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What's one type of product you know you purchase too often?
Highlighters! I just love a good highlighter — something about the powder’s texture and then how it looks on the skin.
— Christine
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Eyeshadow. Hands down. Takes up two full drawers in my Helmer. And I’m always on the lookout for more. Palettes, singles, refills, stick, cream, powder, in between. Doesn’t matter. I love, love, love eyeshadow.
Penny, is it possible we were separated at birth?
Omg same here whyyyy I have to have all the eyeshadows I see!!! And then I feel sad because I can’t find the time to use them all lol
Lipstick. By far. It’s the one makeup item I always wear unless I’m sick. I buy too many and have a few backups, too. I do go through them, but the buy rate is greater than the finished rate. 🙂
Nail polish. Way too much nail polish. *sigh* But I really DO need twenty different shades of royal blue. Really! >_>
*Red lipsticks/glosses – After sorting through my stash and realizing I had 2 drawers full, I finally had to put a no buy in place, unless something is really unique or LE, but I’m still looking for a few matching lip liners
*Khaki olive green shadows – I love this color, and see a thousand variations in shade, have to resist buying every shadow I run into
I am exactly the same – I have a whole, large makeup bag full of green eye shadows – most of the Khaki olive green. Just adore this colour.
Is there one better than Sumptuous Olive?
I have Sumptous Olive, and it’s pretty, but looks like a bronze khaki brown on me. My collection is a lot greener in color, more khaki olive. If you’re interested in khaki olive colors, I love Milani Bella Khaki, Colour Pop Hammered, Sephora Mild to Wild Khaki palette, UD Moondust in Vortex, Giorgio Armani #6 Green Iron, and Chanel Tisse D’Automne.
Eye shadow! I just love it. Cream or liquid or powder, it doesn’t matter. I’ve got to rein it in though because I’m starting to look at other brands just to be able to buy something. I’m pretty selective about brands I buy for certain products – it keeps it simple and streamlined for me – but I’ve been considering a few others just because I haven’t been seeing anything that’s been catching my eye lately from the brands I normally buy eye shadow. When there are lulls between collections or when something new is released and it doesn’t appeal to me, I still want to spend the money I set aside on something. Which is ridiculous because my collection is exactly the way I want it, so why buy something just for the sake of buying when it’s going to go untouched and collect dust? Sounds mental when I’ve typed it all out. 😐
Lipstick would be a distant second, followed by highlighter.
Oh, I don’t know! Eyeshadow? Lipstick? Nail polish? I’m an addict?
Most likely eyeshadows. To the point that I am overwhelmed pretty much. And literally have dupes of dupes of other dupes! I may need an intervention at this stage! LoL, but also scary as shizznits! And as I write this, I have 6 more CP Super Shock eyeshadows in my cart, and a bunch on MAC, HUGE wishlist for MUFE…all just waiting for one of my momentary lapses of sanity. ?
Blushes and eye pencils. And recently, eyeshadows 🙂 Cant stop won’t stop…
Concealers… and lipsticks.
Blushes!
Highlighters and bronzers!
I have slightly more highlighters than bronzers, but those two products undoubtedly dominate my makeup collection…and it always will.
Do I need more of them? Probably not.
Do I want more of them? Yes, ma’am! Yes. I. Do!
Lip products, although I try to refrain from purchasing as many. Recently I’ve also purchased too many blushes!
Lipsticks. I have boxes and boxes of lipsticks. I just can’t get enough of them!
Red lipsticks. Especially crayons.
Eyeshadows. I have a problem, I really do.
Right there with you.
Lipsticks. i have a serious addiction to lipsticks.
Lipsticks!
Definitely blush and concealer!
Eyeshadow – it’s my one real weakness when it comes to cosmetics. Also concealer – I’m always looking for something “better” than those I have.
Sunscreen. I just always keep looking for ‘something better’, lol, even though what I have is already pretty darn good!
It used to be nail polish… I still have a big box left after getting rid of half of my nail polish bottles last year. In 2015 I think it was blush- probably tripled my collection in one year’s time!
Eyeshadow palettes. They’re so hard to say no to. I have more eyeshadow than I could use in ten lifetimes but I always manage to justify just one more palette.?
Sparkly brown/champagne eye shadows! I tend to go for that color when trying out a new brand.
Lip colors
Eye shadow! I didn’t wear any for years and now I’m obsessed with it. Of course, I keep buying shades that are pretty similar, but oh well.
Unfortunately, I keep buying lipsticks too, but for a less fun reason. Cant find a moisturizing, lasting, good brand/color for me this winter.
Palettes! Especially eyeshadows, but also blushes and highlighters. I think they just visually appeal to me, and it’s nearly always “such a good deal” when you look at the per color or per ounce cost compared to single pans (I will always find a way to justify the purchase!).
Eyeshadows….. I definitely own more eyeshadows than anything else. Lipstick products are up there as well.
Highlighters & lipstick!
Lipstick! I have hundreds. It’s my secret addiction…no one but my parents know about it! I just can’t help myself. I’m a bit better now that I can tell myself not to buy ones I have dupes for but I should stop buying them altogether. It’s all these new formulae that I want to try. Oh dear…. ?
Highlighters! I only have one face. who needs 40-ish highlighters? Apparently I do. I also have an issue with purchasing every purple lipstick known to man. I have a serious probably…lol
Eyeshadows! I’m pretty sure I have every colour, but I can’t resist a colourful palette or another Makeup Forever trio!
I have the same problem. Lol. If it’s purple I have to have it. It’s such a pretty color. I prefer MAC but I will buy any brand if it is purple. Also have to have every purple nail polish.
There are two kinds of product I purchase *way* more of than I could ever possibly use up — eyeshadow palettes and lipsticks. I think it’s because I adore color and want to have one of every shade in every finish that looks good on me. I have at least become more discriminating with time, and usually only purchase/keep ones that I truly love now, but every once in a while an impulse purchase sneaks in. For some reason I ordered the Urban Decay Vice Ltd Reloaded palette when you posted the link, Christine, even though my history with Vice palettes is mixed. It came yesterday, and I do love the four greens (Acid Rain, Mildew, Shallow, and Misdemeanor) and UV-B and Asphyxia and Freakshow, and there are other shades I’ll use, so I should at least enjoy playing with it for a while.
Lip gloss! I prefer gloss to any other lip product and cannot resist new formulas or new colors despite having too many already.
Lipsticks and lip glosses. One swipe can brighten your whole face!
E) All of the above
Lipsticks.
Lipsticks. No doubt about it. BUT I have gotten soooo much better about buying them in the last year. Getting rid of a lot of them and buying less. I probably have half of what I had at the beginning of last year.
Used to be nail polish and eyeshadow. Now it’s lipsticks – I’ve been branching out kind of into different colors and I like how a good lipstick feels and looks on the lips.
anything brow related! hahaha
lipstick. I justify it because it’s the only makeup I wear (besides just like a little bit of foundation + filling my brows) but I have over a hundred shades at this point, and am always eyeing more
At the moment it’s blushers/cheek products! I have more eyeshadow palettes and lipsticks than I know what to do with, too! But to be fair, I had to scrimp and save for years and now I like to treat myself! I just adore all the colours and textures that are out there.
Blush, and eyeshadow, but blush really draws me in.
Lip products in general, but especially glosses. I have so many, it’s difficult to use them up before they need to be tossed. I’m only slightly better with lipsticks and lip balms. The only lip product I manage to keep under control is liner!
Eye shadow is by FAR the product I purchase too much of. With lipstick and blush following closely behind. Granted I do use those products so in my mind I need that many different shades and formulas. If you we are judging by how often the products get used vs how much I have then the answer is highlighters. I don’t have many, but more than I need when compared to how much I wear them.
Everything. For the numbers of mornings that I’ll actually wake up early and put on makeup, I should only own a sunscreen, mascara and a chapstick. But no, I have multiple highlighters, primers and backup lipsticks.
Eyeshadow palette hoarder right here
Eyeshadow palettes!
Lipstick without a doubt. I own over 100 lip products and I continue to buy more.
Lipstick. I don’t even wear lipstick except on very special occasions, but I have at least 20 variations of the same dusty rose color.
Blush-I don’t own more of these than I do other products, but the ones I already have will never get used up in my lifetime, and I keep wanting more pretty things.
Might be able to answer the opposite, what don’t you buy every last variation of, and that would be highlighters/contours. The worst offenders would probably be eyeliners, I guess, though eye palettes, blush, and lipstick are not far behind. Take Catrice liners. Tried one in each formula, then bought every last shade. Thank god, it’s cheap. It’s like that old saw about shoes, if it fits, buy it in every color. At least I have reined myself in on Audacious. MUG and Nars blushes? Every color I would wear. Sephora liners, almost all. It’s easy to see why I am afraid to try TF and Rouge G. At least CP won’t break the bank, and if I dither enough, it will be …. poof! So, yeah, all of it. I try to rationalize that I’m old, so have a lot of stash. But actually, I am addicted. Hey, better than cocaine or heroin, right?
Eye shadows palettes, it doesn’t take much to convince me I NEED the newest and the latest even though I haven’t even touched the last 2 palettes that I absolutely NEEDED!!
Hahaha I have the same problem here :0
highlighters & eye shadow palettes…seriously i need another one like i need another hole on my head LOL
Lipstick and highlighters! I love them…I can’t help myself! I also seem to buy the same colors just from different brands. Who needs 10 red lippies? This girl!!
Probably eyeshadow since it’s my favorite makeup product to wear. I can wear it everyday in any color and be happy. I have a few palettes and all of them are different but I actually do wear 98% of it. So I wouldn’t say I buy too much even though I own a lot of it.
I think it must be lipsticks, followed by eyeshadows, in thier place nailpolish.
Edit: Third place. I have no idea what’s up with my typing these days! Innovative maybe ;P
Definitely matte deep red Lipsticks! I pretty much wear matte red lipstick everyday — alone or with light make-up looks. Red lipstick instantly boosts my mood!
Blush – I can’t resist a pretty blush!
I go through phases. For a few months, I’ll somehow get onto a bronzer bender. Then, before I know it, I’m off on a torrid highlighter streak — creams, liquids, pressed, poured. Same goes for foundations (oh my god, 2015 was the year of the foundation!), blushes, lashes, lipstick, nail polish (especially iridescent and duo-chromes… oh my goodness!). I’m a cycling nut.
But I think the mother of all my addictions, the one that’s *always* switched on, is eye shadow. I am out of control when it comes to eye shadow. I need every unique looking thing I see, it seems. I’m a little picky about brands, and I don’t like too many dupes in my collection, but other than that, I’m a beast! 😛 And if a thing is limited edition by a brand I love, oh I’m definitely here for that! This gets worse around the time new seasons/ product launches get going. It’s a sickness, but I love it! 😀
Lip colors…I’m addicted to all the different types of lip products that are available!!!
Eye shadow and Liquid Lipsticks. I am simply obsessed! I don’t care if I already have something like it, I want it anyway. I can’t get enough. I just can’t.
Lipstick & lipglosses!! I have over 80. Sick!
Eye shadow palettes – the absolute winner. After that – lipsticks. Oh dear….
Lip anything. If it goes on the lips, I have too much of it. If I wore it all all the time it would be fine but I only wear color a few days a week. Balm everyday though.
Eyeshadow Palettes!
I have to say highlighters, too! I have way too many and I keep getting more. There’s nothing like a good highlighter to really wake up my complexion so I’m addicted! I’m happy because I’m about to actually finish one – Kevyn Aucoin Candlelight. I’m trying hard not to repurchase because I have so many others (Becca, Josie Maran, etc).
Lipstick. I’ve run out of room in the drawer I keep them in!
Don’t ask me how many lipsticks and glosses I have. It’s hopeless.
This would be eye palettes and mascara I have weaknesses for both of them esp taupe palettes.
For most of my makeup obsessed life, I’d have to say lipstick, but for the past few months it’s been eyeshadow palettes! The colors, the packaging, the layout…I feel like a kid in a candy store! I’m almost afraid to let my husband see how many I now have in so short a time. I keep telling myself I can stop anytime I want to….the mantra of addicts everywhere.
Red lipstick! I own about 40, haha.
Foundations & Lipsticks!!
Eye shadows!!! Palettes and singles, I am a junkie!
Definitely lip products and nail polish. I still wouldn’t say my collection of either is “huge”, especially since I watch YouTube and bloggers and know a few people with a lot bigger collections than mine, but I still buy lipsticks or polishes all the time. I have 30 blue polishes. Just blue! (to be fair, it’s my favorite color 😛 ) I think the last time I counted my lipsticks/glosses/anything that’s not balm, I had ~60+ and I could use a de-stash on some, I’m sure.
Definitely red lipsticks and highlighters. I always justify it by saying “Oh this is a new formula” or “I don’t have one like this!”
Blushes and Highlighters
Lipstick and lip glosses.
Mine is definitely highlighter…
Eyeshadow, definitely!
Lip products!!
Lip products (sticks, glosses, stains, pencils)…I don’t discriminate, which is why I have WAAAAAY too many!
Foundation is first, anything hydrating and long lasting. Next is eye-shadow, then blush ,finishing powders and highlighters. My husband just shakes his head and says “how can you give your kids an inheritance that has an expiration date??”. I lie to myself, but honestly in a few years my whole collection will probably be expired. That’s too umbearbly sad for me to internalize and own up to.
Omg the other day when I was buying a new eyeshadow palette my husband told me “hey what about the expiration dates of all that stuff!??” And I didn’t know what to say… Christine if you read this do you know for how long is safe to keep and use eyeshadows?? And other products? :0
Eyeshadow palettes – I have a drawer full! 😀 *eep*
Lipstick. So many colors, and I’ll wear it even if I don’t have anything else on my face
mascara. every new one that comes out. i believe all the hype, and i haven’t found an HG yet!
Oh, honey…. Eyeshadow for sure. Lol.
This question is (unfortunately) too easy to answer! Lipstick is my addiction.
Eyeshadow, definitely. I just get so mesmerized by all the pretty colors and formulations. And just think of all of the possibilities.
Foundation. I’m am eternally searching for something better, even if I like what I have.
Eye pencils.
Shadow pencils, liners, kohl kajal, smudge sticks, you name it, I’ve got it.
Have to have them in all textures, finishes & colors as I wear double liner & an Arab or Indian style eye everyday.
Nail lacquer. I think it’s because of all make up items it’s considerably cheap. I probably have about 200 bottles of OPI and feel I have to buy at least one from each collection that is released.
Moisturizer with 50spf, it is a Greek sunshine requirement.
Lipsticks and Lipglosses
Lipsticks and blushes…they’re my weakness. I have way too many blushes and way too many lipsticks but keep buying more because I can’t resist when something new comes out that catches my eye. I always have to try when some of my favorite brands come out with something new in shades that I like.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I collect eyeshadows like Pokemon cards!
Nail polish. And nail polish. And more nail polish. My collection isn’t as bad as I know some people’s are; it’s more about my obsessive/ compulsive need to compare swatches, read reviews, pin, pin, pin every color, nail shape, etc. etc. I’ve had to cut back a bit due to budget constraints, and I also recently cleared out some of my older, barely used, thickened bottles and am hoping to replace them with newer, more fashionable colors very, very soon. Sigh.
Lipsticks
Eyeshadows
Gel eyeliners
Concealer.. Concealer.. And concealer. Cant imagine my life without one
Eyeshadow palettes. I have a lot more than I can use on daily basis but I don’t know what is wrong with me, I simply crave them and I have to have them :/
Nail Polish – every color is just slightly different (or so I keep telling myself). Of course I need 20 different shades of red! 😉
Lipsticks. I won’t ever use up even half of what I have. I have had to pull in the reins on the temptation to try so many new lip products.
Lip products. Hands down.
Nude lipstick! I have a serious hoarding problem haha
It’s a tie between lipsticks and eyeshadow. Way to many of both.
Lipsticks! I love to try new colors, and it’s a (mostly) inexpensive treat when I need a little treat. The crazy thing is,, I wear the same ones over and over again— MAC’s Viva Glam IV, Chanel’s Gabrielle, and Mary Kay’s Raisinberry and Frosted Rose.
Nude lipstick and glosses.
Lipsticks for sure.
I am sooo easily sucked into the new shades and textures that I always feel like there is a shade out there that I need like now. I am a small scale makeup hoarder (limited budget 🙂 ) and am not ashamed to admit it (well, occasionally I do get that feeling of being a bit excessive), but after I look at my 21 lipsticks that I need to work through, I keep reminding myself that I will never be able to finish them all before some go bad, so I do not need anymore!… Next thing you know is I am standing at a makeup counter swatching away lip products like I need more 🙂 Ohh, the life of a makeup addict.
lipstick and blushes and brushes omg ! and now palettes :'(
Lip gloss is my absolute favorite makeup product ever! I love the combination of color and shine that gloss offers. Plus, I always enjoy trying new formulas.
Lipsticks and nail polishes! I have way too many. And whenever I see an OPI or Essie on sale I have to have it lol. I also spend way too much time on YouTube looking at lipstick videos and then purchasing the lipsticks. I am obsessed with MAC lipsticks. I paint my nails every other day and wear a different lipstick every day. I think I have a problem. Lol.
Lipstick, mascaras, and foundations’
Eye shadows. It’s a sickness. I think I’m at a place where I can pass on highlighters due to the hoarding there but I’m not sure so I’ll go with eye shadows. Final answer.