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March Empties: 🍀🦄🌈  SpoilerIt took me months to work through the 2 Prevage Face Cleanser (these were to harsh for my face so became body washes) and the Ceramide Face Wash (gentle and supposed to cut through make up and sunscreen but I didn't feel it did a very good job of either at the end of the day) I will not be purchasing.I enjoyed everyone of those face masks 🤩The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% Oil Control Serum is wonderful, repurchasing it again of course 😉From my foils, once I'm through my stock pile *eep* of moisturizers the Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Acid Refillable Moisturizer is on my serious to consider daily moisturizer list. But I have lots to finish and go through before I get it. I want to get everything gone and used and be more mindful of what I get and keep in my home. This has been my goal since January and it's been great using things up, my collection of trials and foils was getting big 😅Biossance Squalane + 10% Vitamin C Dark Spot Serum 1.0 oz/ 30 mL and Biossance Squalane + Marine Algae Firming & Lifting Eye Cream 0.5 oz / 15 mL were fabulous and worth repurchasing for me. After I use all I have I would consider them too for a spot on my skin care shelf 😄It took me months to work through the 2 Prevage Face Cleanser (these were to harsh for my face so became body washes) and the Ceramide Face Wash (gentle and supposed to cut through make up and sunscreen but I didn't feel it did a very good job of either at the end of the day) I will not be purchasing.I enjoyed everyone of those face masks 🤩 is wonderful, repurchasing it again of course From my foils, once I'm through my stock pile *eep* of moisturizers the is on my serious to consider daily moisturizer list. But I have lots to finish and go through before I get it. I want to get everything gone and used and be more mindful of what I get and keep in my home. This has been my goal since January and it's been great using things up, my collection of trials and foils was getting big and were fabulous and worth repurchasing for me. After I use all I have I would consider them too for a spot on my skin care shelf Happy April everyone, good luck emptying 😄

Yes!!! I saw the same in Us, so sad, I rather buying on each website, because I can get more products … so sad

Thank you for sharring the sale @Titian06 😄

@CookieGirl1 The polishes you've shown off from her brand in theShow Me Your Nails 2.0 thread have been very eye catching. I may have gone to her site a few times to browse 😉

I love the flowers so much! @JoSometimes this turned out awesome 😄🩷

You're so welcome! 🩷

Yay, I'm glad to see you're enjoying your Glossier Cloud Paint shades, @GeorginaBT! Cloud Paints are still my favorite cream blushes. 🙂 And wow, it's been a looong time since I last posted in a monthly faves thread. Here's what I loved most in March: Showing the empty Abib box because the cleanser bar was wet—because I did my PM skincare routine before taking this photo.Swatches and details: SpoilerI keep forgetting to post in monthly faves threads lately. Abib Calming Facial Soap Heartleaf Stone - I tested this fragrance-free cleanser nightly all month long and I'm 100% in love with it. First time I used it, my face felt almost too clean—nearing that dangerous “squeaky clean” feel—while I rinsed the cleanser off (it rinses off easily), so I was worried. But immediately after, my skin felt soft and lightly moisturized, not coated with a film or residue but also not dry or tight at all. It costs more than my usual PM cleanser (CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser Bar) but I'll have to repurchase it, lest my facial skin rebel. 😄 I’m tracking how long this bar lasts; there’s a chance it’ll outlast the CeraVe bar, despite being smaller (100g vs 128g), and that could help justify the extra cost. Meanwhile, I’ll still use the CeraVe bar on the rest of my body. Ingredient nerd-out: SpoilerMy skin LOVES houttuynia cordata, aka heartleaf plant. I discovered that the first time I used Abib’s Heartleaf Fit mask, which is still my favorite sheet mask ever. That ingredient’s also in this cleanser bar, in 2 forms: powder and extract. Heartleaf is antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, humectant, and antibacterial. This powerhouse ingredient calms my skin nicely. This cleanser bar contains several other skin soothers: purslane (also an excellent antioxidant), honeysuckle, marshmallow leaf, rosemary extract, and yerba mate. It also contains 3 oils (jojoba, linseed, and sweet almond) and several surfactants—which isn’t bad since none of those surfactants are very harsh. The oils make this bar emollient and rather slippery when wet; don’t ask how many times I’ve dropped it. 😄 It creates a richly emollient lather, making it a joy to use. I know some folks need fragrance to make a cleanser enjoyable; for me, texture and rinsability matter more. Abib’s Heartleaf Stone knocks that outta the park. I hope they never discontinue or drastically reformulate this cleanser bar. It’s perfect for me. Laura Mercier High Vibe Lip Color, shade Pop - in the March hauls thread, I called this the perfect substitute for Urban Decay Vice bullet shade Firebird—one of my favorite lipstick shades that didn’t carry over to UD’s Vice reformulation. I think I like Pop even more than Firebird: Pop has a stronger blurple flip and doesn’t bleed/feather at all. Here's the swatch photo I posted in the March hauls thread: Lipstick swatches, including my old UD Vice Firebird to compare with LM Pop.Sonia G. Mini Keyaki Buffer - Sonia wasn’t exaggerating when she called this saikoho goat brush magical. I use it to apply the next 2 items on this list, especially when I want to tone down a too-shiny sunscreen or mask a zinc oxide SPF white cast. I don’t need to worry about this buffer brush moving my sunscreen around: it has just the right density to fluffiness ratio to make buffing powders a breeze. If/when I restart travel, this brush will always accompany me. But I’ll also keep using it at home, along with my other Mini Keyaki brushes. Using these brushes always reminds me of taiko drums and Japanese temples, 2 things keyaki wood’s often used to build. That connection makes using the brushes very calming and peaceful to me. SEPHORA COLLECTION MicroSmooth Baked Powder Foundation 40 Tan - a mineral powder foundation that gives me sheer coverage and a natural skin finish, without caking up on my face. It blurs the lines between my skin tones, but I use it mostly to mask a sunscreen cast or shiny finish. MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural, shade Medium Deep - another mineral powder foundation offering sheer to medium coverage. I use it the same way as the Sephora MicroSmooth foundation. Swatch comparison of both powder foundations, for the heck of it: I’d swatch ‘em on my hand but, um, you wouldn’t be able to see them. 😄Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder 7 - I use this on and around my nose to tone down surface redness and help control oil. My favorite application method is to tap and gently press-blend it onto my skin with a finger since I don’t cover my whole face with it. This balm is better than cream/liquid foundation, concealer, and powder foundation for this part of my face (my oily zone) and needs no setting powder. Laura Geller Baked Blush-n-Brighten Marbleized Blush, shade Sunswept - completely forgot I had this until March, when I randomly found it and tried it as a perimeter hyperpigmentation warmer. It’s been quite good at that for my specific skin tones. Since it’s shimmery (but not what I’d call straight-up highlighter shimmery), it also brightens that skin. Butter London - I use 1 of these 3 products + a top coat on my “bare nails” days (when I’m giving my nails a break from nail polish or too tired to give myself a full manicure): Jelly Preserve, shades Victoria Plum and Strawberry Rhubarb - sheer washes of color that can also act as color-tweaking base coats. Mellow the Yellow Nail Brightening Treatment - moderately color-corrects yellowing. Also, its sheer iridescent pearl + violet looks very pretty on its own. Boy Smells Violet Ends - the first Boy Smells fragrance I ever bought. On me, it’s a peppery tobacco spiced leather + iris + violet, with some bergamot, a fruity sweetness (probably the rhubarb Boy Smells says is in there), a wood note (not cedar or sandalwood), some olibanum, and a hint of black tea. It begins as your favorite sassy aunt or uncle, wearing their decades-old leather jacket and filling their tobacco pipe, handing you an open tin of loose leaf bergamot black tea and telling you to take a slice of the freshly baked rhubarb pie on their kitchen table beside a pepper grinder and a vase of violets and irises. It dries down to you and that same relative swapping “remember when" stories while lounging on an old leather sofa in front of a lit fireplace after sunset, warm pipe smoke in the air, more violets and irises on the coffee table, crickets chirping somewhere in the night. I keep forgetting to post in monthly faves threads lately. Abib Calming Facial Soap Heartleaf Stone - I tested this fragrance-free cleanser nightly all month long and I'm 100% in love with it. First time I used it, my face felt almost too clean—nearing that dangerous “squeaky clean” feel—while I rinsed the cleanser off (it rinses off easily), so I was worried. But immediately after, my skin felt soft and lightly moisturized, not coated with a film or residue but also not dry or tight at all. It costs more than my usual PM cleanser (CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser Bar) but I'll have to repurchase it, lest my facial skin rebel. I’m tracking how long this bar lasts; there’s a chance it’ll outlast the CeraVe bar, despite being smaller (100g vs 128g), and that could help justify the extra cost. Meanwhile, I’ll still use the CeraVe bar on the rest of my body. Ingredient nerd-out: My skin LOVES houttuynia cordata, aka heartleaf plant. I discovered that the first time I used Abib’s Heartleaf Fit mask, which is still my favorite sheet mask ever. That ingredient’s also in this cleanser bar, in 2 forms: powder and extract. Heartleaf is antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, humectant, and antibacterial. This powerhouse ingredient calms my skin nicely. This cleanser bar contains several other skin soothers: purslane (also an excellent antioxidant), honeysuckle, marshmallow leaf, rosemary extract, and yerba mate. It also contains 3 oils (jojoba, linseed, and sweet almond) and several surfactants—which isn’t bad since none of those surfactants are very harsh. The oils make this bar emollient and rather slippery when wet; don’t ask how many times I’ve dropped it. It creates a richly emollient lather, making it a joy to use. I know some folks need fragrance to make a cleanser enjoyable; for me, texture and rinsability matter more. Abib’s Heartleaf Stone knocks that outta the park. I hope they never discontinue or drastically reformulate this cleanser bar. It’s perfect for me. Laura Mercier High Vibe Lip Color, shade Pop - in the March hauls thread, I called this the perfect substitute for Urban Decay Vice bullet shade Firebird—one of my favorite lipstick shades that didn’t carry over to UD’s Vice reformulation. I think I like Pop even more than Firebird: Pop has a stronger blurple flip and doesn’t bleed/feather at all. Here's the swatch photo I posted in the March hauls thread: Lipstick swatches, including my old UD Vice Firebird to compare with LM Pop.Sonia G. Mini Keyaki Buffer - Sonia wasn’t exaggerating when she called this saikoho goat brush magical. I use it to apply the next 2 items on this list, especially when I want to tone down a too-shiny sunscreen or mask a zinc oxide SPF white cast. I don’t need to worry about this buffer brush moving my sunscreen around: it has just the right density to fluffiness ratio to make buffing powders a breeze. If/when I restart travel, this brush will always accompany me. But I’ll also keep using it at home, along with my other Mini Keyaki brushes. Using these brushes always reminds me of taiko drums and Japanese temples, 2 things keyaki wood’s often used to build. That connection makes using the brushes very calming and peaceful to me. - a mineral powder foundation that gives me sheer coverage and a natural skin finish, without caking up on my face. It blurs the lines between my skin tones, but I use it mostly to mask a sunscreen cast or shiny finish. MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural, shade Medium Deep - another mineral powder foundation offering sheer to medium coverage. I use it the same way as the Sephora MicroSmooth foundation. Swatch comparison of both powder foundations, for the heck of it: I’d swatch ‘em on my hand but, um, you wouldn’t be able to see them. 😄 - I use this on and around my nose to tone down surface redness and help control oil. My favorite application method is to tap and gently press-blend it onto my skin with a finger since I don’t cover my whole face with it. This balm is better than cream/liquid foundation, concealer, and powder foundation for this part of my face (my oily zone) and needs no setting powder. Laura Geller Baked Blush-n-Brighten Marbleized Blush, shade Sunswept - completely forgot I had this until March, when I randomly found it and tried it as a perimeter hyperpigmentation warmer. It’s been quite good at that for my specific skin tones. Since it’s shimmery (but not what I’d call straight-up highlighter shimmery), it also brightens that skin. Butter London - I use 1 of these 3 products + a top coat on my “bare nails” days (when I’m giving my nails a break from nail polish or too tired to give myself a full manicure): Jelly Preserve, shades Victoria Plum and Strawberry Rhubarb - sheer washes of color that can also act as color-tweaking base coats. Mellow the Yellow Nail Brightening Treatment - moderately color-corrects yellowing. Also, its sheer iridescent pearl + violet looks very pretty on its own. Boy Smells Violet Ends - the first Boy Smells fragrance I ever bought. On me, it’s a peppery tobacco spiced leather + iris + violet, with some bergamot, a fruity sweetness (probably the rhubarb Boy Smells says is in there), a wood note (not cedar or sandalwood), some olibanum, and a hint of black tea. It begins as your favorite sassy aunt or uncle, wearing their decades-old leather jacket and filling their tobacco pipe, handing you an open tin of loose leaf bergamot black tea and telling you to take a slice of the freshly baked rhubarb pie on their kitchen table beside a pepper grinder and a vase of violets and irises. It dries down to you and that same relative swapping “remember when" stories while lounging on an old leather sofa in front of a lit fireplace after sunset, warm pipe smoke in the air, more violets and irises on the coffee table, crickets chirping somewhere in the night.