Hey, everybody! Now that 6* months have gone by, it's time to do my midpoint check-in for my 2023 low buy.
Back in February, I posted my plans for my 2nd annual makeup, nail polish, and clothing low buy to help myself engage in more conscious consumption. Just as I did halfway through 2022, I'll be updating you all today on how my low buy is going, what I've purchased so far, and any miscellaneous thoughts I've had. *Note: this blog post is late -- I meant to get it out at the beginning of July to truly be a midpoint check-in, but life just happened to be lifeing harder than expected. However, I'll still only be talking about any purchases from up until the end of June.
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5/26/2023 0 Comments Baby, I got Issues -- Or 12, Actually: Semester Outfit Recap for a Student JournalistHow does a journalist dress?
Outside of pharmacy school, my other major chunk of time is spent working on my university's ~award-winning~ student newspaper; I've held an editorial position for the past 2 years, and I'll be an editor again for this coming school year. For the duration of the spring 2023 semester, I had been documenting my outfit every publishing night (AKA pub night) since the beginning of the semester, and I made an Instagram Reel recapping said outfits. In episode 100 of the Style and Direction podcast hosted by Ethan M. Wong and Spencer Otte, the two discussed Spencer's "journalist style" and how it reflects his career. For me, I don't think my pub night fits really show that; if anything, in my role as a student journalist, my style embodies more of the "student" (in terms of my love for the academia aesthetic) and less of the "journalist." However, I still thought it'd be fun to go through what pub night entails and each night’s outfit in more detail! For every issue, I included the date, a very brief overview of the fit, the outfit details, and then any musings to go along with the overall styling of the outfit or the individual pieces. As this is a *very* long post, feel free to just scroll through the pictures and cherrypick whichever ones you find most interesting! As a little note: I erroneously mislabeled each issue number in the Reel, and I didn't notice it until after I already posted it. As this was the second semester of the school year, we published issues 13-24, NOT issues 1-12. To keep it consistent and make it easier to refer back to the Reel, I still used 1-12 in this post. Just know that for the record I am a fool and to +12 to each one. If you haven’t already, watch the Instagram Reel first! In 2022, I made a low buy for myself to control my beauty (makeup, skincare, and nail polish) and clothing spending. After that experience, I’m instating another low buy for 2023! This time around, I’ll be focusing just on makeup, nail polish, and clothing (no skincare). Today, I’ll be going through my why, along with my rules for each category.
Can you believe we're already in 2023? Well, call me Ripley because it's here whether you believe it or not!
With the end of 2022 also comes the end of my first-ever beauty and clothing low buy. I started this in February as a way to intentionally curb my spending and be more intentional about what I buy. I posted my plans/intro post in February, and my midpoint check-in came in July. As of July, I was doing really well within my criteria, and I was actually way below my set purchasing limits. Now that we're here at the year-end (actually 11-month) finale, let's see how my makeup, skincare, nail polish, and clothing low buy actually went! Back in early February, I posted my beauty (makeup, skincare, nail polish) and clothing low buy plans for 2022. A "low buy" is an intention that some people set out -- particularly in the minimalism and project panning beauty communities, at least from what I've seen -- to try and regain control of their purchasing habits. For me, my two goals were 1) to reduce spending and 2) to be more conscious about my purchasing habits.
A reason why I published a post detailing my low buy criteria, other than for ContentTM, was to try to hold myself accountable by publicly documenting/averring my plans. Now that we are halfway through the year, I am here to check back in and let you all know how I've been doing with my low buy! Through the years, I've noticed something about myself: as I naturally flip from hobby to hobby, I don't necessarily spend less money or become more of a conscious consumer. When I drift from and subsequently spend less money on one particular hobby, I simply divert those funds to a different hobby. For the past several years, this has happened when bobbing between makeup, nail polish, and fashion. I really hope to break this habit. First of all, I'm a college student who is fortunate enough at the present moment to not need to worry about paying too my own living expenses, but that's not going to last for too much longer. Before I have too many Real Adult Responsibilities, I want to create healthy financial/consumer habits for myself that I can carry into my Real Adult Life. Second, it's just not environmentally or socially responsible. Consumerism inherently generates waste, and there will always be social repercussions because we ~live in a society~. I want to be a "conscious consumer" (whatever that actually means), and I hope to promote that on the internet and in life in general, but it's hypocritical if I myself don't necessarily do the best with intentional consumption. Yes, I find joy in my hobbies and all of the pretty things that come with those hobbies, but consumerism shouldn't be an essential aspect of that joy. My two general goals for my low buy are: In being "public" with my low buy plans, I hope that this will help me hold myself more accountable throughout the year!
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