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January 2, 2019

My 2019 Beauty Goals

Hey there! A new year has arrived and everyone is making their resolutions or life goals, I thought I’d do something of that sort too. But since I’m The “Beauty” Wonk, I thought to tweak it a bit and come up with a list of my “2019 Beauty Goals“.

Last year was insane! I’ve grown as a person last year, had some crazy splurges, unsuccessful no-buys and developed an interest in cruelty-free beauty. And these are all the things, my ‘2019 Beauty Goals’ is about. I shortlisted and clubbed a few points that I could think of and came up with this list. I hope you enjoy reading it!

1. 100% Cruelty-Free Beauty Stash

This year I got to know a lot about cruelty-free beauty and its importance. Throughout my blogging journey of 10 months, I’ve vouched for cruelty-free makeup and skincare. I’ve literally stopped buying non-cruelty-free makeup, no matter how great the deals are, for the past few months.

And I wish to have a 100% cruelty-free makeup & beauty collection by the end of this year. This is my top goal and I’d be the happiest if I achieve it!

Beauty Goals Capsule Collection
Beauty Goals

2. Do a 6-Month Makeup No-Buy

I won’t be buying any makeup starting from January 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019. This applies only to makeup, not skin/ body/ hair/ nail products. I have two reasons for this.

Firstly, I did a 3-Month no-buy recently which worked out okay-ish. I did break it and bought some stuff due to whatever reasons. *Shameless plugin* You can read about all the things I bought during my no buy HERE. Even though the no-buy wasn’t very successful, it helped me limit the number of products as well as the money I spend on makeup.

The second reason is I want to get some good uses out of my makeup collection. For someone whose daily makeup routine includes pressed powder and a neutral lipstick, I own a lot more. So I’d want to give my shopping spree a break and utilise what all I have.

For this, I’ll be putting a check on my calendar every day I don’t buy any makeup and I hope it helps me continue this no-buy!

3. Play With More Makeup

I recently realized that my blog had a lot more skin care and very less makeup. Having more skin care made sense because that’s what I use on a daily basis. But since this is not just a skincare blog, I want to include more makeup stuff – reviews, how to’s, looks – anything.

This goal aligns with my previous one of the 6 months no-buy. As I’ll be busy playing with my existing makeup collection, it’d be easier for me to resist the temptation of buying new makeup.

4. Do Monthly Makeup Baskets

Another goal of mine is to start doing monthly makeup basket where I’ll shop a few products from my own stash and use them throughout the month. Every month I’ll be rotating the products to make sure that I’m able to get to use everything from my collection. Here’s one I uploaded yesterday on my Instagram:

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Happy New Year! ๐ŸŽŠThis year you'll be seeing a lot of different types of content from me and one of them is "Monthly Makeup Basket". โ–ซ๏ธ What is that? Basically, I'll be shopping my stash (choosing a few makeup stuff from my own collection) every month and use only those stuff on a regular basis. โ–ซ๏ธ Purpose? Every month I'll be rotating the products so that I'm fully able to utilize what all I have and enjoy them. This wouldn't just help me in using all my products but make me fall back in love with my collection and hopefully help me to minimize splurging. I'll try to include more non-cruelty free products as and when I can because I really want to use them up and have a 100% cruelty-free collection by the end of this year.๐Ÿ’ž โ–ซ๏ธ January Basket: Non cruelty-free items – 4, Cruelty-free items – 5 โ–ซ๏ธ You can check my instagram stories to see why I've put these products in my basket and I'll be saving them in my "Makeup Basket" highlight. If any of you want to join, be my guest. ๐Ÿ˜„ Let me know if this is something that interests you and we will all do it together. To a newer and better year.๐Ÿป . #shopmystash #monthlymakeupbasket #monthlymakeup #crueltyfreeblogger #crueltyfreemakeup #thebeautywonk

A post shared by Skincare Blogger (@thebeautywonk) on Jan 1, 2019 at 5:24am PST

I’ll be doing this as IG post only because there’ll be lots of product repetition and blog posts would become redundant. This goal is in sync with my above two goals and all these steps combined will help me achieve my next goal as well.

5. Capsule Collection

As you might have noticed, the entire blog post revolves around me trying to use up what I have and avoid splurging. Hence, my 5th and the last goal is to have a Capsule Collection by the end of this year.

By Capsule Collection, I mean to have a small makeup and beauty collection. Here, I’d want to have one product in each category or say, one colour in each category (lipsticks, eye pencils, etc.)

Playing with makeup, doing no-buys and monthly baskets would help me in achieving this minimalist beauty collection. And I wish that it’s all 100% cruelty-free.

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2019 Beauty Goals

CONCLUSION

I’m very content with this list of 2019 beauty goals. All my goals are correlated which makes it a bit easier for me to achieve them.

That’s all for my 2019 beauty goals. I hope that by the end of this year, you guys will see me doing a successful update of my goals!

Is there any goal that you can relate with or want to achieve? Let me know and we can do it together!

By: Rifat Yaseen · In: Lifestyle

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  1. galwaygirlabroad says

    January 6, 2019 at 3:51 am

    Love the idea of a no-buy makeup time! Seems like a great way to cut down on spending! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 6, 2019 at 3:34 pm

      It surely is! let’s see how it goes ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  2. lifewithmrst says

    January 5, 2019 at 4:27 am

    I have some very similar goals this year for my makeup collection. I have just decluttered my makeup and I am only buying to replace used up items. I am determined to focus on quality rather than quantity this year.

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 7, 2019 at 10:50 pm

      Same with me! I’ll minimize my collection and buy slightly expensive ones that I’ve been avoiding for some time.

      Reply
  3. hanmwill says

    January 5, 2019 at 1:55 am

    LOVE this post! Especially the idea of the no makeup buy and and the monthly makeup baskets! Really clever ideas, I might adopt these myself because I have so much makeup that just sits unused!

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 7, 2019 at 10:47 pm

      Thank you so much! Hope to see you do this and we all fall back in love with our existing collection ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  4. bbbryony says

    January 4, 2019 at 11:59 pm

    that would be amazing to not purchase any make up for 6 months, i don’t think i could ever do that x

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 5, 2019 at 12:00 am

      Even I’m not too sure if I’ll be able to do it but it’s definitely something i NEED to do! Thanks for stopping by ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  5. Mimi says

    January 4, 2019 at 10:48 pm

    Love the idea of beauty goals, I want to play with more colours this year xx

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 4, 2019 at 10:49 pm

      I’m definitely diving into makeup and different eyeshadows! Hope we both achieve it ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  6. Roses + Rouge says

    January 2, 2019 at 11:50 pm

    I love these beauty goals! I definitely can’t wait to play more with makeup in 2019

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 7, 2019 at 10:51 pm

      Same here! Lots of makeup and utilizing collection. Thank you ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  7. Emma (@BelieveinBumble) says

    January 2, 2019 at 10:01 pm

    Hope you achieve your goals! I need to do a shopping ban for myself but mostly for books! ๐Ÿ˜›

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 2, 2019 at 11:03 pm

      If it increases your intellect, it’s not a waste of money ๐Ÿ˜›

      Reply
  8. Becca (Kisses of Confidence) says

    January 2, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    These goals are so good! I hope you manage to achieve them, and I will definitely try to aswell, especially the cruelty-free idea! Xx

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    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 2, 2019 at 9:54 pm

      Thank you so much! To achieving our goals this year ?

      Reply
  9. PastimeWithPenz says

    January 2, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    I love this post!โœจ Quite a few of your goals are things I’d love to achieve in 2019 too? I hope you manage to achieve them?

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 2, 2019 at 5:54 pm

      Thank you so much! Hope we all achieve it together ?

      Reply

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In many cases, the brands are to be blamed too. They tend to overpromise and underdeliver which sets wrong expectations in consumers.

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I see too many "Oh it's just hydrates the skin" bu I see too many "Oh it's just hydrates the skin" but,

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I have a super low maintenance hair (not the scalp I have a super low maintenance hair (not the scalp though but that's another story). They're straight, moderately frizzy, not too dry, and not too dense. Now let's see how the @nykaabeauty Onion & Fenugreek haircare worked for me. (gifted)

TL;DR Shampoo is good.

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I don't know. I do shed a lot of hair in general but I don't sit and count them. I don't want to stress about nothing. I do have certain areas that lack density but idc atm, I'll marry rich and use the guy's money to get a transplant or something.

๐Ÿ‘‰All I can say is, the shampoo cleanses the hair well, lathers really well for an SLS free shampoo, doesn't strip the hair, and didn't trigger more hairfall in my case. The texture is runny and the packaging is convenient.๐Ÿ’™

๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฅ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™™ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž-๐™™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ง๐™ช๐™›๐™› ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ค, ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™–๐™ก๐™ฅ ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ ๐™œ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™๐™ฎ.๐Ÿฅณ

Which shampoo are you using these days? Do you like it? Hate it? Meh it?

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Khadija (@beautyanomaly) tagged me to share 8 thin Khadija (@beautyanomaly) tagged me to share 8 things about myself and it really took me a while to think of all these points. I didn't know that I didn't know much about myself but here you go:

1. I've always achieved well academically just by putting in the least efforts.

2. I like to impress people (both online and offline) and make them happy so I get really nervous and tired while socialising.

3. I haven't watched Harry Potter. Ok maybe I have (a part or two) when I was a kid. But I really don't care about it. Same with DC/Marvel or whatever sci-fi comic stuff that exists. Don't unfollow me.

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7. I sometimes sniff my underarms on days I don't take a shower. The weird smell makes me gag but I still like it.

8. No matter how hard things get, I never actually complain about life. I'm always very grateful. Might be surprising because I don't talk much about positivity and shitting rainbows๐ŸŒˆ. But that's because it's a part of my nature so I just think it's like, idk, brushing your teeth? You don't need to tell people to do that because you think they already do.

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My love letter๐Ÿ“ to @aveenous For more than 3 y My love letter๐Ÿ“ to @aveenous

For more than 3 years, I stepped out of the shower with red, itchy skin mostly on the upper body. It'd take at least half an hour to settle down no matter how much I moisturized. I changed bodywashes and soaps and even changed water as I moved  cities but nothing worked.

Initially I accepted that this is how it's going to be but the annoyance made me decide to visit a doctor and get it checked. But the pandemic happened and my appointment was postponed indefinitely.

Around the same time, I found the Aveeno Skin Relief Body Wash. It was fragrance free and had oatmeal to soothe the skin. It felt like a perfect match so I asked my followers about it. They unanimously approved itโœ”๏ธ (thanks guys!) and I went ahead with the purchase.

Ever since I have started using it, there hasn't been a single case of redness. No itching either. So gentle, calming, non-foaming - truly a skin relief๐Ÿ’™ I can't imagine trying any other body wash now ๐Ÿฅบ Thank you for making this!

With loveโค๏ธ
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๐—๐—ฎ๐—ป '๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ ๐—˜๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ For me emptying existing products >>> buying new ones. Tell me what you finished this month!

Before the world shut down, I had moved cities multiple times in just a year and a half. And I had to allot an entire huge suitcase for my cosmetics. I'd literally walk in railway stations and airports with 2 big suitcases and a heavy backpack all alone๐Ÿ˜ญ and that made me abhor clutter even more.

So my life goal (lol) now is to finish everything I have. Let's see my empties:

๐Ÿ’ฆ @pixibeauty Vitamin-C Cleanser - Good quality micellar water. If you're not into cleansing oils and balms, try it. (PR)

๐Ÿ’ฆ Pixi Glow Cleansing Gel - What an underrated cleanser! No foam at all and absolutely non-drying. Love it, do try๐Ÿ’™ (PR)

๐Ÿงด@sulwhasoo.india FCA - It surprised me! Was expecting irritation but I got hydration, calmness, and supple skin. Wasn't suprised enough to repurchase though. But I'm intrigued by the brand and want to try the emulsions and sleeping packs. (PR)

๐Ÿ’  @laneigeindia White Dew Essence - Has a viscous, gel-like texture. Decent in terms of hydration but the sweet artificial scent is too strong for my liking. Skip๐Ÿคž

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