100 Days of Lipstick Challenge

[snoflakefaerie]

Hi BIC!

A lot of us have talked about our huge lipstick collections, and with the passing of another National Lipstick Day, I took stock of mine. I have about 200 lipsticks and glosses and realized, I only wear about 20 of them! So I'm challenging myself (and whoever else wants to join) to use more of them. I'm going to try to wear a different lipstick every day for the next 100 days. 

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Day 1: ColourPop Matte Liquid Lipstick in Tulle
Day 2: Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick in Shimmer Patina
Day 3: Kat von D Studded Kiss in Babe
Day 4: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Cookie
Day 5: Urban Decay Matte Revolution in Tilt
Day 6: Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick in Tabloid
Day 7: treStique Matte Lip Crayon in Florence Fig
Day 8: Bite High Pigment Pencil in Corvina
Day 9: MUFE Rouge Artist Intense in 36
Day 10: Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick in Fig
Day 11: Spehora Collection LipsStories in 21 Pineapple Express
Day 12: NARS Powermatte Lip Pigment in Low Rider
Day 13: Smashbox Always On Metallic Matte in XO, Vlada
Day 14: Kat von D Studded Kiss Lipstick in Halo
Day 15: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Liquified Lipstick in Chutney
Day 16: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Chai
Day 17: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche LIpstick in Sweet Cream
Day 18: Bite Beauty Creme Lip Gloss in Peacock Pearl
Day 19: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Beetroot
Day 20: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Pepper
Day 21: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick and Creme Lip Gloss in Gold
Day 22: Too Faced La Creme Lipstick in Bon Bon
Day 23: Tarte Tarteist Creamy Matte Lip Paint in Yaassss
Day 24: Lala & Co Lip Lube in Stranger Danger
Day 25: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Brunch
Day 26:Buxom Big & Sexy Bold Gel Lipstick in Pink Decoy
Day 27: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Liquified Lipstick in Flambe
Day 28: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Cruz
Day 29: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Tuxedo
Day 30: ColourPop Ultra Metallic Lip in Maneater
Day 31: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Cheers
Day 32: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Brills
Day 33: ColourPop Lippie Stix in Heart On
Day 34: ColourPop Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick in Be-Dazzled
Day 35: ColourPop Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick in Lychee
Day 36: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Wildfire
Day 37: Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick in Famous
Day 38: Sephora Collection Rouge Infusion Lip Stain in Peony
Day 39: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Fig
Day 40: Tarte Tarteist Quick Dry Matte Lip Paint in Rose
Day 41: Tom Ford in Indian Rose
Day 42: Pixi Shea Butter Lip Balm in Scarlet Sorbet (I think)
Day 43: Benefit Lolli Balm in Candy Orchid (only one shade)
Day 44: The Beauty Crop PBJ Smoothie Stick in Raisin the Roof
Day 45: Pacifica Power of Love Powerful Natural Lipstick in Nudie Red
Day 46: Cailyn Art Touch Tinted Lip Gloss in Basic Instinct
Day 47: Huda Beauty Lip Strobe in Snobby
Day 48: J Cat Wonder Lip Paint in Mad Splatter
Day 49: Trust Fund Beauty Lipgasm Liquid Lipstick in K, Bye
Day 50: Clinique Pop Lip Colour + Primer in Sweet Pop
Day 51: Tarte Lipsurgence Lip Creme in Wonder
Day 52: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Wrath
Day 53: Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Anarchy
Day 54: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Mad
Day 55: Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Bad Blood
Day 56: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Amulet
Day 57: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Double Crossed
Day 58: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Lovedrunk
Day 59: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Liquified Lipstick in Lotus Root
Day 60: Marc Jacobs Le Marc Lip Creme in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Day 61: Buxom Full-On Lip Cream in Berry Blast
Day 62: L'Oreal Infallible Pro-Matte Gloss in Rebel Rose
Day 63: Dose of Colors Matte Liquid Lipstick in Campfire
Day 64: Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick in Primrose
Day 65: Colour Pop Matte Lippie Stix in Frenchie 
Day 66: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Cancer
Day 67: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Big Bang
Day 68: INC.redible Listen Hard Girl Real Neon Lip Paint in She's Arrived
Day 69: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Nori
Day 70: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Spiced Plum
Day 71: Smashbox Be Legendary Liquid Metal Liptstick in Foiled Brat
Day 72: Sephora Collection Lipstories in 14 Twolips
Day 73: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Backtalk
Day 74: Too Faced Melted Matte in Gingerbread Man
Day 75: ColourPop Matte Lippie Stix in Lady
Day 76: NARS Audacious Lipstick in Jane
Day 77: Urban Decay Revolution Matte Lipstick in Menace
Day 78: Smashbox Be Legendary Liquid Lipstick in Girl, Please
Day 79: Kat von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Saint
Day 80: Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick in Inspiration
Day 81: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Violate
Day 82: Kat von D Studded Kiss Lipstick in La Femme
Day 83: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Holly
Day 84: Urban Decay Gwen Stefani Lipstick in Firebird
Day 85: Urban Decay Matte Revolution in Bittersweet
Day 86: Bite Beauty High Pigment Lip Pencil in Chablis
Day 87: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Pickled Ginger
Day 88: Bite Beauty Creme Delux Lipstick in LLLR 010 (Boysenberry)
Day 89: Bite Beauty Creme Lip Gloss in Rose Pearl (w/ 090 lip liner)
Day 90: Smashbox Always On Matte Liquid Lipstick in Driver's Seat
Day 91: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Scorpio
Day 92: Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Sagittarius
Day 93: Kat von D Studded Kiss Lipstick in Ozzy
Day 94: Bite Beauty Luminous Creme Lipstick in Holly
Day 95: NARS Powermatte Lip Pigment in Get Up Stand Up
Day 96: Smashbox Always On Metallic Matte in Maneater
Day 97: Pat McGrath Labs MatteTrance Lipstick in Full Panic
Day 98: Pat McGrath Labs MatteTrance Lipstick in Elson
Day 99: Pat McGrath Labs MatteTrance Lipstick in Obsessed!
Day 100: Pat McGrath Labs LuxeTrance Lipstick in Pink Ultraness

[MisssE]

Thanks babe! @lmaster ♍️

[Samtian]

32- Bite Peacock Pearl. I was excited because I have a week off...but I'm having more dental surgery Tuesday haha so I won't get to wear as much as I hoped. 

[2manyperfumes]

Beautiful duochrome shift on you @Samtian ❤️, love this shade.  I’ll have to remember it for metals week on the rainbow challenge.  

[Samtian]

@2manyperfumes Thank you! I'm not sure how I feel about the shape of the stick, it was pretty sheer too. 

[2manyperfumes]

True it’s pretty sheer.  I like it over a lipliner or matte lipstick @Samtian ❤️

[Samtian]

31- Bite Cava. Where did everyone go :'(

[2manyperfumes]

I love Cava by Bite.  It’s my fave nude from them @Samtian ❤️💝.  It’s ethereal.

[Samtian]

@2manyperfumes Yes it is. 

[WinglessOne]

@Samtian  Aw, I’m glad you’ve helped keep this thread going! 

I was going to start posting again after doing another big declutter, which hasn’t gone well at all. 😄 It’s gone so badly, I finally resigned myself to Official Lipstick Hoarder status and broke out my 3rd lipstick carousel... the one I’d kept boxed up for a year, determined to keep my bullets limited to just 2 carousels. Each carousel can hold 80 bullets. They’re also quite configurable: I can remove some of the dividers as needed. I did that to the top of one carousel so I could jam lots more mini bullets into that space. Because you can never have too many minis! All my liquid lipsticks are still in a big bathroom drawer that’s getting cluttered... sigh. 

I still have plenty of not-new lipsticks to share, and I’m still going to try another declutter. I also need to rearrange a lot of bullets, now that there’s a 3rd carousel of space. I’ll probably start posting here again soon. I still have my running list in iOS Notes, so I can pick up where I left off. It’ll be fun to participate here again. 🙂 

[RGbrown]

@WinglessOne 

The first round of decluttering is the easiest...it's not hard to toss the lowest ones on the totem pole. But once you know you like everything, getting rid of more is hard...I started to feel borderline panicky trying to decide what to toss. Eff it...they all stay. Hahahaha

I cant really even say I've been good about not buying more. I mean, yeah, I've been good at avoiding lipsticks, but I've just channeled all that excess hoarding to nail polish. I have to cut more makeshift shelves asap, while I decide if I want to build a new cabinet (that I have nowhere to put right now... 😕 )

[WinglessOne]

@RGbrown  Heh, I managed to get through 2 serious lipstick declutter rounds and a few much smaller lightening rounds of “which [small color family] lipsticks must go.” But I gave up when it was time to tackle the warm, cool, and “true” reds. 😄 

My other large hoard is sheet masks. I keep saying I have more lipsticks than sheet masks but honestly, the reverse might be true. I counted all my masks a few days ago but haven’t done a lipstick recount this year. Last month I bought a rolling set of plastic Sterilite drawers just to house sheet masks, and that’s not enough room for all of them. 🤦‍♀️ The craziest thing: I usually do far more masking in fall and winter than spring and summer. This means I have a big overflow of masks with 2020 expiration dates. This year I’ve challenged myself to mask each season and use up as many sheets as I can. Of course this hasn’t stopped me from buying more masks—just as I haven’t stopped buying more lipstick—because c’mon, it’d be silly to stop! 

Meanwhile, fate’s sick sense of humor (can’t even wear any of my lipsticks out in public until this pandemic dies down) has not gone unnoticed. Ugh. 

[RGbrown]

@WinglessOne 

2020 exp dates? Pfffft...I'm finishing up 2018/2019 this year, and set the 2020s off in the "still have plenty of time" stash with the 2021/2022 masks 😮 I've always known sheet masking wasn't my favorite thing; for the most part I just tolerate 'em, but for some reason I kept buying them. Biobelle was my one true love, and I see they've discontinued all the ones I liked and replaced them with new masks that have subpar material and too much fragrance, so once I finish off my current stash, this might be a category I exit completely, save for the occasional GWP/freebie. Mine don't require a rolling cart, but I still have way too many for someone that's not terribly partial to them lol.

My nail polish has always outstripped my lippie collection, but I also started painting my nails long before I got into face makeup, so I never really expected that to change. And I don't think I could tolerate that sort of volume, frankly...the 200ish lipsticks I have now is already overkill 😛

I froze up trying to sort the berry/magentas and pull out similar shades. Even found a few that were so freakin' close, I'd call them true dupes. Still couldn't figure out which one(s) to ditch...everything I have now has survived wear testing and been deemed a-ok, so I decided I'm content to keep them, dupes and all.

[WinglessOne]

@RGbrown  Yeah, the fun part of sheet masks (once you’ve collected a large enough stash of ‘em) is Expiration Roulette. “Hmm, this mask officially expired 3 years ago... but let’s open it up and see if it smells okay!” 😄 I probably won’t use a vitamin C mask too far beyond its exp, but most other types of “expired” sheet masks are fair game. 

Lipstick was my first cosmetic love, followed quickly by eyeliner and nail polish. I wasn’t much into eyeshadow until the mid to late 1990s. Blush was no big deal to me until the 2010s, which is funny considering how much I love it now. (Thanks a lot, Mr. Nars.) I’m not sure when I stopped frequently using nail polish. I can’t that on blame piano playing or typing fast, since I was doing both long before I fell in love with nail polish. I’m sure GAD had something to do with it, but now I wonder what truly made me give up on it—and it happened fairly recently, in the late 2010s. I even used to travel with nail polish, remover, etc. And now that I really think about it, I think this photo is the last time I “did” my nails... it’s from November 2018. I haven’t let my nails grow that long since. (Haha, as if that nail length is anywhere near “long.” 🤣) 

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At this point, I didn’t even care how far down to the cuticle I brought nail polish.

I kinda miss nail polish. But I’ll probably never have a huge collection of it, considering how many sheet masks and lipsticks I have. I probably need to treat my lipstick true dupes as backups and put them in my backups bin. But nah. I hadn’t even gotten to the berries before the reds stopped my last declutter round. I know dang well a berries declutter would mean giving up MAC Rebel, and I’m not yet emotionally ready to do that. I’d have extreme trouble with a few other very similar shades. It’d be an even more frustrating declutter than the reds were. Yesterday I made a half-serious attempt to declutter some purples and nope, not happening. Eh, I might change my mind in a couple days. I can be ruthlessly picky and performance-driven about cuts sometimes. 

[Samtian]

@WinglessOne Haha it's not a bad title to keep! Can't wait to see what else you have! Sounds like a fun project though. Where did you get the carousals from?

[WinglessOne]

@Samtian  I got mine from Amazon. Looks like my model’s not made anymore, though. 😞 There are others available, but they’re wider and hold fewer bullets (usually 64). I love this one because it holds more bullets yet has a smaller footprint. 

The Amazon page: 

My original 2 carousels (photo from January, after I bought more countertop drawers): 

This was before I reconfigured the top of the carousel on the right.

I stuck 2 acrylic cubbies on the sides of one carousel to hold lip crayons and lip liners. I’ve since added another cubby so I can store all my Guerlain Rouge Gs together—because their awkward shape doesn’t play nice with the carousel holes. 

[tjffc]

@WinglessOne I love the display rack.

[Samtian]

@WinglessOne Hmm I'll keep an eye out, thanks!

[sprocketta]

@Samtian I've been looking but was waiting until I felt better to start posting again. Love this one on you.

[Samtian]

@sprocketta Thank you! Hope you feel better soon, can't wait to see you posting again!

[lmaster]

I love this!! I'm still here 🤣 @Samtian 

[Samtian]

@lmaster Thank you! haha I noticed it was just me and you.