Made my own travel palette using what I already had and now it’s my daily palette.

[u/austinebluegreen]

I’m traveling to India and Thailand for the next month or so and really trying to pare down every item. I was shopping for an empty magnetic palette, but there weren’t any in stock in my town. Then I was looking at a new small eyeshadow palette, but the shades weren’t what I wanted and I’ve been doing my best on a no-buy for makeup. I use a powder to set my brows and I’m a cool olive so I need specific shades. Then I realized, I already have a smaller palette with magnetic circular pans that I can switch around with new pans from my usual larger daily palette. Now I have a smaller palette with all my most-used shades that is handy outside of traveling. I got the joy of creating the layout myself. Plus it streamlines the options for my adhd brain.

When I am thinking about buying something, I try to channel my great-grandmother and grandmother who were around for the Great Depression and their slogan: “Use up, wear out, make do, or do without”.

My other tactic is to pretend I am in an apocalypse scenario (getting too easy to imagine) and I have no choice but to be ruthlessly resourceful and work with what I have.

tl;dr Shop your stash, use what you have, repurpose items to work for you

[u/Saralouwho]

So clever! Now you can swap out whatever colors you want or when you run out of a certain shade. Good call. Safe travels!

[u/Remarkable_Many1511]

Love the Great Depression motto, timeless advice that seriously works today