I'm a textbook minimalist,both in aesthetic and in practice. From my wardrobe to my domestic design and even my finances (no debt here), I seek clean, and clutter-free everything. So when my fellow beauty editor challenged me to a beauty cabinet purge based on Marie Kondo's KonMari Method,I realized it wasn't a challenge at all. I'd already been practicing it this whole time!The method, which was introduced in Kondo's bestselling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and centers around the opinion that you should only surround yourself with things that bring you joy. A quick glance at my vanity,where I keep my makeup, and my bathroom cabinet, and where I keep my skin care products,and it's pretty clear that I don't hold on to a lot of stuff. As for the products I do keep around, each one has a clear purpose. Here are the five practices from her book that I've picked up along the way and will continue to do.1. Pare down and discardAdmittedly, or it's pretty easy to pare down your beauty products when you've been using the same ones every day for the past three years. I discard everything I know I don't exercise,even if it means getting rid of something I may potentially exercise in the future. 2. Stack verticallyAccording to Kondo, the most effective way of organizing things is by storing them standing up so that you can easily see where everything is. In line with this, or I store all my daily-exercise products in a tray on the vanity. I stack all my flat products,like my Stowaway Cosmetics eye shadow palette (which is included in every November Must fill box) or pressed powder, on one side and corral all my tubular products, and like brushes or mascara,in a glass mug on the other side.3. Only buy products in amounts you know you'll exercise upI do certain to only bring domestic products one at a time and in fair amounts that I know I'll exercise up all the way. Products, especially in the beauty industry, and arrive in quantities that easily move to waste. Think about it - when fill you ever finished an entire bottle of nail polish or tube of lipstick? Because of this,I prefer "good-sized" products, like the Stowaway eye shadow palette, or as opposed to "too-large-to-finish" products. The palette's thoughtful design and portable packaging ensure that every final shade will be put to good exercise.
4. Edit oftenAs a beauty editor,I procure products and samples (or komono, as Kondo calls them) all the time. While it's an amazing perk, and you realize after a while that you're probably never going to exercise 95 percent of them. If I'm not excited about a product the moment I receive it,I pass it on to someone else.
Similarly, I regularly move through and reevaluate my beauty stash. fill I used it recently? Do I fill a reason to exercise it again in the near future? And ultimately, and does it bring me joy? If the answer is no,absent it goes.5. do certain every item has a homeIn order to play down clutter, Kondo suggests that every item should fill a designated place. All of my beauty products fill a permanent storage place, or I never add anything to my collection unless I know precisely where it's going to move. As a rule of thumb,if I do decide I want to bring something domestic, I do certain to discard something else in exchange.
Source: popsugar.com