Hello! To start the year off I thought I would conduct a little inventory of my makeup collection, mostly to see how much it fluctuates throughout the year, and so others can see just how much/ or little I actually have! I plan on doing an end of year inventory as well just to see if I’ve used things up or even bought more and increased the current total. Anyway, I’d love to know how your collection differs from mine, and whether you think I have an acceptable amount, or maybe a bit too much.
Base Products
As of the start of the year I have 22 base products in total, including: 2 face sprays, 4 primers, 6 foundations, 7 concealers and 3 powders. As you can see I have a little bit of a problem with concealers… in that I have way too many for one face. I do know that one of them is half used, and another I am working on in my project pan this year! Other than that I don’t think my base collection is too out of control, but I definitely could reduce my foundations, and I will certainly try to focus on using them more this year compared to last year.
Total so far: 22
Cheek Products
Next we move on to face products, and I am actually surprised at how many blushes I own, so let’s take a look. Currently I have: 7 bronzers, 11 blushes, 8 highlighters, and 5 face palettes (of course take the total higher but I’m counting each palette as one for now). Luckily I wasn’t someone who jumped completely on the highlighter train when it started a couple of years ago, so I’m not too fussed about those, especially since one is a mini liquid highlighter. I could do with cutting down on blush in the future, but I know that they are so hard to use up so I won’t be putting too much pressure on myself to finish any this year, maybe next year instead.
Total so far: 53
Eye Products
The largest section so far, I have quite a lot of eyeshadows, however the majority are singles which I have counted individually. We’ve got: 4 bases, 9 palettes, 50 single shadows, 4 eyeliners, 2 mascaras, and 7 brow products. As you can see, my single eyeshadows are the main culprit in this section of my collection. I have a large palette with 24 shadows, and the rest are divided between a smaller palette, Colourpop shadows, and a couple of liquid shadows. I’m not exactly happy about the amount I have, but it is very unlikely I will buy anymore singles for a long time – for palettes I cannot say the same, as there are always more that I’d like to try in the future!
Total so far: 129
Lip Products
Finally we move onto lips, an area that I thought was a bit larger, but obviously it’s not as bad as I thought it was! Okay it’s not the worst, but it’s not the best either, there are: 24 lipsticks (bullets and liquid), 13 lip-glosses, and 9 lipliners. Over this last year my lip-gloss collection has grown by at least half, and I am not sorry about it in the slightest! I love lip gloss, which is why my number doesn’t bother me, however I really need to work on using my lipsticks, especially the older ones in my collection.
Total: 175
I’m really hoping I haven’t missed anything out, as I won’t be happy to add to the total! I think that for a ‘beauty blogger’ my collection isn’t too bad, and a fair amount is taken up by single eyeshadows as well, so overall it’s quite easy to store everything. Do you think this is a ‘large’ collection?
As always,
Love, Emily x
Emilia Marlowe 
I love your collection! Mine is soooo much smaller. 2 concealers, 2 foundations, 2 setting powders, 2 blush, 4 mascara, 4 eyeliners and I only wear two of them. Handful of eye color and lipstick. I can learn a lot from you.🙂
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It’s more than I probably should own – I just can’t resist makeup! 😂
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You are makeup collection goals! I love your collection! x
Lucy | http://www.lucymary.co.uk
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It’s too much really, but I do love nearly everything I’ve bought so far! x
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You definitely have a lot more make up than me! Reading this has made me want to go on a little spree and buy some new make up though! Although most of 2020 I hardly wore it as I’ve just been at home all the time xx
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Awesome collection especially your lip products!
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Ah thank you!
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You have such a lovely collection! Mine is quite the opposite, I only ever have one concealer in my collection because I’m not as interested in base products, yet I have a really ridiculous amount of lipstick! I’m trying not to buy anything new this year though, because I need to use up what I already have! x
Erin / Everything Erin
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I know I have too much really! This year I’m going to try and do my best to use up a lot of things – I’m hoping I can do it x
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I love this post idea, a great way to find new products! And great ColourPop collection, I’m so jealous 😍
Anika | chaptersofmay.com
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What a lovely collection, the perfect size to work with! A fab post idea – I’m a massive lipstick hoarder, I can certainly say xx
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I’ve turned my attention towards lip glosses lately, I can’t help but want more! x
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What a fun post. I have what feels an enormous stash of cosmetics and more is always on the way. I try and throw out products every three months, for sanitation purposes. I’m with you eyeshadow palettes are always in my checkout cart!
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I actually love your storage too! So organised!
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I don’t think your makeup collection is too large! Yes you have a lot of single shadows & lip products, but there’s nothing wrong with that!
I don’t have as many single shadows, but I do have a lot more palettes, which take up space, & probably around the same amount of everything else.
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This is such a lovely collection and I also love the size. It’s like a bit bigger than necessary but not too huge (like mine lol)! I did a inventory too and I have over 600 products… not even counted my backups oops. So you’re not doing bad at all haha!
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Oh I know it’s not necessary, but years of watching beauty videos has made me buy too many things!
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Beautiful collection
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Thank you!
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