Hello wonderful folks of makeuprehab, I have a problem and am having trouble seeing my way out of it. I am getting married in some months and we have a wedding tradition where my MIL "sends" me a full face of makeup and some other accessories one day before the wedding so I can use them on a wedding day. Since she's never worn makeup, and knows that "kids these days have strong preferences", she's given me about 700$ to buy what I will use. Once I buy it all, I will send it to her so she can gift wrap them and present it to me a day before the wedding. This is bringing back behaviours that I am not proud of - constantly looking at websites, spending hours "curating" the cart, looking and looking for ways to maximise GWPs. etc, looking through hundreds of reviews (we can't swatch anything anymore), and basically wasting so much time on this everyday.

I can't get out of this tradition nor can I pack my old stuff to give her - do you guys have any idea about how I can reduce my harmful behaviours in the meantime?

Second issue is, I already have a lot of makeup - how do I incorporate an influx of 10-15 new products that are basically functional dupes of what I already have and use? I don't want to experiment too much with a new base since my makeup artist will need to use it on wedding day and I can't risk it and there's only so many colours of lips and eye makeup that suit me so even though its not exact, they are mostly functional dupes too...