My May Empties. We’ve still got a few days but I doubt I’ll have more to show by then.
As usual, I’ve taken a shot of all my empties, and then a separate shot of just my likes and loves.
Categories:
- Loves (will/already have repurchased)
- Likes (likes enough to use it again someday)
- Meh (meh)
- Underline (already repurchased)
These are my likes and loves of May 2019.
Decent month!
- Good Molecules Wake Up Eye Serum – LIKE
- Opti-Free Puremoist – LIKE
- Christophe Robin Clay Cleansing Volumizing Paste – LOVE
- Hello Natural Toothpaste Natural Sweet Mint – LOVE
- Love Beauty & Planet Coconut Water & Mimosa Flower Shampoo – LIKE
- Love Beauty & Planet Coconut Water & Mimosa Flower Conditioner – LIKE
- Lancome Hydra Zen – LIKE
- Age20s Aura Essence Cover Pact Refill Light Beige 21 – LOVE (thx to my friend, refilled!)
- Su:m37 Water-full Timeless Water Gel Cream – LOVE
- Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion Original – LIKE
- The Body Shop Tea Tree Toner – LIKE
- Culturelle Daily Probiotic Chewable Orange – LOVE
- It’s Skin Cookies and Cream Body Ice Cream – LIKE
- Belif the true cream Aqua Bomb – LOVE
- Olay Regenerist Whip Polishing Creme Cleanser – LOVE
My Mehs…:
- Moisturizing Cetaphil… loved the original blue kind, but this one broke me out. Slippery. Wouldn’t seep into my skin. Estranged, my skin and this.
- Mamonde Oil to Foam Rose Cleanser Sample – Yep. Broke me out. Loved the toner though. Rose scent’s a little too strong for my liking.
It’s interesting how my loves and repurchases don’t always correspond. Sometimes my likes are more “like”ly to get repurchased than my loves, but in this case, it’s more out of necessity than “sparks of joy.”
Which is precisely why I can’t get into Marie Kondo; things that spark joy doesn’t necessarily mean I need it. If I did things her way, I’d be a fabulously dressed mountain hermit and dead in a week because I’ve no survival skills or the capacity to deconstruct pretty quotes.
My March & April Empties. April is not quite over yet, but I doubt I’ll have a new empty by the 30th.
Here are my Likes & Loves:
Decent amount of empties for two months, don’t you think?
Summer Empties, just the likes and loves (I tossed the rest…). I accumulated these from May to September.
Everything here is at least a like or a love, things I’d most likely purchase and use again.
Here are my loves:
Starting next month I hope to do bi-monthly Empties!
March Empties! T’was a good month. Most of these were products I’ve been working on for months.
March FS/DS Loves!
March Likes! and Mehs.
These are my Jan-Feb Empties, my first batch(?) of empties since 2017. Like in my previous post, I threw away the no-nos, so most of items here are either my loves or likes.
Here are my categories:
December FS/DS Loves!
Hair&Body: 3 FS + 4 DS
Skin: 3 FS + 5 DS
Makeup: 2 FS + 3 DS
I’ve been doing a relatively good job of keeping my empties. Started doing this mid September last year, and it really helped me form a comprehensive idea of my spending habits and product usage.
I’ve been working on using up my opened items, as I’ll be traveling to Korea this April. I’m not coming back for nearly five months, so any item that’s on verge of expiring, I will use up or discard 🙂
I used up quite of bit of my foil sample/mask stash this March. Between this and my tsbs, I think I can use up nearly everything by April!
Sad to say there was at least one epic fail this month.
Last but not least, packaging from Lush goodies I used up, plus an empty cotton pad packet. I recently used up:
And finally, here are some of my past empties 🙂
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