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May 2026 Empties with Product Reviews

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Tori Ray

Hi there! Welcome to May’s edition of Empties with Product Reviews! I finished 29 products this month. Listed below is EVERYTHING I finished in May along with my brutally honest review of the product. I also indicate what size product I used up (I ge...

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Skincare

Makeup

Body Care

Face Masks

Hair Products

Nail Products

Skincare

All of May’s skincare empties!

❌ ⭐️⭐️ This is the Polite Society French Rose Milk. This was gifted to me, and I used it apart of morning skincare routine. I hated the way this smelled! I can be super sensitive to scents, and this has such an overpowering rose scent. Like old lady ...

French Rose Milk - Moisturizing Glaze Mist - Polite Society

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Power Calm Hydrating Gel Cleanser by Peach & Lily. This is one of my favorite cleansers of all time!! I finished up a mini. This is a gel cleanser, and typically I don’t love gel cleansers, but this one is to die for! It...

Power Calm Hydrating Gel Cleanser - Peach & Lily

❌ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Clinique Take The Day Off Facial Cleansing Mousse. I finished a mini. I HATE using this on my face. However, I LOVED using this to clean my makeup brushes and sponges! It did clean my skin, but it burns my eyes so bad when I trie...

NEW Take The Day Off™ Facial Cleansing Mousse - Clinique

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Fenty Skin Dew N Plump Intense Hydration Slushie Overnight Face Mask. So far I have only used this in a mini, but I am OBSESSED!!!! I actually got quite a few uses out of the mini. This is the most interesting texture! It l...

Dew N Plump Intense Hydration Slushie Overnight Face Mask

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Let Me Skin Deep Clearing Clay Foam. I have had this for years, and I honestly have no idea how I ended up with this. I think it came from one of my Ipsy bags, but I could be wrong. This probably expired forever ago, but it ne...

LET ME SKIN Deep Clearing Clay Foam 100ml

❌ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the I’m From Rice Toner. I finished a mini of this toner. It’s ok. It’s a milky toner, but it’s a very thin, watery consistency. But my skin drank it up immediately. It works great underneath makeup, and it didn’t break me out at all...

I'm From Rice Toner - Soko Glam

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Beauty of Joseon Day Dew Sunscreen. I finished a sample of this, so I got probably 4-5ish uses out of it. This is a very thick, milky, moisturizing SPF. I didn’t notice a scent, but this mini packaging was very difficult to ge...

Day Dew Sunscreen | Beauty of Joseon Official Store

Makeup

All the makeup I finished up this month!

❌ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the HUDA Beauty Mini Easy Bake Loose Baking & Setting Powder in shade Pound Cake. I got a mini because I’ve tried the full size of the translucent shade a few years ago and I didn’t like it, but it had been a while so I wanted to...

HUDA BEAUTY Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder MINI

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Morphe Shapelifter Micro Contour Stick. I’m shade Enhanced. This has become one of my favorite Morphe products!! I’ve never used a micro contour stick before, but this has changed the game for me! I use it every day in my ma...

Shapelifter Micro Contour Stick – Morphe US

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer. This is one of my favorite primers!! It blurs my pores so well, and my makeup lasts so much longer! My makeup looks so smooth all day long using this. I also love the packaging! Nearly ev...

Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer, 1.0 oz

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the L’Oréal Infallible Blur-fection Longwear Loose Setting Powder in shade Light Pink. I really really like this powder!! This is the perfect light pink loose powder for brightening up your under eye. Shelby Ann turned me onto this...

L'Oreal Paris Infallible Blur-fection Powder

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the MCoBeauty Miracle Flawless Pressed Powder. I’m shade Light. This is my all time favorite pressed powder!!! The color match is perfect. It’s literally only $9.99!!! It’s so affordable. It blurs and mattifies my skin effortles...

Miracle Flawless Pressed Powder – MCoBeauty US

Body Care

All the body products, including supplements & patches, I finished up this month!

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Love Wellness pH Balancing Cleanser. I LOVE this cleanser!!!! I’m on my third bottle. I’ll try to keep this as PG as possible. But if you have ever struggled with some kind of odor *down there* then this is for you. I’ve dea...

Buy pH Balanced Cleanser Jumbo | Value-Sized Vaginal Wash

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ These are the Lemme Sleep Sleep Tight Gummies. This is the first full bottle of Lemme Sleep Gummies that I’ve finished and I can never go back. I have tried EVERYTHING to go to sleep. Prescriptions, sleep studies, medicinal marijuana, v...

Lemme Sleep Gummies - 5 mg Melatonin, Magnesium & L-Theanine

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have lost count of how many of these I’ve gone through. I suffer from severe fatigue, and I am tired all the time. On days where the fatigue is extra bad, I slap one of these on. I cannot tell you how amazingly these work!! This is th...

B12 Awake Plant-Based Wellness Patch - The Good Patch | Ulta Beauty

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Cyklar Sacred Santal Sensorial Body Wash. I finished a mini. I think this is my new favorite body wash!!! I can’t even tell you how incredible this smells!! There are si many layers to this fragrance! Top - bergamot, cardamo...

Sacred Santal Sensorial Body Wash – CYKLAR

Face Masks

I love the face masks I finished this month!

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the I Dew Care Olive 'Bout You Sheet Mask, Revitalizing & Hydrating Mask. This mask is meant to calm your skin, and it does an amazing job!! My skin has been extra irritated lately due to stress, and this was exactly what my...

Olive 'Bout You Sheet Mask | Revitalizing & Hydrating Mask

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Onekind Pore-fectionist Refining Facial. I loved this mask!! This is the only product I’ve tried from Onekind, but I really liked it! I’ve had this for years, I got it in one of my Ipsy boxes at some point, and I have a lot of...

Pore-fectionist - Onekind

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the I Dew Care Un-Wind Sheet Mask. This is a calming and soothing mask. I love all the I Dew Care face masks!! As a whole, they’re all so nice and made with the best ingredients for your skin. I really liked this one! These mask...

I DEW CARE | Un-Wind Sheet Mask | Calming & Soothing Mugwort Mask

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Biodance Bio-Collagen Real Deep Hydrating Mask. I typically really like these masks!! They’re not too expensive, and they hydrate really well. The collagen one is so nice, my skin always looks plumper after using it. The masks a...

BIODANCE Bio-Collagen Real Deep Hydrating Mask

Hair Products

All the hair products I finished!

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Ouai Super Dry Shampoo in Cape Town. This might be one of my new favorite dry shampoos!! I LOVE the Cape Town scent!! It is VERY strong, so if you’re looking for something lightly scented you should pass on this one. It does...

Super Dry Shampoo - Cape Town - OUAI

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is my favorite pre-shampoo!! I wish this came in a bigger bottle. I apply a decent amount to the ends of my hair, not the roots, and it does the most amazing job at smoothing my hair and detangling it. It reduces my frizz a lot! My...

Fructis Hair Filler Traitement Pré-Shampooing - Garnier.ca

❌ ⭐️⭐️ This is the Reaken Acidic Bonding Concentrate 5-Min Liquid Mask. I reviewed this about 6 months ago and I had really liked it, so much so that I bought it again. Originally this was a gift from Ulta for being a Diamond member. I had received a...

Acidic Bonding Concentrate 5 Minute Liquid Mask - Redken | Ulta Beauty

Nail Products

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Glamnetic Brush-On Nail Glue. THE BEST NAIL GLUE EVER!!!! I’ve been doing press on nails since I was 17. I have tried every single press on nail glue and they all were awful, my nails would pop off the same day I did them. T...

Brush-On Nail Glue - Glamnetic | Ulta Beauty

Did NOT Finish

All the products I did NOT finish this month - and not for the reason you think!

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Doll 10 T.C.E. Super Full Coverage Foundation. I did NOT finish this simply because it expired. I LOVE this foundation! It loses a point because the shade is awful. I had shade Light, which is straight up yellow. However, this...

T.C.E. – Doll 10 Beauty

❌ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Unleashia Niacinamide Banana Sun Serum SPF Sunscreen. This was gifted to me, and I think it is a wonderful sunscreen! But I did NOT finish this! And I’m so mad I couldn’t! This niacinamide in this broke me out SO bad!!! But it’s ...

Unleashia Niacinamide Banana Sun Serum SPF Sunscreen, Glow & Brightening & Hydrating, No White Cast Lightweight Face Sunscreen, Fast Absorbing, Non-Sticky 1.35 oz

❌❌❌❌ ⭐️ I received one of these bars in a Sephora Favorites set. I did NOT finish this! I’m not really a body bar person, but this is AWFUL!! It’s such a rough, uncomfortable exfoliation. It literally scratched up my skin so badly and turned my skin ...

Soft Services BUFFING BAR Microcrystal Exfoliant

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the L’Oréal True Match Super-Blendable Foundation. This is a good foundation! It’s not my favorite, but it’s good! I’ve had it for a long time though, so I didn’t finish it because it expired. Once it expired it got so oily (even mo...

N3 Neutral Light Medium True Match Super-Blendable Foundation

✅ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation. I did NOT finish this, but only because it expired. This was my wedding day foundation!! The shade is not a perfect match, so next time I buy it I’ll get a different shade. I had shade ...

Triclone™ Skin Tech Foundation - Haus Labs