Weekly Makeup Basket - 9/1/2013 - Items

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I think I'm going to start doing a weekly makeup basket series in September to try and use more of my collection. If you aren't familiar with these, this is where you basically pull out a makeup bag or tray and load it up with products from your collection. The idea is to stick to using just those products for the entire week. It's a good way to help you experiment with what you already own and see whether you want to keep or discard items from your collection. I have an embarrasingly large amount of eye shadow palettes in my collection. Maybe by doing this I can start to weed out some that are past their prime or not worth holding onto? We'll see.

So the products that I'm including in my makeup basket for the week are as follows (detailed list follows after the pics):

1. Foundations - I'm including my Hourglass Immaculate Liquid Powder Foundation in Golden and my Loreal True Match Lumi in C3 Creamy Natural. Both seem to be working with my skin tone well at the moment and since that Hourglass one is spendy at over $50 a bottle, you'll probably be seeing it included all month. I want to try to get the most use out of it in case my skin tone starts to change (which I'm sure it will start to in another month or so) due to the season change. I'm also not sure the formula will work for me once the weather starts getting drier and cooler. I've been loving it all through humid August though.
2. Powder - Rimmel Stay Matte in Creamy Natural - This is probably a bit light for me at the moment but I've been enjoying the formula lately. It really does help cut down on the oilies when combined with the Hourglass foundation. 
3. Bronzer - Nars Laguna - I have a mini one that I got in a kit that I just haven't paid much attention to so now seems like as good a time as any.
4. Blush - Benefit Coralista and Illamasqua Hussy - Both are bright which I can handle for now. Coralista being more on the coral/peachy side and Hussy being more on the bright pink side.
5. Eye Bases - Mac Soft Ochre and Maybelline Color Tattoo in Lavish Lavender
6. Eyeshadow Palettes - Stila In the Moment, Urban Decay Naked Basics, Wet N Wild Comfort Zone, ELF Little Black Beauty Book Warm Edition. Should be more than enough to keep me occupied for the week. I've been wanting to start playing around with purples more and there are some great ones in the Stila In the Moment Palette. 
7. Eyeliners - Stila Smudgestick in Tetra and Urban Decay 24/7 in Hustle - Dark Brown is the shade I normally gravitate towards for liner and Hustle will meet that need. Tetra comes with the In the Moment Palette and is a nice plummy shade so will work well with purples.
8. Lips - MAC Mineralize Rich Lady at Play, Lancome Color Fever Rose Defile, Loreal Color Riche in Sultry Raven's Pout (same as Fairest Nude), Buxom Dolly Gloss, and Mac Lipglass in Flash of Flesh.
9. Misc - MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in NW25/NC30. I've had this forever and haven't really done much with it so want to make a point of trying to incorporate it this week. 

Things I'm not including in the breakdown - Moisturizers, Primers, Eye Primers, Mascara, Brow Products - These items I don't feel the need to limit myself to at the moment. Either I don't keep a lot of these in rotation (such as mascara) or I tend to use the same products for days before switching it up anyway (moisturizer, eye primers). 

At the end of the week I'll be doing a follow up post on how the week went, if I decided to chuck anything, or some follow up thoughts on the products used.

Let me know if you've done weekly makeup baskets and if you've found them helpful or not.