As I’m laying out all my lip stuff in preparation for photography in today’s post, The Boy asks me, “What’s the purpose of all these pictures?”
“They’re to show my whole collection on the blog.” I reply.
“So it’s like… makeup porn?” he asks.
“YUP! You got it!” 😆
My lip stash is probably the least exciting of all of my stashes – the majority of my lip products can fit into one frame:
I’m just not that into lipsticks. I feel bold colours don’t suit my face. I’m also not into matte textures or shimmer, or overly glossy finishes – so it leaves me with a fairly narrow band of comfort zone, as you’ll see in my stash. And I only own 5 MAC lipsticks! (of which 3 are retired) It’s relatively small by comparison to my eye shadow stash (600+) or nail polish stash (400+) That said, I have amassed a lot of lip balms and butter butters.
I keep the bulk of my lipsticks inside a large drawer (beneath my blushes and eye shadows – the lipsticks know where they stand with me!)
I also have a few acrylic cubes where I store my more frequently used tinted lip balms:
Onto the lip stash:
MAC lippies – I only use the 2 on the far right (L to R: Twig, Peachstock, Cute Ster, Cosmo and Mystical).
The 3 C.O. Bigelow tubes on the left are my HG night time lip balms!
That owl is a lip balm! 🙂 A gift from a friend.
This is the EOS in their natural habitat – I posted about them on Easter. That apple one is the Bath & Body Works’ version of EOS – it’s not very good.
I’d say at least a quarter of my lip stash is slated to be tossed out due either to expiry or they’re just not colours I would ever wear (I don’t have a good excuse for why I even bought them to begin with!) I’ve set aside a bunch of these to be featured in a future “purge” post. I’m also embarrassed to say that yes, some of those lipsticks are indeed unused and untried. I forgot about them! If you have any questions about any of the products pictured, feel free to ask in the comments.
Are you a lipstick fiend? What formulas / shades could you recommend to me?
Thats a lot of lip products! Great photos!
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Thanks! I do have a bit of a problem when it comes to lip balms and tinted balms. 🙂
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Wow, you have so much lip stuff in your stash!
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It’s not that much compared to my eye shadows, blushes or nail polishes. It’s just funny to me since most beauty bloggers go ga-ga over lipsticks while I’m pretty ho-hum about them. 😛
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I had purged a ton of stuff from my makeup stash about two months before I started my blog, so it feels like I am lacking in some makeup products, haha! Eyeshadows are the bulk of my collection!
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Eye shadows are mine too! I’m reluctant to part with any of my eye shadows, however, with lipsticks, I’m not too attached to any of them.
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Wowzer! That is still a really impressive stash of lipsticks! I’m going through a bit of a lip phase right now where I keep buying shades that some may think are really similar but look so different to me haha! X
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What have been your favourite lip products that you’ve bought lately?
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Ummm, apart from Mocha by MAC I really like 1995 from Gerard Cosmetics and Salmon lipgloss from GC too 🙂
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I liked the 3 lipsticks you got from MAC – all very wearable shades! 🙂
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Holy moly! You have a huge stash! Mine is pitiful compared to yours, well done! Though I do have a ridiculous amount of eos in my bathroom draw. lol
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I do need to purge quite a few, it’s a pity that they go bad! EOS are so cute and collectible!
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My favorite kind of porn- makeup porn! You have so many cute lip stuff packaging, i don’t know how you don’t display them all haha. How are the Anna Sui lipsticks? I love the packaging, but I don’t know how the formula is.
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Anna Sui lip stuff are amazing! Very hydrating and good pigmentation. I think I am going to focus more on Japanese lip products – I seem to really like their formulas AND packaging!
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I have a million Revlon Lip Butters too!
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I went a bit overboard buying them just to have all the colours since they were so cheap on sale for $4. I’ve already set aside 3 colours that just don’t work for me (the nudey light shades).
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90% of nude shades look weird on me so I totally get it!
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That’s quite a lot of lipsticks for someone that’s not really into them 😉 A lot of the colours look soo gorgeous..why are you not found of them? 😦 Sorry I’m a massive lipstick lover and seeing these not used breaks my heart lolloll. Regarding formulas, I love creamy ones that are pigmented. If i were to compare to MAC i’d say cremesheens or amplifieds. Love them!
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I know – I have a tinge of guilt about not using these. I did actually pull out a Lise Watier lipstick today that I haven’t used in ages – it’s so nice, I really need to use it more before it goes bad.
I’m actually gathering products for a Back-2-MAC coming up soon, and I’m thinking of trading in for a lipstick (I’ve only ever traded for eye shadows before!) so I’ll probably request opinions on what to get! 😀
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Ahh you should, MAC lipsticks are soo amazing! If you want any recommendations, just let me know what you’d like – I’ll see if i know of any good ones 🙂
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Definitely! Thank you! 😀
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Love love love how organised these are!! I can’t believe all of those are your lipsticks, so many!!! Iv been to stores with less haha Plus lipstick porn made me LOL!
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Haha, I wished I was more organized with them! I tend to group them by brand but I really should group them by colours, it would make it handier to choose in the mornings! Men – they’re hilarious! 😛
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Wow! Great collection! I just threw away a bunch from my makeup the other day. I pretty much just about filled a trash bag lol. I like those acrylic containers. Those look really nice! 🙂 xo
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It’s so sad that lip products expire so much faster! But I can be ruthless in my eliminations – I should do an elimination post to decide what gets cut! 😛
I got those acrylic containers from Winners / TJMaxx from the kitchen section!
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Oh I will have to look for those containers! they look great! I am looking forward to your post if you decide to do an elimination post, that’s always fun! 🙂 xo
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For someone who isn’t all that interested in lipstick, you sure have a lot! To be fair, I can’t say anything because I have like… 70+ lipsticks and even more lip products I haven’t even counted haha.
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Well I should qualify it by saying that it’s a small stash RELATIVE to my other stashes (I have over 600 eye shadows and over 400 nail polishes) so by comparison, 70 lipsticks is not a lot. 😛 It’s still a LOT, yes I acknowledge that!
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Hahaha that’s very true, I was so amazed (and a little jealous, I’m a bit ashamed to admit) when I saw the post with all your stashes!
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I love when you show your whole section of your stash! I think as long as the lipstick is moisturizing, it’s something I would use up. For instance, Spellbound and Fairytale are too drying for me to want to use them all the time. I don’t see those coming to an end anytime soon.
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I’d be interested to see your lipstick stash! 🙂
Have you ever used up an entire lipstick? I haven’t! I’ve used up plenty of lipbalms though.
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Lipbalms yes def. and One lipstick in my makeup life! And then I immediately repurchased it. Lol
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Well then, you know it was a good one! May I ask what it was?
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Lollipop Loving – I still have a small pot of it that I’m working on. I’m told to finish it, but I don’t wanna! It’s all I have left. </3
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It’s better to finish it up before it goes bad! Damn MAC and their LE items!
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True! I should use it. I wore it yesterday and each time I dip my finger into the pot it’s like I am slowly saying goodbye! 😕
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Wow! Great collection …Too bad lipsticks go bad so fast 😦
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Thanks! Yes, it’s sad that they do go bad so quickly. I’m going to try keeping some in the fridge as suggested by fivezero!
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Great idea !!! We have nothing to loose;)
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Makeup porn is correct! I own more lip products than anything else in my cosmetics collection.
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And that seems to be the norm!
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I can’t believe you have practically every Revlon lipbutter & EOS flavour, but practiced so much restraint in your babylips accumulation 😛
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Mainly because a lot of the Babylips have shimmer in them! 😛
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Ahhh yaaaas this is the kind of makeup porn I am into 😀 😀 😀
Thanks for posting all your lippies! That is a heckuva lot of Revlon Lip Butters! I have one, I think. How do you like the L’Oreal lipsticks? I have not bought one in probably 10 years.
I agree it is difficult to buy more just because it does not last (or at least, you have no idea how long it will last). But I can’t help it. LOVE lip stuff.
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I bought the Revlon lip butters when they were on sale for like $3 or $4. I love their texture – so easy to throw them on without even looking. I’m wearing one today! In Sugar Plum.
The L’Oreal lipsticks are great – they actually remind me a lot of the Clarins Rouge Eclat – very hydrating but good pigmentation. They even smell similar – like candy!
It was sad pulling out some of the lipsticks for the photos and smelling them, realizing a whole bunch have expired / turned! Ugh.
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Awwww man. I HATE when lippies turn 😦 WHYYYY.
I am more a Super Lustrous Lipstick girl…as you probably know by now 😀 those $3-4 sales are nearly impossible to resist.
Mmm I do like the Rouge Eclat. I just don’t like that style of tube. I like my lipsticks to be freestanding. So anal hahahaha!
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Funny what we like and dislike about packaging deters us from buying products – I really don’t like how Maybelline Vivids have those bright neon casings that do not correspond to the bullet shade! I’d rather a black or other neutral tube.
I’m definitely putting some of those Revlon Super Lustrous on my wish list, waiting for a good sale in 2016! 😛
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I seriously just fell in love!! ❤ Soooo many lippiesssssssssssss! The Anna sui ones are so darn cute! The little pineapple! lol.
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Haha, yes Anna Sui has the cutest packaging! And the lipsticks are very good! She came out with another version of those “pineapple” lipstick range with a RED cap! I want one but they are a glitter formula, so I’m not sure if I’ll like at all:

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Oooo yeah that doesn’t sound too great lol. But if would look so cute as a decoration piece :p
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Between you and me (and the internet) I’ll probably get one just so I can have the “complete” set LOL!
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Hahahah!!!! Do itttttttttt!!😘👍👍👍👍😉your secret is safe with me ;p
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Your collection is incredible!! Bet getting this post together was fun lol
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Thanks! It was fun looking at everything – so colourful! It was tempting to start swatching all of the ones I’d forgotten about! I will likely go through them by colour family and do some swatch posts. 🙂
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Yay! Can’t wait to see it!
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That row of revlon lip butters ♥ This is like makeup porn allright, these types of posts always make me very happy.
xx Anne
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Yes, the lip butter casing are so pretty! I love how they matched each of the tubes to the colour inside. 🙂
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Aren’t they just?! Love how your collection looks all lined up 😀
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Makeup porn! LOL! Love it! Don’t you just love Anna Sui’s lipsticks? I usually only buy them because the packaging is so pretty! And that Jack Black lemon lip balm is amy all-time favourite.
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Anna Sui is just so girly! I love the formulas too.
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Hm… my lippie collection is also considerably smaller than the rest. Seriously, your collections in general are CRAZY overwhelming
I don’t know why I am less excited by lippies. Your makeup porn is orgasmic *LOL*
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I got rid of a significant amount of my lip products – I was happy to get rid of the ones I simply do not use:
https://stashmatters.com/2016/02/17/lip-product-purge-of-2016/
Now I’m happy with my current stash and really don’t have any urge to pick up a whole bunch of lip stuff.
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