Confessions of a Beauty Junkie
If you’re in the beauty industry, or you just love the beauty industry, odds are that you’ll end up needing some extra storage space for all your products. Whether your vice is makeup, skin, or hair products (or all 3 for us die-hards), you’ll be able to relate to the following confessions of a beauty junkie:
Confession #1
You’ll spare no expense on the quest for the perfect [anti-frizz, volumizing, curl perfecting, smoothing] product. It’s true. You’ve tried 12 products already, but none did what they claimed they would. You’ve purchased the high-end, ultra luxury product, and the bargain basement, generic version. You’ve bought the “miracle” product your bestie swears by, and you’ve shelled out the dough for the product your stylist said you couldn’t live without. One product smelled amazing but was too heavy, another promised control, but you ended up looking like Anne Hathaway, circa The Princess Diaries (before the makeover, of course). Hang in there, Goldilocks, you’ll find your Holy Grail someday, and when you do, buy in bulk!
Confession #2
Even though none of those products worked for you, you still can’t bring yourself to throw them away. There are dozens of reasons not to get rid of your beauty products, even if they don’t work for you at all. I’ve used many of these excuses myself: “I spent too much on that to get rid of it!” “Maybe I can give it to someone who can use it!” “What if I run out of my good stuff and it’s my last resort? I might need it!”. Don’t be surprised when your friends or significant other stage a beauty hoarding intervention – you’re never going to use it, so lose it!
Confession #3
You know the difference between warm red, cool red, and neutral red. And you know when to use them. You also know that gold-green, blue-green, gray-green, and green-green all have VERY different effects on your eye color, so it is only natural that you keep all shades on hand at all times. There is absolutely nothing wrong with owning 23 variations of taupe eye shadow (I might actually have counted all my taupe eye shadows for the purposes of this article), because, hey, I know what works for me, and I obviously can’t wear the same taupe on date night that I wore at the office all day!
Confession #4
You’ll buy products you don’t need just to get the cute “free” gift that comes with them. Chances are, you don’t need the perfume AND the shower gel AND the lotion AND the body spray, but in order to get that adorable satin clutch, you do! It matters not that you could buy that satin clutch alone for a fraction of the price, and it certainly doesn’t matter that the shower gel will sit on a shelf collecting dust until you’re hard up for a Christmas gift for your distant cousin. That clutch is cute, and it must be yours!
Confession #5
Your Pinterest boards are full of eye makeup tutorials, chic braiding how-to’s, and hair color you want to try. Whether you’ve actually tried any of them, well, that’s a different story.
Readers, which one of these confessions can you relate to? Do you have some other beauty junkie confessions you would like to share?