If you’re like most women, you have a makeup bag full of products - many you use, plenty you don’t, and a few that are expired and need to be tossed. But even when we have more makeup than we use, we still buy more and more. They say you can’t put a price on beauty, but we spend a whole bunch of money on makeup!
So how much are we talking? According to research from Coinage, we spend an average of $43 each time we hit stores like Sephora and Ulta for beauty products. And that doesn’t sound like too much, but think about how it adds up. Over the course of a lifetime, that’s about $15,000 - on makeup!
This is some of what we’re buying with that $15,000:
- Mascara is what we’re spending the most on, to the tune of $3,770.
- Eyeshadow accounts for $2,750 over a lifetime.
- Lipstick costs us about $1,780 over the years.
As much as we love our beauty products, that’s a lot of money. It’s a lot easier to think of it in small $43 shopping trips than looking at the lifetime grand total!
Source: Hello Giggles