I did it, I caved in and broke my no buy.
I bought make up.
I made a post on reddit that explain my feelings about it. I made my peace about it. Like some people on r/makeuprehab helped me understand I didn’t broke my no buy, I finished it.
I’ll make another post about what future holds for me in terms of buying make-up. In this post I want to tell you what this 7 months experience taught me and how it changed my buying habits.
- Like I said previously it was easy temptation when I was unemployed
- I realised that the only products I was feeling more tempted about was steps that were missing in my routine.
- I didn’t stopped going to stores, I still liked to see what was knew, what new products looked like. What new brands my local Sephora had. But I always found a reason not to buy anything new. Either I already had something that did the same thing, had enough of x products or it was just too expensive to be worth it.
- I didn’t want to spend money that wasn’t mine on make up or skincare – meaning sometimes we (as a family, I like with my parents) had money accumulated on supermarket card but it didn’t felt right spending that money on make up or skincare when I could buy food or items for the house instead.
- I did my research intensively whenever it was time to replace a product and I needed something different from what I was using previously.
I do feel like I have a different attitude towards shopping. As with most things in my life I want to be more mindful about what I do.