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With the upcoming bans of Cyclohexasiloxane, Cyclopentasiloxane and talc in cosmetics in the EU, more and more products have been and will be reformulated or discontinued. There seems to be a panic in beauty communities and a lot of people are running to buy the latest discontinuation. 

I can understand that some people with a minimalist collection that regurlarly finish the same products could see some benefits with buying a replacement a bit earlier to delay the inevitable. But let’s be honest with myself, if I’m in this subreddit, it’s because I have a lot more products I can use.

One of my favourite lipsticks is on its way out, not because of the ban, the line still exists, it’s a colour discontinuation. I caught myself thinking about buying a backup. I have 25 lipsticks and while is well used, it’s nowhere near finished, I don’t need a backup. There are plenty of really nice formulas out there, once I’m actually almost done I can always bring the bullet with me shopping to find a close alternative. I also wanted to maybe buy a backup of my eye primer because it contains talc. Once again I’m nowhere need finished, I’ll figure something out once I’m actually done.

How about you, have you fought the urge to buy a backup lately? 

When I was young, I always liked makeup and I had more eyeshadows (single and quads pre palette craze) that I could realistically finish. They had noticeable dips and hitting pan happened from time to time without needing to seek it, it was a byproduct of repeated usage. My whole collection would fit in a hard makeup boxy case and besides lipglosses and eyeshadows, I had one of each.

I’ve been realizing for a while that my collection is far bigger than when I was younger.  But I didn’t realize how much my mindset has changed since I started reading product reviews on makeupalley and then watching product reviews. Before reviews, I wouldn’t try to get a holy grail product, I didn’t even knew it was thing. 

What changed the most is what was driving the purchases. Before I would buy something in the goals of creating new looks and not because I was chasing the next hyped product. Usually it was a new shade of an eyeshadow or lipgloss formula I knew I liked. Of course hype did exist then too, but it was fairly long lasting, it wasn’t a new product every month.

I now feel less inclined to even want to add products now that I have had a “breakthrough” on my behaviours. There will always be a product I like slightly more than something I already own in a given category, I’ll never be done if I keep on chasing the new and improved generation of something or essentially the same thing I already own but with a nice new hat.

What about you, what made you accumulate too much?