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August 2026 Empties with Product Reviews
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items Hi there! Welcome to August's edition of Empties with Product Reviews! August was an insane month for empties - I finished 43 products in August!! But I had a LOT of products I did NOT finish - be sure to checkout why! Listed below is everything I finished in August along with my brutally honest review of the product. I also indicate what size product I used u...
Sections
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Makeup
Skincare
Body Products
Hair Products
Perfumes
Products I Did NOT Finish!
Makeup
All the makeup I finished.
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Benefit Cosmetics BADgal BANG! BIGGER, BADDER volumizing mascara. I finished a mini. This is one of the best mascaras I've ever tried, and defienetly my favorite one from Benefit. I love that the wand wiggles and moves with y...
BADgal BANG! BIGGER, BADDER volumizing mascara
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Tarte shape tape™ stay spray vegan setting spray. I finished a mini/sample size. I really liked this! It is a very wet spray, and it does take a while to dry down. I liked using it to set my cream products before I applied powde...
shape tape™ stay spray vegan setting spray
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Maybelline Lasting Drama® Matte Waterproof Eyeliner. This is my favorite drugstore eyeliner for my waterline. I only use it on my waterline, and it works so well! It bleeds a little but not too bad. I love the packaging, I like th...
Lasting Drama® Matte Waterproof Eyeliner
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Fenty Grip Trip Mattifying + Blurring Primer. I finished a mini. I wanted to make sure I liked it before buying the full size, and I loved it! This is such a great primer. I prefer matte makeup, so this is mattifying, but also...
Grip Trip Mattifying + Blurring Primer - FENTY ...
❌ This is the Clinique Lash Power™ Tubing Mascara Long-Wearing Formula. I did not finish this, and I don't think I ever actually used this, so I can't give it a true review. By the time I went to use it, it was SO dried out, past the point of use. I ...
Lash Power™ Tubing Mascara Long-Wearing Formula
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the YSL Lash Clash Mascara. I LOVE this mascara!! It is one of my all time favorites. This is pricy but so worth it (I got a full size pack of 2 for a really good deal during Black Friday). It gives SO much volume and insane lengt...
Mascara Lash Clash - YSL Beauté
❌ ⭐️⭐️This is the Iconic London Prep-Set-Glow Spray. I finished a mini. I had this for so long, I don't even remember where I got it from. This to me is basically fragranced water and glitter in a bottle, not a setting spray. I don't think I ever put...
Prep-Set-Glow - ICONIC London
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Tarte Double Duty Beauty Base Tape Hydrating Primer. I finished a mini/sample size of this. I really liked it! I liked it enough that I'm going to add this to my list of favorite primers. It is super ultra hydrating! It's almo...
Tarte Double Duty Beauty Base Tape Hydrating Primer
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the about-face Curtain Call - Set & Smooth Loose Powder. I finished this in shade Finale, which is a super bright pink shade. It is NOT a light pink, more of a hot pink. This took me a year and a half to finish. There is a lot o...
about-face Curtain Call - Set & Smooth Loose Powder
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the TIRTIR Mask Fit AI Filter Cushion. I actually bought the red one way before this one, and ended up finishing this one way faster! I will say, the shade match for this one was better than the red one, but still WAY too yellow for m...
Mask Fit AI Filter Cushion - TIRTIR
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Anastasia Beverly Hills Clear Brow Gel. I finished a mini. I got this in a Sephora Favorites kit in April, and I've used this nonstop ever since. This says it has a medium hold, and I disagree - this has a VERY strong hold! My b...
Clear Brow Gel
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Huda Beauty #FauxFilter Color Corrector in shade Peach. I finished a mini. This is such a good color corrector! I got this as a free sample from Sephora, and this lasted me SO long! Peach was too dark for me though, so I mixed i...
Mini #FauxFilter Color Corrector
Skincare
All the skincare I finished.
❌ ⭐️⭐️ This is the Sephora Collection Micellar Cleansing Water With Postbiotics + Niacinamide. I bought the jumbo size. I had originally tried this in a mini and loved it, but I bought the full size and it broke me out so bad. I have noticed I have b...
Micellar Cleansing Water With Postbiotics + Niacinamide
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Cocokind Calming Magnesium Mist. I refuse to do my skincare - day or night - without this! This is the most hydrating, calming spray you're doing to find. I don't care what skin condition you're dealing with, you need this. I...
COCOKIND | Calming Magnesium Facial Mist
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the PEACH & LILY Glass Skin Ginseng Collagen Mask. I finished 1 mask - and I LOVED it!!! This was sent to me from Peach & Lily as a free gift, and I am obsessed with it! I love masks like these, but this is by far the best...
PEACH & LILY Glass Skin Ginseng Collagen Mask
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the I Dew Care Time Warp Sheet Mask | Firming & Rejuvenating Mask. I finished one mask. I LOVE the I Dew Care masks! They make really nice, affordable masks that actually work and don't irritate my skin. My skin drank this up ...
Time Warp Sheet Mask | Firming & Rejuvenating Mask
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Peach Slices Fix All Recovery Spray. This was a gift sent to me from Peach & Lily. I went through this SO fast! I liked it. I use a hypochlorous acid spray every morning and every night, no matter what. This is only 4 oz, so I...
Peach Slices - 4.0 oz Fix All Recovery Spray
❌ ⭐️This is the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I finished a jumbo. I ended up with a bunch of these a few years ago because I bought a few really amazing Clinique gift sets during Black Friday. I am not a fan of this on my face. It irritat...
Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Anua Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil. This is my favorite cleansing oil! It doesn't clog my pores, it gets ALL my makeup off (including waterproof mascara), it doesn't break me out, and it's super affordable! I usually pr...
6.76 oz Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil - ANUA | Ulta Beauty
❌ ⭐️This is the Cocokind Chlorophyll Discoloration Correcting Serum. This is the second bottle I've gone through, and I didn't notice a difference in my dark spots or acne scars at all. The serum smells SO bad! I couldn't really get past that. And th...
Chlorophyll Discoloration Correcting Serum | Dark Spot Serum
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Purcell 24/7 Colostrum Pore Defence Ampoule. My friend Christie sent this over to me in February, and I have been using it nonstop ever since! I LOVED this mist! It is super cold and cooling, and full of amazing ingredients for...
Purcell 24/7 Colostrum Pore Defence Ampoule - Landing International | Ulta Beauty
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Lawless Forget the Filler Oil-Free Skin-Plumping Line Smoothing Perfecting Cream. I finished a mini. I really loved this! The mini packaging is SO deceiving though, it looks like there's a lot more product in there than there ac...
Forget the Filler Oil-Free Skin-Plumping Line Smoothing Perfecting Cream
Body Products
All the body products I finished.
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Tree Hut Daily Moisturizing Scrub in Cinnamon Dolce. This instantly became one of my favorite body care products of all time! I immediately repurchased this once I ran out of it. This is SO hydrating and not stripping at all....
Tree Hut Daily Moisturizing Scrub, Cinnamon
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Cyklar Ceramide Milky Body Essence. This is the first time I've ever used a milky essence on my body, and I LOVED it!! This is basically a milky toner for your body. It is unscented which I love because then I can layer my sc...
Ceramide Milky Body Essence For Firm, Soft, Glowing Skin
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This is the Hanni Splash Salve.
I LOVE this!! This is one of my favorite body products ever. It's $36 and I literally do not care (although I wish it came in a bigger container). This is THICK, but feels SO nice! After you do everythin...
Splash Salve - Hanni
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Tarte sugar rush™ whipped body butter. I finished a mini. This is the second one I've gone through. I think I got this from Ipsy a really long time ago. It smells so good, very sweet smelling, but doesn't smell like cake butter in...
sugar rush™ whipped body butter
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the method Deodorant 24 Hour Odor Protection in Coco Twist. I liked this a lot! I have sensitive skin and use the method detergent, so I had to give this a try! It is a thick formula, and leaves behind a little bit of a white cast, ...
method Deodorant Coco Twist 24Hr Protection
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the eos Vanilla Cashmere Shave Oil. I liked this a lot! I usually use the Tree Hut shave oil, but I wanted to give this one a try. I will say this is a lot thicker than the Tree Hut one. I feel like my razor gets full of product fas...
eos Vanilla Cashmere Shave Oil | Ultra-Hydrating Oil for ...
❌ ⭐️This is the Amande (Almond) Shower Oil by L'Occitane en Provence. I finished a mini, and I HATED everything about this! I don't understand how people love this. This is the worst body wash I've ever used. It smells terrible. It does not lather at...
Amande (Almond) Shower Oil | L'Occitane en Provence
Hair Products
All the hair products I finished.
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the aussie Instant Volume Hair Spray. aussie makes really awesome, affordable hair products! This took me like 2 years to finish because I usually just spray a little bit on my bangs to keep them in place. This never weighed my h...
Instant Volume Hair Spray
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the EVA-NYC Mane Magic 10-in-1 Primer Heat Protectant. This is the second bottle I've gone through and I like it a lot! I hate this new packaging, the pump broke halfway through using it and wouldn't go back on so I had to transfer ...
Mane Magic 10-in-1 Primer Heat Protectant
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Not Your Mother's aura boost Anti-Frizz Shampoo. This is part of their rebrand. I finished the conditioner in July. I LOVE NYM and have yet to find a product I don't like from them. This smells incredible! It smells like a luxur...
aura boost Anti-Frizz Shampoo
Perfumes
All the one time perfume samples I finished!
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the Jimmy Choo I Want Choo Eau De Parfum. I finished a one time use sample. This fragrance is described as a “Floral Warm & Spicy Fragrance, with the key notes being: Top notes - Mandarine Juice, Velvet Peach, Middle notes - R...
Jimmy Choo I Want Choo Eau De Parfum 100ml | Fragrance
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the The 7 Virtues Coconut Sun Eau de Parfum. I finished a one time use sample. This is a fresh scent, with notes of Coconut, Frangipani, and Vanilla. Sephora's website describes it as “A sun-soaked blend of coconut water, frangipa...
The 7 Virtues Coconut Sun Eau de Parfum
✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is the CHANCE EAU SPLENDIDE Eau de Parfum Spray. I finished a one time use sample size. I LOVED this! The best way I can describe this is it smells expensive. It lasted ALL day too! Ulta's website describes this fragrance this way: “...
CHANCE EAU SPLENDIDE
Products I Did NOT Finish!
All the products I did NOT finish and why, beacuse the why is important!!
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This is the Glow Recipe Dew Shield SPF 30 Hydrating Fluid Sunscreen.
I am so sad about this, but I did not finish it! I LOVED this! It is the perfect milky, silky, smooth SPF you will ever find. But it burned my eyes SO badly!! I started out...
Dew Shield SPF 30 Hydrating Fluid Sunscreen - Glow Recipe | Sephora
❌ ⭐️ This is MERIT Great Skin Instant Glow Serum. I got a mini of this in a Sephora Favorites set and I did NOT finish this! I absolutely hated this. It makes my skin feel SO greasy and slimy. But I noticed that it also made my makeup look super oily...
MERIT Great Skin Instant Glow Serum with Niacinamide ...
❌ ⭐️This is the Milani Conceal + Perfect Blur Out Smoothing Primer. I did NOT finish this. This is the worst primer I've ever used. This has a cooling/burning effect to it that I absolutely hate. It burned my eyes SO bad when I put it on, but then it...
Conceal + Perfect Blur Out Smoothing Primer
❌ ⭐️This is the L'Oreal Paris Faux Brow. I did NOT finish this! I have come to hate all brow pens, but this is by far the worst, and I hate saying that because I LOVE L'Oreal products!! Every time I tried to use this it was super dried out (even afte...
L'Oreal Paris Faux Brow Hair-Like Eyebrow Pen
❌ ⭐️This is the Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask. I did NOT finish this. I HATED this! First off, I hate the aluminum packaging this comes in. It's so hard to get all the product out, and sometimes it breaks along the sides and product oozes out. Second, ...
Jet Lag Mask - Summer Fridays
❌ ⭐️This is the Maybelline Superfluff™ Brow Mousse. I did NOT finish this! This is the worst brow product I've ever used. This is such a mess. I thought I'd be able to just brush on my brows and go, and that is not the case. It gets EVERYWHERE, and s...
Superfluff™ Brow Mousse For Fluffy Eyebrows
❌ ⭐️This is the belif Moisturizing Bomb Toner with Ceramide. I did NOT finish this either. I had this in a mini, and I used as much of it as I could before calling it quits. It was so hard to get the product out of the super small opening I had to sh...
belif Moisturizing Bomb Toner with Ceramide
❌ ⭐️This is the Hanyul Yuja Brightening Sleeping Mask & Moisturizer. I did NOT finish this. I got a mini in a Sephora Favorites kit, and my skin hated this. I cannot handle vitamin C or niacinamide, and this has both. This broke me out SO bad, wh...
Korean Yuja Brightening Sleeping Mask & Moisturizer with ...