Girl, You Only Have One Face

Here are the products I used up last month : (from left to right) ~ Drunk Elephant C-firma Day Serum (sample from Sephora) - this leaked out of the sample container, hence the orange smudges everywhere. However, I liked it enough to repurchase the full size! It smells like honeysuckle, and I felt like my skin was more radiant when I used it regularly. ~ L'Oreal felt tip eyeliner - I wish I could say which one, but the writing rubbed off. It was my first liquid liner, and it worked decently well, but I found that my overly sensitive, blinky eyes do better with the lighter pressure of brush tips. I would not repurchase this. ~ Lancome Energie de Vie deluxe sample (from my August Sephora Play! box) - I'm not sure if this was a moisturizer? A serum? A moisturizing serum? Regardless, I put it on my face every night until it was gone. I didn't really notice any difference in my skin. I didn't really like how perfumey it was - I would not repurchase this. ~ Nest Citr...

"Come on, girl! You only have one face!" It's what I tell myself when I start aimlessly shopping for makeup. In the last year, I developed a bit of a shopping addiction, specifically makeup shopping.Writing a blog is my effort to keep myself accountable to start focusing less on buying. I'm going to focus more on using, first and foremost, and then on adding thoughtfully to my makeup wardrobe. This blog is most likely going to be my online makeup-focused diary. I don't have that many people to discuss this with in real life. And somehow posting a blog feels more anonymous than posting on reddit. (If you're interested in any makeup/usage discussion, head to r/makeuprehab or r/muacjdiscussion - some of those subreddit themes will likely influence my ramblings.) Here's a bit what to expect from me: empties posts, reviews, and random thoughts. The word "haul" is dangerous for me, but I might occasionally talk about items I've purchased recent...