little white truths

Hello and welcome to my December 2017 makeup inventory! 

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

Do note that I'd planned to do my next inventory at the end of the year - just to give myself as much time as possible to move more products out of my collection - but I'm in a panning post mood at the moment so let's just roll with it!

On that, yesterday I wrote a post on my 2017 panning goals and whether I met them: see here if you're interested.

Also note that because I'm doing this inventory post at the beginning of December (rather than at the end), I won't be including those few products on my Project Pan list that I know without question will be finished within the next week or two. I reckon that's fair ; )

But enough preamble. Let's see where we're at.

Last update, I had ten: four open full-sizes plus six unopened full-sized back-ups. Ach. Somehow primers have become my worst category this year and I'm not really sure how that happened!

Yes I managed to pan one but I received another one via a sub box so I still have ten: five open full-sizes and five unopened ones. Too many. I only want four or five.

Setting sprays

Late update I had one and I still have one.

I'm happy with that for now but I will need to buy another one at some point because the one I'm using is almost dead.

Liquid illuminators

Last update I had one full size, which I've since panned so I bought myself a replacement and then later received one in a Mecca Beauty Loop box, meaning I now have two.

My goal was two, then it was zero because I had two glowy primers - but I've since panned one of those and the remaining glowy primer isn't great for mixing with foundation because it doesn't have enough punch, so I've revised my liquid highlighter goal to one.

Liquid foundations

I had five (three being unopened) and I've panned a couple so I now have three (one being unopened).

My goal here was no more than three: I've achieved that : )

Shade adjusting drops/foundation mixers

I had four: one bottle of whitening drops and three tinted moisturisers that I'd specifically bought during the Priceline sale for the purpose of mixing - one's dark, one's pale/neutral and one's yellow - and the whitening drops are open but the other three are not, although I'll need to open them soon because I've almost panned the other items I've been using for mixing.

So that's four mixers total. I'm ok with that for now because mixing is necessary for my weird skintone, but I don't need two pale ones so my goal here is three. 

Powder foundations

I had zero and I still have zero.

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

BB/CC creams and tinted moisturisers

I had two and I still have two. 

I'm surprised about this because lighter bases are my favourites, although I suppose that the three foundations I own are all quite sheer so in practice they have tinted-moisturiser coverage and that's why I don't feel the need to buy any more. For now!

Correctors

I had three and I now have two because I've panned one. I'd prefer to only have one so I'll aim to pan one next year.

Concealers

I had two and I still have two. That's my goal so yay!

Setting powders

I had one and I still have one. I personally don't need any more than that so I'm at my goal.

Finishing powders

I had one and I still have one. Happy with that.

Face palettes

I had two (including one unopened backup of the same limited-edition palette), which contains a finishing powder, a bronzer, two blushes and one highlight. 

I now have three because I bought the latest Hourglass holiday edit, and I'd like to only have two so I'll eventually pan one of last year's edit because I don't need two of those.

Lip liners

I had one and I've panned it so I now have zero, which was my ultimate goal. Tick : ) 

Lipsticks

I had seventeen (four being unopened) and I now have thirteen (three being unopened).

Twelve is my goal here. Ach, so close! Looks like I'll get there in early 2018.

Lip balms

I had two and I've panned those, so I now only have the one that I received in our last Mecca Beauty Loop box.

Lip glosses

I had four (two being unopened), and I now have six (four being unopened).

My goal for glosses was four, but since I only have one lip balm and I'm aiming to bring my lipstick collection down to no more than ten - plus I'm not into crayons or lip liners - I'll raise that number to no more than eight because glosses are my favourite lip product so I'd prefer to have more of those and less of everything else.

Custom palettes

Previously I had four - two larger palettes and two smaller ones - and I since bought a couple from Bleach London because they were super cheap (it's hard to get cheap palettes in Australia, especially when you factor in what most retailers charge for international shipping), for the simple reason that I wanted two palettes (one large, one small) that I could use for my panning projects - leaving my better-made ones for storage and travel so I wouldn't be wearing them out with daily use.

So yes, I now have six custom palettes.

In my last inventory (four custom palettes), I had:

• three bronzers
• four blushes (one being a mini)
• seven highlighters (yikes)
• fifty-one eyeshadows

As mentioned previously, my goal with this section is not so much to get the numbers down (I want my custom palettes to be full), but instead to keep finishing pans so I can continue to de-pot my individual powders and bring those into these palettes. I reach for my custom palettes daily and anything in them gets plenty of use. 

So I've done ok in this section because we can see there's been some movement.

The final tally

Here we go... *nervous face*

Including the individual pans in my custom palettes (but counting pre-made palettes as one item), I now have a total of 162 makeup items, which is a decent reduction from the 174 I had previously. 

If I count the custom palettes as only six items and don't count the individual pans, I have 97 - a good reduction from the 109 I had in my last inventory. 

My overall goal for 2017 was no more than 100 items, plus whatever's in my custom palettes, so I made it. Huzzah!

I had also hoped to get my individual pan count down to 150, and I know I can do that relatively early in 2018 because quite a few eyeshadows in my custom palettes are on the way out, so although I didn't quite get there, I will soon.

That's all from me! 

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