I feel like it was time my blog had a brand spankin’ new anti haul post. Lately, brands seem to be pushing things out left and right. And while that can be exciting, it is equally as overwhelming. Aside from not having all the money in the world, I just literally cannot keep up. So, I thought I would share with you all the makeup/beauty purchases I know I won’t be buying.
As you know, one of my favorite things to do is shop my stash. Seriously! I get so much joy out of picking different things to use each week. During one of my recent rotations I noticed that over the past year there’s been an increase in the amount of drugstore products I’ve been using. In fact, I’m not only rotating between more drugstore products, I am thoroughly enjoying them and find myself choosing them over some of my high end favorites.
Did you think I was done? If you read the first part of this series (you can read HERE), you will know that I did a “round-up” of my eyeshadow palette purchases from Sephora during 2018 and provided my thoughts on each palette, let you know how much use I truly got out of each one, which have been decluttered, etc. One day when I unexpectedly had the morning off from work (thanks horrible, cold, rainy weather), I went through all of my Ulta emails and decided I’d do a second part dedicated to my Ulta eyeshadow palette purchases.
One of the things I told myself I would do in 2019 is shop my stash more and take a backseat to palette buying. As you might be able to tell from this blog and my Instagram page, I haven’t been doing that good of a job so far. However, when I saw Melt Cosmetics release the brand new Blueprint Stack, I immediately drooled over it. I knew this was something I really wanted. The swatches, the presentation of it, and the tutorials/looks I’ve seen on it so far have been beautiful. Personally, blue shadows aren’t shades that I reach for often, so I felt that shopping my stash for similar shades would be the better option for myself.
I thought this would be a fun post to look back on and reflect on what eyeshadow products I bought last year, whether I still have them, how I feel about them, etc. I decided to do this with only Sephora purchases as I was able to go far back and see what I had picked up. Are you ready to dive in with me?! Hope so!
I am actually quite surprised that I didn’t buy too many palettes the first 7 months of the year… wait a minute. Actually, I’m not surprised. I know that I tend to stay away from Sephora the first few months of the year because I spend my holidays buying tons of makeup. Thankfully, that did not happen this year, but I remember doing that years prior. Either way, I wanted to make this post to show myself just how much I buy and hopefully talk myself out of buying so many unnecessary eyeshadow palettes because I don’t need them all.
I’m here to provide quick thoughts on what items I liked and didn’t like from the first round of the Sephora Spring VIBR sale! You can read my initial haul post HERE. I always like hearing how people ended up liking the things they purchased and sometimes we don’t get an update (which I’m guilty of myself) but I figured I’d do one! So here we go!
So I decided I would do a blog post on the things I picked up during the first weekend of the VIBR sale. There were some things I included in my wishlist (which you can read about here) and some that I ended up picking up just for mere interest. I have used some of these items and am happy to provide thoughts on them!
I saw this tag created by Angelica Nyqvist on YouTube and decided that it would be a great tag to do since there are some limited edition items I could never get rid of (for sentimental purposes) etc!
As I was gathering some pink items from my makeup collection to take a photo of for instragram I began to notice some items in there that I hadn’t touched in quite a while. While I do try my hardest to use as many products as I can on a weekly basis (this has been a fun thing for me to do since January), I noticed some things that hadn’t made it into my makeup rotation –
Can you believe we’re already at Sephora’s first of two VIB sales for the year?! It feels like just yesterday I was busy planning out my wishlist for their 2017 holiday sale. Anyway, with the sale starting next week, I thought I would share
