Temptalia Asks You – How has the economy affected your beauty routine?

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Date: Friday, November 14th, 2008 Author:

How has the economy affected your beauty routine? Are buying less? Budgeting more? Finding cheaper staples?

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16 thoughts on “Temptalia Asks You – How has the economy affected your beauty routine?”

  1. Cat says:
    November 14, 2008 at 5:23 am

    Not really….the only reason I slowed down with my spending especially this X-mas is because I’m in the middle of purchasing my first house….yay.

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  2. Valerie says:
    November 14, 2008 at 6:52 am

    No, because I don’t drive, I still live with my parents and I’m 17.

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  3. katee "e-polishblog" says:
    November 14, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Nope!! Hasn’t slowed down my spending. If anything I think I am buying more! Now it seems like there are always great sales, like Sephora extended F&F, free shipping, etc. When the economy is bad everything goes on sale! So it’s a great time to shop! I feel like I am doing my part to stimulate the economy LOL

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  4. dee says:
    November 14, 2008 at 8:25 am

    I try to stick with things I really want or need. I still spend around the same, but there’s not so much of those impulse buys anymore.

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  5. lisa says:
    November 14, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Not really but i do tend to splurge at this time on xmas sets eg yesterday i bought the channel, dior and burberry xmas coffrets. This way i get to try and wear different fragrances for less than what it would cost to get full sized bottles. Another thing i tend to do is that if i want a certain product i would browse like 3 sites that have the product and if any of them has a gift with purchase for that product then i purchase it from them.

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  6. sej says:
    November 14, 2008 at 9:17 am

    I agree with the comments above. My spending hasn’t slowed down because of all the great sales, gift sets that I should be buying for others, but end up getting for myself, and the Sephora F&F sale recently. Maybe slowing down will be my new year’s resolution…

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  7. Tekoa says:
    November 14, 2008 at 9:18 am

    No influence. Plus, I’m in Canada. Our economy is fine.

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  8. Kella says:
    November 14, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Well, no, I’m in Canada. BUT.. our dollar sucks now, so I end up paying a lot more for makeup I order from the U.S. Which really pisses me off. Grrrr

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  9. Dawn says:
    November 14, 2008 at 10:49 am

    I’ve tried to budget myself, but MAC is the devil with all this good stuff coming out( and so are you Christine- temptress :) ~ so there is no way this budget thing is working. I’m slowly but surely maxing out my credit card, which isn’t good. But hey, I’ll be poor, living in a box but looking good! LOL

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  10. Nicole says:
    November 14, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    I try to purchase my MAC stuff, when I can get a 10% or 5 Euro discount. So I am going to buy my first quarters mascara next week with a 10 % discount and I am going for a new eye shadow to complete my collection. This approach needs a good calculation, but it works, because I will move to my own apartment next year and I need a lot of money for my furniture.

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  11. Vivian says:
    November 14, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    I find out that i’m spending more than ever! sadly, I wasn’t into makeup until two years ago and I didn’t buy tons of makies until last year, which may I add, I spent over $5000 in them and many of them I don’t even find uses of. I discarded some, and others, we’ll see.. I feel so guilty that I’m broke now. Oh, why…

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  12. viv says:
    November 15, 2008 at 3:18 am

    i’m glad i’m still a baby at home :P haha okay, maybe not a baby. i’ll be turning 17 in a month’s time, i’m trying to splurge less on make up but it’s quite hard. especially since the holidays are coming up and festivities always create a temptation for shopping!

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  13. j.a. says:
    November 16, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    My personal beauty routine is pretty simple: moisturizer and some occasional mascara and eyeliner. It’s the beauty of my clients that I’m worried about.

    There’s the fact that because of this economy, I really have to start looking for more effective and inexpensive products as well as maintaining a client base who will pay me without feeling like buying makeup services is a luxury.

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