April was another stellar month for using up more products from my stash! Let’s get right down to it:
These are ALL full sized products, folks! #soproud
Trash Stash: April 2015
Beauty
Beauty related posts.
The Lipstick Tag
Yay, my turn, my turn! The spectacular Sam of Glam with Sam tagged me for this. If she hadn’t tagged me, I would have made up some fictitious person who “tagged” me just so I could do this Tag! Thanks Sam, for keeping me from having to fabricate online pals! 😛
The Rules
- TAG 3 bloggers to answer these same questions.
- Those bloggers will TAG 3 more bloggers of their choice with the same questions & rules.
- No tag backs
Purchases of non-makeup items
You didn’t think I would just stop shopping altogether; just stay home and watch Full House reruns, did you?
I still enjoy shopping and have picked up a few things here and there – nothing major – today I thought I’d share with you some of what I’ve bought lately!
Eye shadow stash
Here’s the motherlode. I’ve mentioned many times that I have a lot of eye shadows – over 600 – it is the most abundant makeup category that I own. I just love eye shadows and it’s the area of my face that I spend the most time applying makeup. I’ll keep this introduction brief and just let the pictures do the talking.
It took me over 2 hours just to sort and photograph the whole eye shadow collection and probably another 4 to edit everything. Usual disclaimer: this isn’t meant to show off. It was actually quite a beneficial exercise for me to display all my eye shadows visually. Warning: photo heavy post! (50 images)
100 Day No-Buy
Today is my official 100 days of my No-Buy! *throws confetti*
My No-Buy primarily focused on not buying makeup / skincare as per my rules (no net new items unless it’s to replenish a finished product). To a lesser extent, I also committed to not make any unnecessary clothing purchases. I won’t lie, it’s been difficult, especially in the early days of clearance sales and Target Canada closing (hence me breaking my No-Buy in January and having to restart 😳 ). To mark this milestone, I’ve giving myself a badge:
I shared my progress report at 28 days and I plan to do milestone achievement posts to keep myself accountable. Now that I have my 100 day No-Buy badge, if you’re contemplating on doing a No Buy or a Low Buy, I thought I’d share some tips. 😉
MAC Extra Dimension Eyeshadow will be PERMANENT!
I just saw on Allura Beauty that MAC is making the Extra Dimension Eyeshadows permanent! You may recall from my Top 10 MAC eye shadows post that I love this formula and one of the shades in my top 10 is an Extra Dimension formula.
I won’t regurgitate Allura Beauty’s post here, but the pertinent details are:
• Price: $20.00 UDD / $24.00 CAD
• Availability: Online April 30th, 2015; in-stores on May 7th, 2015 (North America); May 2015 (international)
• 18 colour collection: all shades have been released as limited edition shades previously, no new shades
Need a new hairdryer
I think my hairdryer is on its last legs – it makes a shrill noise when it’s first turned on, which dies down after a few seconds but it doesn’t sound good. It also sometimes smells like something is burning inside – I’ve removed the filter at the back but it keeps smelling. I’ve only had it for a few years but I do use it almost daily. Even the bf said, “Maybe you need a new one”. I take that as encouragement to buy a new hairdryer! 😀
This is the model I currently own, which I do like:
Avanti Ultra GP-2000 Professional
What I’m looking for in a hairdryer:
- Not too noisy (I’ve returned hairdryers before because they sound like a freight train right next to my ear!)
- Not too heavy
- Powerful motor / long lasting
- Has varying heat setting plus cold shot option
Please recommend one to me!
Dumpster diving for cosmetics?!
I first read about this phenomenon on reddit a month ago and I debated whether to post a discussion about it on the blog. But I just couldn’t stop thinking about it – I know about dumpster diving as an activity for people who are looking for furniture, household items and sometimes even unopened / unspoiled food. However, I only learned about people dumpster diving for cosmetics when I read a PSA on reddit’s makeup exchange forum, warning of a seller who was a known dumpster diver.
These are photos of some of the items this person recovered while dumpster diving:
Is your jaw on the floor?
Put on your rubber gloves and keep reading about dumpster diving this way
Bloglovin made me do it
I’m a sheep – I signed up for bloglovin too.
Apparently in order to claim my blog on bloglovin, I have to post this link on my blog first:
Do eeeeet.
(I honestly still don’t know how bloglovin works – is it similar to WordPress’ reader?)
If you’re on bloglovin – please link in the comments!
Real Neat Blog Award
I was triple nominated recently for the Real Neat Blog Award! 😀
The Rules!
1) Put the award logo on your blog.
2) Answer 7 questions asked by the person who nominated you.
3) Thank the person who nominated you, linking to their blog.
4) Nominate any number of bloggers you like, linking to their blogs.
5) Let them know you nominated them (by commenting on their blog etc.)
stash matters 