It is by sparkle alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the powder of mica that the skin acquires shimmer, the lids acquire color, the color becomes a warning....I AM IN CONTROL OF MY ADDICTION!!!
Home > Miscellaneous > One Year Eyecolor Challenge: the halfway point
One Year Eyecolor Challenge: the halfway point
Posted on Sunday, at • 250 views
Please pardon the gaps...
The site is in mid-migration now (manual migration of over 7,000 entries, so there's a lot to be done.) The entry stubs are created for older content, but for the most part, the actual content isn't there quite yet. I am working on it. Unfortunately I have no ETA. But feel free to link to any page! When the content does get populated, the URL will stay the same.
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.)
Like this entry? Check these out:
or look at other entries tagged with
Share This Page
Comments
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.