It's been growing slowly over time, and my living room has been a wreckage of boxes, bubble wrap, and packing peanuts for a very long time. I squirrel away a small amount of money each paycheque for discretionary spending, but my beauty fund is currently a smoking ruin.
Somehow it looks even larger in person, I swear. |
- This is a collection of many hauls, including things I have completely emptied and repurchased. I do not normally buy multiples of products unless they're a staple and I'm tired of overpaying for emergency resupplies.
- I only ever introduce one new product at a time, and I don't open things until I am ready to start using it.
- I test it for at least two weeks minimum before introducing another product
- I test things for a minimum of a month before I review them, sometimes longer if I feel I need to put it aside and come back to it later, or combine it with different things to gauge its effects
- In the case of whitening items, you need 3-6 months of testing to gauge its effects.
It also takes me weeks, if not months, to build a large haul; I research things exhaustively, I consider if there is a 'gap' in my routine a product will fill or if it's redundant, I discuss it with people, I meditate on it. Ok, my meditation involves long hours of browsing Korean sites with the aid of Google Translate, but the point is, I don't act fast.
In fact, as you will see, quite a few things are repurchases as I completely emptied several products and had to replace them while Haulzilla was ... hatching.