When you get a new beauty product, what’s the first thing you do? Swatch, use it, drool over it?
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Figure out where it falls in my blogging timeline, put it in the right box, but after that point, I photograph everything first before swatching or using!
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Well first I swatch it then put it on 🙂 if it’s lipgloss after I purchase it, it usually never
makes it out the store before I put it on.
Most of the time, I bust out the other things I own that are similar and compare. I ask, did I just buy another one of this? Then I proceed to justify it. If I am certain it’s unique, than I drool.
First I swatch it, then I drool over it. Then I figure out what other products I’ll use with it, and then if I don’t already have makeup on, I might try it out. Unless it’s a lip product – then I put it on as soon as I get it home. 🙂
Hey Nic, I do the same thing. If it is lipstick or lipgloss I wear it immediately. Then I stare in every mirror I pass to check it out in different lighting. Then my mind starts wondering if I have something very similar at home. I get home and swatch it next to similar color items to make sure it is not the same. If’s it’s a dupe (or close to it) I it use with different products to achieve different looks.
I usually try things out right.
I usually stare at everything for quite a long time then i put it away,
&& mostly likely use it the next day.
=]
I like to take my time and look at it for a bit before I try it out… which is either swatch it if it’s a powder or cream or put it on my lips if it’s a gloss or lipstick.
I like to get stuff, open the packaging, look at it and then put it back to look at again later. Especially if its a palette or something utterly gorgeous.
Drool over it first for a few days and then only swatch it haha 😛
Me too! Im usually too afraid to use it, worrying it will run out haha. And its so pretty untouched.
I swatch it & then I go thru my stash to see if I have a similar color.
When I first get a new product I have to use it almost right away! If its a lipstick or a gloss I’ll try it in the car before I pull out of the parking lot. If its eyeshadow, blush or any kind of powder I will use it the very next day in my makeup routine.
Take pictures of it for my blog – unopened. LOL
I don’t open it until I’ve used something else up!
me too. LoL. I love store and take pics of them.
I remove it from any cardboard packaging. its not “mine” until then. Almost always, I swatch it on my hand until I can get home to really brainstorm how to use it.
I swatch it first when I get to my car!
I try to take product photographs in sunlight before I swatch/wear, but that doesn’t always happen. heehee.
In this order, I drool then swatch and then I put it on
I’m such a sucker for makeup I can’t help myself
Take swatches and product pictures and post them to my blog. And then I play in them with my brushes.
I swatch it then figure out how I’m going to create a look with it!
find a place to store it!
generally looking at the packaging…
definitely drool! haha i even put off using it sometimes just to look at it ;D
I take a picture of the product and than swatch it. :>
I usually leave new things alone and in the bag for the first day or 2!! I either forget about it or am too preoccupied with other makeup. Then, I bust them out a day or 2 later and re-fall in love with it. But the first thing I really do.. is probably swatch and take pictures for my good ol’ blog.
I smell and I swatch it! Only after swatching I feel something new as really mine %-)And the day after I put it on!
squeal over it, then take it for a test run to see if i should get another for my kit! and use it obsessively until i get something new, haha
Use it! LOL!
Unless I don’t need to use it right away, then I swatch it and (hopefully) admire it’s pretty-ness… Then I put it away to wherever it’s supposed to go 🙂
I stare at it in the package because it looks so perfect..then i slowly take it out and stare at it more..after about 20 minutes of this (well 20 minutes is an exaggeration. maybe 5!) I’ll open it up and swatch it on my hand and then apply it, no matter what makeup I’m wearing that day. Sometimes this helps because you never know what combinations work well unless you try them!
Put it on in my car :)…. and uh wear it haha!
I’m only giggling because this is what I did with Blooming Lovely!
I try to take several pictures of it brand new before I test it out!
If it’s a lip product and matches my look that day I put it right on. If not I quickly plan what I will wear with it the following day. Then my daughter will say “mom you bought another beauty product” then the guilt kicks in a little but I quickly justify my needed purchase. And the hubby will back me up cause you have to keep the wifey happy.
I swatch it .. then tell my friends what i think about it
I put my fingers in it! Then cuss, that I forgot to take a picture of it first…again.
I’ll open the casing and smell it. I dunno, it’s just a habit of mine..
I will take pix of them all before swatching or playing with them! Then edit them….
Well honestly I actually have buyer’s remorse for about an hour. LOL. After that I might play around with and figure out what kind of looks I can create with it.
admire it… lol 🙂
try it on and find a home for it!
though finding homes for new things is getting hard when the collection grows too big!
Admire it. I then swatch and compare to similar colors, sometimes I try to find colors that go well with it for a look. Then it goes into the database. And then I start using it for real.
I usually take it out of the package and look at it and then immediately start planning on what look I will pair it with the next day!!
admired it for a while…..then carefully use them…..
This is pretty embarrasing. I…fondle it. XD I hold it in my hands, open and close it repeatedly, and smile to myself.
sounds just like me … my husband ends up staring at me like i’m a looney. lol
Oh good…I’m not the only one that does that too! hehe.
I can’t stand not using it! I go home, swatch it first on my arm, then put on right away! Its almost always eyeshadow or eyeliner, because I already have blush, powder, and lipstick I have been stuck on for years.
I stare at it all day::LOL
I might sound really odd, but I hardly ever test or use a beauty product straight after buying it, partly because I always wear make up, so it wouldn’t work and partly because I don’t want to, lol. I just prefer to keep things untouched for a while. Like I said, weird, lol.
i make sure that i really want it then i use it. x)
I take it out of the box, look at it, put it back in the box, get home, then take it out of the box again, admire it, put it on, admire how it looks, and admire the product again.
I’m silly. 😛
oh, so I’m not the only one! yeah!
omg i love new stuff, so i take forever to open it, read the entire box it came in, then whatever came inside of the box (instructions or w/e) and Then I open it and swatch it and smile because its so pretty 🙂
lol i’m a dork, but yeah its cool the anticipation of getting it home to open it!
for some reason i cannot use it right away, (just a swatch, though). i dont know why, same thing goes with clothes, too. it takes a few days for me to realize that its got to be broken in eventually.
is that weird? lol.
similar to others, lipsticks are usually tried out as soon as i get home…generally i try to use them in a look the next day. most of the time if they’re products from a new collection, i wear them pretty much every day till i get tired of them, or i find something new.
I usually don’t use a new beauty product right away because I’m usually purchasing it before I’ve used up my own! It would probably have to be an unusual product, which for me would be say Urban Decay’s Stardust e/s. I had to try that right away!
I swatch immediately! Like, as soon as I get in the car I’m trying stuff on
When I’m looking to buy, I always go to the store with no makeup. By the time I leave, I’m wearing what I wind up buying. Then, I use all my new stuff later that night, when I make sure I’m going out 🙂
Like others, I wait a few days, then I record it in my makeup file(weird I know) and put it away.
label it with the date, admire it and put it in one of my boxes of makeup to keep it safe and loved until the appropriate occasion
open it and try it on, try different looks with it and everything I can do with it.. so, play with it =)
Since I’ve started blogging, I’ll generally take pictures of things before I use them. And then comes the swatches. It’s so time consuming, I don’t know how you do it! 🙂
When I get home I swatch it or try it on myself, then try to find room to put it in my makeup area. I usually am excited so I remember what I buy so I try to use it when doing my next look.