued use of blue sparkly eyeliner, crazy.
Considering it was the 80’s and I was known as the girl in the bright
pink lipstick, I think I fared decently.
And since there’s really no photographic evidence, you’ll just have to
believe me.
Around 2011 I was lip gloss shamed, and to a certain degree,
my shamer wasn’t too far off. I did have
a purse full of very similar variations of a light brown, somewhat lavender
gloss, along with several varieties of rosy pink and the occasional darker
copper. And so I decided that maybe it
was time to finish up a few of those before adding to the collection. A sort of conscious consumerism. Apologies to the anti-Goopers in the crowd.
And for awhile it worked.
All was well until the makeup companies came up with what,
for me, was a dangerous combination.
Make up, in a box.
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| Spring 2014 Box from SDM line Quo |
Not new you say, well no, but something about the highly
stylistic boxes, and myriad of colours, caught me, and I fell hard for that
particular marketing scheme.
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| Fall 2013 Box from SDM Line Quo |
So here’s where I admit a certain proclivity for boxes as
well. And apparently eyeshadow.
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| Urban Decay Electric Palette - but can you blame me! |
And now, we have an entirely different problem. More eye shadow than one person can
reasonably use in a certain span of time.
Say the next 10 years. And so
now, again, I try to make a conscious attempt to control myself.
Apparently I already announced this in January, so even a
public declaration wasn’t enough to stop me.
But now, especially after a trip to the US where I was able to purchase
a few items I cannot here, I have decided to be sterner with myself. Since the truth of the matter is, really, at
the end of the day, there’s no real need for a self imposed embargo - I
probably already have whatever it is they’re offering.
erm... i just pulled out some fall colours from my nail polish bags, yes plural, and the counter's not covered, but there are a decent number of nail polish options on my teeny little vanity. a bit of defense, i didn't buy them all since january, many of them but not all of them. i don't recall ever actually finishing a bottle of nail polish, so there's that. and i think i found a gift box of 20 quo mini's for $20 over the summer, so added a lot all at once. needless to say i'm going to need another set of hands to wear all these colours. or make that feet.
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