When Do Limited Edition Makeup Items Stop

If there'due south 1 affair I've noticed year on yr since I started having some interest in makeup, is that limited edition collection and products are on the ascension. Non content with having just 4 seasonal collections a yr, brands are now releasing footling capsule collections from time to fourth dimension, often with pretty packaging or embossing, and loudly proclaiming them to be "Express Edition! Get it now earlier it's gone!"

And you know what? They all fly off the shelves and brand the companies a boatload of money. One of the worst culprits is MAC Cosmetics which seems to release a new limited edition collection practically every week, and everything seems to sell out before they even reach the counters. Clearly, pretty packaging and pretty products sell. But how much of it is truly due to the packaging and colours and how much of information technology is the allure of owning a express edition particular?

I was thinking about this quite recently, when there was a slew of Spring and Summer limited edition offerings from all the major cosmetics brands in the market. I would run across all the pretty colours and designs, the interesting combination of colours in palettes, the intricate embossing flooding Instagram and blogs… and I felt numb.

I picked up i or two items myself, just I realised that barring a few brands that consistently churn out quality products, many of these limited edition items are less impressive than their permanent counterparts. So I got to wondering if you lot are swayed or influenced to buy something because information technology is a limited edition product? Or because it is then limited in supply and because people build up the hype to the extent that you just have to ain it fifty-fifty if you never use it?

One of the brands that consistently produces high quality cosmetics, even in their express edition collections, is Guerlain. I have nevertheless to notice a dud in their limited edition offerings, and they are also usually consistently swoonworthy in their intricacy and delicacy. The upside likewise, is that the products are normally usable and high quality too and when I realised that they don't churn out limited edition items the way many other brands in their ilk do, I realised that might exist why they are able to maintain the quality.

I used to be quite a follower of Chanel and Dior collections, picking upwardly one or two items from each collection but in recent times, I've establish the quality to not be every bit high as what I had come to await from the brands, peculiarly considering their request prices. In fact, for me most of the items have been misses and duds and that disappoints me because I used to be quite a fan of both brands.

Quality aside, giving in to the express edition hype means that, every bit a blogger, I have to churn out a post every bit quickly as I can earlier they are all gone, and that means that if you read many beauty blogs, you are probable to see 20 billion posts all talking well-nigh the latest limited edition collection. Yawn! 😛 It's not just you, information technology's me too. Yawn! 😛 Plus I don't accept the luxury of time to be that much on the ball as the pro bloggers are, then that's the other drawback.

So I have made my decision to non give in to the limited edition hype anymore. There are always exceptions of course, as at that place may exist items that I like or am attracted to, and I'm afraid I'm horrible at passing up the risk to ain pretty Guerlain goodies, peculiarly if at that place's Meteorites involved 😀 I recently acquired the Guerlain Aquarella Meteorites and I don't fifty-fifty know if I should blog about information technology because I don't know if it'south already all gone! I was quite pissed off when I told you lot about the very worthy Rose Grenat Rouge G simply to exist told it was already sold out in many places 😛

If I am gifted with whatsoever limited edition item, I might blog virtually it only I plan to shift my focus to permanent items. For me, it relieves the pressure to weblog and for you, it gives you the hazard to not have to make a snap decision to shell out coin yous may otherwise save for something else. There are always exceptions of class. Prettiness like the Rose Grenat lipstick should not be missed 🙂

I've too realised that at the end of the mean solar day, makeup is only every bit good as actually using it so it doesn't quite matter if it'southward a express edition particular or a permanent item so long as information technology looks good and performs well. I've also learned that I'k non one to buy or keep things only to look at them and admire them. I want something that I can use. In that sense, I'd much rather focus on something that is available all the time every bit opposed to one that just appears fleetingly on the horizon. You could say that I've finally grown up! Haha 😀

What say you: Do you fall for the express edition makeup hype?

I must say I've been there and washed that, chasing the hype, chasing the rainbow and feeling frustrated if I miss out on anything. Merely in recent times, that feeling has passed. I'm now a lot more blasé about things, less nifty on new things, more than interested in permanence. Maybe I have grown up after all 😀

Paris B

Source: https://www.mywomenstuff.com/2014/06/limited-edition-makeup-hype/

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