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

[missjeanie]

Great job using what you have @Samtian !  I was a little sad to see the Bite products go.... mostly because I love mine so much and I can't bring myself to declutter them!  Cheers to a new year and beating goals again!

[Samtian]

@missjeanie Oh it's so hard tossing the Bite products!

[itsfi]

You put up some spectacular numbers in 2025 @Samtian !!! 🙌🙌 Major kudos to you for decluttering more than you did than in previous years - I feel like it gets more challenging to declutter as the years go on because there's theoretically less to be decluttered so brava to you!! 

My eyes got big and I had a good chuckle when I saw the Kora FS from 2018 on your declutter list - I'm pretty sure a few of us here, myself included, are all too familiar with coming across, ummmm, vintage, yeah vintage, beauty products in our collection. For my own sanity, I stopped keeping track of those and just counted them in the general decluttered count. 🙄😂

[Samtian]

@itsfi Thank you!

Haha if it hadn't been on it's side I probably wouldn't have noticed!

[lmaster]

You did phenomenal!! @Samtian 

[Samtian]

@lmaster Thank you!!!

[Mellmars1185]

@Samtian @Amazing job on reaching your goals!

[Samtian]

@Mellmars1185 Thank you!!!

[haleyvvvv]

Congratulations on your totals, @Samtian !! I'm so impressed at how much you've decluttered this year, kudos to you!!

[Samtian]

@haleyvvvv Thank you! It ended up feeling pretty good, sad but a good reminder.

[haleyvvvv]

Empties for the last 6 months. A little slow, but quite a few makeup products. 

Holy Grails 🏺

Spoiler

These are all favorites, if I don't have a backup already it's because my collection has too much stuff in it to justify.

• Tower 28 Beauty Jumbo SOS Daily Hypochlorous Acid Spray Refill for Breakouts & Redness 16 oz /480 mL...  - I love this not only as a nighttime most to start my routine, but anywhere in having skin irritation.
• Danessa Myricks Beauty Infinite Chrome Waterproof Micropencil Eyeliner  - these are so cool. I love the duo chrome effect with these, they're so smooth. My only gripe is that there's not a ton of product and they can get dislodged easily.
• Sol de Janeiro Delícia Drench™ Moisturizing Shower Oil for Dry Skin - This name is a bit of a misnomer. Because upon hearing oil, I was like, there's no way this will suds up and clean my body. But it does!! And it smells so good. A h/t to YouTuber Lauren May Beauty for talking about this one. I think this is my second or third bottle.
• The Dove Body Love lotion is maybe no longer made (I think it got reformulated, which I have one to test). The Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Cream was my HG for a while because of the scent, and while I still love it, after I tested this from Influenster, I've been a fan. It's so moisturizing for my dry, sensitive skin (which the SDJ doesn't do as well, despite being deliciously scented). I think I've bought like a dozen or more over the past few years. If it is discontinued I'll be sad, but I also bought the Sol de Janeiro Body Badalada™ Lotion with Hyaluronic Acid for Daily Hydration 13.52 oz/400 mL to test to see if it'll be a good replacement.
• Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder -Universal Primer Universal Radiant - once I finish my pile of foundations and primers, I will buy a full size of this. I love it for like easy makeup days or work events, to just give my skin some smoothing and glow. It's amazing how well this works in even dry skin, I find it managed to blur without looking dry.
  The REFY Brow Sculpt Shaping and Lifting Gel with Strong Hold 0.29 oz/8.5 mL is maybe overhyped. But honestly, for my bossy brows, it's been the only thing that works. It holds ALL DAY without looking crumbly. I had a bunch of other brow minis to use up, but I have her back again and I'm excited.
  The K18 Biomimetic Hairscience AirWash™ Dry Shampoo 4 oz/118 mL is also magic. The hair scientists at K18 are wizards. I love this. Yes, is it expensive. But I go through a bottle about every 6 months, whereas before I would go through an aerosol one every 1-2 months, so the price is actually pretty good.
  I like the glow the Iconic London Prep-Set-Glow Hydrating Glowy Setting Spray gives. I don't know how much it helps set, but as a finishing spray it makes my skin happy.
  PAT McGRATH LABS Dark Star Volumizing Mascara 0.43 fl oz / 13 mL but the colored editions. I got these on sale for $12 each and used them for maybe a little longer than I should have, but I'll miss not having them around. 2025 was supposed to be the year of coloured mascara, please give me something beyond brown, burgundy and a deep blue companies that I can easily access (yes, both Glisten and Question Beauty make some, but I want to buy one mascara a month for the year, not twenty colors at once in a set and pay shipping fees from Europe). 2026 pretty color mascara let's goooo.
  The The Ordinary Argireline Solution 10% for Reducing Fine Lines 1 oz/ 30 mL , Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask + Moisturizer 2.25 oz / 64 g , Sol de Janeiro Samba 2-Step Foot Fetish Care 3 oz/90 mL and SEPHORA COLLECTION Sugar Body Scrub with AHA 13.52 oz / 399 mL are all repeated faves as well

Green Lights 💚 (Would seek out again but maybe have a holy grail in that category)

 

Yellow Lights 🟡 (Would use but not seek out or necessarily repurchase)

Red Flags ❌ (A nope from me) 

Spoiler

The Sephora*Sigma Makeup Sponge Cleaner, the Dr. Althea cleaning balms aren't bad products, just terrible packaging. The Beekman and Glow Recipe both have bad packaging and were meh. And the brow products either didn't work at all (Patrick Ta) or fixed my brows but left them with white strings throughout (Melt). 

Decluttered 🫣

Spoiler

I went through my lipsticks the past few months and didn't have many that needed to immediately, but this Bite Capricorn and Tarter one did. The Too Faced one still was good but then the poof fell off so 🤷‍♀️.
And two moisturizers that dried out before I could use them 🫣

And my partner's skincare which helps me get GWP 

[lmaster]

Fantastic job @haleyvvvv 

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @lmaster !! 

[Mellmars1185]

@haleyvvvv Wonderful roundup! It is really eye opening to see what we actually use in half a year! I have a sample of the Sol de Janeiro oil. I am intrigued to try it out now!

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @Mellmars1185 !! It's nice to have them all together to see how much I use over a few months but also it's because I'm lazy haha.

[Samtian]

@haleyvvvv Oh wow! I agree it's awesome seeing it all together! 

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @Samtian !! It is nice seeing how much I realistically go through in that time but also sobering lol

[missjeanie]

@haleyvvvv Oh my gosh so satisfying seeing it all together!  You went through so much makeup!  I love the T28 spray as well.  I may need to look into the SDJ body oil wash as well.  If memory serves that scent was my absolute favourite, but I like the idea of a body oil wash again.  Especially in this weather!  Hope you're staying warm!

[haleyvvvv]

I think there's a mini or a kit with the body lotion and spray, @missjeanie. but you're right it's perfect for this weather and dreaming of the tropics. Hope you're also staying warm!!

[itsfi]

Yes, yes, yes for that K18 dry shampoo @haleyvvvv 💖 The longevity of a bottle of the K18 compared to aerosol dry shampoos hadn't occurred to me but you're right! I'm still working on my original bottle of the K18 dry shampoo; granted, I rotate between it and some aerosol ones that I'm just trying to use up to not waste them but it does last longer and I can go longer between uses.

Interesting about the Dr. Althea cleansing balms - did the component jam up on you or are you not a fan of the mechanism in general for dispensing the product?

[haleyvvvv]

Yes!! Not only do I use less of it, but I go longer between uses of it, which cuts down on usage compared to aerosols for me.

For the Dr. Althea, I just hate how bulky the packaging is for how little you get (50 mL), @itsfi. I feel like these each lasted me a month at most. Like I'm sure there's a ton 'extra' in there too, but I haven't like figured out how to deconstruct it to get the rest out. And I just price checked at the Farmacy one (100 mL) isn't like so much more than two of these. So I'm glad I tried them in a Style Korean box or two, but I'm not going to seek them out separately I think. To me, I don't feel like the benefits of improved 'cleanliness' or accurate usage amount are necessarily true or such that this was a necessary component to make.