For anyone with a drawer full of makeup

The 10-minute makeup drawer check: keep it, bin it, or stop buying it

Do it once, with the drawer open, before you buy the next thing.

• 7 checks
• About 10 minutes
• Do check 1 today

0 of 7 done

Sort the drawer

1. Tip the whole drawer out onto a towel. Your makeup bag too. 1 min
2. Bin anything opened longer ago than the open-jar symbol on the back (6M, 12M), and anything that's made your skin sting. Still stinging, or it's new? Worth asking a pharmacist or your GP. 2 min
3. Put any two products that do the same job side by side. Keep the one you actually reach for. 2 min
4. Move anything you haven't used in 3 months into a "not sure" pile. 1 min
5. Most people skip this Next to each "not sure" product, write who told you to buy it: a counter, online, or your daughter. A counter is paid by one brand. Nobody has checked it against your skin. 2 min

Before you buy anything else

1. Type everything in the bin pile into your phone notes, under "Stop buying". Check it before you pay for anything. 2 min
2. Put the keep pile back. Photograph the "not sure" pile. 1 min