Empties - V2

[scott1201]

Seeing product empties is so satisfying 🙂

Post your weekly, monthly, quarterly, whenever-ly empties and let us know how you felt about them!

Previous Empties thread:

Spoiler

https://community.sephora.com/t5/Insiders/Empties/m-p/589003

[itsfi]

@JoSometimes, Always nice to see a bunch of skincare. The Avene sounds like a wonderful moisturizer for the colder months. That brand is underrated. 

[JoSometimes]

@itsfi My wife likes Avene. She  switched to some of their cleansers after Farmacy Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm left Canada. She has the exact opposite skin as me, oily and non-sensitive, so our skincare routines don’t overlap much. 

The Avene moisturizer was also helpful in taming a flare up on my girls. As much as I hoped they wouldn’t inherit my skin, sadly, they did. 

[CookieGirl1]

You went through a lot of stuff, @JoSometimes!  

[JoSometimes]

Thanks @CookieGirl1! Some of these are from a while back. I just never got to posting right away. I already have a few more empties but I’ll wait until next time.

[Cissy63]

@JoSometimes  Oh awesome job finishing so many different types of products 😀

[JoSometimes]

Thank you @Cissy63! I usually take my empties out more often but I got busy/lazy over the past few weeks. 😅

[ather]

@JoSometimes  Wow! Great job!! Too bad you got the wrong brow pencil but good for you to finish it. 

[JoSometimes]

@ather Brows have become the bare minimum makeup before heading out the door. I did appreciate the lightness on those bare-minimum, no-time-to-do-anything-more kind of days. 

[ather]

@JoSometimes  I definitely need to learn from you! Why is my brows my most hated part of makeup!! Maybe because I can never make them look the same 🧐

[JoSometimes]

@ather There’s a few brow mapping tutorials on YouTube. The one I like is How To: EASY 3 Point Eyebrow Mapping by Smiths Deepak. She uses a straight edge like a pencil to mark certain points on her brows and then uses that as a guide on where to pluck or trim.

I don’t take it that far, I just use the points she suggests as a guide on where my own brows start, arch, and tail off. Mapping it out definitely helps keep everything symmetrical. I usually define the bottom, arch, and tail of my brows, then fill in wherever it’s sparse. I use the spoolie end to blend out any harsh lines. I used to us my pencil to make my marks and then blend them out but now I can eyeball it well enough.

[ather]

@JoSometimes  Thanks for the tips! I’ll try that YouTube out! 

[Samtian]

@JoSometimes Wooo dang great job!!

[JoSometimes]

Thank you @Samtian! It was a lot of collecting and forgetting to post. 😅

[makeitup305]

What an awesome empties collection @JoSometimes ! It's awesome you had so many loves this time around.

[JoSometimes]

@makeitup305 Most of the loves are repurchases or repurchases. Once I know something works for me, it’s hard to let it good. 

[CynthieLu]

This is fantastic @JoSometimes you did get a huge grouping here! I've tried a few things from Avene and enjoyed them as well, and similarly I also wish they were more affordable. But especially if my skin was angry, Avene is something I know won't trigger me in my most sensitive state. 🙏

[JoSometimes]

@CynthieLu This is what happens when I keep forgetting to bring my empties to get recycled… 😅

Avene and Aveeno have both been good to me too. They’re safe bets when my skin is angry with me. 

[CynthieLu]

Shoppers has given me quite a few good samples over the years for brands like Avene etc.. I like talking to the sales people there. Especially if I mention my skin issues, they sometimes throw in helpful foils for me to try. I don't know if you have much luck but I always appreciate when they are generous with the samples. 💕🙏 @JoSometimes 

[JoSometimes]

@CynthieLu I need to get to know the advisors at my local Shoppers. I don’t know why, but they intimidate me more than the ones at Sephora…

I kind of know one person who wears the typical blue shirt and not the black outfits that the beauty advisors get to wear. I complimented them on their makeup once and we got to chatting about beauty stuff. I think they could do a great job in the beauty section. They usually work late though, so I don’t bump into them often.  

[Samtian]

Posting a little early because I'll be busy until the end of the year. 

2023- 132/100
2023- 61 Destashes

Happy I made my goal, passed last years numbers as well! Except destashes was 2 less, but that's ok. It's still progress.

Can't wait for next year! I'm going to try to be better at saying why I put things in the category I put them in.

Love-
Santa Bomb Bath Bomb

Ok-
BURBERRY My Burberry 
Farmacy Lip Bloom Apple Rosemary 
BBW Plump Lipiscious
HdP 1926

No Opinion-
rms Beauty Mascara 

Kylie KoKo K lipliner- was very good but kinda got destroyed in the lid. Well used.
Glow Recipe Mask- White growth
Profusion Casper Highlighter- Too glittery
CT Cleopatra Cream Eyeshadow- Drying out. It's a bummer this was discontinued. 
I love Peach Passionfruit butter- smell has gone bad.

[Samtian]

Thanks everyone!