Do Blogger Swatches Cause You To Make Well-Reasoned Purchases, or Cause You to Over-Purchase?

The amount of time that beauty bloggers and beauty enthusiasts spend looking at, or "studying," swatches and reviews in order to select or reject upcoming purchases can become a rather time-consuming activity that can be a very costly undertaking (both in terms of the time spent "conducting research" and money spent in chasing down the next best thing). Obviously my intention is not to