One thing that is really helpful about these declutters is that I see youtubers decluttering things I used to covet at some point. It helps me remember that what ever non-eternal thing I want right now, there will come a day where it is less important to me, and probably a day where I no longer want it.
Yes. I wanted that hela palette so bad I couldn't stop thinking about it for months. I've had it almost a year now and have only use it (for the yellow) a few times. I don't really need more, even if I want more...I have at least 60 palettes already. The fact that Hannah is able to make so much content and really enjoy what she has with so few palettes really makes me think.
Yes but there’s also a line between living in the moment and getting carried away. Don’t be afraid of splurging on something you’ll make great use of & truly enjoy just because you might not feel the same way later. None of us will want/need any of this stuff when we’re 104years old so know your limits & catch your impulses but don’t live a life of missed opportunities (:
I think it's really cool that brands sent you so much stuff as well as you purchasing you're own to help you along your eye shadow journey makes me think as a consumer of how much money I've wasted trying to figure out my own makeup esthetic blindly shopping to emulate what I see not realizing sometimes that that's their esthetic and not my own
YES! Makeup, clothing, home decor…it took me so many years and an embarrassing amount of wasted money before I actually learned what my own aesthetic is. I can appreciate and adore a look for someone else without needing to own it 🖤
I think k not enough people talk about how much stuff you'll buy before really finding your style whether it be home decor, makeup, clothes, home goods, etc!!!
Yes! No one talks about the journey of finding ones aesthetic. It took me years of trying, buying & testing before nailing down exactly what I prefer. So much money wasted on impractical purchases 😂… buying for some fantasy version of myself that just doesn’t exist! Realistically I’m nowhere near as exciting, fancy or colorful.
It seems like you only keep mostly the expensive name brands even when you rave about some of the more affordable brands. Isn’t the way they preform the most important thing? 🤷🏻♀️ (Being honest not snarky) 😊
I LOVE your declutters. Brave, practical and appreciative when you let go of gold. Things age. You used it a TON! So inspiring. I’ve been watching your videos since the first no buy year. Love your poetry, bravery and appreciation. 💕
What beautiful palletes! Loving the "ruthless" nature of these declutters. Also, does anyone else feel like this just reinforced them that single shadows and/or smaller palettes (like 6 pans, quads, trios) are the way to go? I feel like we all have that moment where we hit pan in our favorite shade in a palette and then we panic lol.
I followed HLP & I started buying singles . Although Angelica Nyqvist was my inspiration, HLP made me do it freely & I enjoyed it so much , I saved so much money , I've been more creative than ever , and I just stopped buying palettes & I kept decluttering them until this moment in life where I have (collectables) aka Collabs/limited editions palettes!!! My collection is divided into 3 chuncks (1) LE chunk : Red dragon, Club nebula, moonspell, freaking bats & BH cosmetics Citrine palette ( I can't declutter any of them because they so unique & I use them a lot and I can be content with them. (2) Permanent chunck : LH cosmetics spectral & Infinity deep palettes , nabla cutie analouge, Jason wu prickly pear (mini bronze palette to me ). (Mostly neutral) (3) Depotted chunck : ace beauty Falling Paradise , Tokyo Harajuku by Nomad , the tribe & the mini by Juvia's place & cutie coral palette, 5 colorful palettes turned & edited into singles . I could downsize my singles, though 🤔
I have a few larger palettes only because they were cheaper than the individuals-looking at you Urban Decay. I got the UD Wild West palette and the Too Faced Pumpkin Spice Second Slice palettes for Black Friday/Cyber Monday when they were 50% off. I do like the bigger palettes because they have multiple shades in the same hue range so I can make quite a few combinations instead of just having one. Plus the two palettes have similar color stories that work together. I tend to stick with certain colors for my eyeshadow looks. Kinda like a capsule wardrobe where everything works together. I do have cream singles that I love, but the palettes also work with them. I love the Supergoop! Shimmershade SPF 30 cream eyeshadows, and they work well with powders and gels (I don’t have liquid eyeliner, but I think it would work too.) What frustrates me the most about single eyeshadows is finding a shade I really love then finding out that shade was discontinued. Then you have to find a dupe. The Too Faced Pumpkin Spice palette is talc free so it’s gonna be difficult to find a good dupe.
I have some palettes I absolutely love for sentimental reasons. I think I might just frame them so I can keep them around. Except 😮original Urban Decay Naked Palette because that velvet case did not hold up well. Icky. That Gucci palette would be gorgeous in a shadow box with something vintage like a vintage metal mesh purse and decorative vintage compacts.
for the jungle lights palette you could try the cookie cutter method to depot the pink shadow because it’s so big and creamy! Basically just squish your empty pan face down into the palette and it should hopefully stay intact. I’ve seen another person do it on RU-vid and it seemed to work :)
you were right when you said this was going to be a surprising declutter! i have many many palettes, i definitely collect them in a library-type way, but at the same time i daydream of having an edited collection of precious palettes. my mom has expressed a dilemma i relate to, where she will carry a big bag so she knows she always has anything she might need, but it becomes so full and overwhelming to root through, that she will then switch to a small bag. and predictably, she loves being able to find everything in her new small bag, but misses being able to carry two types of pain meds, pads and tampons, whole journals and books etc so she goes back to the big bag. i'm just in my big palette collection epoch like my mom goes through her big bag phases lol
Oh my goodness, you were ruthless!! I was holding my breath and saying "no no no don't do it!" with the Hela and Club Nebula palettes... I could never never LOL! I'd drop the Nars palette and keep them both. It just shows how we can have different styles and loves, and I'm here for it. I love watching good declutters for this reason. Great video!
Perhaps my favorite thing about you is that you say things that we really don't hear anywhere else. Part of what makes any given space feel 'oversaturated' is that all the content in that space is relatively homogeneous; in the beauty space, almost all declutters feel the same, almost all reviews feel the same, etc. You manage to say things that are different *and* that possess meaning, and I appreciate that so much. You articulate the most well-thought-out reasons for keeping and letting go, and it's so refreshing to hear that it's not always about use value, or about loving a thing. Please keep doing what you do, in the HLP way. And thank you.
Powder eyeshadow is so difficult for me to declutter for various reasons, even though it's a category I almost never use anymore since I've switched to mainly one and done cream eyeshadow looks. I hate having items that just sit there most of the time, but I do use them every once in a blue moon, so can't bring myself to part with them. It sometimes feels like a weird codependent friendship where we only speak twice a year, I feel pressured when we do so, we no longer have much in common, but I can't bare to cut them out of my life because they've been a friend for so long and I kind of like knowing they're there.
As someone who loves to collect eyeshadow palettes and who loves having an abundance of choice when it comes to colours and textures in my palettes .. this one stressed me out!!!
I scraped the shadows i loved out of the flower beauty into a small 26mm pan and repressed it back down with a paper towel without even having to use alcohol. Worked really really well.
Hannah, have you ever talked about your rings? How you acquired them, the brands, the history behind? If not, that’d be fun. I got curious about them enjoying your declutter series :)
Depotting palettes has really helped me declutter in the past. There were so many palettes that I was keeping just because there were a couple shades in them that were useful to me. Once I gave myself permission to spoil the palette and rip it apart, it felt so freeing to just take what I wanted out of them. I still enjoy having some palettes, but it’s really let me focus on having palettes that I enjoy as a whole instead of keeping a bunch of palettes just for a couple shades
THIS! I am going through a phase where I wonder if I should just repress some eyeshadows because I do keep some palettes just for that exact purpose...
Whenever people mention makeup packaging that is hard to discern the contents of (such as the mothership palettes) I really want to suggest that you get a coordinating nail polish shade and paint a stripe across an edge or the back of that item’s packaging. That way you can quickly grab a mothership palette and flip it over to see if the polish stripe/dot is red or green or whatever without having to find the text and read the name of the item. And you can do it quickly and with one hand, unlike opening said palette. If you’re hesitant to paint right onto the packaging you can put down a piece of tape and paint over that.
There was a listing on mercari where someone was selling the DRII palette and had cut the bigger flap of the box off and glued it on the top of the palette and it looks so satisfying. I want to do it, but like eek!! I'm such a purist with her palettes and keeping them in their little home and having them all lined up in their boxes and _sigh_
😂 I have nail polish dots on my camera batteries to distinguish mine from fellow camera havers in my family so we dont accidentally have them collect with one person. Nail polish is a surprisingly useful organization tool. ❤
I’m trying to limit palettes to seven. Then, I use each once a week. Now, that being said, that’s the goal. Lol. Not so much in reality. Palettes are the toughest declutter for a lot of us.
Your declutters are the BEST! I adore the Flower Beauty Jungle palette...I love touching it and looking at it...however the metallics are more for my fantasy self...unfortunately not that workable on my 63 year old eyes LOL...My daughter is rocking it though! And I so agree on the Alter Ego Palettes...I did find the Shadow Kiss is MUCH closer to the Glam than the Harmony is to Retro. I didn't get ND last two palettes...the color stories didn't really wow me...but if Alter Ego dupes them may just give them a try out of curiosity. It's nice there are some affordable options out there. ♥
The more I watch your channel the more I understand you. I honestly think you are a single eyeshadow personality. Personally, I don’t have singles and I can’t even imagine using singles. Thank you for sharing your collection with us. I enjoy your videos.
For my PMG palettes, I actually labeled them on the side with some washi tape and their names so that when they’re stacked up on top/next to each other, I can easily see which is which! But I actually just depotted all of my Motherships because as much as I love how hefty they feel in my hands, I hateeeee how bulky they are and how sharp the edges/corners are. My perfect packaging is stuff like VBB - sleek, hefty, rounded corners, compact 🧡🧡🧡 but yeah! Easy way to differentiate between the two instead of keeping them in their packaging. 😊
Can you explain how your channel paying for a product is different from you paying for a product? You created the idea, filmed the video, edited the video and published the video so you worked for the money your channel made! I just don’t understand how that money is different from any other money you earned from other avenues🤷🏼♀️I know it sounds confusing but I’m genuinely confused😅
I could be wrong but from what I understand, it's a separate budget that is purposefully buying things for review rather than buying things for personal enjoyment. So she might buy something with the channel budget that she wouldn't buy as just a regular consumer so that she can use it for a video/review and so it's a business expense, rather than getting something because she wanted to get it because she really likes it and thinks she'll get a lot of use out of it. I think it's not about where the money comes from, but basically whether it's a business purchase or a personal purchase. At least that's my understanding 🤷🏻♀
Because revenue is different to income. So she's using some of the revenue from her channel to purchase tools for her business (could be make up, could be camera equipment, could be editing software, etc.). Then the business would pay her and Joe from what's left of revenue minus expenses.
She has a great video explaining how being a RU-vid beauty content creator changed her relationship with purchasing makeup and makeup in general) Unlike for us non-RU-vidrs, her makeup purchases actually GENERATE income for her because she uses them to make videos which then make revenue for her RU-vid business. So that changes the whole dynamic. For us, the purpose of buying makeup is to use and enjoy it. For her, the purpose is to use it to make videos reviewing it and so once she’s don’t that it’s fulfilled it’s purpose. So in a way, she HAS to buy and use new makeup to create the kind of content she wants to make… regardless of whether she needs it as a makeup user.
Her RU-vid channel is a business, it generates some revenue that is divided into their salaries, taxes, new equipment, and so on, one of those things is a specific monthly budget for products to review based on public interest or fit with their type of content, not necessarily on her personal interest. The money comes from a different envelope and is spent based on different criteria. I think there must be a video somewhere where she explained why she thought it was a good idea to do it like that, so that she could separate her feelings towards products from the reviews. I think it makes a lot of sense.
The PMG palette and the Gucci right next to it look so similar. I hope you don't regret getting rid of the diversity the other palettes offered, cause those are all rosy toned leaning.
Stunning, by stunning I mean, so satisfying, final shot of the five survivors~~ like a breath of cohesive aesthetic fresh air. I possess 3 of the 5 ( ....and a whole heck of a lot more to boot.) I am more of the eye shadow palette librarian/historian ilk ~~ and user, I do also use, love and abuse those shadows, but the more you have, the less love and attention each one can get, the more your focus is distracted. All of my palettes are in sight, at arms reach on a mahogany mini "book" shelf designed for CD's that sits atop my great Aunt Benny's mahogany vanity or in the drawers that flank either side of me when I sit at the helm ~~~ kind of arrayed like a perfumer's organ~~~~ the perfumes are stage left. I adore watching thoughtful, insightful, fraught with meaning declutters ~~it helps me clarify my Why and encourages my own reckonings, the ones that bring peace to my heart, mind and soul. Thank you Hannah for stating, trying to make abundantly clear, that everyone's declutter is their journey, everyone's precious is their own specific precious. ♥
I'm actually surprised you got rid of the Hela palette, just because the sparkly black is so well loved- but the palettes you end up keeping make total sense!
There is something about eyeshadow palettes that make them so hard to throw away. I don't even wear eyeshadow anymore with the exception of some contour powder. I've given up trying to make it work on my ageing eye area and hooded lids and always focus on a bold lip. Settling down to watch this and give me the push to declutter mine x
This was an interesting declutter and I even had a little laugh at the end. 🤣 the palettes you kept were a little predictable, if you look at the color stories. All of these have this grungy, oil slicked quality that you covet. I too realized that I have a type, when it comes to palettes - I too love the oil slick, but mattes need to be really pigmented also and the more sparkle a shadow has the better. The book analogy was really fitting. I'm an avid reader with a good collection, where some are 20 years old. But palettes won't hold this long. So I rather use them while they're good and enjoy them.
I have been following along and I had a rebirthing of a makeup declutter, thanks to you. It’s been years of me trying to gear myself up to let go of things. (I’ve done it before but weirdly started having trouble over the last 5 years. I have many theories as to why.) Anyway, I am VERY happy with my results as of this past weekend, and I believe you were a very helpful key, Hannah. ❤
Flower Punk is still available for purchase. Edit: I didn't realise it says to wishlist it 😱 I've lusted after that palette since it launched. Waiting 21 days for shipping is bananas to me though. Also, you mentioned once that if we love something we likely have something like it. I definitely can closely dupe the vibes in my collection. Seeing your collection down to 5 is so satisfying. Maybe I'll be there in a few years when my palettes expire. I love so many of my palettes too much to get down to that point now. The smallest I can see myself going is 21 of the 27 I own. For now though, I'm keeping them around. I think I'm going to challenge myself this coming year to only buy makeup during Black Friday sales. The only thing that is unlikely to be around still if I want it is a Colourpop palette. There may be some limited edition palettes that break my heart a bit, but it will be okay. I noticed that at least 3/5 palettes you kept have very similar vibes. As you said though, we like what we like. I was thinking, if you're as brutal with your single shadow collection declutter. Maybe it would be a good idea to depot the palettes Angie collabed on. That way you have the variety in a formula you love. Looking at the Hela palette I kind of wish I had gone for it. That duochrome on the bottom looks to die for. Over all the color story just felt too dupable, or vibe dupable, to me. And I am not that big of a fan of Oden Eye's formula. A lot of the shimmers get packed down too tight and hard pan and the mattes are almost too pigmented for my taste. Maybe that was just what Annette and Tina were going for. I don't have as much of an issue with the mattes in Judy's palette. I've considered decluttering the 3 Odens Eye palettes I own, but with my Pastel Dreams palette or a shimmer bronzer / blush or a highlighter I can make the shadows work. I just don't love that I have to go work so hard to like the shadows.
All of the reasons you listed for decluttering the viseart palletes are the reasons why i don't buy them. Once i start to really dig in and consider them i lose all interest. I'm just not a sl*t for mattes.
OMG! I FINALLY got the courage to declutter my makeup collection. I am giving more than half of it to friends which I needed to do because I will never use it all. I stopped buying makeup last year because of all the over-shopping I did during COVID. Thanks for all the inspiration. Love yah!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I feel like arguing online about eye shadow palettes is the makeup lovers equivalent of ranking albums-- like the palettes I have kept are part of my personality at this point. It's a bit embarassing how passionately I feel about the OG Limecrime palette for example.
I would’ve preferred That you keep the pallets and singles and make more customized Hannah Louise palettes. I find that really fun and maybe it’s just me. Sorry about the voice to text errors I just don’t feel like fixing them.
Yeeeessss!! I am loving this!! I am in a similar brain wave right now and am loving your statements to help me declutter as well! Could you do a tour of your newly decluttered vanity space once youve gone through everything?
It's so satisfying to say I was right about Midnight Sun. I just knew you'd go to town on astral solstice, it's like Danessa's Milky Way but more practical. Ironically, I'm still waiting for my Hela palette to arrive from black friday. I've used all of club nebula at least twice & I'm halfway through Gravity! Angie is a genius. Fingers crossed she gets offered another collab soon 🦄🥂🥦
I have 17 pallettes in total. Hald of those are smaller sizes of 4-6 pans. They all fit in a basket on the top of my desk, so I see all of them together whenever I do my makeup. I was very tempted by a lot of pallettes this year, but I'm very happy with my selection right now. Edit: I would like to note that I don't have any eyeshadow singles. I'm not a singles girl. I don't mind dipping into multiple pallets to make a look.
Ohhhh I know this is going to be good. No one does a ruthless declutter like you Hannah. Spoiler Alert not the Gold Palette Hannah, reminds me of when I first found your channel. I don't use mines much but it's a WORKHORSE palette a must for my go to neutrals and shimmers. I credit the GOLD palette into pushing me into more greens and grungey looks which I love. I know whatever you declutter you'll have very logical and practical reasons behind it. 💚🖤🤘🏾
I'm annoyed with all motherships having same packaging too. I don't like keeping it in boxes so I printed out little stickers with a number (mothership number), it made my life so much easier :)
This and the single eyeshadow declutter are the videos I’ve been eagerly awaiting in this declutter series! I love hearing your thought process, and it definitely inspires me to be okay with my makeup style and interests changing. I used to wear crazy colored lipsticks all the time, and now I don’t and they’re just collecting dust in my drawer. I haven’t gotten rid of them because I keep thinking, well maybe I’ll want to wear something like that again, but has that happened yet? No. Watching you get rid of the gold palette reminds me that I can have loved something and also now thank it and move to objects I foresee myself really truly using.
I depotted 10 eyeshadow palettes over the past couple weeks and reorganised them into cohesive colour stories. I was amazed at just how many similar shimmery pink's and shimmery light golds/champagnes and bronzes I had overall. At some point in the next couple weeks, I'm going to do a "reckoning" and swatch to choose only 1 or 2 of each kind. Then I will make a Project Pan palette of eyeshadows to use up over the year. I will also do this for my blushes too. I don't need 8 pans of pink blush. I love you Tarte but I've got just too many blushes to realistically use and I've had these blushes for much too long.
I wonder if you could layer the copper & silvery colors from the Pat McGrath quint to get a shade similar to the deep silvery color from the Flower Beauty Jungle Lights palette 😊 or maybe with a burgundy?
This was a great edit. I like that you were very honest with yourself about what you need/want. I know Angie will understand about her collab palettes, especially based on the way you do your makeup. 🤗
This reminds me that I honestly just want singles or palettes I can pop out that are magnetic. Because I recently have been re-organizing my colourpop collection and popping out the shiny shades./ re-ognaizing them and I'd hate to love a single shad and not be able to do that.
I find your videos so helpful in getting me to purchase less and value what I have. Your philosophy makes me think and it's a credit to you that you follow through with your declutters. I can't believe you decluttered Angie's palettes though, I love them! 😂
I want that flower punk palette sooooo bad! Those yellow leaving swampy greens! The slightly warm pinks! The tealy blues! 🥹 when it came out, I thought it was gorgeous but I was nervous about using color-but now I love to be a bit adventurous, and I’m kicking myself for missing out on that one. 😭 They still have it listed on their website, but “out of stock” so I’m hoping that maybe they might do another run someday? Maybe spring 2023???
Great video as always🥰 Love these ruthless declutters so much! I am however going to miss creating custom palettes with my natasha denona shadows along with you now that you no longer have them around. I am also kind of surprised that the NARS palette got to stay, as it is not normally what you reach for and not your usual go to colours nor formula. I suspect that the sentimental value of it being a gift gave it an unfair advantage this time around and that you might reconsider keeping it after a few weeks of its "newness" 😊
This declutter!!!!! 2 Denona palettes. What?!! You are the reason I got the gold palette. I love it. Lol I've only had it since 2021 and cava is almost gone. I'm so happy to see you love Pat McGrath too.
Will you do a full face of makeup your de cluttered makeup when you’re all through? I think it would be so interesting to do a full face of makeup that your “fantasy self” wants you to do, but that doesn’t necessarily work for you. I know my fantasy self always encourages me to buy things I don’t use 😅
There were several palettes that you like because of shiny black. But what about just using the Victoria Beckham one for that purpose? I have Mink and I didn't like it as all over the lid one. But it became something I use all the time to deepen up the corner.
The Flower shadow in Jungle Lights(?) palette looked on my screen like one of my Sydney Grace singles. It is great that you follow your path and don't go to the typical beauty youtuber route of keeping stuff just for the sake of having every color that excist or just because it is new.
Somehow this made me want to cling to every palette I own. So strange for me, a person who can give away makeup at the drop of a hat. I'm glad you got down to your goal, it's inspiring. 💜
It's never easy to "declutter" makeup you love, but this video feels like multiple sentimental breakups. Like, "you are lovely, we had such a great time, but I'm moving on. You'll find someone who can appreciate you more than I do at this point in my life." I am a little heartbroken. Pure delight.
I greatly admire your eloquence-- it speaks to your unique spark as a person, and it inspires me to use more particular words to get across a richer meaning with my own speech. I think the word I'm thinking of is "fresh." Also, your declutters and reviews are inspiring me to assess my own (relatively small) collection to fully appreciate my own "precious" pieces.
I appreciate you comparing palettes to books, HLP. Like you, I want to get rid of a number of palettes, but I'll wait until the beginning of the year, then get ruthless. All of my single, custom made palettes are staying, so the premade ones are the ones on the chopping block. One of my biggest peeves is that most palettes aren't made to be easily depotted. My history with depotting goes back to the late 90's, and I don't know why I do this to myself. It's tedious, and I'm not doing it anymore. The blues in the ND Gold palette, once I saw you swatch them, were the only ones that appealed to me. Okay, I've got something I'm dealing with that's about a recent purchase: I like the kaleidos Glowing Iris palette, but truly despise the packaging. It's not my aesthetic at all, is heavy, clunky, very susceptible to getting dirty, plus has a mirror. I know it will interfere with me using the eyeshadows, and because of that, almost makes me want to get rid of it. Has anyone successfully depotted any of the quad palettes based on this basic design (Glowing Iris, Black Jasmine, Cold Brew, and/or Flowing Haze?) Thanks, HLP!
My favorite thing about your videos is that it makes me want to play and explore my vast collection instead of constantly adding to said collection. It makes me feel productive and I haven't even started ❤
I feel about Tarte how you describe feeling about Nars. When I first got into makeup I could not afford high end makeup almost at all, but every time I went into Sephora I always spent so much time at the Tarte display swatching and coveting, and now that I can spend more on beauty they just haven't grabbed me until recently I got one of their new palettes and I ADORE IT and it feels so good to have a piece of Tarte makeup in my collection. Not the exact same situation, but I know the feeling of how lovely it can be to have a piece from a brand like that. I'm not too far into the video though, so let's see if it actually does make it through lol
Hannah, I especially love the new shimmery shades from @viseart. I completely panned the Petite Fours Lilas and the new one Violetta is a gem! Maybe you can try one of them to check out their new formula? I bought the Midnight Sun because of you. Every time I opened the box it showed me the crashed corners. I always thought it might not be the little cat...
If you can't dupe the vibes with these palettes, it might actually tell you that you don't actually want those vibes; you've experimented with all of these different options, had time to see whether or not you wanted to work with them, and ultimately decided that the things that you really love are these ones. Of course, our tastes can change, and it's fairly reasonable to just try things out when it's your job, but for the average consumer, constantly "trying new things" after experimenting and finding out what we like, just ends up being a waste of money.
Eyeshadow palettes are definitely the most compelling color cosmetics for me. I feel like I own a reasonable amount in all the other categories, but then I own like 10+ eyeshadow palettes and I really should get rid of some but pretty shinies, beautiful packaging and emotional attachment make it hard.
Someone trash is another person's treasure. The Gucci palette isnt worth buying imho. I love my Kaleidos palettes. I've had the Flower Beauty palette on my want to try list for awhile.
