Happy Labor Day to all!! I absolutely love holidays because it means my hubby gets to take a day off from work and hang out with me and my kiddos! So it’s not such a “labor” day for me because I have help!! And our Labor Day has been all about deep house cleaning- so much so that we got our two boys involved (baby Vivian got lucky because she can hardly even hold her head up at 2 weeks old, so she got out of cleaning)- don’t they look so happy to be wielding rubber gloves and a dust pan??! Cleanliness is next to Godliness, right?? “No children were actually made to do manual labor in this photo;-)”
Not only did we clean the pantry kitchen, but I figured it was time to clean out my makeup drawer(s). Dum dum dum duuummm.
Ugh, this is quite a task. I mean check out this disaster of a drawer, and it’s only one of three! My reasoning behind cleaning out these drawers- besides the fact that they were an absolute natural disaster- is mostly because I know I have too much old makeup in there that should not be touching my face.
In walks my saving grace for deciphering what’s old and what’s new in my makeup drawer… Once Opened Expiration Kit For Beauty Products. I just received this kit in the mail (Many thanks to you Lorraine, somehow you knew I needed this product!) and have already been sticking these makeup expiration stickers on everything I can get my hands on!! So what and who exactly is this kit for you ask??
- Great for makeup artists like myself who don’t want to use old/expired makeup on my clients. A breakout or an eye infection as a result of using old makeup would be a disaster I want to avoid!
- It’s inevitable that we all forget when we bought certain makeup products, even our own personal ones in our makeup bags and drawers, so it’s very helpful to have these dates right on the product.
- Beauty products are not required by the FDA to have an expiration date on them, however, once those tubes and bottles are opened and air and bacteria hit them, they are on their way to being expired. You wouldn’t drink your milk past the expiration date, so why would you put old bacteria filled mascara near your eye??
- This kit comes with: small circular pink labels with a clear laminate to protect the date, tiny permanent markers to write the date of when you opened your products, a life expectancy guide for individual products so you know how long each should last or be tossed, small black box to hold all the contents in. The labels take the guess work out of “when did I buy this??”
