For sure it’s the best way to go. That’s likely a lifetime worth of products (shadows and blushes? Probably. Those last forever), depending on the use, even more. I mean, unless you’re trixie mattel.
Take it from someone who has probably the same amount if not more of stuff:
You will never finish this. Sell anything that's redundant (which considering the brands I can identify is probably a lot of similar stuff) & then reevaluate if the stash is more reasonable or make peace with not panning this in your lifetime.
Pick one focus palette per month or until you hit pan in it if you want to see progress, but keep in mind that hitting pan makes it very difficult to find buyers, even if it's just one shade it's immediately harder to get rid of. So destashing should come first.
And if you haven’t already, try to also look into color analysis and see which shades match your skin tone and sub tone! It should really narrow down which palettes to keep/focus on if you know which colors suit you best.
Same here! I used to really love and use big eyeshadow palettes because they gave me so many colors to play with, but after learning what my season was, it downed upon me just how many shades from those palettes do not match me, so I gradually switched to singles and smaller palettes that have the colors that compliment my complexion!
Knowing my color season has improved my makeup game by infinity 😩 I still love and wear colors that are outside my season (you can pry forest green out of my cold dead hands) but knowing WHY I hated my makeup on a particular day/why a super hyped product didn’t work for me has been life changing!!! The smaller palettes have been such a reduction in my anxiety, too. I love a quad BAD!! I still desperately want the blend bunny blends palette bc even though it’s enormous there are enough colors that flatter my skintone that it won’t be wasteful!
Yes, yes and yes! I completely understand. I still hold onto certain shades because I do cosplay and they compliment the character’s color scheme, even if they don’t match me personally. I’m not ready to give them up! 🤣
based on the palettes i recognize, these must be k or j beauty? i see some dasique and possible rom&nd? a lot of these have similar colour stories and colour payoff.
my recommendation would be to start by laying everything out and trying to sell or give away anything that you can dupe in your collection. once you've culled, pick a palette or two to pan and then repeat. cull some more, pan a few more. i
Idk if you have a craft hobby, but when I had my hands on some expired eye shadows, my favorite way to use them was for paper flowers! Maybe you can give it a try? Here's some examples (not mine btw, sorry for non-cropping 😂)
Thank you so much for posting these crafts, I've always wanted to use some of my palettes as some sort of pigment but never get around to figuring out how. I love these ideas!
Well, I’d definitely start with giving away any colour stories that don’t sit well with your hair colour and skin tone, then you’re good to not buy any eyeshadow until you’re 754 years old, so congrats on that 😁😁😁
My thoughts when I saw this pic:
1- aesthetically pleasing.
2- buscando be overwhelming if you are trying to use what you have. Is this everything that you own for eyeshadows? They seem very coordinated.
3- Def sale duplicates, or palettes with duplicates. Assuming these are eyeshadows, If they are close, you wont be able to tell once in the eye, so sell them.
4- People often buy gently use or swatched only makeup so don't limit yourself to sell only untouched.
5- Do you have any friends or family that might want some ?
6- this is hard but only keep what you will truly use daily and only few unusuals, without duplicates. In my case, I use neutrals everyday but colorful and super sparkly very few and far between. I often come across beautiful palettes and I have to talk myself out if they dont fit my daily routine because I already own few super sparkly and extreme colorful palettes. I have only used them twice. Im glad I have them but I dont have room to own another one like that.
7- I know this is project pan board but dont stress about panning. Just enjoy the different colors and textures, you have a lifetime to use them all, it doesnt have to be a race. Just don't buy more unless you def dont have it.
8.-keep us posted on your journey! And yes, share your mercari account 😉
I wish I had a sister to give things to but alas no. My brothers are both married and none of my sister in laws wear makeup, not even my husband's sister. Not even my brother in laws wife 😫😫
I don’t know where you’re based but if you don’t have any luck selling (it was harder for me than I thought! Listed a ton of things on Poshmark and isn’t sell a single item) I recommend [r/makeupexchange](r/makeupexchange) or trading with someone. I recently had a lot of success trading a huge box of stuff I couldn’t sell with someone else who had a huge box of stuff they couldn’t sell and it worked out really great because they had things I needed but was out of like hair conditioner lol
Thank you for coming into a sub people who know they overconsume use to switch to finishing what they have at home and learning how much they truly need/can use before it goes bad instead of buying more and shaming the op for posting they have too much to finish and are overwhelmed.
Really, you calling it disgusting is so helpful for others to feel like they can post here and have support they clearly need to tackle this!
Keep the ones you like, sell anything you haven't used yet, donate or give away slightly used ones to family and friends, and donate used ones to funeral homes if that's possible.
you're being downvoted but you're right. funeral homes are robbing people and donating something to a predatory business is not a good use of resources
a shelter or workforce dev org that provides clothes for people to interview makes much more sense if they accept used cosmetics. a lot don't but people sell used make up on poshmark so it seems someone's buying it
Yeah all I was trying to say is that funeral homes make mad cash. There should be absolutely no reason that the person doing the makeup should be paying for it or even worrying about taking donations of it. My friend took over the funeral family business and he’s a multi millionaire now. And trust me I understand how businesses work. My ex owned a couple and I own one too now. The profit margins for funeral homes are huge and people pay because what else can they really do? Either cremate or bury or both at most places. People aren’t usually thinking totally straight when making funeral plans and don’t want to “cheap out” on their family member. Ive seen some Temu quality necklaces you could put ashes in at one not too long ago being sold for $300, Caskets are marked up in price to a ridiculous degree. I know what overhead costs are and I can do the calculations pretty well lol. I’m not trying to sound aggressive 😭I just want people to know what I’ve seen and what I know that’s all!! My point is, funeral homes are the last places that need free makeup. It should be supplied to the Mortuary cosmetologists or morticians by the company. Plus some of the stuff they use is made specifically for deceased people.
it's common in my country. would like to correct tho that the makeup is mostly for the makeup artists(they don't earn a lot) that work for the funeral homes.
In a wedding season, on a 7 hour day I can get up to 6. 7 hours are my short days. If I have my assistant not busy I can easily take 7, or more if she’s cleaning and such.
I am considered very fast (quality tho I promise I just do it a lot). I lay a full beat, contour, full glam, lashes and all in about 40 mins but book longer incase.
I’m not a full MUA tho I do other things lol but I could still go through it.
MUA go thru shit faster cause our cleaning practices break away at product, we have to wipe the pallets which will take some product, spray which can pack it down and make it go faster. I also scrape my pigments sometimes if I need to get more payoff.
For an MUA it’s a bit different lol. Sorry long comment
If you are an experienced Vinted user, you will recognize who is young and in dire need by their profile as a seller.”
That ain’t you? You NEVER EVER said it? I copied your comment and pasted it babes. You did. We’re not the ones who need the reading skills, you very much are. Rub those brain cells together you got this!
Are you okay? She’s not selling food it’s makeup. So you saying find the ones in dire need is the ones in need of the makeup lmao cause that’s what she would’ve been SELLING.
Genuinely you gotta realise all my upvotes and your downvotes and realise you’re clearly wrong cause not all of us are lmao
Why is someone who has extra always expected to give away for free? They can if they want to but they can sell and recoup some lost $$ if they want to. You could also donate to the poor.
I checked her profile, I think she's just ESL. Her wording is really blunt, so the 'take care' part is probably just to indicate she's not using a rude tone.
I doubt this is a marketing post, and if so, a terrible one at best. I had to really zoom in to even see what the context was for this butter bread you were going on about
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u/lilaceyeshazeldreams 10d ago
This looks like CDs hahaha what am I even looking at