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It’s super rare! Usually, if it’s still brand new and unused, then it might still be in its original box! My house would have to be wallpapered with original packaging if I kept it all 😂
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Rarely, but I have kept most of the Pat McGrath Mothership boxes. They’re not my style enough to display, so I keep debating what I might use them for. They sit in a box and I should just toss them, but they look like art! I used the packaging from the PMGL Blitz Astral Quad on an altar. I also kept the Colourpop x Raw Beauty Kristi boxes and store the products in them.
In the past I have held onto things like Charlotte Tilbury or NARS packaging and cut shapes from them to use in letter writing or to decorate a package before sending.
No. My makeup products are kept in the original boxes/packaging when I buy them and bring them in, and while they sit unused. But as soon as I open to use them, the box goes in the trash.
Some. More than I should lol
I keep the PMG palettes in their boxes cos they’re aesthetically pleasing and let you differentiate the palettes at a glance. All other packaging gets thrown.
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A few LE MAC boxes (Simpsons, Venomous Villains beauty powder) and the Pat McGrath Mothership boxes are all I keep. The PMG ones are too pretty to throw out plus they help me identify which is which. The rest are recycled.
I find that keeping my palettes in their original packaging keeps then neater longer. And I keep everything in it’s original package until I start using it.
Nope, except for unused products waiting to be used, not at all (unless I think I might be returning something, and that’s pretty rare). As I said yesterday, with regard to “displaying” my makeup, I would no more keep the packaging from a blush or eyeshadow palette than I’d keep the box from a tube of toothpaste or rice. I don’t view any of these items as “art” – they’re consumables.
More often than not.. Skincare I dispose of packaging, but makeup powders (eyeshadow, blush, highlighter) I tend to keep in original packaging for some unfathomable reason. I’m human. I do things that make no sense.
Sometimes! Particularly if it’s special or beautiful packaging. Sometimes I’ll keep packaging for a time for an item that perhaps I’m still deciding whether I’m keeping it or not.
I have a terrible time throwing out pretty packaging! For a while I kept it all in large FFF boxes, especially since I have a high turnover and will give away or sell lightly used things and like to keep the box. Lately though I’ve been forcing myself to recycle everything. Part of what draws me to make up and the allure is how visually pleasing it is and they do a really good job of making the boxes part of that! So in general I will have boxes to my favorite palettes and the Pat McGrath ones of course, but send strength my way to get rid of the rest!
Only for my MAC products that I’ll be returning to the Back-to-MAC program or the Paula’s Choice products I’m shipping to Terracycle.
Only if it’s a REALLY unique and pretty design, or a collab I was especially interested in. I like to scrapbook so I have a few boxes flattened and stuck in one. This isn’t unique to makeup tho I have a few really cute clearly handmade etsy packages in there too.
I also have the moon tin that the mini cosmic eye dusts from BMC came in on my vanity, and a Lunatick Cosmetics coffin shipping box that I use to keep odds & ends in my art area.
Yes, I keep all of my palettes in their box if they come in a box.
I keep all my makeup palettes in their original packaging. It keeps makeup cleaner, less dust and prefer particles, plus packaging is a part of the price I paid.
Yes! I love keeping the packaging, especially if I think I may give it away someday. Then it feels like a gift, even if it is gently used. Makes it special. 🙂
I have recently been trying to limit my stockpiling and instead to recycle or discard packaging for which I have no practical use. The exception would be some of the sturdier eyeshadow or face palette boxes that may provide extra “cushion” in case of transport when I next move. Also, if the package is special, like the MAC collabs (e.g. Wonder Woman, Liberty of London, Marilyn Monroe or other special packaging where there has been an artist/photographer who designed the images on the boxes) I may keep the lipstick boxes although I recently purged most of those with old products that had a crayola smell or were either clearly past date or colors I would never use in a practical sense (seeing as not likely I will be soon invited to a costume party or Cosplay event given pandemic distancing).
I have a hard time throwing away art however, even if it is just a small image on a box. With a few boxes that I considered the artwork special, I cut out the image itself and use if for decoration or just among post cards I save for sentimental reasons or for the art work. A couple of the packages I have repurposed for storage, for example, the containers for pigments are used to store paper clips, pens or other items. Generally though I need to recycle more packaging to make room and reduce clutter and have recently been taking steps to do this.
Yes! Being a paper products junkie I keep everything: Tom Ford, Hermes, Nars, Tiffany, Mac, Clinque etc. displaying the pretty and the functional for extra storage.
I keep most of my makeup in original packaging; mainly because the makeup is easier to store in my drawer, and I can even stand products on end to save space. (And I don’t need to buy a lot of expensive acrylic organizers to keep things tidy.) I only save the boxes from skin care products that are sensitive to light.
Nope I don’t – which is why all that fancy packaging is really a waste of money and trees by the brands.
Only if it is extra special or fancy like my PMG palettes, for now anyway, if it gets too cluttered I will get rid of it, I not married to any of it.
I have recently started to keep the original packaging. I have kept all the Pat McGrath and most of my eyeshadow palettes. It just feels complete to me that way.
I keep the original boxes of any makeup or skincare items, if those boxes contain an ingredient list. The ingredient list comes in handy if I get an allergic reaction, even one that happens months later from when I started using the product. I’ve learned the hard way that websites don’t always post ingredients or note when ingredients have changed, which is why it’s important to keep the boxes if one has sensitive skin like I do. All the boxes are thrown into a dresser drawer; there’s no reason they need to stay with the actual product.
I used to then decided that living in clutter is not my thing. I just take pictures of it then throw the boxes out.
I didn’t used to, until picking up some things from PMG. I have a few lipstick boxes up out of the way for decor and I kept a palette box. Beauty “gurus” on youtube hated UD’s GoT release (barely any of them actually watched GoT), but I thought the palette was fricking great. So I kept all of that packaging.
I have a chest full of them and now I am wondering why I still have them? Guess it’s a good time to get rid of them.