Organizing Lip Gloss

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This swatched up hand can only mean one of two things; either I'm in Sephora spending my paycheck or I'm organizing my lip gloss area. Luckily for my wallet, I'm organizing. 

I pulled a lot of lipsticks and lip glosses a while back and tossed things that I wasn't using or didn't work with my skin tone, but I decided it was time to organize what was left. I had resisted the whole organization by color because I wanted to see how many I had of a brand instead. What I realized was, I didn't get a true gage of how many of each color gloss I had. I did this exercise and besides finding out that I currently have 70 glosses, I also discovered that I have quite a few nude, pinky nude and brown glosses. No, that didn't really surprise me but it confirmed that I do gravitate toward a neutral, natural lip.

Don't get me wrong. I like the occasional vampy lip too. I like a fuchsia or berry lip. But, my tried and true, ride or die lip is 2 or 3 shades from my natural color. Remember some of my very first posts (ummm, you need to spend the weekend go back to them then)? I mention that I have a lot of brown and beige's in my overall makeup collection. My blush tones are very natural tones and my lipsticks and lip glosses tend to be natural as well.

But I digress. I was talking about organization. I don't have the coveted Ikea alex drawers (yet) but I do have one of those large 7 drawer containers that I keep the bulk of my makeup in. The top 4 drawers are dedicated to lips. I picked up some of the white containers at Wal-Mart (the ones from Dollar Tree weren't sturdy enough for me and my Dollar Tree didn't have the acrylic ones) and put my sorted lip glosses in them. I didn't want my glosses all scrunched together so I allowed them to spread out amongst the top four drawers. So see, it isn't a lot, it's just spread out and looks that way!

I like my new organization system -- color coding included. Now, I can see what glosses I actually have and decide the colors that match my lipstick of the day. It makes it simpler to enjoy my collection and I don't forget about some of my faves.

What is your current organizing system? Are you sorting my color or brand or are you yelling, "Girl, who in the hell has that many lip glosses?"

BTW, stop judging me!!! It's an addiction I tell you!

Buxom Winner Takes All

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Before the Sephora VIB sale I had to take a lipstick back and I exchanged it for the Buxom Winner Takes All 6 piece mini lip polish and lip cream collection. I have several Buxom glosses and really like them. I thought I'd enjoy the mini's because I've transitioned to smaller purses and the mini's are perfect for that.

I love this purchase. It gave me 6 new colors to try and man are they pretty displayed on my vanity (it's true!). If you haven't tried Buxom glosses before, you really need to run into a Sephora store and try one. They do tingle the tiniest bit but they are comfortable, last a good long while and the variety of colors that Buxom offers makes sure that you will find something you like.

Chloe, Sophia, Trixie (lip polishes), Creamsicle, White Russian & Berry Blast (lip creams)

I checked on line and there are one hundred full on lip polishes (ONE HUNDRED!), 10 lip creams and 10 lip glosses. That may seem like overkill to some people. As a brown skinned girl, I like that there are 100 glosses. Normally if a company has 20 lip gloss colors, only 5 or 6 really work on brown skinned girls. I might be able to get away with 2 or 3 more but with 120 colors total, well, I can wear a good 50% of these colors. So great!

These colors are probably more spring/summer colors for me but I love them. I wear the Berry Blast on its own when I just need a hint of color or I'm wearing very little makeup. I thought about picking up the large mama jama Buxom Roulette with 15 lip polishes and creams, but I decided that I wanted to pick my colors independently. Lip collections are nice when you are pretty sure you will like most of the colors but when you already have so many colors within a collection, being able to pick your own colors outweighs the bonus of a bunch of mini colors. I looked at this set and decided that only 3 of them were must haves (3 of them were already haves) and even at the $47.20 discounted price, I'd rather purchase the ones I really liked individually.

I'm not teasing that I did just that mind you.

You'll have to wait for the VIB unboxing to see what I did get!!