Cleaning & Purging The Stash - The Lipsticks

CHECK THE FIRST PART OF THE LIP STASH HERE!!

CHECK THE 2ND PART OF THE LIP STASH HERE!!

So here is the last part of the stash. The lipsticks.

Now for those of you who know me you KNOW that this is way, way, way, way, WAY outside of my comfort zone! This is the Nars Bento Box. It was a limited edition set that came out 23 months ago and was limited to 1000 sets in the USA and another 1000 sets for International. Holt Renfrew got some of these in and if I recall the price tag on them was.$140. Mine came from the USA (the price point there was $125) but mine was a gift! If this was two neutral colours I would have jumped at it for $125 but for these two colours I would not have been able to justifty it myself. But I treasure this for many reasons (the main being the person who gave it to me!).

The two Givenchy are probably my two most used and most loved colours. They literally stay on for HOURS. I can put it on at 7am and at noon there are still traces of it on! For me that is just about unbelievable!

Next up are one of my favourite things from gifts with purchases. The full sized lipsticks! They may not have the fancy packaging, but really? Who CARES about that?

The Color Design Lipsticks retail for $27 so to get one free when I buy a nail polish or shadow or eye makeup remover that I would buy anyways? And the best thing is if you get to know your sales associates and if they like you they are usually more than willing to root around in their drawers and find you OTHER shades from other gift sets that have come and past. So usually you can be guaranteed to get a colour you like and want!

The first time I was in NYC following the opening of the brand new stand alone Nars Boutique at 413 Bleecker Street I had to pick up the Signature colour that at that time was exclusive of the store. It has since become available online but at the time it was the entire reason for the trip to the store. Aside from the fact that it was pouring rain and I was SOAKED when I got there, it was the BEST shopping experience I have ever had in a retail store. They were just preparing for the party that night celebrating the new NARS book  and were getting the Champagne ready. As busy as they were they stopped everything to help me. They took my umbrella, sat me down, spent a ton of time showing me how to apply things and what would work best with my skin tone. I felt kind of guilty that I didn't buy more but I had JUST made a $500+ purchase at Sephora (it was a VIB 20% off sale) that included a LOT of Nars. I did pick up these to lip products as well as some nail polish though!

At least I did succeed in getting lipstick colours that were outside my comfort zone! I just need to wear them more!

Believe it or not, this is the ONLY MAC lipstick I have ever purchased. I do actually quite like it, but everytime I get sucked in to a MAC purchase (usually nail polish, but twice blushes) I have ended up disappointed. But this lipstick is nice and I do like it! And the Oasis lipstick was a limited edition Quo purchase that I got on clearance but also really like it!

And this is the new Le Metier De Beaute Lipstick I purchased. It reminds me of the Velvet Matte Lipsticks from NARS. They are fairly drying but last a very very very long time! I really really like it so far! 

The Clarins 706 was the start of the end for me. This lead me down a terrible, expensive dangerous road of hoarding coral lipsticks. I would NEVER choose an orangey coral lipstick! But this one looked so good on me I ended up getting 5 or 6 more. None of which were good. NONE of them. It was just BAD. And so they have all been purged (minus this wonderful one) and my lesson has been learned!

Next up are some deluxe samples or minis. They are about half the size or a third of the size of the normal lipsticks. But since I never come close to finishing them, I think they are GREAT! And the Chanel is my perfect go to red (but since I only GO TO RED once every six months, its perfect!!). 

And then comes the Dior ones! I actually had purchased 783 right before I had gotten this sample as a gift with purchase and ended up returning it since I got the mini! 

And this mini is by Laura Mercier and I don't even know if I have tried it yet! But now that I have purged so much of my collection I will hopefully reach for this now!

And the ONLY LipFusion product I ended up keeping. Its more a pencil but I put it here for lack of any better idea of where to put it! 

And here is the full stash! 

Cleaning & Purging The Stash - The Lip Glosses & Stains

CHECK THE FIRST PART OF THE LIP STASH HERE!!

So here I go with the Glosses and Stains. I am really not the biggest wearer of these and I therefor really need to STOP DROP AND STAY AWAY FROM BUYING THESE!! I really don't know what to say. I had what I can only assume was a brain aneurysm  last year and purchased 11  LipFusion lipglosses and 9 pencils from the same brand. What was I thinking? Thankfully I was able to sell most of them and purged 3 or 4 today. So I have no more in my stash. Boy was THAT brand a mistake! I have nothing positive to say about them no matter how much I tried to embrace them!

First up is three lipglosses from a brand called Lipstick Queen.

As you can see I have never used the centre one before. But it was a gift from a lady I love and I can not bare to part with it. The set was a three piece set

This is how the set came

Then I have these two new Le Metier De Beaute Lipglosses. These two I JUST picked up from Winners for a price of 24.99 each! They are certainly not in my normal comfort zone but I couldn't pass up the deal and hope I end up really liking the colours. I already have fallen in love with the formula.

The more I try beauty products from Givenchy, the more I LOVE products from Givenchy! I just wish they weren't so pricey!!

And here are some random ones. The Lancome one came free in a gift with purchase and it looks SUPER bright. But its perfect on and just the right amount of colour!

I debated where to put this Chantecaille one. Should it go with the glosses or lipsticks? But its such a sheer colour I had to place it here. I really love this and this is my second tube of it! Probably the only Gloss I have EVER finished (aside from a discontinued By Terry one). 

And this is about 3 coats on the back of my hand, just to give you an idea of how sheer it is. 

And then from Avon, her is one of thier tinted chapsticks. It gives off SO MUCH colour that I almost classified it as a lipstick! 

And here is all of them together! Stay tuned for part three - the lipsticks!

Cleaning & Purging The Stash - The Lipbalms, Chapsticks And Treatments

So I previously showed my eyeshadow stash and believe it or not - that was AFTER cleaning and purging the stash! Being stuck at home seems to be the best time to clean the stash. I am actually quite proud of how much I purged and cleaned. So I will start with the chapsticks. I have no idea HOW they disappear as fast as they do, but I SWEAR they have feet and runaway on me! So as many chapsticks and lipbalms as I have been sent/bought/given this is all I have! Not bad! (I did throw out some VERY old ones and gross ones and almost gone ones!). 

And I am NOT a fan of lipbalms that come in jars. I just dont like the idea of having to stick your fingers in the product. But I picked up the Korres one in NYC last time I was there and LOVE it! And believe it or not, Tokyo Milk is the first lipbalm in a jar I have ever finished. So I bought a second! And then I have one old MOR lipgloss (I had three, one was almost gone and the other was gross so I purged them) and a new tin one I picked up at Holt Renfrew in the past few months.

And here are the old MOR lipbalms vs the new ones. Maybe they are two different lines? I am not sure, but I like them both! 

And I am pretty sure that EVERY beauty junkie out there has these two! The mini set that was the Sephora Birthday Gift this year! I loved last years bubble bath from philosophy. I can't wait to see what this coming years gift is going to be! 

I recently got this at Winners. I am so thrilled with the quality and consistency of this. I just have to remember to keep using it! It is the best lip scrub that I have used in a long time. I used to really like a scrub from the Body Shop (that was more than ten years ago!) and this one seems to be as good as I remember the other one to be (is it just me or do things tend to seem better in our recollection than they ever end up being when we go back to a product/food/place of our youth?).

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You can see the texture difference between the Korres (on top) and the Sugar (on the bottom). 

And some random lip treatments!