💋 Collector Culture #1: Confessions of a Lipstick Hoarder
Because sometimes the “just one more” turns into a drawer full of legends.
Let’s get honest about something. You tell yourself you’re just going to peek at the new release. You swear you don’t need another shade of red. You even hesitate—just for a second—at checkout.
And then it happens.
You hit “buy,” again.
Welcome to the club.
Some people call it hoarding. Around here? We call it curation. We’re collectors. Historians. Preservers of beauty and packaging and pigment. We’re the reason rare shades still exist outside of M·A·C’s vault and Urban Decay’s archives. And frankly? We make the beauty world more magical.
It’s Not Just Lipstick. It’s Memory.
Every tube has a story.
There’s the M·A·C shade you wore to your best friend’s wedding. The limited-edition packaging you stalked for three months straight on Poshmark. The bullet that lived in your purse all through 2010 and still kind of smells like confidence and tequila.
You don’t forget those.
You don’t toss them because they’re “expired.” You protect them like tiny, glossy time capsules. Because they are.
“Why Do You Need So Many?”
Because it’s not about need. It’s about joy. It’s about legacy. It’s about looking at a row of perfectly aligned lipsticks and feeling something.
You don’t question a stamp collector.
You don’t side-eye a vinyl junkie.
So don’t come for us and our 47 tubes of nude.
Some people invest in stocks.
We invest in pigment.
"I’ve had people ask why I keep lipsticks I don’t even wear. And I tell them—because they meant something to me. That color, that moment, that year. I’m not hoarding. I’m honoring." —K
PSA for the Normies
Collectors aren’t messy.
We’re methodical.
We’re sentimental.
We’re fucking legendary.
And if you’ve ever whispered “just one more” while holding a tube you already own in three other finishes, you’re not out of control. You’re one of us.