What do you do with lipstick?

pommom · ‎03-10-2010

Have a ton of lippies I no longer wear.

I know they can't be passed on for hygenic reasons.

Is there repurposing that I'm not aware of?

Throw away? ($$$sigh$$$)

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tucsongal · ‎03-10-2010

Toss ‘em unless you would use some as blush. It’s liberating.

queendiva · ‎03-12-2010

They gotta go. Lesson learned. No getting the $ back, so free up your space for the ones you do use. If it makes you feel any less guilty, I am right there with you.

bonnielu · ‎03-11-2010

I toss them. Cannot be used again. However I buy only colors that I know I can wear so I use them up almost to the end and then toss them. I have fair skin, green eyes, silver white hair. I buy only shades with a blue cast like wine or mauve. I never buy pink or clear red. And I have favorite products... always on sale and not pricey.

claros · ‎09-04-2010

I shop at a local grocery store in the DC/Balt area where they are very envionmentally concious and they actually recycle old cosmetics. I'm sure not for the actual cosmetic, but the packaging.

vermint · ‎04-05-2010

@pommom Just toss them and then forget about them! I am a lipstuff junkie myself, and have had to throw away many because they either went bad before I could use them up, or I just didn't like them.

Sigh...It's a sickness!

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

Yep--toss them all!! I have been doing that with my crazy, out of control, collection of make up that I NEVER use----why am I keeping it all??? Just take a deep, cleansing breathe, exhale......slowly.......and toss it out!!!!

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I've got too many...it's ridiculous, isn't it?? I wear a few then decide I don't like them and then they start multiplying in my drawer. I hate it when I have to throw away money!!

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

I save and repurpose my eye shadow palettes and put lipsticks in the wells. That way, with a brush, I can mix 2 together and make other shades much better than each one was individually. It helps to put a few light ones and mid-tones. In the drugstore, those long strips for meds w/ flip tops (say M, T, W on top) are great for this.