It looks like we all had a good year with our empties @lmaster 👍 Looking forward to seeing everyone's work this year.

Makeup is pretty subjective @audrian , so I'll list things I know I love, but if you're interested, try to get your hands on minis or samples. You also sound like a combo skin person, so are there any specifics you're looking for in skincare (like a moisturizer for example) that someone else might be able to steer/rec for you. DIOR Forever Glow Star Filter Multi-Use Complexion Enhancing Booster 4N Laneige Neo Blurring PowderDanessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Mattifying Water Powder Serum with Niacinamide and Hyaluronic Acid 1.01 oz / 30 ml Supergoop! 100% Mineral (Re)setting Powder Face Sunscreen SPF 35 Gucci Brume de Beauté Beauty Mist 2.7 oz / 80 mL DIOR Forever Glow Maximizer Longwear Liquid Highlighter 017 Nude Dr. Jart+ Vital Hydra Solution™ Water Cream Glow Moisturizer with Hyaluronic Acid 1.69 oz / 50 mL PAT McGRATH LABS Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Legendary Glow Setting Spray 3.38 fl oz/100 mL These are also fab, but I think the upsalite makes me breakout, my skin is moody like that, so it may not be a factor for you Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Liquid Blurring Balm Mattifying Setting Spray 3.3 oz/100 mL Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder -Universal Primer Universal Radiant We also have this thread you might wanna check out 👇🏽🥇🏆🥈🥉🏅 THE HOLY GRAIL THREAD And there's always a monthly favorites thread towards the end of the month, this is last month's 👇🏽Monthly Favorites: December 2025 Edition!

Going to take a slightly different approach to my capsules this year, at least for the first three months of the year, on a trial basis: Instead of curating my weekly capsules from my entire makeup collection, at the beginning of the month, I'll put together a group of products that I'll use as my pool of products from which I will curate my weekly capsules for that month. This monthly pool of products will be larger in size than a typical weekly capsule but much smaller than my entire collection. My intention here is to provide myself some opportunities to see what size capsule (and what number and mix of each category of products - foundation, blush, eyeshadow, lipstick, etc.) gives me the variety I need to put together a variety of looks. I may elect once a month to curate a one of the weekly capsules with products from one brand (or 80%) of my capsule from one brand. I'm including this option to offer up a change from what will be the new capsule routine and also to provide me an opportunity to use all my products from one brand for looks throughout a particular week. Other than when I started wearing a semi-full face of makeup for the first time (and didn't really have any products except for a few (6 or 7) products from one brand), my makeup look has never been made up of just one brand. I'm not sure how many brands I can do this with but I guess we'll find out. We'll also find out if I can see myself just having my makeup (or most of it) be from one brand. I'll assess how this new approach is working out for me at the end of March; if it's something I'd like to continue with, I'll extend the trial run for another 3 months. If not, then I'll go back to curating my weekly capsules as I have in the past, pulling products from the whole of my collection. Why extend it just for 3 months? That would take me through June. I tend to wear less makeup in general in July, August and September so my makeup routine/looks don't require more than a handful of pieces. I'll probably come up with something different for those months, but haven't really thought through that. The pool of products I will draw from (for the most part) for January's capsules: I will occasionally swap out something from this set for another similar product, either to meet a capsule them, to work towards using up a product, or for some other reason. I'll keep those instances to a minimum because I really do want to see what a good "capsule" size for me would be. For January, we have 41 products which took me by surprise; at the same time, I look at these items and feel like I could have added a couple of more products. 😬

I missed this too, @blackkitty2014. The colors look lovely, @Sunnysmom!

2026's capsule makeup collection challenge is up - Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2026. I'll populate it with themes for the whole of January before 1.5.2026.

You forgot La Roche Posay too!

I loveee she’s a doll

No @tsavorite and I’m very curious as well! Love to hear if anyone has! I was going to try the original last year and they were final sale so I got spooked. 🤣 Maybe this spring some of us will have to try them.