little white truths

Hello and welcome to my September 2017 makeup inventory! 

My last inventory post was at the end of June (see here), and as promised, I'm back with my next quarterly update.

As always I'm a little nervous about whether my numbers have gone up or down, not because I've gone bonkers with makeup purchases (I haven't), but because I've been flooded with GWPs and sub box inclusions, plus my birthday was on 30 June so I received various gifts from friends/family and also Mecca/Sephora birthday gifts - and these weren't included in June's tally because I wrote that post before receiving them.

But enough preamble.

Let's see where we're at.

Base products

I had nine in my last update (three open full sizes, two open minis and four unopened back-ups), which is too many but at least I didn't have more than 90ml open: that was my other goal and I'd stuck to that.

Now, I have ten: four open full-sizes (one of which is almost finished), plus six unopened full-sized back-ups. Ach! 

Now to be fair, two of my primers were GWPs with skincare purchases, one was part of a Mecca birthday gift and the only ones I've purchased between June and now are two from The Ordinary because I was itching to try them and had a gift card to spend.

Still, there's work to do here. My ultimate goal is four or five. I like to have some that do different things, so I'll be working on panning the double-ups (eg, I don't need two illuminating primers or two pore-plugging ones: one of each will do).

Late update I had one open and one unopened. I've finished one so I now have one.

Ok, so we're doing well here at least ; ). I don't feel the need to own different setting sprays - I just want something hydrating that works - so I'm happy to have only one.

Last update I had three (one opened full size, one open mini and one unopened full size), and I've panned two so I've only got one full size left - which is almost finished so soon I'll have none.

My goal was two, but I'm reducing that goal to zero for now because I have two glowy primers and I can use those to mix in with my foundation - which is all I do with liquid illuminators anyway (I prefer powders for spot-highlighting) - and let's face it, I need to pan primers!

I had three open and two unopened (five). I've panned one, opened one and bought another, so we're still at five total.

My goal here is no more than three, but I've almost finished one and I'm halfway through another, so we're getting there.

I had one (being whitening drops) and I needed more so I bought three Natio tinted moisturisers in the last Priceline sale, which I did because I needed a yellow mixer, a pale/neutral one and a deep/neutral one. 

Normally I use concealers for mixing, but I went with the tinted moisturisers because they only cost $11 AUD each on sale, plus they contain plenty of product and they were the right colours - so it was the most cost-effective way for me to buy mixers (which can be very expensive, and I burn through concealer mixers too quickly). 

So that's four mixers total. I'm ok with that for now because mixing is necessary for me (I must have a weird skintone; finding shade matches is a nightmare for me), but my goal here is three: I don't need two pale ones.

I had one travel-size and I've panned it so I now have zero. 

Zero was my goal (I have dry skin and prefer liquids) so we're there.

I had two and I've panned one, but I also bought one (that damn Priceline sale ; )) so I now have two. 

I'm happy with this category: lighter bases are my favourites so it's rather surprising that I only have two!

I had two and I've almost finished the one I'm panning so I bought the Tarte one that's always out of stock at Sephora: I 'had' to get it while I could ; )

So three correctors total. Let's aim for one, shall we?!

I had three and I've panned one so I've hit my goal of two. Happy days. 

The final tally

As with last time, I'm a bit nervous about this count because I'm worried that my numbers might have gone up!

So, including the individual pans in my custom palettes (but counting pre-made palettes as one item), I now have a total of 174 makeup items, which is a little down from the 182 I had previously. 

If I count the custom palettes as only four items and don't count the individual pans, I have 109 - a small reduction from the 113 I had in my last inventory. Not great, but at least we've gone done a little.

Again, my overall goal is no more than 100 items, plus whatever's in my custom palettes, so I'm getting there slowly. Mental note not to go crazy with Christmas releases...

That's all from me for now. I'll check back in at the end of 2017 and let you know where things are at. Wish me luck!

Hope all's well with you, and speak soon x