Yes... I wished I discovered my HGs before buying all the failures that I can't really get rid of until they totally expire...
Yes and No. Lol. Depends on my mood actually.
I've always been in love with colours, textures, glitter, effects, makeup. I've always spent money on lots of beauty products, as far as I can remember. The difference is, couple of years ago, my stash used to fit in a drawer. I had one holder for my brushes and one for all my pencils, everything included.
Now I have over 150 MAC ES (including quads and LE pots) and I barely use them because the more you have, the less you know what you really have, you know it's there so it kind of makes you happy. But I think I was "happier" when I had just 3/4 blushes and a couple of palettes, lol. Things got really worse when I started following blogs and tutorials on YT back in 2008. This has really killed me, lol ! I did this experience : I stayed away from YT, blogs and makeup forums for 3 months and didn't feel the need to buy anything. I saved tons of money, lol. Now I only buy a couple of things here and there by MAC mainly because I refuse to be a "victim" of their non-stop LE collections.
I've recently been through my makeup, throw a couple of things that had dried or expired, gave a lot to my friends, sold a couple of new and unused things, I still have to go through my MAC E/S because I have lots of extravagant colours that I bought because I saw a gorgeous tutorial on YT 3 years ago but finally never used the colours to do it on myself. Or it didn't look what I thought it would. So yeah, makeup makes me happy, I use most of what I get because I change my style of makeup everyday, except for my MAC shadows because I can't go through 5 palettes in the morning and spend time choosing so I must find another way or another kind of palettes to actually see what shades I have.
I'm not reading beauty blogs as much as I used to, only following 2 or 3 people on YT and I've noticed that I'm less tempted to buy.
I do not have a huge collection, but I watch all these makeup gurus on youtube and wonder how often they rotate/change their makeup collection.I regret how much make up I have sometimes as I am never going to use it all , never, especially as lip products etc go out of date