I changed from a no-buy to low buy in May after reading another MUT's post on the 'healthiness' of 'no buy vs. low buy'... sorry I forgot your name fellow MUTer.
My fiance also supports the low buy more than no buy as he did notice after I come out of a no buy i got a bit 'crazy'.
in May I purchased the following items:
- Physician's Formula - air brushing powder - used CVS extra bucks so only end up paying $4 for this, on top of the sale
- tarte - Aqualillies palette - had to get this for fear that it'd sell out EVERYWHERE since it already sold out at Tarte website.
- Hardcandy - glamoflauge, thank you MUTers, I only got this b/c MUTers kept on saying how amazing this concealer is, and i do like it ^_^ /emoticons/
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- Rimmel - Glam Eye Quad, Walmart sells this for $3.79 or so, in the city, CVS sells this for $6.99?!?!?!?!?! I HAD to get it on the principal that it's so much cheaper at the suburb Walmart I happen to be at like twice a year!
- Wet n' Wild - party on the roof. impulse buy
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- Urban Decay - deluxe shadow box from Nordstromrack - impulse buy but its on sale for $14.99!
- theBalm - down boy blush. This blush was the AWESOME buy of the month, I had Walgreens reward balance so only paid $1.94 for this blush!! Yep, In NYC and SF they have these "FANCY Walgreens" where they carry the Balm, Cargo, Gosh and a bunch of other mid range brands. I was SOOOOO Happy!!!
All in all, my low buy didn't seem so 'low' but for me i was pretty happy with how I did, as in the past I'd be buying a few makeup items every week! if not every few days.
For June, I've got my Ipsy and I just subscribed to Starbox. I may skip Julep and beauty army i may skip as well.
basically, I can't buy anymore palettes, blush, eyeliners, mascaras or lipsticks. So June SHOULD be a no buy, heck 2013 should be a no buy until i pan more.
But, gonna stick to low buy in June and give myself some wiggle room if i see something i MUST have!
Instead of a dollar amount budget I'm going to limit my no buy to 5 items for the month of June.
Which is a bit hard b/c I haven't even got started on the CVS clearance yet! And i got 20% coupon AND i got $5 extra bucks.