I just cleaned out my bathroom and...

[beijingaling]

Found make up over TEN YEARS OLD!

What makes it worse is the last time I tried some of that make up my eyes started to itch & sting and instead of throwing it away I put it back on the shelf.

Not one bit of it was even close to finished too.

On the plus side all my makeup is now stuff I use and not going to give me an infection.

Please tell me you are as slack or do you bin everything every 12m or whatever it says on the label?

i have a box of some of my old makeup from when i first started wearing it, i like to keep it and look at it every so often, i'd never wear it again, off the top of my head rimmel heather shimmer lippy, blue eye shadow and a fushia pink lippy. Some dewberry soap too.

I do tend to clear out my makeup bag often now, if i have too much i can never find anything.

heather shimmer lippy, that was my first colour too. Loved it back then. And dewberry, that seemed to be ubiquitous back in the day.

I have had a major clearout recently but I still have stuff that I can't quite throw out as it is hardly used and I remember how expensive it was.

Yes, I binned lots of chanel makeup. I was just ruthless with use by stamps!

i've got 5 year old MAC eye shadow which i love but only wear on an evening out - what do we think? to bin or not to bin?! it doesn't have use by stamps on it though

good house keeping makeup expiration

I'd bin it if you use a finger to apply but keep it if you use brushes. Yesterday I would have binned it for being too old though!

It doesn't have a little picture of an open jar with 12M or 6M on it anywhere?

I have eyeshadow from 1987 [shame] that I use sometimes . It is [ehem] well past the recommended expiration date of 2 years.