u/jayjaywantstoplay

I literally just had a moment, after throwing out all my expired make-up! "How the fuck, am I going to restock my supply?" The prices of what I had, are beyond a joke. 80% of what I owned, was from CW and atomica. 20% from Mecca and Myer.

I only buy my base products from Mecca or Myer because I find it difficult to get matches, for my fair dry skin elsewhere. But the rest is all from CW and atomica. The carts I just put together, total just more than $700! The crazy part, some of it is on sale....

So my question is, how are you all doing it?

This cost of living crisis, is seriously killing me.... Make-up and perfume, was the only one ritual in my day/night, that brought me personal joy, other than my coffee breaks! Now, I am feeling that it is being taken away from me.

I understand there are worse things going on in the country and world, before I get judged for something some call vain or superficial. But I surely hope to be understood in what I am expressing....

Fair enough, if you had no idea. But those who know? Just why?

How would you feel, if someone treated you like you're a dirty secret or cheated on you?

Please explain.... I am not perfect or whatever and I am not telling you, you are a bad person. But don't you see, you're basically telling people, this kind of behaviour is okay and you are hurting not only yourself, but other people in the process.

It is 2026, we have so much access to psychology, mental health, human behaviour and general history information. Why do we enable this and not learn from our experiences and mistakes?

Curious to know others thoughts on this.