Shop My Stash: January 2020 Pt. 1

Hi there!

In my no buy year post, I said I would be doing two projects this year to meet my two goals of using everything in my collection currently open, and having 100 items leave my makeup collection.
The project pan became the obvious answer to the question of "what can I do to use up items?", and the answer to how I could use everything I had, was also simple: doing a shop my stash.

The shop my stash project is as simple as it sounds: since I'm not bringing items into my collection this year, I will shop my stash for the items I want to use! But since I also want to use all the 861 (minus some items not currently open) items at least once, I had to do some maths to see how many items I needed to use each month to reach my goal.

I broke it down by category, and these are how many items I have to use each month to reach my goal:

Primer: 1,1
Foundation: 1,6
Concealer: 1.1
Colour Correctors: 0.8
Pressed Powders: 0.9
Loose Powders: 0.7
Bronzer Pans: 1.4
Contour Pans: 0.5
Blush Pans: 4.1
Highlighter Pans: 7.4
Setting Sprays: 1.25
Eyeshadow Pans (incl. liquid glitter, glitter, loose, pressed & cream shadows): 51.1
Pencil Liners: 3
Glitter Liner: 0.5
Liquid Liner: 1 (if I count all it's 2, but not all are currently open)
Mascara: 0.5 (if I count all it's 1.1, but not all are currently open)
Lip Liners: 2.8
Lip Gloss: 2.8
Lip Colour (lipstick, lip crayon & liquid lipstick): 17.5

As you can see, I have some categories with less than 12 items in them, so they will be easy to get through. But then I have some categories where I will need to use almost as many items as there are days in the month, and in eyeshadows case, more. I already know I use a minimum of 3 eyeshadows for each eye look I do, and I can easily use up to 10 if I want to, so I'm not that worried about that.

My issue is that I don't wear makeup every single day. I only wear makeup around 2-4 times a week because my health won't let me wear it every day. That means I have to push myself (within reason, of course) to wear makeup more, and when I wear makeup I will have to rotate through products more than I currently do. I'm excited for this, and I can't wait to play around with my collection more! I just hope my body will play along, and not throw a tantrum as I try to slowly increase my activity level.

If you want to see what I picked out to use in January, check out the video below!

-Anja