12 Easy Ways To Save Money On Beauty Products
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Beauty products can be a drain on your budget, and many of them may not even be giving you the joy you desire.
The endless hunt for the perfect mascara. The continuing journey for the moisturizer that will change your life. The shampoo that is going to transform your relationship with your place on Earth.
The truth is, you may have already found these things and it’s time consuming to continue the journey now that you’ve arrived. It’s also consuming to your paycheck. The sparkle of a new eyeliner ends once you’ve reached that enoughness point, and you may have already peaked.
Think back to the best thing you tried in your life in these categories:
The longest lasting lipstick
The perfect trifecta of a moisturizer
The most memorable serum
That’s it. You peaked. You identified your enough point.
Okay, so these are your things. Keep them. You don’t need more than this. This is your maximum satisfaction.
Believe it or not you can be beautiful with fewer products and less time, and pursue other dreams in the time and with the money you aren’t using still searching for that perfect masque.
Below, are twelve ways how -
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1 - Dress for your eye color
The eyes are the windows of the soul, so accentuate them. Rather than trying out every style, just buy clothes in your most complimentary shades - which are often the opposite or adjacent shade of your eyes on the color wheel.
For example, if your eyes are grey, you may choose to wear more greys and oranges. You will buy fewer trends and look great all the time.
2 - Makeup for your eye color
Do your makeup routine around your eyes. Take note of your eye shade and then purchase accent colors to highlight this shade. You’ll be more pleased with the results and spend less.
3 - Choose a uniform
What do you grab every day to wear? What are your three favorite outfits? Choose a couple of these and try refreshing your wardrobe with that whenever your wardrobe needs it’s next refresh.
It’ll make outfit selection easier in the morning and reduce shopping fatigue as well as prevent waste-spending on stuff you don’t really wear that much. It’ll also increase how much joy you experience, because you’ll always be wearing your favorite things.
4- Identify favorite products and subscribe
Identify expendable products you purchase again and again, such as face wash, or mascara, and find the best prices on them.
5 - Commit to using things up
Use up your lipstick and then replace it. You’d be surprised how long a lipstick can last if you only wear that one. Same with brow pencil or brow gel. Commit to stop buying new products until you use up what you already have.
6 - Take an inventory of all of your body care products
What do you have duplicates of? Do you have 5 shampoos? Two mouthwashes? Just notice. Use up these items you have too much of, and then pare down. Replace them with only one of each - your favorite of the duplicate items.
7 - What is your gazingus pin item?
If so, note it and know it’s okay to love something. Moving forward, try refilling that item as needed by researching the best buy of each, reducing impulse purchases - you'll save money and be more satisfied when you do get your next pin, maybe in green.
8 - Consider adding more dual purpose items to your routine
A moisturizer that works for both morning and night.
Eyeliners that can be used eyebrow pencils when purchased matte, and in the color of your eyebrow shade - taupe, brown or black.
Lipsticks can be a complimentary cream blush. Full coverage foundations, when layered, can become a concealer. Which one of your products can you give a dual use, thus maximizing your value?
9 - Cut and dye your own hair
Sally Beauty will teach you how to color your own hair on their website. You can do it. It’s very empowering, too.
10 - Be content with one
Simplify your beauty routine. One lipstick. One shampoo. One conditioner. One perfume. One hand cream. You only need one of each beauty item per category (one eyebrow color, for example), and may even have a favorite already.
11 - Bookmark your wants
Take your beauty wants and put them in a bookmark tab on your browser. Revisit the tab every week.
You may find that after that time has passed, you’ve learned new information and you have moved on from some of your desires. Delete what you no longer want. Remove it from your bookmarks.
12 - Forgo single-use products
Single-use products have their purpose. They’re great when you’re on the road, for example. But when you are home, you can buy bigger things.
Instead of a hydrating sheet face mask, try a hydrating mask in a jar. Same with hand masks and hair masks. Choose the jar. You generally get a lower cost per ounce when you go with the jar and it lasts longer.
12 Easy Ways Save Money On Beauty Products over photo of tan jar on tan striped background by Brittney Weng on Unsplash
To end, remember the memory recall above? To think about your pinnacle serum ever? Do this with all your products and when you pare down, practice having only one, and when finding the best subscription price for it, have this item in mind.
This way you are no longer spending money on the hunt, and you are getting the best value for your money for what you’ve already found, enjoyed and loved.
By eliminating the clutter and simplifying, you are also making your life less stressful, too much stuff, too many choices, not enough space. Purging clutter from your space is very freeing mentally.
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