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How Big Is Too Big? Swatching Your Lipstick Stash.

9 March, 2016 - 07:48pm by - First Lady | 25 Comments

By BR Kellie

How many lippies do you own? Are you happy with one or two? Do you sit in the ten to twenty lipstick owning category – a few in various handbags, on your dresser, tucked away in a drawer. Or do you have a stash that rivals the biggest YouTube beauty gurus? Do most of those lipsticks just lie there never being used? Or do you share the love around? How many are dupes? Do you really need a million billion different or same-ish pops of lip colour?

These questions and a fair few more came up when we saw this post from reddit user itselyse. The make up lover swatched all 97 of her lipsticks and posted the results online along with details of each lipstick. First of all, swatching 97 lipsticks all at once is a crazy amazing feat. She reckons she has tough lips and it was fine, but I’ve seen how painful vloggers’ lips look after swatching a dozen lipsticks in a swatch video, so I’m hoping she balmed herself up good and proper post-swatchathon. 

ANYWAY… second of all, what her post got us thinking was… does one person really need 97 lipsticks for themselves? Especially if they’re not a makeup artist. I mean, that’s a lot of lippy. And lippy should really be given the boot after two years. Earlier if it’s gone all dry and manky. Then we did some rough calculations and figured out that if you had 97 lipsticks and you wore a different one every day, each lipstick would only be worn about seven times before it had to go to the great rubbish bin in the sky. Of course this would depend on how much you loved the lipstick. Some would get a lot of love, some would get none or would just be forgotten about and then one sad day you’d have to toss it. Oh the humanity! 

So we thought, what about if we set ourselves (and you!) a wee lipstick challenge… 

First of all count all the lipsticks and glosses you have in your collection and let us know the number in the comments section. (I paled a bit when I discovered I had 44…)

Secondly, challenge yourself to wear a different one each day until you’ve worn all of them.  If you discover one you hate along the way, chuck it, if you have no love for it now chances are you’ll never wear it.

Lastly, post your daily lippy pic on the Photo Wall! Because, well, we love seeing your faces! 

I’ll be giving it a whirl – who else is in? xxx

P.S - if you post your lipstick pics to Facebook, IG or Twitter as well, use the hashtage #BRlipstickchallenge !

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25th March, 2016

I don't often wear lipstick and only have about 10, not a patch on 97!

20th March, 2016

I'm a bit late to the party I think but I counted 20 in my collection And I know there are a couple that aren't where they should be so hmmm I wonder what I did with those ones :/ I haven't worn lippy in a while now

14th March, 2016

Saw all the pics on the photo wall and had to find out more! I only have 9, all lipsticks, lipglosses and crayons combined. I love a pop of colour every now and then, just hate having to reapply and constantly check my face in the mirror after eating, drinking or touching my face. I tend to use lipbalm, so lips are moistened. Its not as pretty but serves its purpose. I look forward to taking all 9 photos and posting them lol

14th March, 2016

Wow I am amazed at how many lippys can accumulate in ones own makeup bag, but at the beginning of the year I went thru my bag, and gave most things away, I am left with 2 Elizabeth Arden lip products, and I found my old shade of lip butter the other day so bought 2, no lip liner tho, oh and there is another Revlon lip gloss somewhere......

13th March, 2016

After recently getting rid of 15 I never used or which were super similar to others, I now have 45 lipsticks, stains, liquid lippys and glosses (well 1 gloss!). I admit MAC Twig is one of my most-worn colours too! I specifically picked it out when I received my Back2MAC product as my 'work/everyday' lippy as it's so wearable. Really there's maybe 4 lip colours I use almost weekly, while some I've only worn a couple of times. Challenge accepted!

11th March, 2016

I have 8 full-sized lipsticks, 3 lipstick minis, 4 liquid lipsticks, 4 mini lip crayons, 2 full-sized lip glosses, 5 lip gloss minis, 1 lip stain and 2 colored lip balms. So a total of 29 products that give my lips color and/or sheen. Hmmmm...should I stop purchasing?

11th March, 2016

I probably won't remember to do it every day but I might swatch them all and then post a pic of all of them.

11th March, 2016

At my last count, and I know I haven't got any since then, I had 70 lippies and glosses! I have about 20 that I keep in my 'everyday' makeup case and I use most of those regularly. I have unopened backups of my two absolute faves too!

11th March, 2016

Oh gosh. I have 71. Counting them was a baaaad idea!

11th March, 2016

Looking forward to starting this :)

10th March, 2016

Ooh this is a fab idea Kelly :-) I always go through fazes of wearing certain colours and others always get neglected unfortunately. I'm up for this challenge ;-) I own 34 lippies. Thank goodness I gave my sis in law loads of unloved lippies or I would have had alot more :-/ Day #1 tomorrow :-)

10th March, 2016

I think I have 22. including the numerous glosses, which I wear with lipstick. I also have a couple more brand new - still in packaging - tucked away. I'm not counting these.

10th March, 2016

54 i think. I instantly removed 3 in orange tones i'll *never* wear, and threw out two old ones, so I'm left with 49, and I know there are ones in there I won't wear so they'll go out later on.

I've left tinted glosses in but removed the clear ones.

10th March, 2016

I have 20 including 2 lip glosses :)

10th March, 2016

I stopped counting at 30... but I know its much closer to 40.

First Lady
15th March, 2016

We can't wait to see them!! Under 10 is a good number I reckon - no sad lipsticks sitting unused!!x

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