What’s the oldest beauty product you have that you keep for sentimental reasons? Share!
I have some older MAC lipglosses that I wouldn’t dare wear, but I keep because they were my first glosses.
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I still have that Kat Von D lipstick in Celebutard (awful name, lovely colour) that I purchased in 2011 because it was the first product I bought when a Sephora JCP opened. It’s still okay as far as smell and colour goes but I still end up feeling weird having it that long, lol, but I’m trying to at least use that up.
I have a couple antique Nylotis blush compacts I keep because they’re cool, and a couple fancy powder tins that were my Grandma’s.
It might be a L’Oreal Delice Lipstick in Fraise. It was my go-to shade for years! The shade itself is a gorgeous semi-sheer pinky-red with gold shimmer and a lot of shine. Totally up my alley. 😉
MAC Lollipop Loving lipstick. It was one of my first MAC lipsticks, and the Sugar Sweet collection came out right when I started getting really into makeup and YouTube.
Chanel Mademoiselle lipstick, which my mom gave me three (four?) years ago. It was my very first lipstick (I was in my mid-twenties and super late to the makeup party) and it came with me everywhere. I can never wear it again, but I can’t throw it out either. Same goes for a tiny quad of glittery blue and silver Lancôme eye shadows, which were also a gift from my mom. These days, I have more makeup than her 😛
I have one deep olive green eye liner which is pretty small in size and about 5 yeras old! 😛 I still have it as it was my first beauty purchase along with a Revlon lipstick. I have them both God knows what will happen with them eventually but so far there are somewhere there!
many products from these MAC collections that came out yrs ago Barbie,Heatherette,Lure
It’s a lipstick by a brand called Flirt! which is MAC’s sister brand. The formula is called High Wattage and the color is ACE. This brand is available at Kohl’s and the lipstick shade has not been discontinued…that’s why I haven’t bought me a new one. But I do love this color and in fact I may need to buy back ups before it gets discontinued.
I have some old 60s makeup of my mothers. I’d never use it though, it stinks!
An old Estee Lauder lipstick – Pure Eden. It comes with me on every road trip and I have no idea why!
My mothers Versace lipstick in V2704. It’s even brighter than Candy Yum Yum! I wish I had kept my first bottle of Anais Anais, the only perfume I was allowed to wear when I started high school.
My oldest beauty product is a lipstick from Margaret Astor that i bought when I was a high school student. The shade is not a little bit out of fashion (remids me of that 90’s brownish shades from Bobbi Brown) but it still works for me. 🙂
Bath and Body Works blush in Spiced Peach – best color ever! I keep it even though it’s all old and dry now because once in awhile I go on a dupe quest!
I have few. I’ve got my very first lipgloss by wet’n’wild xD but I think i threw it out only recently (after 10+ years of purchase?). I’ve got Gosh pigments from 2004. Glam shine cream lipstick in shade 205 sexy plum, wich I loved in 2006? And I keep essence smokey eyes set from 2011, a sally hansen nail prisms varnish from 2006 tho I had purchased a replacement, I still keep the old bottle. I also found a dior mascara from 2008, but that will have to go xD Of all this most valuable is gosh pigment to me.
This is embarrassing to admit but I still have it- my ex husband gave me a Sonia kashuk palette when I was in the hospital. It was a loooong time ago – I mean probably ten years! but it just reminds me at that time, it seemed like he cared. I should probably throw it out now!
This is a hard one… I think it might be some Mark from Avon eyeshadows. I have a lavender one and a nude one that has chunky silver glitter. I never wear them anymore but it was one of the first eyeshadows I bought when I was in high school.
I have some old Revlon lipsticks and urban decay shadows that I will not ever use but I keep them because they belonged to my mother that passed away a few years ago.
I think I kept my Guerlain Pressed Meteorites compact for a while but I keep them now anyway and melt lipstick blends into them. I used to keep the packaging but I’m well beyond that now! I had a MAC x Hello Kitty empty lipstick for a while because it was my first MAC lipstick and the gateway drug of where I am now!
I have a blush brush that goes back to high school. It has an acrylic handle that’s held together with tape and looks just terrible, but it’s one of the softest ones I own, and it still doesn’t shed! I don’t use it a lot, but I do still use it!
I also have a Bonne Belle lipstick that goes back to high school. It’s some frosty sheer white colour that didn’t look good to wear but was pretty to look at in the tube. It’s one of the first lipsticks I owned.
I am not sentimental whatsoever, particularly about non-sentient things..stuff.., and routinely toss things in the bin I not longer need or use without one ounce of regret.
I’m with you, Wendy. I also never buy backups. When I no longer use a product, I toss it and move on to something new or different. I do have a confession, though–I collect LE Météorites from here and abroad. I don’t think that counts; however, because I don’t worry about using them.
interesting, Eileen. I think I have purchased a few backups over the years only to discover they are a pointless buy for me as well as I have always moved on. I too have a secret secret stash of a few LE items which will never be touched. :D..but I still do not feel at all sentimental about them.. more like a crow.. haha
I tend not to be overly sentimental about tossing things, myself. I tend to go through and cull my collection once a year, giving it away if I don’t use it often enough or tossing it if need be. There are a few “emotional” items in my collection, but nothing that I can’t part with if necessary.
I have some lipstick from Revlon and UD that I just love a colors but I never used , deep purple color,black etc. it’s come from some collection lipstick 🙂
My oldest product is probably a purple Catrice eyeshadow. I am not sentimentally attached to it, but it’s just really pretty and too cute to toss!
A Clinique lipstick from my wedding. I’ve been married for almost 5 years. I don’t use it but I keep it because I think it was my first nicer makeup product and also used in my wedding.
I have a Maybelline blue eyeshadow from the 1970’s that I bought at an estate sale. Back when this was all the rage, I was too young to wear makeup. My next door neighbor when I was growing up would let me and her daughter play dress up and we would always rock the blue eyeshadow every chance we could. Back then I think it was the only color they sold. Wow, how times have changed!
Oh no…trust me. The did sell other colors. I had the blue, a brown, and white. They were the first eyeshadows I bought and wore…I was in 7th grade!
MAC Sephora Red!
I have kept a basically empty Chanel lip gloss because it was the first gift my boyfriend bought me =)
An Estee Lauder lipstick in the shade “Datenut Red”. It was the most wonderful colour ever and I keep it in hopes of finding an exact dupe! I’ve come close (Clarins Redwood) but still keep it for some strange reason – nostalgia pretty much sums it up.
I have kept a really old Bobbi Brown lipstick my mother gave me to wear on my graduation. I’ve only had it for a couple of years but my mother had it for longer than that, so I would think it’s maybe 6-7 years old now.
Also, my grandmother actually managed to keep (just keep, not use :P) all of the makeup she used on her wedding day until she passed away!
Revlon Toast of New York! It’s the first lipstick I purchased – back in 1993, I believe. Way to brown for me, but it reminds me of being a really new teenager, hanging out in the mall, thinking I was such a grown-up 🙂
Omg, Toast Of New York, I loved that in the nineties as a teen, my older sister bought it first and I thought it was so cool, I was probably 12-13 and just starting to get into makeup. I even looked to see if it was still around a little while ago, even though I likely wouldn’t wear it now either!
lol – I wore this from about 1992 till maybe 94 or 95, maybe even 96, probably every single day. I was given a bunch of Revlon lipsticks a couple years ago and guess what was in there – Toast of New York! I still really like the colour and I actually haven’t seen it on any of the displays for the last oh, maybe two years. I wonder if it’s been discontinued.
L’oreal used to have this shade of lipstick called Fawn..it was a rather odd shade of pink/brown which I loved in the early 2000’s ( dont ask!). I bought it plus backups for around 3 years and then they discontinued it – but I held on to that last one for years on end because I thought I might love it again lol. Tossed it out 2 years ago I think (I never used it once in between). I know…terrible!!
My coworker loved that shade! It was her HG lip color for years, and she was heartbroken when they discontinued it. To this day, she’s still looking for a dupe.
I have 3 or 4 MAC eyeshadows from the 90s when they had the screw on lids!!!! Too cool to part with but wouldn’t use them.
Clinique Rosa Aglow lipstick. It wa the it’s high end lipstick I ever bought and used to be my HG before I went cruelty free. I never use it because I won’t be buying another and it’s sentimental but I can’t get rid of it either.
Anyone remember the brand sold in Sephora Rocket Girl? I still have an eyeshadow duo in teal and a pale aqua that I bought when I was probably 14 (now I’m 27). I haven’t used it in years but I think it was the first thing I bought in Sephora when I was a teenager! I also have a really old Lorac eyeshadow single in a shimmer purple that I bought there too around the same time. I’m also fairly certain I’m still hanging onto a lip gloss pot of Bath and Body Works Cherry Vanilla (in the old school glass pot packaging!). That has to be at least 15 years old…
I have some nail polish given to me by my cousin. She was a jazz singer back in the day – Damita Jo DeBlanc. I met her a few months before she died and she gave me a set of nail polish. It is positively ancient. Even with drying drops or Seche Vite it does not set anymore. But I keep it.
Thats really cool, I would totally keep it too 🙂
Try adding some nail polish thinner! It really does revive old, thick and gloppy polishes.
I have a Revlon blush compact that my grandmother had from when she was living in Cuba circa 1950!!! It’s a beautiful gold, about the size of 5 quarters stacked on each other. It has a little mirror inside and the original applicator that it came with…I would never put it on my face but there is still a tiny amount of product in there, a GORGEOUS bright fuchsia. Just knowing that my abuelita had it and used it makes it so special to me. She passed away in 2012 and I am NEVER going to get rid of it.
I have my grandmother’s eyeliner from the 70s, and from my own life, a mascara that I bought right after I met my now-husband. But it’s 15 years old now!
oh, I am so guilty of this! I have hung onto several beauty products from the 90’s, when I was a teenager and really getting into beauty and fashion, and there’s a few I’m wishing I’d kept, like the old Wet n Wild nail polishes.
I think the oldest item I have must be my either my Misslyn nail polish (which is still goin’ – I just added thinner and it’s great!) which has GOT to be early 90’s, or a Coty Lipstick in Champagne, from 1994, the year I started high school. I remember buying it with my mom for my gr. 8 graduation in the spring of ’94!
I have quite a few 90’s lipsticks (revlon super lustrous Serene Red, Slate, Blackberry – which smells so waxy now-, Moondrops Platinum Lame), Marcelle eyeshadows, circa 1995-97, a crazy Marcelle lipstick called Misty Lilac (looks awful on me). I remember getting those when we had a Big V drugstore in my hometown – way before I had even heard of Shoppers Drug Mart!
Funny, my mom and I were discussing this just the other day.
The oldest beauty product I have is an old red Tangee lipstick that my grandmother used to wear back in the early 80s (does Tangee even exist anymore?). When she passed away, it was one of the things I kept to remind me of her; it has no value to anyone else and I’ve never worn it, but I’ll never part with it. Every time I see it, I think of her smiling.
My mom’s oldest beauty product (that she still keeps in a junk drawer) is an old Maybelline cake mascara that was popular in the 1950s/60s. It’s the one in the red slide-out tray with the applicator that looks like a toothbrush!
I have a number of older limited edition eyeshadow palettes (from the late 80s/early 90s) that I may never wear again, but can’t seem to throw out.
I remember those Maybelline cake mascaras…they were iconic and other companies had them also. A lot of makeup artists swore by them and said there were no better mascaras than the cake ones.
MY mother had one of those red Maybelline cake mascaras, too! I remember sneaking into my parent’s bedroom one day when they were out (we were not allowed in our parent’s bedroom – ever), and taking a look in her vanity. My mother was not into makeup much at all (for her, getting glammed up was a bit of powder, eyebrow pencil, and lipstick), so seeing that mascara really surprised me. Although I remember it HAD been used at least a couple of times, I don’t recall ever seeing her with mascara on. That little brush fascinated me….
I have the first “high end” eyeshadows I ever purchased at 16 from Lancome. I’d never bought expensive eyeshadows before and I was so excited. I picked a bronze color and a saturated matte grey. Honestly I still love the colors as they’re classic, and the shadows are still smooth and buttery.
I have some Estee Lauder lip glosses my mom got me for Christmas when I was just getting into makeup. It was a pretty expensive gift for her to get so I keep them.
Yardley’s Glimmerick pot o’ gloss lip gloss in ‘clear’ from 1967. And, I’ll always keep it.
Since I’m probably one of the older readers here, I have some oldies.
I worked for Clinique during the late 1980s, so I had tons and tons of products. I recently did a massive cleanout, but kept a potted gloss in Air Kiss (it amazingly still smells exactly the same), a lipstick in Pinkberry Stain, and a blush in Pink Blush as they were probably my most used and most sold products. I also kept a Lancome lipstick in Scarlette (perfect red) from that same time period as my best friend, who has since passed away from breast cancer, worked for Lancome and I purchased it from her. I miss you, Francie.
I also have the MAC Lipstick in Sequin that I wore on my wedding day in 1997.
I don’t know if it’s cool or depressing that I have beauty products older than many of you lovely beauties. I still love all things beauty and appreciate how far the industry has come.
It’s a Sephora brand lipstick in a lovely ruby red. The gateway drug that portended my into makeup obsession. 😛 I still wear it, occasionally. Really, the only cosmetics that I worry about going bad quickly are glosses and mascara, the latter of which I toss after six months. Glosses I’ll test by look and smell or once they hit the three year mark, whichever is first. (I always wipe off my applicators before replacing them in the tube as it is, so they don’t go rank as fast as they could.)
I had some little mini perfume samples forever. I also just found a Lorac Lip Polish in my car. I’ve had it since 2002. I bought it for my wedding but I threw it away anyhow.
i have some older mac stuff from old collections that i really enjoyed… i also have a lot of older nail polishes that i actually still use (i thinned them out). but one of my faves is the old classics urban decay eyeshadows in the old style containers
MAC Wrong Spell lip glass from the Venomous Villians 2010 collection, Maleficent. I bought a second tube that I won’t use.
I also have a few of the L’Oreal HIP lip gloss in Ingenue, from 2007/2008, they smell fine. I was really into dark lipstick and gloss back then. L’Oreal discontinued them, I kept getting compliments on my lipstick and when I told my friends I got it from Target, no one could find them. I called L’Oreal, they sent me 4 tubes from their CA store and I’m down to 21/2 tubes now. They still smell okay, more of a winter color like Wrong Spell from MAC.
I have an Urban Decay ‘Scream’ nail polish from the 90’s that was made as a tie-in to the movie that is totally dried up but I won’t throw out. I also have a MAC Bunny Pink lipstick from the Playboy collection in ’02
The covergirl exact eyelights palette for blue eyes. It’s really not that great but it was my very first eyeshadow “palette” and I can’t bring myself to part with it!
Mine is Guerlain Kiss Kiss Lipstick Vanilla Beige 940. I have had it since 2009 I think. It was the first really high-end makeup item I have ever had the courage to purchase. (I was 19 back then! Everything else I used to own back in the time, was like MaxFactor foundation stick, couple MAC eyeliner, Maybelline mascara and that was all.) The golden coating of the shell is kinda worn out especially at the bottom. It has gone through so many big things with me so far, like graduation (twice), some important dating and some occasions that you just have to play safe, be conservative or tone down your whole look to be mature.
Somehow I can no longer find this lipstick for sale maybe they are discontinued?( I have searched through Temptalia’s blog but your version was the ones with pointy end when they are new, mine came with a flat end since the beginning. Different version or areas of purchasing? ) But this creamy, buttery nude tone lipstick is so good not only because of its nice fruity scent, but also it’s one of the several nude color that I can wear without smoky eyes, and also not to make me look sick.
This is such a good question. I defs have a few things that fall under this category. My baby pink covergirl blush and witchcraft blush brush are things I was given after my makeup was done by my mum’s friend for my grade seven grad. I still use the brush, it’s densely packed but slightly rough. Also, I have a ton of old pink nail polishes and lipglosses.
I’m guilty of hoarding 2 lipsticks- MAC Kid Kat and Club Monaco Fair Play as they were both some of the first “nice” things I bought myself. Plus I still love the colors and have never been able to successfully duplicate Kid Kat. I hold onto them both with the hope that some day I will go get them custom color matched and I can wear them again. As they are now, they are pretty unwearable.
Club Monaco in Fair Play was my HG lipstick for years and I still haven’t found a perfect dupe. What is the best dupe you’ve found? I still have the remnants of my last tube and have aspirations of going to Bite Beauty’s lab in NYC to resurrect the shade.
I have a few glitter mascaras that I got on my first trip to Japan in 2002. I think I used them once or twice when I first got them, and I would never dream of using them now, but the packaging makes me happy. 🙂
My original MAC Rocker lipstick. I’m pretty sure I’ve had it since the 90s, but it still smells fresh and isn’t dried out or anything. I can’t bring myself to throw it out….maybe because I have such a hard time finding reds that work with my skintone. Or maybe just because it was my “going out” lipstick when I was young and reckless!
That lipstick is classic…..well for me at least
I still had my first Mac things ever ,3 lipglasses, 2 eyeshadows (a frosty white and a frosty pink, i know, awful) and a lipstick (lustering) which my aunt gave for christmass maybe 5 years ago, but i’ve finally decided to Back to Mack them haha
So i guess i don’t own anything old anymore! i hate keeping stuff i don’t use.
I have some Hard Candy polishes that I bought at Sephora back when it was sold there.
Alexandra de Markoff Disguise for Eyes. It’s an eye lid primer. May be one of the original eye lid primers ever made for all I know. I’ve been using it since I was a junior in high school 1977. It flesh tone on us white chicks so it disguises the blue veins visible on my eyelids. My eyelids are darker than the rest of my face and this brightens my eyelids giving an all over uniform appearance and brightens my eyes. As other eye primers launched, none surpassed this origninal light weight texture and elegant formula.
Oh gosh, this will really date me, but here it goes lol! I have a Lancome duo that a friend brought to me from Paris. It was not available in the US. That was 1987. I keep it as a memento. I have a few lipsticks from the late 80’s/early 90’s too. 🙂
I haven’t had it for that long…and I have never used it but I got this Coty “antique” in ebay that I keep just as decoration. It is shaped like a mirror with a lid. I think is from the 30’s ( or maybe before) and the handle keeps a lipstick bullet in a bright bright red color and the main is a compact powder with a little mirror and the puff is still intact. A real beauty!!! Other than that I still keep some remains of eyepencils and old empty bottles of perfume at my parents.
(I don’t know if I am allowed to attach links but I am putting this one just in case as mine is similar, although it didn’t cost me as much http://www.thecompactclinic.co.uk/recently-sold-compacts.html Is the Coty Parisienne ref cc18)
some bottle of beauty oil, the brand has rubbed off it was my mom’s i was born in 1978 & she had it before i was born, it had 2 lids the regular one that screwed on & a cap, & i played with the cap all the time, my mom put it in my childhood box of memories & i still have it 🙂 and a pretty atomizer if that counts was bought when i was 9
I have an old Victoria’s Secret lipstick I keep because it was my first MLBB shade.
Glitz and Haze eye shadows from MAC and the original Gash lipstick from Urban Decay.
I still have the Clinique lipstick I work to my senior prom — Hot Poppy, a saturated blue-red. I’m going to my 20th reunion next month.
A small jar of pure gold pigment from Madeline Mono I bought during my Disco years – yes, we’re talking around 1978-1979! It is still my favorite gold pigment, because it isn’t the least bit “brassy” or yellow. Loose pigments were a very new idea back then and I don’t know any other company that was selling them (at least not for the consumer market) that long ago.
The top of the jar had a screw off cap that used to have a bit of opalescent powder inside, but unfortunately I dropped the jar once long ago and that part of the top fell off and I lost that opalescent powder to my bathroom floor.
But I still have about 3/4 of the jar of gold pigment left! Even when I was using it regularly, I only used the tiniest bit. I’d dampen the tip of my eyeliner brush with water, dip just the very end of it in the pigment, and place a very small dot of it right in the center of my eyelid at the base of my lashes on each eye. That one tiny dot would pick up the light in the club and make my eyes sparkle!
I still love the stuff!
I have a Vincent Longo gold eyeshadow trio purchased in 2001. It was my first Sephora purchase and my first time in a Sephora store. It was a life-changing day! I would totally still use it too and oddly enough, I just googled and realized that this product is still on the market now. I haven’t seen Vincent Longo in Sephora for several years but apparently, it’s available at Nordstrom. Amazing!
I remember years ago – maybe 8 or so – MAC discontinued a lipglass I absolutely loved so I bought a bunch of them and still have some of them. Too pretty to throw away!
I lost most of my makeup in a move about 4 years ago, it wasn’t as tragic as it sounds because I was pretty poor at the time and didn’t have much great stuff. It would be a tragedy if it were to happen today though!)
But I had been holding on to a lipstick I had stolen from my mom (she never wore it anyway) in the mid nineties, maybe ’96. I’m pretty sure it was L’Oreal and it was a vampy dark merlot red with a pretty red shimmer and a really cool consistency, almost matte. To this day I’ve never felt a lipstick like it, I wish I could remember the name of the shade. I probably would have hung on to it forever if I hadn’t lost it!
Out of my collection that I’ve built over the last 4 years, I am not attached to any of it. If I know I’ll never use it I usually give it away, or toss it.
I have 2 old, unused MAC lipsticks (MYSELF). They were my back ups. For me, that color was the ultimate nude. They still may be ok because I’ve had them in the refrigerator! Plus they smell like new..
But, I know they can’t be replaced.
My mom passed in 1986. I kept her Max Factor Red Sequin lipstick. It’s a beautiful blue-red and I’ve yet to find a dupe. Believe it or not I used it in Sept. 2013 and never got sick:-) It looked great with my cranberry red bridesmaid dress.
i have a chanel blush that belonged to my mom. she died in 1980. i don’t use it but i always keep it with the rest of my make up. i just like having it there!
The oldest I have is my first black liner and red lippie from ninth grade (86), though I kept a great lot of my early goth stuff and have been known to wear just about all/any of it with not a single f …ig given :3
It might be the Coup de Coeur Dior lipstick that is now discontinued, is in entirely different packaging, and may be from pre-2005. That’s in terms of what I have *with* me. I have a shoebox of random ancient makeup back at my parents’ house *somewhere* that has things in it from the ’90s!
I think the oldest thing of mine that I own is a pale purple frosty Max Factor lipstick, my first ever lipstick purchase (of course it was purple) that comes from about 1998 or so?
I have a bottle of Avon Honeysuckle perfume from 1996, it still smells great, though i’m sort of afraid to use it. I had a bottle when I was about five and used it all up and was sooo happy they released it again in the 90’s. Waiting for the day Avon decides to re-promote it, it’s the only perfume that really smells like honeysuckles to me. 😛
Elizabeth Arden Skipper Blue for Eyes eyeliner from the 90s! I used to wear it in college. Although it’s way too old to wear now, I can’t bring myself to throw it out because I still feel that it’s the prettiest blue eyeliner I’ve ever owned.
Oh Wow! I still have my huge tub of Mary Kay loose face powder that I got in 1978 or 79. Still has about 25% left in there. It was one of the first beauty products I ever bought and I just can’t let go of it lol
I forgot one thing.. My mother used to sell Avon when I was little and she had this small container with about 30 little tiny lipstick samples inside. I loved it so much she gave it to me when I was older and I still have it.
I have a very old Urban Decay eyeshadow, way back when they were in the solid metal compacts with the lids that came off instead of being hinged. It’s a dark olive green with gold shimmer, I think it’s called chains. I actually don’t know what it’s called because the lid is stuck to the bottom. I should really throw it out, but it was one of the first UD eye shadows I owned and always manages to disappear whenever I think about getting rid of it.
I still have the urban decay delux palette,,, i think that is what it’s called, but its in a purple package…that and the lorac hollywood glamour palette. they are eyeshadows …so i’ll never throw them away lol… those were my 1st makeup palettes.
I have two. I have a tube of Avon lipstick in Instant Mocha and a cake of Maybelline mascara. They were my mom’s, and after she passed away, I grabbed them. She wore them almost every day. She didn’t wear a lot of makeup, but these as well as Maybelling eyebrow pencil were what she wore. I couldn’t bear to throw them away. Even though they aren’t products I used, she did, and when I open my makeup drawer, they are there and I see them, and they remind me of my mom.
What fun to read about all old products. While reading I’ve been trying decide what my oldest makeup might be. I’m one of the older here so some of the things I still keep are rather old 🙂
I have a Clinique shimmer powder, An ancient hightlighter, I guess, it’s quite pink and very shimmery. I mostly used it on my collarbones (claviculas). I think it’s from very early 1980s.
I go through all my makeup once a year and throw away things that smells or feels wrong. I have, and use a lot of things I should have tossed years ago, but as long as they don’t feel or small off, I use them. Not something that’s recommended, I know.
I still use MAC Pink Poodle from when it was first on sale, for example.
I’m basically a makeup hoarder. Good thing the products are small or I wouldn’t be able to walk around my flat (appartment).
I, too, have old MAC Lipglasses. I have Relay Race and Gaze. They actually smell just fine – exactly like the newer ones I have. But I still don’t wear them.
Oh! And I still have four Bloom eyeshadows. (Bloom was by Poppy King, pre-Lipstick Queen.) Haven’t used those in a long time, either, but they were some of the first high-end (or at least non-drugstore) cosmetics I ever bought with my own money. I also have the first OPI polishes I ever bought (Sand-erella, Loyalty Islands Lilac). I remember buying them with my very first paycheck.
I still keep (not use!) my mom’s Les Meteorites de Guerlain… they must be more than 12 years old but it was the first time I fell in love with makeup. I don’t know if it was the yummy smell, the lovely packaging or just them being so damn pretty but I don’t see myself ever giving up on them
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I have the lipstick I wore on my wedding day, Prescriptives Nymph. I don’t know what happened to the pencil I wore with it, probably used it up, but I have the lipstick somewhere. i used to love Prescriptives!
a Tony&Tina Glitter, Ive probably had it since 1995.
Chanel Vamp nail polish!
My ole lady’ s compact from prior 1970’s.
I have a Halston blusher compact shaped like a heart.
Ralph Lauren eyeshadows
Wish I bought another one off the Halston.
Urban Decay Sustainable Bamboo palette. It was my first high-end purchase, and i was so proud of it! I hit pan on Half Baked, but the rest of the shades are still there 🙂
Oh I love this question! Oldest product would be MAC Wild ’bout You lipstick; it started everything for me. I ordered 3-4 of them through the Gone But Not Forgotten program some seven years ago after the collection *ended and they are obviously all expired but I can’t let go of my last untouched tube! Fond memories!