I would say that given how constant it had been for so long with little change, it has been more waning in the last couple of years. Some of that stems from depression/anxiety, some of that comes from being more interested in other things (puppies).
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A lot less than I used to be. My look is much more pared down these days, partly because I’m older and have a more relaxed approach to my appearance, and partly because the market is so saturated with products and new brands popping up all the time. Most of these are mediocre anyway and not worth bothering with.
I was really into eye palettes for the longest time, but it has cooled to almost just a passing interest at this point. Part of it is just getting older and not wanting to bother with too colourful looks, but most of it is due to there being nothing interesting or new on the market. My staple brands released the same old same old palettes during the pandemic and I haven’t seen anything very interesting since. I am more into the natural no makeup makeup look these days, but that also means not buying much other than a concealer and a blush or mascara. So really, just down to the basics.
Definitely a lot less than I was. Working from home is definitely the biggest cause, but now sometimes when I’d normally wear makeup I don’t. I still love putting it on, but the multi step process of taking it off doesn’t feel worth the effort.
My interest in makeup is also waning. I think it’s because the makeup brands haven’t had any “wow factor” releases. I also realized that the money I spent to reach Rouge (Sephora) or Platinum (Ulta) status, could be used to spoil my grandchildren, buy a designer purse or just survive in this economy! Makeup just isn’t a priority on my list anymore.
With 2020 and the year following I pretty much had no interest as we were all housebound. Now I’m back with renewed interest but find I’m checking out different things than before….Being over 40 I find I’m always interested in new foundations that don’t settle in lines and arn’t aging….also I’m not as interested in real glittery highlighters anymore…So I guess my tastes in makekup are changing, not my interest. But I’m with you Christine, I would always choose puppies!!!!
I had zero interest in makeup during the pandemic, but I’m more into it now, only this time I’m trying to make better choices and not buy impulsively. I got rid of old lipsticks, and most of my palettes are stowed away in a drawer until I can motivate myself to do a real declutter.
But I still love coming to Temptalia, seeing the new products, and going into the comments section to read what everyone else thinks, especially the daily questions and weekly surveys. I love the sense of community this site has, especially my fellow Temptalians whose names I’ve been seeing for years now! (I miss the Saturday survey, though.)
Temptalia is a community which i love and look forward daily for reviews and comments.
I’m still into makeup as I still enjoy wearing makeup and playing around with my small curated collection.
But in the past years I have been less interested in trying new things; I know what I like and works for me, 95% of the time I just repurchase the same thing once I’m done with it.
I still enjoy watching reviews, seeing what new products are launched, but I follow only a small subset of people that either provide me a high level of education or a high level of entertainment.
Puppies and dogs>makeup. Puppies and dogs>everything. Aging and an uncommon skin condition have wreaked havoc with my face. Plus, pandemic. Plus makeup packed for 2 years while trying to move. Hard to muster much enthusiasm. Still love to read your reviews, though.
How is your surgery recovery going? I miss seeing you hear and think of you often. I hope all is reasonably well.
I’ve started wearing mascara and a more tinted lip/different shades of tint than usual, but I’m still not into foundation, concealer or any of that jazz. Doubt I ever will be.
My interest in makeup is less than it was before 2020. I am basically re-buying products that work for me and trying new cosmetics that i am pretty sure will work for me. I ‘ll take my labs and puppies over makeup any time.
My interest in wearing it…the fun of putting it on, the enjoyment of the products I have, and the emotional boost I get from the process and the results…has not waned at all. My desire to buy it all the time and to try out every new product has definitely waned. I just can’t justify new things when I have “enough” by anyone’s definition (especially my own), and the new things are mostly not all that new anyway. I do enjoy seeing it, and that is why I’m on this site daily, but I just don’t feel as much of an urge to actually own it as I did several years ago.
As much as ever – I do enjoy wearing makeup – but I have so much makeup and prices seem to be rising ridiculously so I am trying to content myself with what I already have (and there’s lots!) rather than buying more and more and more…
The whole pandemic (and its early shutdown and enormous death toll), the insanity of the world political scene with all the upheaval, drama, horrific war crimes, etc. has put a damper on my creative energy. Nothing much left to expend! And yet, I oddly DO still buy stuff. Why, I don’t know? Just recently, I’ve been trying to get my creative groove back up and running at least once or twice a week minimum. Not easy, because like you, I am struggling with depression and anxiety. Also, my PTSD and insomnia are taking a major toll, too.
This could be my answer too. I think in my case the anxiety and depression makes me want the familiar comfort of looking at and considering beauty products as a self-soothing mechanism.
I love makeup, always have and I toss it on everyday, the little I do wear, but I find the ridiculous prices of almost all brands to be off putting. Whether I can afford it or not, the idea a simple lipstick can be upwards of $35 is dumbfounding. My 3oz bottle of perfume went from $130 to $170 overnight. It takes the fun out of buying that’s for sure. I see good, hardworking people depressed about buying anything anymore. This started two years ago and there’s no need for it.
It’s been seriously waning for me. But I’m trying to make an effort to do a little bit each day and re-discover what I have in my stash for me time. I’ve not purchased any makeup this year and just one moisturizer. I enjoy reading about new formulas so this is something I’ll always read about even if my regular use has significantly decreased.
Somewhat. Some weeks are better than others. I still love makeup, but I haven’t felt inspired much the last 3 or 4 years. Having been so isolated during the pandemic due to multiple high risk factors, along with political factors, broke something in me that’s not completely repaired. The barely there looks and neutral makeup colors popular right now haven’t been very inspiring, either. Aging and losing almost 50 lbs changed my face just enough that sometimes I feel like I don’t know how to deal with my hooded eyes any more. Plus my eyesight is worse.
I would like to say congrats on losing weight. I need to lose some and find it really hard,
I do understand how it changes the face. My eyes are so ridiculously hooded these days that I don’t understand why I even bother with makeup, it’s not like it’ll be seen by anyone. Seriously, I think surgery is my only option.
And I really understand the eyesight part. I need a 5X mirror to do my makeup these days.
I hope you’ll get back to enjoying makeup again and to feeling like yourself once more!
Thank you, Helene! Hooded eyes are a pain in rear, aren’t they? They don’t even look that different, but it’s just enough my makeup application looked odd and needed tweaked.
I remember when I started noticing that my lids were changing, I was putting on really over the top lashes, and it just didn’t work. I’d used false lashes so many times and the suddenly the outer corner of my hood had mover a tiny bit south making anything cat eye impossible. I’ve been tweaking many times after that.
Hoods and ageing isn’t always a fun combo, but I tell myself that shimmery mobile lids makes it interesting when the shimmer appears and disappears when looking down or blinking.
Happy Holiday if you celebrate Easter!
Still as interested as ever! Perhaps I have slowed down my purchases of eyeshadow palettes, seeing that I have more than a few to last me a lifetime, but I am still very interested. However a lot of brands seriously struggled and are still struggling after the pandemic, so their offerings were understandably limited.
I still enjoy doing both colourful and neutral looks and that will never, ever change.
Love the lipsticks that come out in my kind of shades and purchase those.
I have never been a die-hard makeup person. I wear it for fun on weekends and for special occasions. I would say my interest is about the same as it was ~14 years ago — I love seeing new products, fun colors, and lipstick is still my favorite!
My interest in makeup is still there. I still love using it, and I still love looking at all the new shiny things. I have become more adventurous with my color selections, especially on my eyes. I am also more interested in smaller, more privately owned brands and in brands that are cruelty free.
I love makeup, but I don’t wear it much anymore. I stay home most of the time so the need isn’t there. Consequently my purchases have dwindled to nothing, I won’t be holding onto my Rouge status anymore and that doesn’t really bother me. I love the creativity of making up my face and I’ll browse makeup stores and sites for hours. So my interest is still there but I’m using what I own instead of buying new.
The rare release of a truly cool toned palette or cream shadow and pale cool toned highlighter will always catch my attention but my interest in the industry as a whole has dropped over the yrs. Instead of creativity, we get a constant regurgitation of everything Orgasm, Pillow Talk, Laguna, Shape Tape or Naked or the same permanent product released repeatedly in limited edition packaging (hello MAC & Tom Ford). What turns me off the most, however, is how the industry infantilizes women; it started with unicorns, fairies and mermaids and now it seems like every week there’s a new collab with Disney princesses, Bratz, Power Puff Girls, Hello Kitty, Mickey/Minnie or, the worst yet, Sesame Street. These aren’t kids brands, these are adult brands using nostalgia to market to adults, mostly women, and charging adult prices.
I didn’t wear makeup during the pandemic, and am just recently in the last month getting back into wearing it again. I’ve purchased several new lip products, as the textures are different now — more tinted balm textures of varying opacity, and other new textures and applications, as well as more soft reds and earthy colors. The makeup scene is really quite different now.
I love dewy skin looks, and have gotten several compliments recently on my current prep and foundation routine of Clinique Clarifying #3 as exfoliator, 1 pump of Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizer (DDML), then a blend of more DDML + a drop of Estee Luader Advanced Night Repair (dropper bottle) + MAC Face & Body tinted moisturizer.
There are also many new fragrances and fragrance trends within the last 3-4 years. We’re in a new decade with changes everywhere.
I’m as interested in it as I ever was, which is ever since I was a pre-teen. The only difference now is that I find that in the past year the collections are practically nonexistent or boring. I was so looking forward to all of the glorious pinks and corals for spring and summer and I haven’t found even one collection that excites me. It was the same for fall/winter/holiday last year. NOTHING. My biggest disappointment is Chanel Spring and Summer. The colors are more suitable for fall or winter……NOT spring. Big letdown. I do need some new lipstick and blush for the warmer season so I’ll have to browse the makeup counters for some of their older stuff that I haven’t tried. Ho hum….
I got super into skincare, body care, and haircare during the pandemic. My makeup interest is back, I’m more into enjoying my large collection now unless something exceptional comes along. A Pat McGrath is going to be an automatic yes but I’m checking your reviews and dupes from most other things.
Not very. Corporate greed came in and wrecked cosmetics as a whole with scams (“clean” beauty), insane markup on cheap formulations, and the constant churning out of plastic going straight in the garbage. Corporations destroy creativity and anything nice we make and enjoy as humans. Cosmetics was no different and I was really sad to see it go (for me). After being generally dissatisfied with the world after the inner workings being exposed three years ago and nothing changing (for the better) since…..My last bastion of something enjoyable that connected me with other humans just kind of…left. I’m just really tired. Tired of consumerism on steroids, tired of work culture, tired of fake projections (social media), tired of corporate shills pretending to not be commissioned sales people (social media), tired of misinformation, just tired.
I miss coming here and seeing beautiful things. Now when I come it’s the same thing every day. Much like the pop music and general entertainment (movies/tv) of today, algorithms have boiled down cosmetics to a shallow level of bland “sameness” so as to reach the broadest audience possible and make the most money.
I just can’t care about which corpo thinks I want another pink eyeshadow labeled “clean”, but with silicones and polyethylene in the formulation – as though I’m stupid enough to believe liquid plastics are synonymous with “safe” or that some shitty pressed powder formulated with the cheapest and most basic ingredients are worth the price tag.
It’s like being trapped in the crappiest ground hog day.
I’m sadly less interested in makeup than I used to be. I still love coming here to read the reviews as I find it gives me a bit of inspiration, and the community here is awesomely wonderful.
I blame my mental health that seems to get worse, the depression is deeper, the anxiety is lurking around just waiting to jump me, I find it really hard to keep a “normal” sleeping pattern.
I also blame my stupidly hooded eyes, I can’t see anything of my mobile lid unless I raise my eyebrows, tilt my head back so I look down instead of straight ahead, if that makes sense.
I am trying to save up for surgery as the hoods actually makes my lid cover almost half of my pupil on the right eye, the left is somewhat better.
Ageing isn’t fun, I think.
I know this sounds really depressive, sorry about that! I think I have to give Stubbs a big hug.
Oh, and then MAC keep DC-ing old and not so old favourites, and it doesn’t help!
Take care all beautiful Temptalians!
I’ve been interested in makeup since I was in middle school and STILL love it. It’s one of my hobbies and sometime I wear and enjoy almost every day. To avoid overspending and make makeup fit within my life and limited budget, I’ve done no buys and low buys and project panning. I’ve been feeling bold and inspired to do colorful looks lately and have had a renewed interest these past few months! I got two of the Temptalia palettes (got the first one at launch and just got a second one) and have been having a blast with the colors!
For me, the nonexistent years had me roaring to wear makeup again. My habits changed a tiny bit because I’m more comfortable with a more sheer/medium foundation, and with more glitters/duochromes eyeshadows that my colleagues adore.
But I feel I must take a closer look at the products I’m interested in buying because of all the possible dupes I see in the recent collections. I’m happy to see more real duochromes with more dramatic shifts but appart that I feel like I see less different trends these days
Like many here, it’s definitely waned. I still put on makeup at least once a week, which is more than during the pandemic; however, I don’t have the financial resources nor really the interest to buy much. Using the vanity (dupes) here has been such a coin saver! It helped me to realize that I really don’t need much of anything (other than to replace mascara for hygiene or skin products when they run out).
Also, like a few mentioned, I learned a while back that makeup was a stress reliever. The colors, the collecting…and it’s enough for me to just come here every now again to see what hot, what everyone is liking (or not) and chitchat (share)!
Could write a lengthy blog post of my own on the subject. There are sooo many factors that go into my ambivalence!
Frankly, I think working at Ulta for a few years disillusioned me a bit; the “novelty” of constant releases (which often ended up in the trash) went from compelling me to buy things to making me resent consumption entirely. Then a pandemic started and I further resented that a friggin’ makeup store was open at all.
More recently, I was parted from my collection for almost eight months when housing shenanigans happened, during which I virtually never wore any makeup. At all. This month I’m finally reunited with my stuff all in one place—but as I unpack and reorganize, I’m finding not only that a lot of my stuff has expired, but even packaging has visibly degraded. There’s part of me that wants to replace some of it, and another part that doesn’t want to own things that either dry out or melt (some kinda did both??).
And yeah, anxiety/depression here too…and a shiny new diagnosis of ADHD. Over the years, I just generally seem to have less and less energy for hobbies. Medication has helped somewhat, though. I just need to more fully commit to therapy 😅