The Makeup Monologues

Hey, it's time for a short update on my Mini Madness Project Pan! For products that have visible progress, I'll be posting photos, and for products that I've maybe only used a few times, I'll just be discussing them. Let's start off with the primers! I got quite a bit of use out of the Tatcha Silk Canvas, but I mainly use it around my nose and cheeks to blur my pores, and over my blemishes. The Fenty Soft Matte primer, however, I've really been digging into. I've used it up to the point where the pump doesn't dispense any product anymore so I've been scraping the sides of the bottle with a little doe-foot applicator. I'm determined to completely use this thing up. Then, for the skincare... I've neeeearly finished up the OLEHENRIKSEN Banana Bright eye cream- less than a week left in that jar, so I'm going to be using it all up and then moving in another mini sized skincare product! I'm going to be...

Minis do have their place in my collection. A lot of them are point perks, bonuses, or samples from Sephora. I am grateful that I got to try out some formulas that I wouldn’t have necessarily sought out on my own. Working at Sephora, I’m expected to be a near-expert about every single product, but I can’t buy every single product, so minis are crazy useful, especially for products that normally take a while to get through (like lipstick, or blush) or are very costly in a full size (like high-end skincare).  However, I’ve accumulated a small army of these minis through swaps, gratis, point perks and the like - and I often forget to use them because they’re so small. I want to dedicate a project in 2020 to using them up! I figure that focusing on mini products will give me more frequent gratification than full-size products will, and will help me to clear my collection of excess clutter. I’m going to start out with ten items, and just like in my previous Proje...