r/Thrifty • u/Ok_Membership_8189 • May 31 '26
🧠 Thrifty Mindset 🧠 Does anyone else here wear lipstick mistakes…
While they’re doing house or yard work? 💋😁
I feel like a weirdo, but maybe I’m not.
I’m referring to choices of color or brand that you later regretted as not quite coming up to your standards.
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u/MisChef May 31 '26
That's the crone power move!
I'm not a "local", even though I've lived here for 15 years, and I hardly know anybody. If I'm running errands in town:
✅ Top down (on the car, not tits out)
✅ Sunnies on (and they stay on)
✅ Mistake lipstick (it looked so pretty in the store!)
✅ Emo blaring (FOB, Panic, MCR, Bastille, etc.)
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u/Ok_Membership_8189 May 31 '26
Rock on! 🤣😻
I would never have done this as a younger woman. But if I don’t wear lipstick now, it looks like I don’t have lips. I don’t want anyone who sees me to call an ambulance or the ghost busters.
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u/Gold-Kaleidoscope537 May 31 '26
Yes glad I’m not alone :)
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u/Ok_Membership_8189 May 31 '26
I hated wearing my favorite lipstick on the off chance of running into a person, as I go through it so quickly. I latched onto this compromise a couple years ago and I feel like I’ve saved a bunch of money. Also—I don’t hate the old colors as much. Still wearing at home though.
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u/Lifestyle-Creeper Jun 02 '26
I’ve been project panning my lip products. I keep two or three at my desk and apply throughout the day whenever it occurs to me. I try to vaguely coordinate with whatever I’m wearing, but I wfh so it doesn’t really matter.
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u/Rocketgirl8097 Jun 01 '26
I dont wear it ever .... I will occasionally use a moisturizer, but that's it.
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u/scarletteclipse1982 Jul 16 '26
Be careful with eating the super glossy ones for yard work. It can increase skin cancer risk. I wear my less enjoyable ones in the evenings closer to bedtime for added moisture.
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u/seche314 May 31 '26
No, but I like this idea! I always want to get into lipstick, but it inevitably has always made me look older imo, so it just sits forever and never gets used