IndieAna- In Search of the HolyGrail

I am so obsessed with eye shadow palettes, I decided that they deserved a post of their own. Ok, here goes, I'll begin with photos of mixed brands. These palettes are palettes that I have created, brands being Makeup Geek, JD Glow Cosmetics, MBA Cosmetics, Venemous Cosmetics. The black palettes are loose pigments that I have pressed. MUA Cosmetics, 2 of them being palettes I made out of CD cases and filled with single pressed eye shadows. Sleek eye shadow palettes. BH Cosmetics palettes Makeup Revolution palettes, including my obsession with their I Heart Chocolate palettes. ...and last but not least my Urban Decay eye shadow palettes. Ok, it seems that I have a problem when it comes to eye shadow palettes. They are my vice, but they make me happy. I love to pull them all out and admire them from time to time. Is that weird? In 2015 I had 127 palettes, I now have 96. It's still a considerable amount but I onl...

Eye products, especially palettes are my weakness. I am totally obsessed with them. I will start by showing you my lash products. I have 5 mascaras and 1 product that will make a mascara waterproof when applied over. I am currently using the Bourjois Full Volume mascara. My brow products only consist of the YBF Universal Brow Pencil. Yes, I need that many back-ups, lol. My eye liners, pencil, gel and liquid.  Cream eye shadows. I was obsessed with Color Tattoos when they were first released. I have actually finished one and have given a couple away. My collection of ColourPop Super Shock Shadows and L'Oreal Infallibles.  I down sized my single pressed eye shadow collection. I now only have these 6. In 2015 I had 11 mascaras, which I think is way too many. I now have 5, but am working towards owning what I'm using and just having one back-up mascara. There were 7 brow products in my collection, I now have 5. I like to bu...

Another makeup product that I tend to hoard collect is lip products, mainly lipsticks. I will begin by showing you my lip liners. I've come to appreciate lip liners as I have gotten older. Getting those horrid barcode lines around my lips will often lead to lipstick bleeding, liners help to prevent this unsightly problem. My collection of lip glosses. I rarely wear lip gloss, so I don't have an excessive amount. I had a huge declutter of lipsticks, which I'm finding is much more manageable. I also have lipstick crayons, lip hybrids from House of Beauty and some MBA Cosmetics samples.                           These are my collection of BH Cosmetics Colour Lock lipsticks. They are a matte formula and really nice to wear. In the photo is also my one and only MAC lipstick. I was gifted it and adore it. I would love to add more MAC lipsticks to my collection, but I struggle with spending so mu...

Now that I have my own makeup area, re-organizing my items seemed like the best excuse to do a much needed declutter. I must say that I got rid of A LOT. I probably could have been more brutal in my declutter, but it's really a work in progress. I decided to post an updated stocktake of my collection. The last one was July/August 2015!  Today I will show you my face products. Starting with foundation and BB/CC Creams.  I have 4 BB creams and 1 CC cream. I have used them all and so far the Garnier BB cream for oily/combo is still my fave and I will be repurchasing when I have finished some of these. I have 5 foundations. The only one opened is the Rimmel Lasting Finish. Unless I have to review a foundation, I am quite strict about having one open at a time. I have 9 concealers. The W7 Catwalk Concealer I use to colour correct my under eye circles. The YBF compact is currently in use. It is a neutralizing cream concealer, it has a yellow base. Works wel...

For years I have gone through phases where I  just have a nail polish frenzy. Thankfully, I have since quit being so obsessed, I can't even remember the last time that I bought a nail polish.  Don't get me wrong, I still love nail polish, but I think I'm now ok in that department. Here's  my blog post of what I had in 2015 and I'll show you what my collection looks like now. I had to stick 2 photos together to show my nail polish shelves. I also have a plastic set of drawers. ...and of course a fancy cardboard box. My last count of nail polishes was 407, since then I have done some de-cluttering, giving away quite a few and binning dried up polishes. So my total now is 335! I am happy that I have reduced the amount that I have, but I still don't think I'll be buying any more polishes for a very long time. Oh, except for black and white, those colours I always replace.

Now that I have a designated area for all my beauty products, I thought I'd do a little stocktake of everything while reorganizing. If you haven't seen my Beauty Room Tour, you can check that out  here .  Up first is my perfume collection, the last time I did a count of my perfumes it was way back in July of 2015. The post I wrote on that is here . So this is where I am almost 3 years later... Here are my regular over the counter perfumes. I rarely buy them now. Previous count was 15 and I now have 18. As you can see, I have a few mini perfumes, so I shouldn't have much problem finishing those. Indie perfumes is where my love of perfume really lies. I had to break up the collection into a few photos. Here goes :) This photo shows perfumes from Arcadian Designs, Something Special and there's a few others that I am not sure of the brand. These perfumes were created by a dear friend who truly has a gift, actually more than one. Su is on Instagr...

Every beauty blogger has a box of products to review, am I right? I seem to be filling up mine quicker than what is actually being reviewed #bloggerfirstworldproblems.   This is my "to review" box I won't post photos of what's inside as you'll get to see the products...eventually, but I will give numbers of what's inside. Palettes- 8 Single eye shadows- 13 Mineral loose eye shadows- 6 Lip primers- 2 Blush- 2 Liquid lipsticks- 8 Lip glosses- 6 Lipsticks- 30 So my makeup collection in total consists of the following numbers: Face Products: Primers- 3 Concealers- 7 Foundations/ BB/CC creams- 6 Finishing powders- 7 Highlighters- 3 Blush- 34 and 11 samples Eyes: Eye primers- 13 Brow products- 7 Mascaras- 11 Eye liners- 42 Single eye shadows- 41 Cream eye shadows- 52 Mineral eye shadows- 643 Eye shadow palettes- 127 Lips: Lipliners- 19 Lipsticks- 130 Liquid lipsticks- 44 Lip glosses- 72 Perfumes: Sprays- 15 Oils- 87 ...