After moving into our new home, I discovered very quickly that I had to downsize my makeup collection. My husband and I now share an in the wall medicine cabinet with two doors above one lone pedestal sink.
Even though I frequently advise my clients to add more storage to their bathroom when faced with this situation, I myself did not want to add more cabinets to our bathroom because I was enjoying it’s spaciousness.
So, before I made any decision about what to do, I decided to only put into my side of the cabinet, the makeup and skin care that I use on a daily basis. The rest I left in the plastic shoebox that I had moved in with.
I am personally amazed to report: I have only pulled that box out twice in 6 months! Once for false eyelashes (yes, for a special event) and the other to retrieve my red lipstick which I obviously seldom, if ever, wear.
The moral to this story is this – we all need far less makeup and skin care than we own. I love the fact that all of my stuff fits into one tiny cabinet and yes, I am proud of it too!
This is your challenge should you decide to accept it: go to your makeup drawer or drawers (I know who you are out there!) and remove every product that you dont use regularly. Stash it away out of sight and see if you ever go back to search for something in it. Your rewards will be two-fold.
1. You will be able to find everything you need from now on with very little effort because there will no be any clutter.
2. You will spend much less money on makeup and skin care and what you do decide to purchase can probably be of much higher quality because you are spending less money on trivial spur of the moment purchases.
So this is the lesson from my new bathroom: Pedestal Sink = More Simplified Life
Congratulations! This is a wise idea@ We don’t need what we don’t use regularly. Another out-of-sight-out-of-mind idea: declutter your house, keep out what you use regularly and put everything else in storage, move to a one-bedroom apartment and notice if you miss any of that stuff (when you’re not going through it and it is not reminding you of itself after you hadn’t seen it in years!).
Congratulations! This is a wise idea@ We don’t need what we don’t use regularly. Another out-of-sight-out-of-mind idea: declutter your house, keep out what you use regularly and put everything else in storage, move to a one-bedroom apartment and notice if you miss any of that stuff (when you’re not going through it and it is not reminding you of itself after you hadn’t seen it in years!).
Thank you! This is the answer to my makeup problem!
Adding to it, for myself, I seem to have multiple Facial Cleansing products and Facial Moisurizers due to the “Gift with Purchase” that high end product lines give.
I’ve decided to mark a clear ziplock with those product names and store in another room in a small plastic box so I can go to the “store”
with what I already have and not buy new because I didn’t know I already had the product (brand new).
Thank you! This is the answer to my makeup problem!
Adding to it, for myself, I seem to have multiple Facial Cleansing products and Facial Moisurizers due to the “Gift with Purchase” that high end product lines give.
I’ve decided to mark a clear ziplock with those product names and store in another room in a small plastic box so I can go to the “store”
with what I already have and not buy new because I didn’t know I already had the product (brand new).