A couple weekends ago, I reorganized the drawer where I keep all of my neutral eyeshadow palettes. (Honestly, would ya expect anything else from me" A neutral eyeshadow closet perhaps")
In the process, I discovered something surprisingly simple but deliciously helpful. With a Sharpie, on the back of each palette, I wrote the year the palette entered my collection.
Doesn?t sound revolutionary, right" Well, what a difference five seconds and a Sharpie can make!
SHARPIE DATE: WHY I STARTED DOING THIS
Short of carbon dating, I have no idea how old a lot of the makeup in my collection is… Some things could be in the decades (I know!), because I’m usually not a stickler for adhering to suggested expiration dates and guidelines. And since I like to hoard makeup collect makeup and keep it for posterity, I don?t always know what?s fairly new or ridiculously old.
While reorganizing my neutral palettes, I was having a darned-near impossible time discerning between what could realistically stay and what absolutely needed to go, but seeing the dates on the palettes — and realizing just how long I’ve been holding on to some of them — made it crystal clear.
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