Do you store any of your beauty products in the refrigerator? Dish 🙂
I don’t – in the past, I’ve kept LUSH’s Fresh Face Masks and MAC Fix+ in there!
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I don’t have air conditioning in my apartment, so when it gets hot in the summer I keep my lipstick in the fridge (otherwise it melts!).
After reading Blueracoon’s tip on putting Fresh lip balms in the freezer, I’ve been leaving mine in. At first, it was because the temps rose suddenly, but when I applied them, they just felt really nice cold. I also put pencils in the freezer overnight when they need sharpening, but that’s about it.
The amusing thing is that I got the fridge tip from someone *else* on this blog but I can’t remember who–so if you also keep your Fresh lip balms in the fridge, thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
When it gets hot in the summer (I live in the PNW, so we get about a week or two of combined really hot days over the course of the summer, plus no one has a/c so it *feels* hotter) I put my lipsticks and crayon lip products (Tarte and Revlon) in the fridge to keep them from melting. Year-round I keep my Fresh lip balms in the fridge so they don’t get squishy or melty when I’m not using them, although I rotate which ones are in the fridge, on my desk or in my purse. (Currently I have the Advanced Lip Therapy in my purse, original and Rose on my desk, and Passion, Coral, Plum, and Honey in the fridge. i will probably put Passion or Plum in my purse this week.)
(Also! New Fresh tint for the fall! :D)
Thought of you today: New Burberry matte lippies available now at Nordie’s and Saks. Gorgeous colours with some dark, brights, and soft pretties.
*makes grabby hands* OMGWANT. Will have to check out my local Nordy’s once I’m over this damn flu.
Get better soon!!! Here is more makeup porn to make you feel better. Burberry lip swatches here:
http://messywands.blogspot.ca/
I’m sure Christine will review at least one of them? Right?
WTF? Now I have to buy a makeup fridge… Jayzus
I saw those swatches and sighed in happiness. (Xiao is one of my regularly-read blogs :P) If I would feel better, I might treat myself as a “not being sick” present, but since I just got home from the doctor and they didn’t know what was wrong with me, I’m feeling bummed.
Feel better! I’m in the PNW too and ERVERYONE seems to be sick :/ Trying to get over the ick myself… I’d say it’s hindered my shopping but alas… good ol’ Internet has me covered 😉 LOL
Yay PNW people! I don’t even have the energy for internet shopping at the moment, that’s how crappy I feel. 🙁
I keep my lipsticks in there! The ones that aren’t sitting in my purse, that is!
Recently, no. In the past, yes. Just pencils in the fridge to help create a nice sharp point.
Hrmm.. I just rec’d a free gift of one of those blue gel eye masks. I might toss that in the freezer and give it a go for bleary eyed mornings.
I had to this summer. I also don’t have a/c in my apartment and a lot of my lipsticks were melting, especially Benefit and Lancome ones. Those went in the fridge pretty fast. Thankfully I only lost two. I was not able to save MAC’s Pretty Please and Creme Cup. I didn’t put those in the fridge because I thought MAC ones would survive. Now I know those two were the exception.
Not currently but in summer I will be – I’ll put my winter foundation in there, and various other thing which I won’t use over summer, so they’re still good to use after the blistering Australian summer is over!
Nothing except my Lush massage bar–it melts soooo quick when left in a warm room. I used to keep perfume in there, but the constant change in temperature from opening and closing the fridge door affected the scent to one of them, so now I just store them in a dark corner of my closet.
Ahoy! Yes! I actually used to have a separate fridge for my makes ups but it busted so now my food gets to look at my foundation.
Almost all of my liquid products get stored in the frigebater tho. Keeps em fresh as the day they were made! 😉
I was actually going to make a joke about buying a makeup fridge.. what the hell. I didn’t budget for it ;0)
I was thinking as I replied to this “Man it would be cool to have a wee bar fridge next to my makeup station haha!” Mainly because I would get weeeeeird looks from my flatmates if I kept things in there! My family would just take it out because it was occupying valuable food space.
Most definitely….been doing it for years…the ones that I dont use and are brand new….esp. when it is hot…it is good to put it in the frig…have more makeup in the frig than food.
I keep some lip products in my mini beer fridge. It’s really convenient but if I had to use the real fridge I probably wouldn’t bother.
I keep my nail polish bottles in the fridge. I got this tip a while back. Someone said that if you keep nail polish in the fridge, it won’t dry out. So I did 🙂
MAC Face&Body foundation, to keep it from separating !
All cream and liquid cosmetics go into the fridge, by default. The only exceptions are liquid skin-care products, cleansers etc. which are regularly used, and which will be finished long before their expiry date. Perfumes are stored in a cool, dark closet, but not in the fridge.
The AC or Heat in my house is very bipolar. Lol on the main level and in the basement, it can be as hot as Hades. But my room has been proven to be the freezer box. How? No idea. My parents call it the dungeon. I like it dark, cold, and silent.
If any products gravitate outside my room, it goes in the fridge nine out of ten times. My latest obsession has been Coconut Oil! I looooove the stuff and I take my big-assed jar everywhere with me in the house. In my bedroom, it stays perfect consistency. Solid, but melts to perfection with body heat. In the living room? As liquidy as any other nut oil. But just a quick 5 minute shock in the fridge solids it right up!
i don’t store makeup in there… BUT i do store my masks and eye gel patches in there.
feels sooo good when applied cold haha!
Only some Gehwol cooling foot and leg cream that I use in the summer – keeping it in the fridge makes it even more refreshing on hot, tired feet at the end of the day. I used to keep an eye cream-gel product in the fridge too but it was too much trouble since we live in a 3 storey house!
No. I would keep my eye cream in there, but the fridge being downstairs and my bathroom upstairs, it’s a bit inconvenient to run down to the refrigerator every time I get out of the shower or every night before I go bed.
After traveling in the heat during the summer, my gel eyeliner was melting so I stuck it in the fridge. Apart from the I don’t usually need to put anything in though.
I store my backups of anything in the fridge, from gloss to liners. It may not make it last longer, but it makes me feel better about it.
Only my treatment beauty products with active ingredients like salicylic acid or retinonl/a… just to make sure they don’t go off before I’m done with them!
only when i get really soft lipsticks in the mail
The only thing I keep in the fridge is a L’Oreal eye cream with metal roller. It’s nice in the morning to rub cold cream/cold metal under my eyes.
i keep a travel-sized mist bottle of water in the fridge for makeup… instead of expensive studio fix or the urban decay makeup setting spray, i use water. it works just as well — if not better — for removing the powdery look of my makeup and setting things in nicely. picked up that trick from petrilude. 🙂
I keep face and body mists in there. It’s a wonderful treat when it’s hot here – and it’s almost always hot here in central Texas.
Never thought of it. Aside from any LUSH Fresh Face Masks (since they recommend it when you’re buying them). I’m intrigued by this idea though!
I use the small fridge from my college dorm room days exclusively for beauty products. My dressing room and vanity are upstairs and my kitchen is downstairs, so it makes no sense to have to run down stairs all the time. I keep all the perfume refills that I have in the fridge because during the winter the dry heat kills them and all year round if the sun shines through the window it will also damage them. I also keep all my big bottles of cleansers in there, also the refill type stuff. I keep most of my creams and serums in the fridge because they also last longer that way. I do not the fridge super icey cold, because that could damage some of the active ingredients. But the most sensitive and expensive ingredient I have to look out for is retinoids, and they are pretty ok with cold temps and being left out in the car when it is cold by accident, etc. So it is really better to err on the side of cold than hot with most of my skin care regimen. Also, hydroquinine is also pretty sensitive to heat. My under eye rollers are all in the fridge so they will be cold and decrease puffiness in the am.
No. I used to have a mask or face cream in there during the summer but I stopped.
Isn’t it ok to do this to extend the life of your makeup products?
I have a lot of products which I am sure I cannot finish them in this lifetime 😀 How do you guys store it, so that it doesn’t expire…???
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