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

[Samtian]

@vallyyyyy Who you slayed! I can barely get through one perfume sample...every 4 months haha. 

[vallyyyyy]

@Samtian Thank you! I try to use them first before my full sized perfumes, helps to get rid of them faster! Same with all products, I try to use minis and samples before full sizes just to get them used and out of the way! 

[CookieGirl1]

Honestly, I liked almost everything (which rarely happens)!

[Mellmars1185]

@CookieGirl1 Such a great month of empties! Especially that you enjoyed everything you used up!

[itsfi]

@CookieGirl1, I always want dessert of some kind when I see your B&BW candle hauls/empties.

[CookieGirl1]

@itsfi I love a yummy scented candle!  I'll pick a dessert-ish candle over a sophisticated-smelling one any day.

[ather]

@CookieGirl1  Amazing job!

[Samtian]

@CookieGirl1 Wow great job! What perfume samples is that?

[vallyyyyy]

Love the scent Strawberry Pound cake!! The lawless lip gloss is so good!!

[lmaster]

Mint cookie cone sounds so good @CookieGirl1 

[CookieGirl1]

@lmaster It was really good.

[caitbird]

@CookieGirl1  awesome empties! I'm glad almost all of them were likes/loves, that's such a great feeling!

[caitbird]

April empties! April was a pretty good month for empties, I'm pretty happy with how much I managed to get through this month.

April 2025 empties: 25 (15 full size, 7 minis/deluxe samples, 3 foils)

Loves:

💜Burt's Bees Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment - I have been using this for like 10 years, it works really well for me. I've lost track of how many I've gone through. I need to pick up a replacement!

💜Tree Hut Strawberry Shea Sugar Scrub

💜Facetory Soothin' Vibes Body Serum - I believe this is discontinued, and I'm very sad about it, I absolutely would have repurchased 😢

💜 Living Proof Perfect hair Day (PhD) Advanced Clean Dry Shampoo   - I prefer the original (my 🐐) but this one is really good also

Likes:

👍Burt's Bees Cranberry Spritz Lip Balm

👍Benton Snail Bee High Content Essence - I prefer the COSRX Snail Mucin Essence slightly more, but this is good too

👍 Glossier Super Bounce Hyaluronic Acid + Vitamin B5 Hydrating Face Serum 1 oz / 30 mL   - this is good but there are other good ones that are less expensive

👍Timeless 20% Vitamin C Serum - my current favorite vitamin C serum, I feel it works well for me

👍eos Shea Better 24hr Moisture Fragrance-Free Body Lotion - good inexpensive, unscented lotion

👍Glossier Orange Blossom Neroli candle

👍Glossier You candle

👍Shy Wolf "Enigma" candle - shame this one is OOAK and I can't repurchase lol

Meh:

😐Provence Beauty No Baggage Adaptogen Eye Cream - hydrating, but nothing special IMO

😐 Elemis Pro-Collagen Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm   - did not like the scent of this

😐 CLINIQUE Take The Day Off™ Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm   - fine, but I prefer other cleansing balms

😐Glossier Sandstone candle - compared to the other two Glossier candles, the throw of this one was lackluster

Horrible/Hall of Shame:

😬Function of Beauty Leave-in Conditioner - hated it, it's not quite finished as you can see but I just couldn't bring myself to do it anymore. I have another full bottle bc I forgot to cancel my subscription, but I might just toss it. I hate to waste but this is really unpleasant to use 😓

Fine/no particular opinion: everything else

April 2025 declutters: 5 (4 full size, 1 mini)

The 3 compacts were all smashed 😭 and making a mess everywhere, so they had to go. I've already replaced the Milani baked blush & Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Positive Light Silky Touch Highlighter Enlighten , still have to get a replacement for the Smashbox x Becca highlighter (Champagne Pop). The LANEIGE Glowy Makeup Serum 1.0 oz/ 30 mL   was one of my first purchases from Sephora and I just didn't feel like it was doing anything for me. The e.l.f. Halo Glow Filter is the wrong shade for me unfortunately.

I have to do a bigger declutter still, but maybe in May I'll get to that.

[Mellmars1185]

@caitbird Wow so many empties! I am glad to hear the Burt's Bee's Tea Tree oil is working well for you. I find with all of the new releases it is hard for me to stick to something that works well. I will make note of this for when I am done my current stash of acne products. How was the scent on your Clinique Cleansing Balm?

[itsfi]

Wowwy @caitbird, you did an amazing job working through your beauty items! 😍 Seeing the Clinique TTDO balm brought back some fond memories for me - that was my introduction to cleansing balms! That's good to know about the Timeless Vitamin C serum. 

[ather]

@caitbird  Wow great job!! Too bad about the conditioner. I wonder if you could repurpose it as a shaving cream?

[vallyyyyy]

Loved the sample of the Sol De Janeiro shower oil! What were your thoughts?

[lmaster]

Wow!!! Impressed absolutely @caitbird 

[caitbird]

@lmaster  thank you so much! 💜

[CookieGirl1]

@caitbird wow, so much stuff!  I'm sorry that you had a handful of things that just didn't work out, though--that's never fun ☹️

[caitbird]

@CookieGirl1  thank you! Well, it's probably inevitable that some of them were misses, and at least the majority of this batch were likes/loves for me.