A new kind of diet

Everyone should know the song and dance routine quite well by now.  Thanksgiving and Christmas comes around and 'tis the season to be merry.  'Tis also the season to indulge.  And boy, do we indulge.  An extra slice of ham here, some more eggnog there.  After all, 'tis the season to be merry.  Then New Year's Eve comes and the ball drops, and suddenly Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers are trending again. 'Tis now the season to renew, refresh, and refit into that dress that used to fit before Thanksgiving and Christmas happened. 

For 2012, I thought I'd go on a diet too - a makeup diet.  While people were stuffing themselves with turkey and gravy, I was filling up on makeup.  I'm attracted to a beautiful blush like a fat man to ham.  While people drool over gorgeously decorated cakes and cookies, I salivate when I see a product packaged in pink and sparkles.  Little kids believe in Santa Clause, and I may as well too because I'm still gullible to those cosmetic advertisements that promise the radiance and beauty of an angel.

I must curb my gluttony for makeup like Jennifer Hudson curbed her carbs.  To begin with, I have a collection of items that first needs to be used up completely before any further additions can be even considered - my Project X Pan.  Essentially, it refers to the pan that peaks through the more a product gets used up.
 

It sounds reasonable enough... for a typical person.  However, for me, though as much as I love makeup and beauty products I can't seem to ever finish one thing... EVAR!  That is why I get so stupidly excited when I see the shiny pan of a powder compact when the girl next door would lament at the same sight.  I can easily foresee this project taking me a good three months to finish, if not more.  The close ups:

1. Some face washes & a lotion that just won't quit; a face mask that is still new.
2. Oh the agony of finishing a lip balm!!!  I don't know what's more of a challenge: finishing the darn thing, or not losing it.  And then there's the blush that gets used most frequently, yet the dent is miniscule compared to the product left over.
3.  A lotion that will not quit, along with some samples that just keeps giving and giving, despite their size.

4.  Face powders, 10g and 8g each but only takes me .000000000000005g per use... Oh the agony of waiting for the pan to shine through.  An eyelid primer that I can't seem to see through ever.  An eyeliner that keeps replenishing itself with each sharpening.  It's like magic, Santa!

5.  Mascaras: can't ever see through the tube to know if it's running out; will have to depend on the dryness of the bloody thing to know if it's time to RIP.  Four tubes to go, only 1 set of sparse eyelashes to comb them though.

So here it goes, my will power to stick to this plan vs. my desire to try out everything in Sephora.  Game on!