Beauty Challenge -- Twelve Months of Beauty Inventory

[haleyvvvv]

[EDIT-Updated to not limit to a year, legacy posts for all years.]

A few years ago I was inspired by a challenge on Instagram and we did a makeup inventory. ✨❄️December 2022 Challenge - 12 Days of Makeup Inventory - Show Off and Catalog Your Collection!!❄️✨

I was a little behind on planning this year (job interviews, life, not being able to login to the BIC), so I thought we could make this a yearly challenge for 2024+ and broaden it across all beauty categories. 

Why participate?

• I know I went back to my posts to find "dupes" for things that were limited edition (Melt Pumpkin King, in my case).
• It's a good idea to look through your products every bit to review for quality and cleanliness.
• Curation is important.
• Knowing how much in your stash can help with your Low/No Buy or keeping an eye on your backups. 
• The fun of organizing your collection!!

Rules 

Please no negative comments about the size or contents of others' collections, this is a place to celebrate our collections. Self-reflection is always welcome though 💖. Please don't take this as an impetus to declutter (unless you want to!). 

I'm going to try to get a little contemplative with mine, to see if I would purchase again or not. But don't feel obligated to join that part!!

Timeline

• January - Face Primers, Nail Polish
• February - Foundations, Concealers, Cleansers and Mists
• March - Bronzers and Contours (singles), Serums and Treatments
• April - Blushes (singles), Moisturizer and Oils
• May - Highlighters (singles), Sheet Masks
• June - Face Palettes, Non-Sheet Masks, Tools (Brushes, etc.)
• July - Eye Primers, Single Eyeshadows (free standing or in custom palettes), Body Cleansers, Body Scrubs, Body Lotion, Body Glitter
• August - Eyeshadow Palettes, Shampoo, Conditioner
• September - Brow Products, Eyeliners, Mascaras, Hair Treatments 
• October - Lip Balms, Lip Liners, Lip Glosses, Perfume Samples
• November - Lipsticks, Travel Sized Perfumes
• December - Setting Powders, Setting Sprays, Full Sized Perfumes and Body Sprays

[haleyvvvv]

January 2026 - Face Primers and Nail Polish

The timeline is just a guide, but I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's collections this year (and hopefully the usage throughout the years).

Face Primers

5 full sized, 37 deluxe/travel/sample/mini sized. I know I brought in one full sized this year (Sephora Collection). I need to make a dent here. Goal is none in (maybe a DS or if included in a Sephora Favorites set, I won't best myself up too much).

What I'm hoping to use this year: 

Spoiler

4 are in use (Glow Recipe, Milk, Hourglass and Illamasqua). 18 minis seems doable.

Nail Polish

No picture because I have none. There's some in my house, but those are ones I bought for my partner.

[missjeanie]

@haleyvvvv I love that you're including goals.   Minis are perfect to use up in my opinion as you can see movement and feel the momentum!

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @missjeanie !! I'm hoping to make it through all of those minis and more this year and hopefully build momentum 

[Samtian]

@haleyvvvv Ooh what a nice collection. 

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @Samtian !! There's so many I want to try so I've got to get through a bunch of these older ones. 

[itsfi]

Ahhhh, Illamasqua, a blast from the past; and Too Faced Hangover primer was a HG for me back in the day. 18 mini primers this year is completely doable @haleyvvvv! Will be curious if, after going through these mini primers, there's one that you love enough to pick up a full size. 

[haleyvvvv]

Part of the problem is that some of these are discontinued 🫣🫣🫣 @itsfi. they're all mostly blasts from the past that I need to get through tbh. I do like the Saie product a lot, but there's some others I do want to try.

[haleyvvvv]

Thanks @itsfi for recently-ish referencing this post. I dusted it off and am making it ideally a bit more sustainable. Looking forward to seeing everyone's collections!!

[danielledanielle]

I need going to be forced to go this to do this... Any favorite storage/decluttering tips @haleyvvvv , @itsfi ??

[haleyvvvv]

I wish I had any suggestions @danielledanielle @itsfi . For me, it was really hard to reorganize once I had settled into a routine, but then I moved and that helped inspire me to change up some storage things. But that's my type of brain that prevents me from doing that. My main advice is to know yourself. So if you need to do it all at once, then plan it and give yourself a bit of time; but if you can do it piecemeal, buy a storage thing for you lipsticks/eyeshadow/perfumes/blushes etc and start there. In the process of organizing, I go through and declutter.

[itsfi]

Yaaaay, thank you @haleyvvvv. 😊 I have been decluttering a bit the last couple of years as I've been working through my collection and can see this being really helpful for me - for organizing and evaluating what I currently have and deciding what should stay and go, or, maybe more importantly, what I need to put into use more to make those decisions. I'm not sure if I have all my ducks in a row to do full size perfumes in December, but setting powders and setting sprays sounds doable. Adding that to my "to do" list, along with going back through the other posts here. 

[haleyvvvv]

@itsfi Let's start in January!! Although if anyone wants to post in December, that's also great.

I think a lot of us have been organizing and decluttering the past few years. We moved a little while ago and I've gotten some new organization for my eye shadow, lipsticks and perfume and it's nice to have my collection accessible and more curated. And I've definitely gone back to my previous collection posts to compare things.

[danielledanielle]

This looks so gooooood @haleyvvvv 

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you!! It's nice to be able to see all of my palettes (which actually used to be stored in storage tubs), @danielledanielle . Plus the perfume caddy makes me happy, it spins!!

[itsfi]

That works for me! Love how you've organized your beauties @haleyvvvv! 😍

[Samtian]

Long time no post! 

June- Brushes 

July- Eye Primers and Single Shadows. I actually had quite a bit more shadows...but the kittens sent them flying behind my dresser. They are lost in purgatory now. These were the ones that landed on the dresser or in front of it. And two I found after I took the photo. 

I prefer using concealer.

I'll get to Augusts maybe this week, if not next week. 

[danielledanielle]

😂 At the kittens! @Samtian 

I enjoy your fluffy brushes and hearing about your mischievous floofs

[Samtian]

@danielledanielle Thank you. It's true lol, they were on the top of my bookshelf. After that all my make up got put in a giant tub for safe keeping. I started putting a few things back today. 

[itsfi]

May - Sheet Masks

Believe it or not, my sheet mask stash has been pared down quite significantly. At one point I had enough to use one full face sheet mask a day for almost 3 years. Yeaaah. And, I did use one sheet mask a day (sometimes two) for at least one year and most of a second. I ended up either using all of those sheet masks or giving some away (about 500 sheet masks) as part of skincare routines or care packages I would put together for folks during the pandemic lockdown. Yeah, to say I had a lot would be an understatement. They were stored in one of those extra large Sterlite storage bin and I'd pull out a month's worth or two at a time to rotate through, initially with those close to expiring (or perhaps expired) used first, and then, as they were all used up, by type or function. I will say that using all those sheet masks helped (along with other skincare products) to hydrate and moisturize my skin, causing it to change from very dry and dehydrated to normal-to-dry (and slightly dehydrated) most of the year to combination (with slight dehydration) in the summer months. 

If we're not including under eye masks, hand masks, foot masks and steam eye masks as sheet masks, then I currently have 32 individually wrapped face sheet masks, and 2 packs of the multi-mask packs. If we are counting under eye masks as sheet masks then I have 105, with 100 of them being the Sephora Collection Caffeine Eye Masks. 😚 I'll actually use them all so I'm not too worried of the high volume count.

I'm happy to have whittled down my sheet mask stash. I'm aiming to keep one open multi-mask pack and 8-12 individually wrapped face sheet masks at any given time. I'd like to accomplish that by the end of this year, but I'm not using sheet masks as frequently and tend to reach for them even less often in the warmer months, so I may not reach my goal until sometime next year. Maybe I'll get to that place for the 2025 beauty inventory @haleyvvvv? 

A shout out to the wonderful @lnum (I hope you are well!) - she would keep only a very small, select number of sheet masks on hand, and only replenish when she ran low or ran out. That was quite impressive to me (as I clearly had a different approach back then 🤣). I'm not quite there, but maybe soon? Or, probably soon-ish is more likely. Emphasis on the ish! 😅

One of the best Cica-based, soothing sheet masks around. On my 3rd tub.

Great for spot treating/masking

[Samtian]

@itsfi Huh tubs of masks? Interesting. Your post made me laugh. You made fantastic progress!

[itsfi]

@Samtian, yeah, I could have been a mini distribution center for sheet masks. 🤣 You want a soothing sheet mask, I got that. Hydration your aim, here you go. Looking for that unique material or hard-to-find ingredient, tell me what you're looking for; I probably have it here ... somewhere. 🙄  Or, at least I did. 

Brands have gotten better with these masks in tubs. Many hold an amount that generally corresponds to a month's worth. Before, there would be brands (and there may still be) that put out these multi-mask packs with 27 sheets or 35 sheets. Because, you know, there's so many months with 27 or 35 days in it. 🤔