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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Tuesday, June 21, 2005 2:56 PM (Eastern)
What really are UEU and UEO?To the very best of my knowledge, both concepts originated from LP--the Lipstick Page forums. A poster called Duchess came up with UEU (Use Everything Up). UEO (Use Everything Once) appeared on LP shortly thereafter, and this acronym was coined by a poster called Audrey_H.
Earlier, LP had CT, which stands for cold turkey. I still recall the first LP cold turkey; it was years ago. Everyone participating in the CT vowed not to buy new makeup for a set period of time.
CT became replaced by UEO, an exercise where you use each product in your stash exactly once. You are to go through the entire stash this way. At the end of the UEO, you are to weed out everything that wasn't all that and swap it or toss it.
The thing is this. It takes half an hour to buy a lipstick. It takes anywhere from three to four months of using only one lipstick, to UEU that lipstick. Owning more than one lipstick at a time, means it can take what feels like years to UEU one or the other of them.
Is it important to UEU? Well, sometimes it is, sometime it isn't. I have yet to UEU a single eyeshadow--ever. I didn't use eyeshadow much before I discovered the beauty boards. And now I own too many, and use too many, to easily UEU any individual one.
But lipstick--I like UEU'ing lipstick. Not sure why. I just do.
In the pic, MAC Jubilee Lustre lipstick (right) represents the first lipstick I UEU'd since discovering "the boards" (before that, I owned only one lipstick at a time, so UEU'ing was hardly an issue).
MAC Viva Glam V Lustre (center) represents a half-UEU'd lippy. It's the one I'm currently working on, and I'm debating, idly enough, whether to repurchase it once it's been UEU'd.
MAC Sophisto Lustre (left) represents the newest addition to my two-lippy stash. I've worn it a few times, it's really nice, but I'm using the VGV more because, ah, I want to UEU it.
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