DON’T THROW IT AWAY! Do you ever wonder what you should do when you really hate the makeup you just purchased? I give you so many ideas in this video other than just trashing it. Think about returning, recycling, reusing, donating, selling, or repurposing it instead.

• Return It
  • Amazon (not 3rd party seller)
    • I’ve returned probably 20-30 makeup & beauty products & never had a problem, but there’s not an official policy on this.
    • I chatted the first time before I returned some gently used makeup, & they said that it was fine to return. I haven’t chatted since then because I just send it back like I would anything else purchased on their site.
  • Ulta
    • Up to 60 days in store or online
  • Sephora
    • Up to 60 days in store or online
    • 61-90 days after purchase they will refund in the form of store credit
  • Target
    • 90 days without Redcard, 120 days with Redcard
  • Walmart
    • Up to 90 days
  • CVS
    • Up to 60 days
  • Rite Aid
    • Up to 90 days
  • Walgreens
    • Up to 30 days
  • Nordstrom
    • No deadline, free shipping & returns (one of my favorite sites to purchase cosmetics)
  • Birchbox 
    • Up to 90 days
  • Dermstore
    • Up to 30 days
  • Kohls
    • Up to 30 days
  • Macys
    • Up to 180 days
  • Bloomingdales
    • Up to 365 days (free shipping & returns if you sign up for their free Loyalist program)
  • Always check the return policy before ordering something you’ve never tried before
• Donate it
  • Check with your local women’s shelters. Mine takes used makeup, hair, skin, & body products that can be sanitized.
  • Give it to friends/family who don’t have a problem with a slightly used product (mine know that I am a very clean person & I only give used lip products to my mom).
  • Best things to donate are powder products or something you don’t dip your fingers into, no mascara, no lip products that come in contact with your lips
  • You can send used makeup/beauty products to certain organizations:
    • Project Beauty Share
    • Share Your Beauty
    • Beauty Bus (only new products)
    • Give & Makeup (UK)
• Resell unused or easy sanitized products like tools or even palettes on skincare or makeup exchange groups or sites on Reddit or Facebook
• If you can’t find anything else to do with it, clean it out & reuse it. Jars can be used to hold other products, brushes can be used as children’s paint brushes, & you can even make your own lipsticks, nail polish, etc from tons of YouTube videos to put in these containers.
• If you must throw it away, check if it can be recycled.
  • Makeup companies you can take your used makeup products for recycling:
    • Aveda
    • Lush
      • Bring in 5 empties & get a free face mask
    • Kiehls 
    • Mac
      • Bring in 6 empties & get a free lipstick
    • Origins
• Lastly, if none of the above options can be applied, you’ll probably have to throw it in the trash. However, I hope that this only applies to a very tiny percentage of your beauty products.

Products in video

Leopard shirt I’m wearing (M, Camel)
Earrings
Lipstick (All Natural Nude)
Eyeshadow palette I’m wearing
Nail Polish (Libby)

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Check out how I curled my hair for this video