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On Monday I mentioned that I wanted to put myself on a ‘beauty’ spending ban (Makeup, toiletries and skincare), I had previously done a one month ban a few months ago. I was going well at first, going weeks without buying any makeup, but unfortunately that didn’t last long! That’s why I have decided to do a 60 day spending ban this time.

I am not including it, but I will be cutting back on buying new clothes too (will be harder than makeup, I love my shoes/sales!)

These are the last purchases that I made before I started the ban (I started it on Tuesday)

Bourjois GWP from Priceline, Blush Exclusif and Coral 1seconde nail polish

Please excuse the quality of the photo, it was taken on my phone.

I have set some ‘rules’ for myself…

1. Products for my upcoming Halloween swap don’t count because the products will not be for myself.
2. I am able to purchase replacement products, not including makeup of course!
3. Gifts for people don’t count, again because they are not for myself
4. I can not use any gift vouchers on makeup, skincare, haircare or other beauty related products.
5. No items that are technically not makeup eg. false eyelashes, nail foils, lip balms etc.
6.No buying things because of FOMO (fear of missing out) on new products, limited edition products, sale products etc.
7. I can buy things like cotton buds, cotton rounds, tissues and nail polish remover.
8. NO nail polish at all, until the end of the year! (I have WAY too much nail polish)
9. No makeup brushes! (especially when a 11 piece set from elf is on it’s way from the US!)

The reason why I am doing a 60 day spending ban– It isn’t that I spend a lot of money at one time on beauty products, it is more that I am a bit of beauty ‘hoarder’ and buy 1 or 2 cheap/on sale products here and there…and it has lead me to accumulate too much makeup, that doesn’t get used at all or not much!

What I am hoping to learn/achieve from the ban– I need to use more of what I have and not want every new product that catches my eye. I am a marketer’s dream, cute packaging or beautiful shades and I am drawn in! I need to learn not to buy things just because they are ‘so cheap’ or on sale…there will be other sales in the future!

My blog promise– I will post at least one new makeup look on the blog each week, this will get me to really think about different looks and how I can use the makeup I already own. I think I might even make a list of looks, so it will make it a little easier to stick to! Friday will be my ‘Face of the day Friday’ over the next 9 weeks.

I will be updating my progress on each Friday’s post

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Essence Circus Circus Collection

Essence currently have a new Circus themed line out at Priceline stores. The collection includes cream eye shadows, Lip lacquers, nail polish duos, glitter eye liners, nail stickers, a ‘lip topper’ (which looks like a clear gloss with gold glitter) and a highlighting powder.

I purchased one of the lip lacquers, a nail polish duo and a glitter eyeliner.

Essence circus circus lip lacquer in 02 My Glammy Acrobat.

The shade of this lip lacquer is very hard to ‘capture’, photos don’t do it justice! I love the formula of this lip lacquer! You would think it was sticky, but after trying it yesterday it wasn’t at all..it’s very ‘creamy’ (I don’t know if that’s the right word) it then kind of dries (in a good way) onto your lips for a subtle stain

In natural sunlight, it is actually more vibrant than it appears here (see below)

Essence circus circus glitter eyeliner in 01 It’s Magic- The name isn’t actually on the packaging, I found it on the Essence site.

I was surprised at how much this eyeliner stood out! Another one that was hard to photograph!

I think this would look amazing with black eyeliner. I may do a look using both black and gold soon…

This eyeliner was so easy to apply with the thin pointed brush that it has!

Essence circus circus colour3 nail polish in 04 Cotton Candy- of course I just had to get this colour!

I applied the plain pink to all my nails and then applied the glitter polish on top, on my ring finger.

The pink is darker than it appears in these photos and the glitter is in translucent pink polish, so can definitely be worn on it’s own! You may need more than one coat though, as the glitter is a bit sparse.

Will you be picking up some things from the Circus Circus collection? would you like to see more ‘swatch Saturdays’?

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Swatch Saturday: Essence Circus Circus collection

Essence Circus Circus Collection