Faberlic reissues its catalogue roughly every three weeks. That is about seventeen catalogues a year, and trying to read each one properly is how people end up either overwhelmed or spending more than they meant to.
The twenty-minute method
Each cycle, look only at what changed. Not the whole catalogue.
- Skim the new arrivals section — usually two or three items worth noticing
- Check whether anything you buy regularly has left the range. This is the more important half, and the one people miss
- Note the exact name of anything you want to remember
- Close it
Twenty minutes. After six months you will have watched the entire range turn over without ever sitting down to study it.
The departure problem
More consequential than the arrivals. Products rotate out, and if the cream that finally suited your skin disappears, you find out when you try to reorder.
If something works for you:
- Note the exact name and code, not "the blue one"
- Reorder before you run out, not after
- Consider buying a second of anything you have used for months and would be genuinely annoyed to lose
That is different from stockpiling, which is buying things you have not tested.
Resisting the cycle
The rotation is designed to create urgency, and it works. Two habits protect against it:
Wait one cycle. If something still appeals three weeks later, it is a real want rather than a reaction to novelty. Most things do not survive this test.
Buy replacements first, novelty second. Order what you have run out of, then consider one new thing — not the reverse.
What to actually follow
- New arrivals in your own category. If you use skincare and rarely buy makeup, skip the makeup pages
- Anything in a line you already use, since series get extended
- Seasonal items, which are genuinely time-limited
Ignore everything else. Comprehensive attention to a catalogue that changes seventeen times a year is not a realistic goal, and it is not necessary.
For consultants
The same twenty minutes serves double duty: it keeps you current enough to answer questions, which is the actual job. Nobody expects a consultant to know a rotating thousand-product catalogue — they expect you to know your area and to know where to look.
For the current catalogue, see Faberlic; for the categories, the reviews section.