One Year Eyecolor Challenge: the halfway point

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One Year Eyecolor Challenge: the halfway point

I'm actually a little bit past “halfway” with this challenge…but not by much. The halfway point date-wise (since the count-wise halfway point keeps changing) was almost ten days ago, on April 30th. I started out with just under 900 colors, and along the way I've gotten rid of about a dozen colors - about nine from Simply Naturals, but also a few from Bare Escentuals (Bon-Bon will be going into the bin-bin. Pretty concept, but the color payoff isn't interesting enough for me to keep it around…so it's outta here.)

  • Now that I've reached the halfway point, I've still got plenty of colors to choose from...but I'm having to work a little harder to find just the right coordinating colors. I suspect that there will be quite a bit of re-use in the final 1/4 of the year (where I use one or two colors that I've already used previously.)
  • I have my colors organized into plastic bins...and when I started out, I could easily tell the "unused-color" bins by which ones had pots stacked in the rightmost column. Now that's reversed, and I grab the "wrong" bin about half the time when choosing my day's colors.
  • I have purchased more colors since starting this. I'm going to have less allowance for "days off" than I would have if I'd kept to under 900 colors...but I would have missed out on some really pretty colors, including the final closeouts from The SheSpace/About Face.
  • I've really made heavy use of spreadsheets: first to catalog, then to figure out how many I had to use each month to use them all, then to keep a running tally of how many colors I've used. If I tried doing this manually, I'd have long since lost count by now (unless I was working with 300 colors or fewer.)
  • I'd definitely recommend this kind of a project to anyone, for anything: eyeshadows, nail polishes, blushes, anything you think you've got a lot of and want to explore more thoroughly. A project like this forces you to shop your stash, to use what you've got (and realize -=how much=- you've got), and lets you (re)discover some gems you'd forgotten about. Even if you stretch it out to two years, and allow for re-use, you'll discover some new old favorites...thus saving you from accidental repurchases. (I haven't had too many of those, but I suspect that I'd have had more if I weren't so organized.)

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