Beauty Hoarders anonymous - take pride in your stride!!!

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Continuing the good work we made on the last thread! Come join us if you have a stash!

If you want to see that:

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ememem I didn’t like that Clinique hydrating jelly either. I had a GWP size and a lot of sachets of it. Ended up using it on my chest as I hate to throw things away!

Add me to the list of people who don't like the hydrating jelly. Fortunately mine was also a GWP so only miniature - I just found it far too watery.

Finished a Molton Brown mini shower gel this morning, so that's another one to tick off the list.

i think i've got 2 uses of the sanctuary hand cream left. its actually 30ml not 50ml (I have it on the table next to me).

i've been moisturising hands and forearms literally every hour to use it up!

Hand cream gone.

An empty: occitane divine immortelle serum 5ml. I absolutely loved this. Really hydrating and left my skin nourished and smooth. I am toying with buying a full size but it is £82 for 30ml, and I have a full size Estée Lauder ANL serum which I think is similar.

Does anyone know what is in the Occitane serum that makes it so amazing please? And then maybe I could find something similar for less than £82?!

Did anyone manage to get the Cult Beauty advent? Ive ordered the Self Care edit box and the Skin Savours box edit they've done. Hopefully arriving tomorrow. I feel now ill miss having an advent, but none of them screamed out to me this year.

Anyway, empties.

M&S bath foam Almond milk & Vanilla. Meh.

Lush Yog Nog mini. Love this stuff, a total festive scent for me. Have already purchased.

Living proof frizz styling cream. I do think it stopped my hair looking frizzy, but i never felt excited by using it.. It was okay..

Dr Dennis Gross C+ Collagen. Pricey, but i think its worth every penny. My skin looks and feels brighter and the frown line in my forehead doesnt look and feel as deep when i use this. Wont RP now, possibly in the future!

Finished a Davines extra hold hairspray. Love this as it smells of vanilla.

Would buy again, but have another hairspray to use up.

I've never been very good at using hair products on a regular basis, so I'm quite pleased with myself.

Hi hope I can join in. Had my first baby 8 weeks ago and was lurking on this thread in the last few months of my pregnancy to encourage me to use things up from my stash to make some space and as self care in case it went out the window after baby arrived. It did go out the window for a few weeks but I'm back on it now and love that it encourages me to keep up with my skincare regime and pamper myself a bit (mainly using a scrub and putting body lotion on lol)

My empties over last few days are a l'occitane toner and a bergamot and jasmine shower gel from last years (or possibly the year before) advent calendar. Not blown away by the toner but the shower gel smelt lovely
Also used up the Primark balm cleanser which was actually really nice especially for the price

Am working on my make up but the amount of lipsticks, glosses and balms I've got will take me forever but I'm trying!

@CherryMargo why do you do it to yourself? Use things you don't like, that are expired, and that have dodgy ingredients in, I mean. Skincare should make you feel good when you're using it.

[quote glazeover]@CherryMargo why do you do it to yourself? Use things you don't like, that are expired, and that have dodgy ingredients in, I mean. Skincare should make you feel good when you're using it.[/quote]
I did hesitate before posting that message but then decided to be as transparent as possible about my journey since I take my participation in these threads as part of my healing process. I absolutely agree with you that skincare should be a joyful experience, but I’m so disgusted with myself and my hoarding that I don’t allow myself to enjoy it fully yet. Hate-panning is how I punish myself in hopes that I will never go back to makeup and skincare hoarding again, and to teach myself to quit going overboard at sales.

Another big factor is my financial situation. I feel extremely guilty for wasting my tiny income on underperforming products which I bought because I fell for marketing tricks or because I trusted online reviews too much. I’m that sort of a hoarder who doesn’t throw things out unless they are completely used up/worn out/broken beyond repair. Plus, sometimes I just cannot afford to buy a new product, so I have to use what I have, even if I don’t like it.

And also, sometimes hate-panning is the only way I can finish up products. For example, I tend to get tired of using the same product even if I like it. Old me would buy something new and exciting, letting this old product sit forever in the back of my drawer. Hate-panning makes me stick to it.

I do believe there is light at the end of the tunnel for me. Since the start of my journey in 2017, I’ve perfected my skincare routine, and educated myself on cosmetics ingredients. There are no more impulse purchases, and before I buy a product, I do proper research on it. Another thing that I’ve learnt is repurposing. If, say, a face cream breaks me out, I use it on my feet. I kinda feel a sense of accomplishment if I can find a way to make a bad product work for me.

I think there's also a sense of satisfaction in not wasting something. I hate throwing things away - but this is why I have make up which is probably 10 years old, because I can't bring myself to bin it. But, I don't wear make up very often, so I don't get through it.

However, I use skincare every day. And where I used to leave all the sample size products for an unknown holiday, I've decided that (a) the holiday is unlikely to happen and (b) even it does, that's not a reason to save things. Much better to enjoy trying lots of new products, and find something that might become a new favourite. And if I find a dud along the way (which is definitely the case with my current body moisturiser which is at least 5 years old!) then I'm just a bit more liberal with the application so that I get through it.

Now if I could only bring myself to put on a full face of make up every day, I'd be laughing...

L’Oréal amazing oil/astonishing oil/soemthing oil shampoo finished. Conditioner not used up yet but will use in the next few days.

L’occitaine body butter gone. Sad about this as it was lovely. Rich moisturising and a nice smell. Almost a no smell smell if you get what I mean. It just smelled creamy and fresh.

Have asked dh to get me some
More for Christmas.

More empties. The balance and brighten seems to have gone off, but everything else is used up

Empty no. 50 🚮 Perricone MD Cocoa Moisture Mask (59 ml; £26).

Another example of feelunique shipping nearly expired products during their sales. I purchased this mask on December 24th, 2018 at a 50% discount. When it arrived, I discovered that its expiry date was March 2019, i.e. I had only January and February to use it up, which was impossible even if I started using it the very next day (as I found out later, 59 ml was enough for more than 60 (!) applications).

Fortunately, even expired, the mask didn’t irritate my skin, and the results were noticeable from the very first application – many people told me that my skin looked amazing. The mask lasted me 13 months, and I would definitely repurchase it even at the full price of £52, but sadly, it was discontinued at the end of 2019.

A total number of products left in the face mask category: 1 foil sachet, 6 deluxe samples, 2 full-size tubes and 14 sheet masks 🆘

Another empty: 20g Elemis pro collagen cleansing balm. I’ve had a few of these and really rate it. Wont repurchase, as I have quite a few estee Lauder cleansers to get through and also a full size Elemis dynamic resurfacing cleanser which I absolutely love.

Empty: Bumble & Bumble Sunday shampoo. Love this for a deep clean, normally use after swimming but not been since lockdown so just using as a normal shampoo. Have another ready to replace it already.

Another empty in quick succession- Balance Me Wonder eye cream. Not wonderful, a light moisturiser, nothing special so wouldn't repurchase. Good to be finishing some products ahead of advent calendar season 😊.

have moved onto a 75ml of the sanctuary hand cream. again this is sat on my desk and i will be carting it around with me wherever i go. its not my fave. but it is nice and moisturising.

also started on an advent calendar sized soap and glory body butter - sugar crush flavour.

i pulled a second advent calendar sized one from the stash too - this one is plum and cinnamon flavour. not sure i like it. but will use up. there's not too much.

Empty no. 51 🚮 Aveda Sap Moss Weightless Hydration Shampoo (10 ml; GWP) manufactured in July 2019.

It’s an olive-green cream shampoo which smells of wet soil 🤢 although its aroma composition boasts of such oils as jasmine, olibanium and cypress. It foams up very well, so you need a tiny amount each time. It has great hydrating properties, and made my unruly and frizzy hair so incredibly soft that I even skipped a conditioner when I was in a rush.

A total number of products left in the shampoo category: 1 deluxe sample and 2 full-size products.

An empty: Nip and Fab retinol sheet mask. Bought on offer in Waitrose a few weeks ago, along with a few other Nip and Fab sheet masks that I am planning on using this week. Really liked this, left my skin glowing. I am always aghast at how much product is left over on a sheet mask though. It seems quite wasteful.

Wow Cherry thats a lot of masks in the stash! Your masks are my equivalent of bar soaps and body creams. I've used up all my samples and minis and now only have many full size products left, so it will be hard going.

I spent £150 on CB yesterday, the GWP looks shite, so would rather the discount. Will pop some bits in my last years F&M advent so atleast i have something to open December.

Empties~

BS Vanilla Pumpkin body butter ❤. I bloody love this stuff, i love the scent and i feel so soft. Ill be buying more when they are in the sale. £16 is abit much for me, and i use alot of product!

Aesop Body scrub. I loved this too, i felt de-scaled after using this, my skin looked brighter too. I felt like royalty swanning about after using this Ill buy this as a treat every now and then. It was one of them products that i looked foward to using!

Burts Bees lipbalm. Id repurchase at some point, cheap enough and my lips were always hydrated.

Emma Hardie moisture boost. Nothing from EH has ever wowed me really.

Patchology eye gels. Have purchased the Pixi ones to give ago, will be putting them in my advent though.

Freemans mineral mask. They put sparkle crap in it, so i had little specs of glitter all over my flannel I have 12 sachets of masks to use up, i want them gone by the end of the year, so im making an effort to get through them now!

Excellent work Caggie. I love there sound of that Aesop body scrub. I also have masks that I want to use up by the end of the year - 7 Dermalogica sachets, two Nip and Fab sheet masks and 30ml of Elemis. We can do it!

An empty: Dr Sebagh 20 ml hyaluronic acid. My first foray into hyaluronic acid and I loved it (once I realised that I needed to wet my face before applying it, otherwise I felt like the hulk trying to break free of it and stretch my skin through it - a weird feeling!). Hoping to find a cheaper alternative as this was from an advent calendar, and I had no idea how expensive it was. Trying the Nip and Fab dragons blood serum (or something like that anyway) 50ml next, which contains hyaluronic acid.

@WellTidy /hugs 🤗 right now I’m trying to use up all of my face mask samples so that in 2021 I have only two full-size products to work through (on my ‘mask’ days I always use two masks: a clay one first and a hydrating/moisturising one afterwards). As for sheet masks, I use them only prior to big events where I might be photographed – they create an amazing face lifting effect but are very expensive (the brand is MAGICSTRIPES). Since the events were put on hold, there's been no use for them 😞

@WellTidy

An empty: Nip and Fab retinol sheet mask. Bought on offer in Waitrose a few weeks ago, along with a few other Nip and Fab sheet masks that I am planning on using this week. Really liked this, left my skin glowing. I am always aghast at how much product is left over on a sheet mask though. It seems quite wasteful.

I squeeze out the mask over my hands and use the serum on my hands and arms up to my elbows.