I’m a bit of late in finalizing my ideas for what’s to come back for me and the weblog this yr, however I really feel like from watching YouTube movies of each previous and current creators I’ve been following that “having much less” and specializing in issues of worth is the theme for 2026! For me, it was a already a theme for 2025 with attempting to chop down and monitor my spending and what began with watching finance content material ultimately advanced into the algorithm recommending minimalism movies. The above photograph is an instance of a interest that I type of went loopy with within the final yr, however what I like about it’s that despite the fact that I’ve spent like $4000 on Pixyls since 2024, it is a interest that shops neatly and the one “gear” you want is a pair of sharp tweezers. I retailer most of my accomplished items in a giant artwork pocket book and that is it! Anyway, here’s what you ought to be seeing from me and Beauty Proof this yr!
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1. Specializing in my Bounty
This has been kind of an ongoing theme for the previous couple of months and sure, I’ve been buying make-up merchandise from Dior, Holts and Sephora, however the purchases are undoubtedly extra intentional and fewer frequent. I am actually solely buying at Sephora in the course of the VIB occasion and my most important make-up model continues to be undoubtedly Dior. Excluding Dior, I will see how lengthy I can go with out buying each make-up and skincare from different manufacturers for this yr. I’ve already resisted a number of Black Friday “restock” conditions the place my favorite serums/cleansers have been 40% off so my plan is to re-evaluate the restock state of affairs each 6 months to see the place I am at or perhaps even on Black Friday if I can wait that lengthy!
2. One thing New? Share It!
This was the only purpose of my Sephora VIB purchases in November. If I needed one thing, I’m not less than going to make a weblog/social media put up about it simply so I can get it OUT of the field and USE it and really feel like there some type of further worth in my buy. Ideally, I’d write a weblog put up about it in order that I’ve a “journal” entry concerning the product which leads me into my subsequent content material purpose…
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3. Being Nostalgic
That is one other theme that’s getting fashionable once more on the sweetness social media scene (I wrote this put up in December so earlier than the entire 2016 pattern on IG!) and that is taking it again to much less concerning the latest merchandise and consumption and extra about magnificence appears to be like and being inventive with merchandise you have already got. For me, that is additionally about going again to singular product critiques of issues I’ve actually been loving/hating. I additionally wish to write about discontinued merchandise that deliver again recollections of the sweetness blogger period at its peak circa 2013-2019. YouTuber Kelly Gooch does an awesome historic recap of every yr of magnificence since 2014 known as “Yearly Lore” and it has been a lot enjoyable to observe how magnificence and social media has advanced over the past decade!
4. Exhibiting my Face Once more
Undecided what occurred right here, however I simply type of stopped doing lots of make-up critiques with full glam on and I would wish to attempt to try and make this occur once more! No guarantees, however I type of wish to doc how my face adjustments as I age. I additionally miss getting all glammed up!
5. Much less PR, Extra Self Purchases
This would possibly take till 2028 to completely transfer by means of, however because the pandemic actually, I’ve began accepting much less PR primarily as a result of I spotted I did not have time to jot down or characteristic every thing and that I simply bodily discovered the quantity of product I had actually overwhelming. I even have gotten older and since I’m a “hobbyist” content material creator, I do not really feel the necessity to sustain with the brand new era of magnificence influencers and am very happy to do issues the OG manner. I really feel like critiques appear extra enjoyable to jot down, particularly if a product evaluation is unfavorable, then the fervour REALLY comes out! Additionally, we are saying that there isn’t a bias once we are despatched PR, however all of us undoubtedly watch our language a bit extra with our content material particularly if we wish to proceed working with the model. I imply, it is sensible proper? Principally, I wish to be extra liberal with what I get to say a couple of product so I’m tremendous selective now of what manufacturers I do obtain PR from. Since I’ve such a backlog of PR, you’ll most likely see that “Press pattern” label on lots of my posts for the foreseeable future, however I’m additionally not on any of these press lists anymore so I will probably be talking about them extra freely!
I’ll maintain a seasonal check-in right here to see how I’ve been doing with my targets as everyone knows that by the tip of January, many individuals abandon them!
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