Now I must admit, this post is just as much for me as it is advice for all the beauty horders out there. I do love a good drawer bursting with makeup, but I’ve found that life is so much simpler when everything in it are products I love and reach for often. So here’s how to keep your makeup collection to must-haves.
- Shop your stash whenever you’re in the mood for a new makeup purchase. Chances are there’s a product you haven’t given much love that’ll feel like a new product to you! Plus shopping your stash can always uncover products that have gotten tucked away that may need to be tossed.
- Check expiration dates and take them seriously. Toss any products that are too old to use.
- Be brutally honest with yourself about some product categories. I for one have way too many blushes at any given time. There’s only so many ways you can do pink, so be honest and keep only one or two blushes of a shade.
- Keep an area for favorites and see which products are constantly in it and which ones aren’t. The products that never end up in that area should probably find a new home since you clearly aren’t using them.
- Start a project use-up to get rid of the remaining bits of products lingering around. That way your drawers will be less cluttered and you’ll be able to really see the products you may have been neglecting. I always end up having four to five mascaras open at one time and really have to focus to use them up. Finishing just one or two always makes a huge difference in that bin.
- Don’t allow for overflow into other areas. I keep all my makeup in one drawer and don’t allow myself to merge over to anything else. Having a set amount of room for beauty and makeup means you’ll have to really get picky when the drawer fills up.
- Use the one in one out method for buying new makeup if it just can’t be avoided. If you get a new blush, get rid of something else to make room for it. This really works with the tip to not allow for overflow.
I love makeup like the next girl, but keeping my stash to must-haves makes things so much easier in the mornings and reduces serious makeup stress.
xoxo Kayla
We all have our beauty weaknesses. The bits and bobs we can’t help but scoop up regardless of what else we have in our collection. I thought it time to write an ode to those products because although I’m very much aware that I don’t need any more, I pick more up anyway.
A fleet of my lips but better lipsticks
I think it’s safe to say I have about 20 different lipsticks that if I am completely honest with myself, are more or less than same color. We all have that shade of lipstick that just works for us and we need to scoop up every slight shade variation of it we possibly can.
Another neutral palette
Nothing can make a beauty junkie’s heart pitter patter like a shiny new palette, but man do I have like three too many. What is it about a collection of shadows grouped together in a flattering package that causes even the strongest willed makeup enthusiast to say, “screw it” and buy another one? I know I’ve said one too many times that it’s “good for travel” knowing full well I rarely leave my apartment let alone take my makeup anywhere adventurous.
A bronzer that’s too dark/orange for our skin
We’ll make it work eventually right? I know I’m a pale person, but I can’t seem to part with the bronzer that’s obviously too dark for my skin. Maybe I think if I pray hard enough I’ll become sun-kissed and the perfect bronze match.
More nail polishes than any one person could use
We need all the shade options apparently. Nail polishes are one of those beauty bits that can just stack up until you have drawers spilling with fifty different shades of blue (just me?). Plus let’s be honest, I rarely paint my nails anyway.
Oh makeup. It always has a way of sucking you back in when you swear you won’t buy another rose toned blush or mauve lipstick. But you can’t help but love the struggle.
What beauty products do you have too many of? What products do you know you just don’t need but can’t help getting more of anyway?
xoxo Kayla
Watches have always seemed like such a luxury to me. I’d see someone wearing a beautiful watch and think, one day I’ll have a watch that makes me feel like a million bucks. I recently acquired that
unique watch and have been taking it on little adventures with me ever since.
Alex and I attended a wedding over the weekend near Port Huron, MI. It’s his old stomping grounds and I’ve surprisingly never been there except to pass through to Canada. So we took the remainder of our day to try out a famous local chicken joint and have a chai latte at The Raven. It was one of those days where I just felt pretty, you know? And my gorgeous watch might have had something to do with it. As soon as people see it they immediately compliment it. I was probably complimented six times that day, all because of a watch.
When I first heard about
JORD watches, I couldn’t believe that they were made of wood. Say what?! Most of the watches I’ve had in the past have been bulky, heavy, and eventually ended up in some drawer ticking away the time to no one. Yet the
Fieldcrest watch is so unbelievably light and I felt like I wasn’t even wearing it. Plus the light wood has complimented every single outfit I own; really pulling everything together.
Watches have a way of making me nostalgic to the days without social media and cell phones. Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet probably more than the next person, but whenever I put on this watch I feel like I’m giving a nod of respect to years past.
Do you wear watches? What’s your favorite accessory?
xoxo Kayla
