youtubeisnotajob wrote:potnoodlegirl wrote:"The Anna Edit isn't really about makeup creativity -- I think she is about finding what is comfortable for you, which I love. Her minimalism is refreshing. She's not going the whole "festival makeup" or "makeup you will never ever wear" route"
You can tell all of her advice and suggestions nowadays - whistles, reiss, £250 silk shirts - are just the lovely luxuries she can now surround herself with, and not actual useful or value for money products that her viewing and their consumer habits can match, her recommendations are just patting herself on the back for being able to say she owns 7 £80 plain t-shirts, imo.
Exactly. It's simply a different kind of consumerism, she gets addicted to the idea of buying in just a different way. She's certainly had a good number of high priced purchases in just the last year for a 'minimalist'.
Also I do NOT deny that there is wisdom in slowing down your spending in favour of "investing" in high quality, classic items that will last... but these girls seem to suggest that an H&M blouse will disintegrate after one year of wear, lol. Again, yes, higher value exists (I personally haven't bought anything from H&M in a long while and can't see myself doing it anytime soon) and I believe in ethical shopping, but plenty of people manage to make lost-cost items last through years of wear.
IMO the problem with a lot of the fast shopping mindset is going into stores and just flipping through some sales and picking out a couple "cute" things that you don't really need but they're "cute" so you have to have it... before you know it you've got a closet full of random items you only half like, that you want to get rid of by next season. Anna is definitely buying LESS than her counterparts, but she also seems to think the antidote also mainly lies in just spending MORE on a single item... because that is somehow "investment".
But I find spending literally
thousands on a purse just because it's 'designer' to be just as abhorrent and wasteful. To me, that's not a girl who genuinely wants to spend less money on material goods... that's just someone who likes the aesthetics of the "minimalism" idea.
You see it with her Glossier obsession... she loves the idea of Glossier and the cool girl look of it, so she pours her money into items before even testing them and goes back and keeps buying more that she doesn't need. Because she still loves spending, she just directs it into that which she has deemed fit this aesthetic.
impossible!
