Beauty Products I Stopped Using

hi everyone I'm Alexandra and today I'm going to share with you the products I stopped using now there's a sliding scale some of these things I used and then I was like halfway through it and I stopped using it some of these things I stopped using right away and there's another category of these where I stop using them and I'm still trying to make some of them work why are we talking about this here's why it's very important as the years go on and we keep buying beauty products whether it's the same thing that we repurchase and repurchase or it's new stuff we should be getting better at buying this stuff you know like product intelligence and part of that is a very informal audit and I thought it would be so fun to do this with you because I take a look at what isn't working what I'm not using and I try to see if I can get some data if I see a repeat brand in there it's notable and if I see a theme with certain ingredients then I'm going to take note I went through all my drawers and I collected all these products I don't know if we're going to get through all of them if you like this content give it a thumbs up and let me know if you want to see a part two let's get started okay I'm going to start here I've got my little iPad so that I can look the products up and get the exact names for you the very first thing is something very teeny tiny when I look at this and I'm sure you can relate when you have things that you just aren't using sometimes I I just like couldn't really put my finger on why but that's why we're doing this I'm going to try to do that this is the Clinique bottom lash mascara it's teeny tiny and it's meant to go right up underneath the eyes specifically for bottom lashes I'm all for Precision in Beauty but I think this is something I heard about thought it sounded so cool cuz I thought wow how precise it's just for the bottom lashes and it's an exhausting step to have another mascara for the second set of lashes I take that data and I'm like okay I'm as a person generally don't just like adding extra steps because it's an extra step some people like that I don't if I'm adding an extra step it's because it's like high performance that's why I want to do it otherwise I don't want to use it this next product is the Dela double serum all-in-one multi balm I actually am not a fan of the trend of Brands calling products serum when they are actually oil this product I saw on Amazon and I kept seeing how beautiful it looked and there's something about the chubby stick I mean show me like one of these kind of rollups I'm like absolutely absolutely it looks awesome and it has a yellow dot in the I mean this was like 100% I was excited to use this but here's the thing I don't want to breathe on this but it's cold because it's just sitting there and when I go to use it I put it under my eyes because that's the first place you want to put this I don't really want to put it on my nose until the eight or ninth pass on my skin it tugs and underneath my eyes is delicate so when I go to use this it makes me uncomfortable every single whole time and I don't want to have to like so this has just been sitting there in stasis this is another product I'm not using anymore Lo Loy can I say it like it's oxy clean Loxy tan this was flatlining and I tried to put some life back into my usage of this this is their body milk in naroli and Orchid it smells creamy and sweet yet it has a edge of orchid that is so dry and so persistent and yet that milkiness like Mellows it out how do you like my fragrance description every single time it happened I had a nice bath I'm relaxed put this on and it smells so nice and then within minutes I'm covered in these little uh like like if a mouse were to have bubble tea and it had little bobas it would be like that all over my skin like these little pills and of course they're like gray cuz them it's just like so gross I'm not a fan of that now this is an awesome note to be frank with you I actually thought this was going to be great because it was expensive this is the sasu overnight vitalizing mask and I'm really glad that I'm doing this with you because it's a good reminder this is a lesson I've learned years ago and yet with this product I genuinely bought it without looking deep into it and I just saw like the packaging and the the price and I thought this is going to be great I have barely used this because actually I find this irritating on my skin and I can see almost like a bit of hyperpigmentation the day after it smells like herbs this is definitely going to be great for someone just not me and I'm happy to be reminded don't just buy something because it seems like it's going to be good because it's expensive I've tried lots of great K Beauty and I've tried lots of great J Beauty this is one of these products but it may not be one of the Star Products I've tried this is something I've stopped using it stays filled up to here and it's been like that for a while now I might give this another try I've got thick hair really really curly coarse hair I find this to be so heavy and I have tried lots of different oils I really like the Shu omora oil the kastas one I like this one from this brand I like the OGX one I like a lot of oils but this is surprisingly heavy it's probably something to do with the amount the actual amount you know what I think I'm using too much as I'm talking about it I'm realizing that I'm probably using way too much like that much that's like realistically the amount that's probably needed I might like this I might actually like this if I start using only this much yeah can you see that you know what I think I'm actually going to start using this again I'm glad that we did this I just need to use less which actually makes this kind of a star product for the sake of now I know this could literally last 9 years I have a hair oil like that that I've been using for like seven years this is the one it reminds me of this is from balma balma P Argan moisturizing Elixir and look how full this is after years of using this and this is a good oil but the fact that it's lasted that long definitely brings it into the sphere of high performance this might be like that too let me know if you like this one in the comments below you know there's a deodorant that I really like to use and it's from Sephora and it's like $40 or something like that and sometimes I just think that's not okay and I need to use the regular deodorant this is one that I've stopped using I sometimes start it up again and I try to use it it is the whole body deod deodorant so this isn't just meant for the underarms sometimes I use it for that sometimes I use it for my body but I don't really like this sometimes it's just good to buy the thing you like there's a lot of different areas where I've learned to save but sometimes especially with something you use every single day and it's fantastic and it outperforms everything else you've tried so with that deodorant I think I'm going to put it on my list I'll usually like to get this around the Sephora sale this next product is from Lo this is the foot cream that I bought a while ago and I used it a little bit as you can see why when I look at this why don't I use this why did I stop using this at the time I definitely bought this and I was like that's a nice idea to have um soft feet but I wasn't prepared to like wear this with socks on cuz that feels horrible this thing has done its time in the covered it's got like a looks like butter the other thing the other thing I don't like about this is this cap because you just trying to do that and then it's like it's on the floor and then you I don't like that okay those are the products that I stopped using going through this I learned a few things some things I'm going to pick back up some things I'm going to give away some things I'm just going to try it again and and have the same experience and then figure out what I'm going to do it's not really about doing an overhaul but with an account of what I'm going to use what I don't like why I don't like it I get a little bit better at estimation when it comes to purchasing products and I even get better at recommending things and just like what happened with this hair oil where I try it again and I realize wait there's more to be had here this is sometimes the exact process I go through with products that I now say this is awesome and by doing this accounting that we did here today we both get more knowledgeable about the products that we like a lot and that way you can help other people too because it can be costly when you don't know what to buy so I hope that this video helps you we made it through about 50% of what I had to show you if you'd like to see part two with those remaining items then please leave a comment and also a thumbs up on this video I'll know that you enjoyed it and check out my channel to watch more videos God bless you in the name of Jesus and I will see you really really soon bye