I do it on a semi-annual basis, shifting some things out in favor of newly-found favorites, but since I am mostly testing new things, I don’t rotate very regularly since I don’t re-wear much!
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I really don’t because I have such a small collection that I never really felt like I was neglecting things. I do have a few things that I have been trying to pan so I’ll do a week of nothing but panning items and then a week off.
There’s no real “process” – mostly what motivates me is that I’ll see a new product being reviewed here, then I’ll look at the dupes and see that I have a dupe (or several) and decide it’s time to take that product/colour out of “semi-retirement” and put it back into circulation. I just did this recently with Tarte Grind eyeshadow (it is a dupe for another shadow I saw here and thought “gee, I’ve not worn that in a while” and guess what I wore today to go to the pottery that was having the fundraiser for Ukraine.
Sorry Mariella to confuse you last Friday re the ‘how is your daughter travelling’ comment. It’s an expression we use here in Aus as another way of saying ‘how is so and so going?’
I should have written – ‘How is your daughter travelling/going in her pregnancy journey’ and that would have made more sense to you!
Oh…thanks for the explanation (we have kids travelling far…younger son and newest daughter in law are moving to Japan) so I thought maybe you had them mixed up. She’s doing well…tired, as is natural, but excited and trying to take it all in stride! (washer and dishwasher both died at the same time….Murphy’s law – so they were out getting new appliances, stuff like that but it was wonderful to see her; I bought ceramic Ukrainian flag pins at the pottery for us and for her hubby as well). It was just lovely to see her and she looked so adorable.
I do rotate, I make sure I use a different foundation, eye palette, blush, highlighter and lipstick everyday.
I rotate seasonally with heavier, darker colors in the fall and winter! I keep the palettes I’m most excited about in the most accessible location.
With my minimalist makeup collection, doing a rotation is not necessary. But I do try to make sure I rotate my eyeshadows and blushes, so I make sure I use each shade at least once a month. While I was in the first phases of lockdowns, since no one was seeing my makeup, I was actually rotating through each eyeshadow in my custom made palette, creating a look around it (shade #1 in day #1,…. shade #15 in day #15). 😅 I actually learned a lot of how to combine my most unused shades during that time.
I definitely do rotate my eyeshadow palettes on a regular basis. The process is as follows:
Firstly, I decide what I am wearing (seasonal) and then I look at my stash to see what complements the colours. If it is summer – then I tend to use more teals, blues, greens and some neutrals. Palettes like yours – On the Horizon Light (which I am wearing today – Heart Dog, Earthbound, Flying High and Calming Presence) get used a lot. Also Bonne Etoile, Stila in the Garden and so on.
For autumn – I bring out more of my olive green, gold, bronze and neutral palettes.
Secondly, I may decide to bring out a particular palette to either ‘use up’ or use more of – eg Naked 1,
Huda’s Smokey Obsession (I have hit pan on a couple of shades there).
Thirdly, I may use a particular eye palette because it is just ‘made for’ the outfit I am wearing for an evening out or a particular item of clothing (eg Pixi Beauty Reflex Light for bronzes and Smashbox’s Petal Metal for a rosy hued dress I recently purchased).
Lastly, I may see a shade or a palette here on this blog that is new – and after reviewing the dupe list, I will dig that shade or set of shades out to use.
I match my lipsticks with the outfits – either CP’s Foolish, Maybelline’s Mauve for Me – which does go with just about everything I own, MAC’s Fresh Moroccan or one of my many new Shiseido lipsticks.
Ha. I say I’m going to but I don’t. Truth is my collection of makeup is small, it looks bigger because I buy backups in fear of something being discontinued. So, no, I have a lone little NARS Voyager pallette I swear I’m going to use. I don’t. Same old 3 MAC shadows day in, day out. I live vicariously through every person here and on YouTube. Ahhh the thrills ❤️
I haven’t been using many eyeshadow palettes during the pandemic because I didn’t go out much. Now we have a few things in the calendar and I am starting to look through my many beautiful palettes. I usually will go for a specific look for an evening so I will pick a palette that I want to use and the next time it will be a different one that way I am using them all.
When we bought our current house, I turned one of the bedrooms into a makeup/clothing room. It has a slay station, walk-in closet & bathroom, as well as racks for newly purchased clothes for ease of selection. Next to the slay station, however, are additional displays of more “occasional” makeup selections. Like all of my indie duochrome palettes, non-essential fragrances, self-made palettes (i put all PMG singles and non-recent six pans in their own combined pallettes, similarly to many of my viseart essentials and ND 5-pans). As well as palettes that are large in size that I just want out of the way.
Because I set it up like this, there’s no need for rotation since it’s all on display. I did that purposefully because otherwise I wouldn’t regularly rotate the way I need to. I try to wear a different brand every day to help aide in this. We don’t have kids (I can’t), so a house of this size can certainly give up the room with no issue.
I rotate mine by either a) season or b) mood.
Right now I’m into the more healthy, glowing kind of look – bronzer, lip gloss, dewy foundation and ‘barely there’ eye makeup.
For work I just apply concealer, neutral lipstick, eyeliner and flesh toned eyeshadow.