2018 Resolutions: Makeup, Skincare and Haircare Edition

[Aaliaa]

With the countdown to Christmas/holiday season and the New Year I thought it would be interesting to take a moment and plan some resolutions around our love for everything Beauty. In my experience its important to be realistic about your plans and also be willing to adapt as the year goes on.

Do you want to try the Project Pan challenge? Promise to use SPF everyday? Be diligent about double cleansing at night? Be more experimental with colours and techniques? Hate resolutions and live everyday in the moment!?!

List your resolutions, either each from skincare, haircare and makeup or multiple for any category. Listed below are some examples of resolutions, with mine in bold. Feel free to list your own!!

Beauty Resolutions for 2018

1. Avoid impulse purchases, take a day to think twice before buying something
2. Use all my face products at least once a month each
3. Wear more then shades of brown on my eyes!
4. Clean them Brushes - Face, eyes, hair and sonic
5. Take care of my lips - scrub, moisture for the win!
6. 'Make up' a budget and stick to it
7. Treat SPF like your phone, always on you
8. Routine Routine Routine, the skincare edition
9. Take 30 minutes every week for self care like multi-masking
10. Don't jump on EVERY new product hype
11. Try new hairstyles - curly, wavy, straight, coiled?
12. Clear your makeup/skincare/haircare collection giving/throwing away products you no longer use or are expired
13. Accept that one persons mole is anothers beauty mark - Love what you got!
14. Spend less time looking at makeup GIF's!

 

Happy Holidays!

[kaaaylarr]

1. FOR SURE slow down on spending, not to impulsively buy make up.

2. Have a strict skin care routine.

3. Participate in the Sephora beauty classes.

[kaaaylarr]

Let's just reiterate SLOW DOWN ON BUYING MAKE UP. just found a palette while cleaning out my train case and didn't even know I had it!

[fieldsofclover]

@kaaaylarr Yay! Shopping the stash is working already!

[Aaliaa]

Goodluck for the new year @kaaaylarr! Happy Holidays!

[kaaaylarr]

Thank you same to you !!

[CorgiMommy]

use up my free samples. I save them for when I travel but I still have so many. so I need to travel more or use them at home or stop getting samples. I pick use them up.

[Aaliaa]

Yeah, I need to stop buying things just for the free samples! Good Luck @CorgiMommy!!

[CorgiMommy]

I hear you. it is so easy to buy something because for the gift with purchase

[Anonymous]

I like this topic @Aaliaa!  Okay, here are my beauty resolutions for 2018...

1. Spend less on beauty products, especially lipstick and skincare. I'm going to set annual and quarterly budgets for myself. 

2.  Curate makeup and clothing wardrobe. 

3.  Find a new hairstyle, whether it be a new cut, color, etc.

Okay, I think I can handle 3.  I hope I can handle 3.

[Anonymous]

Oh, I like #2 - it's like shop your stash right?! I think I can stick to that.  I have more than my share of clothes and makeup so it would definitely curb my spending as well.  And, no more buying eye shadow palettes. 

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous

These sound like doable resolutions, though I'm scared about setting a budget for myself. I mean, I'm fine with not spending beyond my means, but I'm not sure I'm ready to know how much I spend as it is on beauty products or beauty related things, and then to cut back on that.  Eeek!  But your right - aiming to spend less is a good thing and I like that you've also sort of isolated certain categories that you need to be more conscious about your spending.  Mine would probably be eyeshadow palettes and lip items, particularly liquid lipsticks.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. Keeping the list short and realistic will help me stick with it.  

1. Spend less $ + budget
2. Take my makeup off before going to bed
3. Get to the gym 
4. Drink more water
5. Clean out my closet 

[CakesCakes]

@Anonymous Nice resolutions!  I want to try out #1 too except maybe not the annual part.  It might be too scary to see what I spend annually!  

[Ispend2much6]

@Anonymous  I like your choices.  Definitely #1 for me; thinking about #3.

[Anonymous]

@Ispend2much6; yeah, I should be more mindful of my beauty spending. It's nice that I can make purchases, but there's a reason I purchased them and I should use them! 

The hair thing is an ongoing debate - stick with what I know or venture out.  A previous highlighting experience was horrible and I'm scarred.  LOL! 

[Anonymous]

I feel ya on this one @myinsidevoice - on both counts.  

[Anonymous]

You can do it, @Anonymous! 

[Aaliaa]

So many of us want to try and set a budget, I might do a quarterly checkin/reminder (terrible idea??)! Curating makeup can be fun too @Anonymous!

[fieldsofclover]

Yes please!

[Anonymous]

@Aaliaa, I like having a quarterly one as well, based on the annual budget and I usually have an idea of which quarter(s) I generally spend more $$.

[Aaliaa]

I might try that. Fear has literally kept me from tracking my purchases in detail, but I recently re-organized my skincare/makeup and realized for example that I have 8 full-size cleansers in rotation right now!