April 2, 2025 • 17 mins
Are you guilty of hoarding makeup? From overflowing drawers to products you've forgotten you own, we're tackling the beauty industry's dirty secret—overconsumption.
Today we're sharing strategies to hit pan on products you already own, get your money's worth, and break the cycle of constant buying.
LINKS TO EVERYTHING MENTIONED:
Products We've Actually Finished:
Glossier Stretch Balm Concealer $41
MAC Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick $40
MAC Mineralized Blush Range $56
Melissa Sassine Foreverstay Lip Liner in "Lady Godiva" $35
Makeup Forever HD Setting Powder $63
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
On Makeup is My Therapy, the Love. I'm obsessed and
I don't even feel guilty a body.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hello, and welcome to you BEDI the daily podcast for
Your Face. I am Sarah Marie Bart.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I'm Kelly mccaren.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And this is in Her Bag, the podcast where we
talk about what's in your bag and why.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And you is today we are talking about something we're
all guilty of.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hitting Pan or black their lack there of lack of
hitting Pan. We're talking about how you can hit Pan today.
We don't want you to waste product, and we are
going to.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Tell you our tips, tricks and products. We absolutely have
hit Pan on and love. So let's get into it.
I had to find the liner in my bag?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
What's the.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So this discussion comes at a really great time, I
think because it really ties it in with the the
mass amounts of over consumption that we're seeing on social media.
So the first tip with Project Pan is not to
buy something until you need it. Whole videos are ridiculous
and no one needs to do a whole it's just
so unnecessary, and we talk.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
About it all the time on New Beauty.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Just because we recommend products weekly doesn't mean you have
to go out of buy them. So our job is
to edit down the thousands of launchers and tell you
what we think is good and what's worth your money
when you need things, so that if you are in
the lookout for a new mascara and your mascara's run out,
then we're like, great, this messcar is actually really great.
(01:48):
If you're looking for a new one, then you can
go and buy it. You don't just need to buy things.
On buying things and buying things like it's just so
wasteful and it is not good for the environment, your mind,
your wallet, everything.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So we're going to start off.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With talking about some tips and tricks on getting the
most out of your products. Starting off with making sure
that you're storing your products properly. So we all know
that we've seen the pretty pictures when people have like
their nice displays. Fragrances are the worst because they are
so beautiful, so people like have them out on the
window and all the lights coming through the bottles.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, no, no, please do not do that.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Keep all of your products in a cool, dry place
away from direct sunlight. Don't put pretty things on display.
Please don't keep makeup in the car. I know it's
very tempting. I get ready in the car on the
reg so it's very annoying having to like pack my
makeup bag and carry things to and from the car.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
The heat and sun will absolutely ruin products, specifically fragrance.
Given how expensive it is, it is such a big investment.
Make sure that you are keeping these in such a cool, dry,
dark environment.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why I keep mine in the garage.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Almost someone who keeps it in the car.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Like that fragrance.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I had an ex boyfriend. He used to always keep it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I bet he's stunk because he's fragrance. He would have
like oversprayed it and it would have been like so
old off because it had heated up.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It probably smells like nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I can smell him in my brain. I can smell
him in my mind, and it's not good. It's very
it's giving links.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I was gonna say, it's like links when you're in
score and yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Just because it's a bit off. Yeah, at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Here's another tip.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
If you've got broken eye, shadows or broken compact powders.
What you do is you get something that's like very
high in alcohol, and you basically soak that powder in
the alcohol, press it back into the compact, put a
piece of glad wrap on top, press it on top.
You can use your finger, you can use a spoon,
let it dry, and then suddenly your product is like
(03:49):
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's like brand new. It doesn't look very pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
No no, but we don't care.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
We just want the product to work and not to
have wasted how much we spent on it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The amount of times I've like dropped my favorite palette
and my devastating broken This has.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Saved me so many times.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Another tip, if you have a bunch of products that
you're like not using because you can't actually see it
getting everything into one pan, so you can go online
and you can buy these empty palettes. There's a brand
called Smith Kit Forever. You can also get them from
Scotti's Makeup and Beauty. They're magnetic palettes you can decant
(04:27):
using like a buttonnefe very carefully take your compacts out
eyeshadows or compact powders or blushes, carefully, pack them out,
pull them out and then put them into these magnetic
palettes and you have everything in one go. You see everything,
and you don't waste anything because a lot of the
time we don't use things because we're not seeing.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We don't see them.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We have so much stuff. They're underneath the packaging. The
lids are never clear. They're always black, obviously to avoid
the sunlight.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
But yeah, having then you can't see what colors you've
got exactly. I think as well, because a lot of
us have so many things, it's also important to make
sure that you're doing decluttering every single season. So I
like to rotate, reorganize everything, pull out any your neglected
products if they're okay, put them somewhere where they are
more easily accessible, or give them away. And that doesn't
(05:15):
mean that you can then go buy a replacement, because
you didn't use the last one, so you're obviously not
going to be using this one. Check all of the
expiration dates. Obviously, though you can use your judgment. So
if something's an eye product, like a mascara that's actually
going right near your eyes, get rid of it after
the expiration timeline, which is three to six months after opening,
(05:36):
depending on how dry it is. But everything else I
don't know, you can sort of just like go by.
If it smells bad, of course, get rid of it,
if it looks weird, if it's separated, if your powders
have like that film on them, or they've changed colors.
But otherwise, if you take good care of your products,
specifically powder, you kind of don't really need to get
rid of them within any time.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Makeup is something you can actually tell if it's off. Yeah,
you don't have to necessarily go by the expiry date.
You can literally smell it, see it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's very obvious. And if you take.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Good care of them, and by that we mean storing
them correct, washing your brushes so that you're not spreading
back to your old product over everything all the time,
then your product should last you a lot longer than
what you think.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The only time I would ever like throw out something
that's brand new is like, let's say you have an
IROE infection and use that scar on that cold sal
or a cold salt, something where you've actually applied product,
and then you have a cold salt at that time.
I would then just get rid of that product because
you're going to just reinfect yourself outside of that, you
can just literally smell the product.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
A look at it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Is it okay?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Otherwise I have girlfriends who come over. I'm like, babe,
I need to clear things out. Do you want to
come over and see what you want? Yeah, have a look,
give things to your sister. There are things that sometimes
or just like a little bit used.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Who cares?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, friends, and give it a wife on the top.
And also so many of those plastic tubes. If you
cut it open and get a spatul out, you were
going to be amazed at how much product is still
in there. Oh lipstick, Oh my goodness, get one of
those baby spatulors.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes, you the product wasted.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Why companies not make things in a way that isn't
going to waste product?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
A lipstick like this, right, the bullet lipsticks, you'll wind
them up. I'm almost hitting pan on this one. Anything
past here, there's probably this much more products in there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Which, to be fair, they need they to design it
like that so it can stick in.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
There like that.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Otherwise your lipstick's going to break and it's going to
fall out.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If it's a color you love and you don't have
time to go to the shops, just get like a
lip brush. Those pans you can buy online. They have
containers to put in those pants for cream products like lipsticks,
so you can actually decant the lipstick and put them
into those pal.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You can decant like you know with the IT cosmetics,
or you cut it open and you're like, that has
got so many weeks worth of product. Decant that into
the little tray or a sample pot or something like that. Yeah,
after the break, some of our ubis are going to
spill on makeup products. They have actually hit PAN on
all the ones that have been sitting in their drawers
(08:06):
untouched for years. Okay, let's hear from our ubis.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
I'm currently seeing PAN on my Glossier Stretch Kinceala. It's
been a long time since I've really loved a kincealer,
but this one is super hydrating and makes milk like
I've had eight hours of sleep.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well well, well, looks like I have to be ordering
that Glossier Stretch concealer then, because I want some of.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That a winter chicken dinner with that one.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Concealers.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
There's so many duds out there as well, or they
just seem to get gross quite quickly sometimes, so I'm
definitely going to try that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
She must have been using that for a long time.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Concealers last that that's what I mean. They tend to
get a bit yucky.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, love that good recommendation.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I just finished my Mac Squirt plumping gloss stick. I
think that's what they're called. I didn't love it at first.
Actually sort of grew on me a lot. So at
first I was like, Oh, this is sticky. This isn't
like a texture I'm used to, And then I just
became fully addicted to it. It's so good and it
like stays like a lip gloss all day, so it
(09:15):
wears like a lipstick, but it's a gloss. And yeah,
I'm now seeing pan I suppose like the bottom of
it and about to purchase a new one.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It stays like a lipstick, but it's a gloss. That's
pretty game changing for a gloss.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It sounds so beautiful and I think it's so funny.
Often it is the lip product that we actually don't
love at first. I don't know why that is, but
I felt the same.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Last year.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I bought this summer Friday's that really expensive lip oil
because I was like, oh, I want to know what
all the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Hype is about.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
And then I was like, it's just a lip oil.
I don't get it. I have reached for it so often. Yeah,
so yeah, I don't know. Maybe there's something about also,
when we spend a lot of money on something, we're
probably more inclined to want to get every last drop.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm like that with everything include foundations. For me, sometimes
I'm like, you know what, before I get rid of this,
I'm just going to try it again and see if
I really like it. Then suddenly it's become my favorite foundation.
It's just out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Someone said that.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
About a mascara once. Actually I tried it and I
was like, I don't get the height. This sucks, and
someone's like, I don't know why, but try it again.
As soon as the air touches it, it just changes it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, mascaras are like that. Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
If you have a mascara and it's brand new, sometimes
the second, third, or fourth time you use it, because
it gets that little bit of air, it's not as
like liquid.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's kind of got to be more gripped to it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, tell me about a mascara that's not brand new
that is really nice.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Also, if you've got a blush or even eyeshadows, something
powdered that's pigmented, and you try it and you're like, oh,
this sucks. The pigments kind of gross or it's not
really there. Scrape the top layer off because often when
they press it, and sometimes they'll press it with you know,
a fancy something logo or whatnot. I don't know what
it is, but it's almost putting a film on it
(10:57):
that's really hard to get through. So if you scrape
off that top layer, yeah, all of the good stuff's underneath.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And that also happens with products you try on that
is very pigmented but then suddenly won't go on your skin.
So sometimes this sea theam of the oil your face
goes onto your palette and it leaves a film on
the top of your like powders. So just scrape the
powder off. And I'm not talking like with a tissue.
I mean, go get a button off and crape scrape
it off, and you'll see it's like brand new underneath
that player it's red lipstick.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
For me, I have about three in my drawer and
I never finish them.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh you know what, just give up on the red lipstick,
then it's not for you. I think if you've got three.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
In your draw, I think she should keep one, Like
keep your favorite.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I think, keep one red lipstick. Oh, she's got the three,
she doesn't need to get rid of the three. But
I think, do not buy anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think like, if you've been trying it, if you
three different lipstick shades, I think, yeah, maybe red's just
not for you. Keep them because later on you'll be
like us, You'll try it in a month and then
suddenly you want to red.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It is hard to finish a lipstick though, especially a
bright color. However, that's why I would never recommend someone
purchases like multiple shades in the same family, because you're
just not going to finish them, and you get excited,
you're like, oh my god, that color is so beauty.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, but it's only the most slight different to what
you've already got. You actually don't need it.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, for me, Red, I'm pretty loyal in regards to
like it needs to be like a true blue red.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'm just like that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And then once that's finished, then I go and buy
another red. I won't have like fifty reds just because
I like a red lipstick.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, I haven't finished it yet, but I feel like
it's bottomless. I have in Mac seasonal Blash Bronze Highlight palette,
and I'm still not seeing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Pam oh long last.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Those things are bottomless. They last for so long.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They really do.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I feel like they're the baked ones, right, Yeah, that's
the one with kind of like a dome.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
And they're the ones that the og YouTubers used to
froth on all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, it's lasting a long time because of the way
I think it's made, and I love. That's a good
thing though, right, I mean such a good thing because
she's obviously using it regularly and she's just like, this
thing's lasting. Never to watch when it starts to finish,
It'll just be done and then.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
It'll be oh actually it was themittedition. It's not coming back,
and she's gonna be like, now exactly after the break
project Pan, what have Sarah Marie and I hit Pan
on many many times.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Put it on buy now, pay later, Yes, in the bag,
baby in the bag.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So these are my wins.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So the Chanel contrast Orchard Rose Blush, which is eighteen
nine dollars so you know I was using it right.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And oh it just sounds so beautiful too.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It took me years upon years upon years upon years
to finish this because again, it is a baked blush.
It's one of those ones where if you drop it,
it doesn't break. The packaging will break before this actual
blush does. They don't sell it anymore. I think you
can probably find some straddlers online. They don't sell it anymore,
but yeah, it's discontinued. Took me over ten years to finish.
(14:03):
I loved that blush. A similar blush that I did
find though Mac Mineralized Blush range. They're fifty six dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Similar concepts, like similar shape is kind.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Of from the Dome.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, and the Blush collection.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was like, I one hundred percent would jump to
that versus the Chanel if I wanted something that was
not only a bit cheaper for me to buy it's
not going to be ninety dollars for a blush, but
was actually really really good. Yeah, so I've come back
to Mac. It's been a while since I've used Mac.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And please get up your stumpy lip liner, because I
can't deal with your stump.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Okay, So this is one. I've currently hit pan on
and I need to buy.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
How many times have you gone through that lip?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I said, I've hit lid, Yeah, hit lid, lid. This
is my second one.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
After I leave the office today, I'm actually gonna go
and buy another one.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh good, maybe by two, I think I'm going to
have to.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's by Melissa's the scene.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
She's actually an Australian Lebanese makeup artist, and she brought
out a range and this is the color Lady Go Diver.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I'd say it's like a little bit be a little
bit pinker than It's similar to pillow talk.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Actually, no, it's deeper.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's deeper. It's like a pink brown. It's beautiful. It's
the lovely shade.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And it's so creamy.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's such a creamy lip pencil so long. Where really
comfortable in the lips.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's not drying. The color is so versatile. My shade.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Can use it anyone who's lighter than you can use it,
or a bit darker. You can use it all over
your lips. I use it to kind of line I
smudge the edges and put like a new lipstick on
top with a bit of gloss. So Yeah, this is
one that whenever someone's after a lip pencil and they
don't use lip pencil, I'm like, just get it. And
they never heard of the brand of your because it's
a makeup artist's brand. It's not like you're going to
(15:48):
benefit or like Mecca. So they're very happy when I
do recommend that this lip pencil color. This particular color
is like I am obsessed, weird one that I realize
today actually that I'm almost finished on.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You could see. Look, this is not even a.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Loose powder as well, like that is hard to finish.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yes, so makeup this. God, this is makeup forever, right, This.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Is I can see the bottom of it, but yeah,
there's nothing left on the top.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The HD setting powder. This is the three point zero
in the banana. It's not very yellow. It is like no,
it's not. Yeah, it's just like an undertone. So it's
not going to be too white for me. And it's
blurring on the skin. So I use a little under
my eyes and on the center of my face, and
whatever's left on the brush I put around my face.
I love this good for day and night light foundation,
(16:37):
strong found out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Whatever you want. It's so versatile and very smoothing. Love that.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, the only products that I could think of that
I've like hit pan on multiple times was actually benefit
hull of Bronza randomly. I mean, yes, I finished the
precisely my brow pans about a million times. But it's
not really a pan, right like when I'm thinking about pan,
when I see the bottom of it, it is the
hull of Bronza, because I can't find any other Bronza
(17:05):
that is so perfectly neutral it is. It's not warm, amazing,
it's not cool, it doesn't have shimmer, it isn't too
mat it is just perfect.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How the little box that comes in so people don't
like it, and I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I also loved the little brush and I use it
and I never use the little brushes that come with products.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Really yeah, I mean that's like such a staple if
people haven't tried a bronze before.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh yes, that's a really good go to. I agree,
such a.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Safe yet different shades as well, it's outstanding.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah. Okay, well that's all the time that we have
for today.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Ubis Sarah, Marie and I will be back in Your
Ears and Eyes next Thursday, and I'll be.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Back in your ears and eyes tomorrow with Lee for
Spendy Saving You.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
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You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
On Makeup is My Therapy, the Love. I'm obsessed and
I don't even feel guilty a body.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hello, and welcome to you BEDI the daily podcast for
Your Face. I am Sarah Marie Bart.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I'm Kelly mccaren.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And this is in Her Bag, the podcast where we
talk about what's in your bag and why.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And you is today we are talking about something we're
all guilty of.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hitting Pan or black their lack there of lack of
hitting Pan. We're talking about how you can hit Pan today.
We don't want you to waste product, and we are
going to.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Tell you our tips, tricks and products. We absolutely have
hit Pan on and love. So let's get into it.
I had to find the liner in my bag?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
What's the.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
So this discussion comes at a really great time, I
think because it really ties it in with the the
mass amounts of over consumption that we're seeing on social media.
So the first tip with Project Pan is not to
buy something until you need it. Whole videos are ridiculous
and no one needs to do a whole it's just
so unnecessary, and we talk.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
About it all the time on New Beauty.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Just because we recommend products weekly doesn't mean you have
to go out of buy them. So our job is
to edit down the thousands of launchers and tell you
what we think is good and what's worth your money
when you need things, so that if you are in
the lookout for a new mascara and your mascara's run out,
then we're like, great, this messcar is actually really great.
(01:48):
If you're looking for a new one, then you can
go and buy it. You don't just need to buy things.
On buying things and buying things like it's just so
wasteful and it is not good for the environment, your mind,
your wallet, everything.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So we're going to start off.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With talking about some tips and tricks on getting the
most out of your products. Starting off with making sure
that you're storing your products properly. So we all know
that we've seen the pretty pictures when people have like
their nice displays. Fragrances are the worst because they are
so beautiful, so people like have them out on the
window and all the lights coming through the bottles.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, no, no, please do not do that.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Keep all of your products in a cool, dry place
away from direct sunlight. Don't put pretty things on display.
Please don't keep makeup in the car. I know it's
very tempting. I get ready in the car on the
reg so it's very annoying having to like pack my
makeup bag and carry things to and from the car.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
The heat and sun will absolutely ruin products, specifically fragrance.
Given how expensive it is, it is such a big investment.
Make sure that you are keeping these in such a cool, dry,
dark environment.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why I keep mine in the garage.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Almost someone who keeps it in the car.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Like that fragrance.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I had an ex boyfriend. He used to always keep it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I bet he's stunk because he's fragrance. He would have
like oversprayed it and it would have been like so
old off because it had heated up.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It probably smells like nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I can smell him in my brain. I can smell
him in my mind, and it's not good. It's very
it's giving links.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I was gonna say, it's like links when you're in
score and yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Just because it's a bit off. Yeah, at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Here's another tip.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
If you've got broken eye, shadows or broken compact powders.
What you do is you get something that's like very
high in alcohol, and you basically soak that powder in
the alcohol, press it back into the compact, put a
piece of glad wrap on top, press it on top.
You can use your finger, you can use a spoon,
let it dry, and then suddenly your product is like
(03:49):
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's like brand new. It doesn't look very pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
No no, but we don't care.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
We just want the product to work and not to
have wasted how much we spent on it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The amount of times I've like dropped my favorite palette
and my devastating broken This has.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Saved me so many times.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Another tip, if you have a bunch of products that
you're like not using because you can't actually see it
getting everything into one pan, so you can go online
and you can buy these empty palettes. There's a brand
called Smith Kit Forever. You can also get them from
Scotti's Makeup and Beauty. They're magnetic palettes you can decant
(04:27):
using like a buttonnefe very carefully take your compacts out
eyeshadows or compact powders or blushes, carefully, pack them out,
pull them out and then put them into these magnetic
palettes and you have everything in one go. You see everything,
and you don't waste anything because a lot of the
time we don't use things because we're not seeing.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We don't see them.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We have so much stuff. They're underneath the packaging. The
lids are never clear. They're always black, obviously to avoid
the sunlight.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
But yeah, having then you can't see what colors you've
got exactly. I think as well, because a lot of
us have so many things, it's also important to make
sure that you're doing decluttering every single season. So I
like to rotate, reorganize everything, pull out any your neglected
products if they're okay, put them somewhere where they are
more easily accessible, or give them away. And that doesn't
(05:15):
mean that you can then go buy a replacement, because
you didn't use the last one, so you're obviously not
going to be using this one. Check all of the
expiration dates. Obviously, though you can use your judgment. So
if something's an eye product, like a mascara that's actually
going right near your eyes, get rid of it after
the expiration timeline, which is three to six months after opening,
(05:36):
depending on how dry it is. But everything else I
don't know, you can sort of just like go by.
If it smells bad, of course, get rid of it,
if it looks weird, if it's separated, if your powders
have like that film on them, or they've changed colors.
But otherwise, if you take good care of your products,
specifically powder, you kind of don't really need to get
rid of them within any time.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Makeup is something you can actually tell if it's off. Yeah,
you don't have to necessarily go by the expiry date.
You can literally smell it, see it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's very obvious. And if you take.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Good care of them, and by that we mean storing
them correct, washing your brushes so that you're not spreading
back to your old product over everything all the time,
then your product should last you a lot longer than
what you think.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The only time I would ever like throw out something
that's brand new is like, let's say you have an
IROE infection and use that scar on that cold sal
or a cold salt, something where you've actually applied product,
and then you have a cold salt at that time.
I would then just get rid of that product because
you're going to just reinfect yourself outside of that, you
can just literally smell the product.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
A look at it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Is it okay?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Otherwise I have girlfriends who come over. I'm like, babe,
I need to clear things out. Do you want to
come over and see what you want? Yeah, have a look,
give things to your sister. There are things that sometimes
or just like a little bit used.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Who cares?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, friends, and give it a wife on the top.
And also so many of those plastic tubes. If you
cut it open and get a spatul out, you were
going to be amazed at how much product is still
in there. Oh lipstick, Oh my goodness, get one of
those baby spatulors.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes, you the product wasted.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Why companies not make things in a way that isn't
going to waste product?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
A lipstick like this, right, the bullet lipsticks, you'll wind
them up. I'm almost hitting pan on this one. Anything
past here, there's probably this much more products in there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Which, to be fair, they need they to design it
like that so it can stick in.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
There like that.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Otherwise your lipstick's going to break and it's going to
fall out.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If it's a color you love and you don't have
time to go to the shops, just get like a
lip brush. Those pans you can buy online. They have
containers to put in those pants for cream products like lipsticks,
so you can actually decant the lipstick and put them
into those pal.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You can decant like you know with the IT cosmetics,
or you cut it open and you're like, that has
got so many weeks worth of product. Decant that into
the little tray or a sample pot or something like that. Yeah,
after the break, some of our ubis are going to
spill on makeup products. They have actually hit PAN on
all the ones that have been sitting in their drawers
(08:06):
untouched for years. Okay, let's hear from our ubis.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
I'm currently seeing PAN on my Glossier Stretch Kinceala. It's
been a long time since I've really loved a kincealer,
but this one is super hydrating and makes milk like
I've had eight hours of sleep.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well well, well, looks like I have to be ordering
that Glossier Stretch concealer then, because I want some of.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That a winter chicken dinner with that one.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Concealers.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
There's so many duds out there as well, or they
just seem to get gross quite quickly sometimes, so I'm
definitely going to try that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
She must have been using that for a long time.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Concealers last that that's what I mean. They tend to
get a bit yucky.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, love that good recommendation.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I just finished my Mac Squirt plumping gloss stick. I
think that's what they're called. I didn't love it at first.
Actually sort of grew on me a lot. So at
first I was like, Oh, this is sticky. This isn't
like a texture I'm used to, And then I just
became fully addicted to it. It's so good and it
like stays like a lip gloss all day, so it
(09:15):
wears like a lipstick, but it's a gloss. And yeah,
I'm now seeing pan I suppose like the bottom of
it and about to purchase a new one.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It stays like a lipstick, but it's a gloss. That's
pretty game changing for a gloss.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It sounds so beautiful and I think it's so funny.
Often it is the lip product that we actually don't
love at first. I don't know why that is, but
I felt the same.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Last year.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I bought this summer Friday's that really expensive lip oil
because I was like, oh, I want to know what
all the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Hype is about.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
And then I was like, it's just a lip oil.
I don't get it. I have reached for it so often. Yeah,
so yeah, I don't know. Maybe there's something about also,
when we spend a lot of money on something, we're
probably more inclined to want to get every last drop.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm like that with everything include foundations. For me, sometimes
I'm like, you know what, before I get rid of this,
I'm just going to try it again and see if
I really like it. Then suddenly it's become my favorite foundation.
It's just out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Someone said that.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
About a mascara once. Actually I tried it and I
was like, I don't get the height. This sucks, and
someone's like, I don't know why, but try it again.
As soon as the air touches it, it just changes it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, mascaras are like that. Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
If you have a mascara and it's brand new, sometimes
the second, third, or fourth time you use it, because
it gets that little bit of air, it's not as
like liquid.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It's kind of got to be more gripped to it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, tell me about a mascara that's not brand new
that is really nice.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Also, if you've got a blush or even eyeshadows, something
powdered that's pigmented, and you try it and you're like, oh,
this sucks. The pigments kind of gross or it's not
really there. Scrape the top layer off because often when
they press it, and sometimes they'll press it with you know,
a fancy something logo or whatnot. I don't know what
it is, but it's almost putting a film on it
(10:57):
that's really hard to get through. So if you scrape
off that top layer, yeah, all of the good stuff's underneath.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And that also happens with products you try on that
is very pigmented but then suddenly won't go on your skin.
So sometimes this sea theam of the oil your face
goes onto your palette and it leaves a film on
the top of your like powders. So just scrape the
powder off. And I'm not talking like with a tissue.
I mean, go get a button off and crape scrape
it off, and you'll see it's like brand new underneath
that player it's red lipstick.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
For me, I have about three in my drawer and
I never finish them.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh you know what, just give up on the red lipstick,
then it's not for you. I think if you've got three.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
In your draw, I think she should keep one, Like
keep your favorite.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I think, keep one red lipstick. Oh, she's got the three,
she doesn't need to get rid of the three. But
I think, do not buy anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think like, if you've been trying it, if you
three different lipstick shades, I think, yeah, maybe red's just
not for you. Keep them because later on you'll be
like us, You'll try it in a month and then
suddenly you want to red.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It is hard to finish a lipstick though, especially a
bright color. However, that's why I would never recommend someone
purchases like multiple shades in the same family, because you're
just not going to finish them, and you get excited,
you're like, oh my god, that color is so beauty.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, but it's only the most slight different to what
you've already got. You actually don't need it.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, for me, Red, I'm pretty loyal in regards to
like it needs to be like a true blue red.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'm just like that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And then once that's finished, then I go and buy
another red. I won't have like fifty reds just because
I like a red lipstick.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, I haven't finished it yet, but I feel like
it's bottomless. I have in Mac seasonal Blash Bronze Highlight palette,
and I'm still not seeing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Pam oh long last.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Those things are bottomless. They last for so long.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They really do.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I feel like they're the baked ones, right, Yeah, that's
the one with kind of like a dome.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
And they're the ones that the og YouTubers used to
froth on all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, it's lasting a long time because of the way
I think it's made, and I love. That's a good
thing though, right, I mean such a good thing because
she's obviously using it regularly and she's just like, this
thing's lasting. Never to watch when it starts to finish,
It'll just be done and then.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
It'll be oh actually it was themittedition. It's not coming back,
and she's gonna be like, now exactly after the break
project Pan, what have Sarah Marie and I hit Pan
on many many times.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Put it on buy now, pay later, Yes, in the bag,
baby in the bag.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So these are my wins.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So the Chanel contrast Orchard Rose Blush, which is eighteen
nine dollars so you know I was using it right.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And oh it just sounds so beautiful too.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It took me years upon years upon years upon years
to finish this because again, it is a baked blush.
It's one of those ones where if you drop it,
it doesn't break. The packaging will break before this actual
blush does. They don't sell it anymore. I think you
can probably find some straddlers online. They don't sell it anymore,
but yeah, it's discontinued. Took me over ten years to finish.
(14:03):
I loved that blush. A similar blush that I did
find though Mac Mineralized Blush range. They're fifty six dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Similar concepts, like similar shape is kind.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Of from the Dome.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, and the Blush collection.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was like, I one hundred percent would jump to
that versus the Chanel if I wanted something that was
not only a bit cheaper for me to buy it's
not going to be ninety dollars for a blush, but
was actually really really good. Yeah, so I've come back
to Mac. It's been a while since I've used Mac.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And please get up your stumpy lip liner, because I
can't deal with your stump.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Okay, So this is one. I've currently hit pan on
and I need to buy.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
How many times have you gone through that lip?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I said, I've hit lid, Yeah, hit lid, lid. This
is my second one.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
After I leave the office today, I'm actually gonna go
and buy another one.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh good, maybe by two, I think I'm going to
have to.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It's by Melissa's the scene.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
She's actually an Australian Lebanese makeup artist, and she brought
out a range and this is the color Lady Go Diver.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I'd say it's like a little bit be a little
bit pinker than It's similar to pillow talk.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Actually, no, it's deeper.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's deeper. It's like a pink brown. It's beautiful. It's
the lovely shade.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And it's so creamy.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's such a creamy lip pencil so long. Where really
comfortable in the lips.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's not drying. The color is so versatile. My shade.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Can use it anyone who's lighter than you can use it,
or a bit darker. You can use it all over
your lips. I use it to kind of line I
smudge the edges and put like a new lipstick on
top with a bit of gloss. So Yeah, this is
one that whenever someone's after a lip pencil and they
don't use lip pencil, I'm like, just get it. And
they never heard of the brand of your because it's
a makeup artist's brand. It's not like you're going to
(15:48):
benefit or like Mecca. So they're very happy when I
do recommend that this lip pencil color. This particular color
is like I am obsessed, weird one that I realize
today actually that I'm almost finished on.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You could see. Look, this is not even a.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Loose powder as well, like that is hard to finish.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yes, so makeup this. God, this is makeup forever, right, This.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Is I can see the bottom of it, but yeah,
there's nothing left on the top.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The HD setting powder. This is the three point zero
in the banana. It's not very yellow. It is like no,
it's not. Yeah, it's just like an undertone. So it's
not going to be too white for me. And it's
blurring on the skin. So I use a little under
my eyes and on the center of my face, and
whatever's left on the brush I put around my face.
I love this good for day and night light foundation,
(16:37):
strong found out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Whatever you want. It's so versatile and very smoothing. Love that.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, the only products that I could think of that
I've like hit pan on multiple times was actually benefit
hull of Bronza randomly. I mean, yes, I finished the
precisely my brow pans about a million times. But it's
not really a pan, right like when I'm thinking about pan,
when I see the bottom of it, it is the
hull of Bronza, because I can't find any other Bronza
(17:05):
that is so perfectly neutral it is. It's not warm, amazing,
it's not cool, it doesn't have shimmer, it isn't too
mat it is just perfect.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How the little box that comes in so people don't
like it, and I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I also loved the little brush and I use it
and I never use the little brushes that come with products.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Really yeah, I mean that's like such a staple if
people haven't tried a bronze before.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh yes, that's a really good go to. I agree,
such a.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Safe yet different shades as well, it's outstanding.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah. Okay, well that's all the time that we have
for today.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Ubis Sarah, Marie and I will be back in Your
Ears and Eyes next Thursday, and I'll be.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Back in your ears and eyes tomorrow with Lee for
Spendy Saving You.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
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