Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the products you own?
For sure! Even now, I’m still in the process of doing some organization/cleaning out of really old products so that everything feels more manageable.
— Christine
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Oh, definitely! I have a storage container filled with palettes, lipsticks, etc. that I’ll probably never return to. I’m not good at decluttering.
Although I never had a huge collection of makeup products, I did felt overwhelmed when I owned multiple products of one type. The decision what to wear, the idea that a lot of product was going off… then 4-5 years ago I decided to only open one item of a type at a time and I never felt more relief. I love each item I own, I feel oddly more creative and the process of choosing a new addition always sparks my research enjoyment (when it rarely occurs).
All the time! I have too many eyeshadow palettes to use, realistically. I have decluttered some, but the rest are all favorites, so I am keeping them and just living with the fact I’ll never hit pan on any of them. At the same time as they are overwhelming they also bring me a lot of joy!
Occasionally. I keep mine pretty well organized, and declutter regularly, so it’s not too bad.
Definitely! I was looking for a particular lipstick last night and was having to go through boxes of lipsticks that I had just put into a box when I did my declutter, planning to organize them and put them back into the storage caddy that I usually keep them in. I never found the lipstick and I know I didn’t declutter it. I just mentioned it here on the blog, recently. It is the Rouge Bunny Rouge shade, “Perfume of His Gaze” and I would never have parted with it. So, if I don’t find it soon, I will see if I can pick it up. I hope it is still available. I am trying to decide how I want to organize my lipsticks and when you have so many, you likely will not find a perfect solution that works every time. Prior to my declutter, I organized by brand and then by color within the brand but when you are looking for a pink lipstick and you don’t have a particular shade in mind, it is frustrating trying to find the pinks. So, I have thought about organizing by shade but I can see problems with that also. Consequently, they haven’t been organized yet! Back to the question, though. I sometimes feel like picking one shade from each color story and getting rid of all the rest and making do with just those shades. Being a makeup lover makes that choice just an excuse to buy more. I don’t get panicky when I see my collection but it can be overwhelming.
Yes, organizing and decluttering the stuff I shouldn’t have bought over the years is simply not my highest priority.
Yes, I’m feeling totally overwhelmed by the amount of bronzers I have. It’s become a chore deciding. I need to declutter, like most things I have to be in the mood
Oh every morning, when I go to pick out a lipstick. As in, go to my guest room, the overflow for cosmetics that won’t fit in our one shared bathroom:;
Every now and again I do – but then I declutter the ones that are getting too old (except for Naked 1) and now my stash is far more manageable – both in terms of lipsticks (a major weakness) and eyeshadow palettes. Luckily for me, in a way, very few eye palettes have caught my attention this year and so far, I haven’t bought any.
I do feel like that! I try to to get rid of things, but what if I need it? Haha
Not overwhelmed exactly, but guilty about products I don’t use very much.