green – keeping, yellow – finished, red – throwing out

So back here I began my product cull to tidy my makeup stash with the idea that if I wasn’t regularly using them by December they were going in the bin. I had 39 makeup products that I wanted to concentrate on which I kept in a little basket next to my vanity table that I tried to dip into in an effort to use them and it worked for some items. I managed to use up 13 of them and decided to rotate 4 back into my stash which I’m concentrating on using up as I’ve already earmarked a few products to buy to replace them when they’re gone. And while I was reassessing my stash I decided to add in a bunch of makeup I forgot I had which I have no intention using again.

So this is what’s getting binned…

I’m trying to catch up, really I am. Not too many for the end of last year but I did manage to finish a few of my use it or lose it products. I’ll do a proper purge in another post but here’s my empties for the tail end of 2016. 

I was flat out for the 3 months from August to November which ran me right into the ground so the day after the kids school term finished in September I basically collapsed with a flu/virus thing. In that whole time I know my skincare routine took a beating so I’m surprised that I managed to use as many products as I did.

I recently had a wedding to go to which prompted this little Mecca haul.

A few more Use It Or Lose It products gone which I’m quite happy about. Here’s what I finished up in July...

A small collective haul from my last few shopping trips. Some of these I’ve been eyeing off for a while now and others were opportunity buys, i.e. a sale was on that I couldn’t pass up or it was finally back in stock so I grabbed it while I could.

A bit of hair, a bit of skin - quite Garnier heavy for June. Here's my most recent empties and what I thought of them...