My make-up budget

Shanti recently did a post about her budget busters and one of the items on her list was make-up. This got me thinking about my budget and how I never even budget for make-up, and yet I wear it! Admittedly I don't wear alot, but I do wear it.

I only have five products that I use without fail, anything else is generic and bought from the supermarket with my grocery shopping. Make-up is not that important to me, growing up in the country, surrounded by animals, I never really got into the whole make-up thing.

My 5 products:

1. Maybeline Great Lash (£4.99)
2. Clinique Foundation ((£18.50)
3. Clinique Concealer (£15.00)
4. Clinque Moisturiser (£26.00)
5. Body Shop Coconut Butter (£12.00)

Annually, I will use 3 mascaras, 2 foundations, 3 Cocoa Butter and 1 of everything else. I use it all sparingly. I try to get the butter as gifts for my birthday or Christmas, all my family know I love it.

Now the reason I haven't budgeted for it, is probably that I have a secret stock of it in my wardrobe, bought in New York on my honeymoon. I bought all the products in NY, out of my trip spending money, because it's so much cheaper there. The Clinique foundation is approx $19.50 in Sephora and the mascara is approx. $6.50 in Duane Reade. Please correct me if this is wrong.

Going forward I have enough products to last me until the end of the year and then I will need to add a small line in my budget, perhaps £10 a month, to cover the cost of these items.