We’ve all heard about the capsule collection as it relates
to your wardrobe (and if you’re like me, it becomes a mini-obsession) but I had
the exciting – to me – thought to curate a makeup capsule as well.
I don’t have a huge amount of makeup, but I do have
multiples of most items, especially colour products such as lipstick and gloss,
blush and eyeshadows and eyeliners.
For my everyday neutral makeup look, I’d invariably
gravitate towards the same pinky blush, MAC eyeshadow (still the warm neutral Kid,
and I’ve added Quarry for a darker more taupey option), and a few favourite
natural pinky-red lip-colours. I use
bronzing powder instead of blush and eyeshadow sometimes too (just a light
touch!)
When I have a makeup cleaning session (which I love doing),
I couldn’t remember which brushes I’d used, so I would wash them all. I would also polish all my makeup containers
inside and out, with a less favourite perfume and a clean t-shirt rag.
When I was doing this the most recent time, I decided to
store all my makeup in our bathroom drawer (so it was still accessible), and
put my everyday makeup in a small basket that I could store away or get out to
sit on the bed and do my makeup where the light is good.
Not only does it save me lots of time each day, but it is
also very satisfying when I have one blush that I’m using and it is almost
finished up. When I used a different shade
each day that didn’t happen. I only have
one of everything in my capsule makeup collection, except for lipsticks, which
I have made a little artists palette with.
There were favourite lipsticks which were worn down flat,
and others that I only used occasionally.
With the almost used lipsticks I dug them out and squashed them into a small
makeup sample container (which is a round flat shape with a screw-on lid) and
also chopped the tops off other lipsticks.
I now can use either one colour, or swirl my lip brush
across multiple colours to get a new shade.
A similar concept to the pressed powder version of Guerlain’s Les Meteorites
or Bobbi Brown’s Shimmer Brick palette – except mine was free :)
As enticing as my makeup capsule collection is, I’d still
sometimes not wear makeup, and I do feel better when I’ve made the miniscule effort.
I timed myself recently to see just how long it takes to do
my everyday lightly made up look and it took nine and a half minutes (I wasn’t rushing it either). Knowing this helps me not be lazy when I
think ‘I won’t put makeup on today’. It
takes less than ten minutes; I feel good; plus I look more polished if I see
anyone.
With my few other makeup items I can still dig through them
if I feel like doing something a bit different for a night out, and I get to enjoy my curated daily
neutral palette with ease.
Maybe you do this already, but for me, I am very happy with
how my capsule collection idea turned out!
Are you a makeup minimalist?
In-between like me? Or are you a
makeup junkie? What are your favourite
products? One of mine is Estee Lauder Double
Wear which I put on with a damp Beauty Blender sponge.
~~Fiona~~
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