November & December Empties 2019 | Makeup, Skincare, Home Fragrance
hey everyone my name is torie and today’s video is going to be my November and December empties so I didn’t get a chance to do my November empties last month so everything in this little empties basket bin thing is from the past two months altogether so let’s get started so the first three things I have to talk about are all three shower gels from Bath & Body Works I have it in the fragrance twisted peppermint warm vanilla sugar and amber blush I love all three of these fragrances twisted peppermint is my favorite for the Christmas season warm vanilla sugar is okay I mean it’s not one of my all-time favorites but I mostly bought this one because it was in like holiday themed packaging which was really really pretty and amber blush is one of my all-time favorites I don’t know if I would repurchase warm vanilla sugar if it wasn’t in festive packaging but it’s it’s fine it’s a classic but I would definitely repurchase amber blush and twisted peppermint especially twisted peppermint for the holiday season I also used up a bath and Bodyworks vanilla bean Noel moisturizing body wash and I love this body wash because it’s creamy and it is a lot more hydrating than the regular body wash or like the shower gel that they have it’s just it’s nice it’s nice to use especially in the winter time when my skin is a little bit more dry it smells really good it smells like a like a really warm kind of caramel vanilla the moisturizing body wash is a new favorite of mine just in general as a product and I’m really excited to try it in other fragrances as well I also used up a body cream from Bath and Body Works and this is in the fragrance amber blush I love this fragrance I just talked about in the shower gel but this is just one of my favorites this the notes in here are raspberry champagne gardenia petals magnolia blossom crystallized amber and vanilla suede so smells like a very warm like a sophisticated vanilla berry amber maybe I don’t really get the Magnolia and the gardenia as much as I do the raspberry amber and vanilla smells really really good it’s just like smell it just smells so good it’s really warm and yummy I think this is a retired fragrance so you can only buy it online now or like at an outlet store I don’t know if they bring it back during semi-annual I haven’t checked and then look in the store to see if they had it but this is one of my all-time favorites so I’ll definitely repurchase this fragrance if I can find it gonna go ahead and finish out the somebody works products in here and then we’ll move on to everything else I have one foaming hand soap and this is in the fragrance pumpkin berry crumble and this is actually from a couple of years ago I believe I still have do I have a few more of these I might have a few more of these maybe not this may be the last one this is one of my all-time favorite favorite fragrances that they have ever made like ever this has wild blueberries vanilla extract glazed sugar it just smells like a very sweet yummy blueberry cupcake muffin thing it smells so good my favorite like form of this fragrance is the candle and I still have a few candles left the year that they came out which is like a couple of years ago I bought several because I burn one realized I loved it and then went and bought several more because I didn’t know if they bring it back and ever since then they have not brought it back so r.
i.p pumpkin berry crumble so I really hope that they at some point maybe they’ll bring back this fragrance they’ve brought back like other fragrances that were like blueberry like fall blueberry fragrances but nothing has smelled the way this has so I’m really hoping that they bring this back next fall we’ll see I used up two candles from Bath and Body Works as well these are the three whit candles so the big ones this one is in me fragrance fresh balsam and I think this was packaging from last year so it has all of the trees the notes in here are pine cedar wood and eucalyptus so it smells like a Christmas tree like just straight-up Christmas tree I love burning this whatever we have the Christmas tree up in our house because we do have a fake tree so it kind of gives the illusion that it’s a real tree it smells so good it’s like the it’s just it’s what Christmas smells like you know it smells so good I love to burn this with other candles like burn this and like a like a vanilla or like a cinnamon or some other type of like Christmasy holiday II type candle to kind of balance it out because it is a pretty intense like tree smell and it is very strong so if you leave this burning for a long time Nick you can like you can smell it so this is a very very strong candle but it smells so so good this next one is in the fragrant salted butterscotch and this was a new fragrance for me this year the notes in here are warm brown sugar sweet cream pinch of sea salt Mel said butter yeah so like salted butterscotch it smells so good it smells like something is baking I feel like it’s it’s not like um like cupcake II sweet you can act like you really can smell butter can smell butter it’s just it smells like a baked good as baking but it’s not like a cupcake that’s baking you know it smells really really good if you like baked goods this is right up your alley if you don’t probably won’t like this I didn’t burn it all the way so it started getting that smoky smell like I don’t know sometimes these candles and I think it’s because I let them burn for too long sometimes like too long at a time like too many hours in one sitting and one burning and they feel like they start to do this thing where they smell like this smokey version of whatever the fragrance is and this one started to do that so and it would burn it would smell kind of like salted butterscotch with candle smoke so when it starts doing that then I’m like I call it quits but I loved this candle I would definitely repurchase this one all right next up we have some skin care I have to travel-size Neutrogena makeup removing cleansing towelettes so I actually bought these for our wedding trip that we went on recently I wanted to use these to remove my makeup at night I’ve gotten into the habit of using the cleansing oil here at home I have makeup removing wipes but I don’t use them that often but I did want to bring these with me on my trip just for you know I don’t know if I was like doing my makeup and you need to wipe it off or I don’t know these just seem to really come in handy when I’m traveling just for you know one reason or another so I enjoy having makeup wipes when I travel so these were the two that I went through for the trip so I somehow have three sunscreens in here we’ll start with this one this is the pharmacy green screen daily environmental protector broad-spectrum SPF sunscreen so this is a facial sunscreen about this at Sephora I absolutely love it it just it’s it’s lightweight its hydrating and it’s just it works um it’s really nice it just it feels good on the skin it doesn’t feel like gross or too like overly greasy I can’t say if you apply a lot of it it can feel a little greasy but it does pretty much absorb into my skin and feels more hydrating than like greasy and it doesn’t smell like sunscreen I think that’s the biggest thing for me is that it like it just smells like a lovely lotion I don’t think it’s scented I feel like it’s fragrance free but I really don’t know that’s probably something I should look into but it smells really good I’ve used it alone I’ve used it under makeup and I loved that always and it’s just it’s really really really really nice it is expensive though so I’m trying to find a more inexpensive alternative to this sunscreen that I like just as much so still still trying the next sunscreen in here is by the branches say no and this is the urban environment oil free UV protector broad-spectrum SPF 42 it’s water resistant and it’s formulated for your face so this is kind of an interesting sunscreen it has a weird like packaging component I don’t know whatever you call this this is like the little squirt tube thing at the top so it’s super super runny you have to shake it up like um it’s like whiteout you shake up whiteout and has like that ball or something inside of it it literally is just like that and when you pour it out it literally pours out like it’s super super runny which I thought was weird and it has like a really intense sunscreen smell like very intense I took this when we were on our trip to California and Seattle this summer and I really liked it because it was small so I could put it in my purse and I could like reapply it as needed throughout the day I couldn’t really it was just hard it was hard to apply because it was runny and it smelled kind of like just – sunscreen E when you apply it on your face it feels like it almost feels mattifying somehow um like it doesn’t it’s not greasy like at all it says oil free it truly is like you rub it into your skin and it absorbs right away I did feel like it was mattifying though somehow so that wasn’t interesting I never had a sunscreen that I felt was like also mattifying for my face so if you have oily skin this might be something that you may like a lot I don’t know I don’t think that what I would buy it again only because I feel like the packaging is a little weird it’s really runny like you pour it in your hand it’s like water use like up your hand like I don’t know just like it wasn’t my favorite thing ever it was fine I would use it again but it was also really expensive know if I would buy this again if I need it if I needed a small travel size for my face maybe I don’t know I’m just really on the fence with this but it was fine we will see if I had it again I would use it you know but I don’t know if I would actively go out and buy this one again other than the fact that like it would be good for travel that’s pretty much it this next thing in here is actually something that I got is a gift with purchase this is the Too Faced hangover good to go skin protecting SPF 25 moisturizer so I don’t know if this is specifically like a primer and moisturizer and sunscreen and one I think because it says you’re supposed to follow with their primer but I didn’t always do that I would just use this and this was great for like the sunscreen and the primer all in one so I felt like I didn’t have to do an extra step this is really hydrating I have used the hangover RX primer and it’s pretty much the exact same thing but with sunscreen it does smell like highly fragrance though the fragrance is between the two the sunscreen and the one like the regular primer they are very similar but this one is stronger it almost smells like it says coconut but I smell like weird pineapple I don’t know I just I didn’t I liked the product itself like if this wasn’t scented I would a hundred percent buy it again but the fact that it’s like so heavily fragrance and I just don’t like it like I feel like I could smell it after the fact like I take it I take sunscreen down my neck and I just felt like I could smell it for too long and I didn’t enjoy the smell like when I put it on and I’m also trying to get away from fragrance products which is like really hard to do because a lot of my favorite stuff is like all fragrance but besides all of that I just like I can’t get over the fragrance of this product but beyond that it was nice um it made my skin really hydrated it was it was a it’s really nice like the quality of the product is really great my makeup went over it like went on top very very well is very hydrating so I really enjoyed this I just don’t think that I would purchase it again simply because of the fragrance I also use up an eye cream and this is by the brand belief this is the moisturizing eye balm and I have used this before in the past this is a product that I have repurchased a few times over the past few years and I really enjoy it it’s very hydrating underneath my eyes I don’t necessarily think that it’s like anything super revolutionary or like did anything extra for my skin I’ve used it in the morning I’ve used it at night both of them work great it’s great under makeup kept my under eyes hydrated I really don’t have anything bad to say about it it’s a really good eye cream but I also think that it’s didn’t change my life but at the same time it was still really good so I would probably repurchase it if I couldn’t find anything else that I liked better so I don’t know I would recommend it though it is worth the try I think it is a nice under eye cream this next product is by the brand CeraVe this is the PM face facial moisturizing lotion ultra lightweight and this is a facial moisturizer that i used at night and I really enjoyed this it is very lightweight like it says I was thinking has niacinamide in it yeah it has ceramides niacinamide inhaler hyaluronic acid it was very hydrating on my face and felt really nice on my skin I didn’t feel like it really irritated my skin when I would use it alone however when I would use it on top of like if I I have this tart knockout and like chemical exfoliant kind like a toner that I use if I use this on top of that it was a little too much I think is because the nice and I might in this I don’t know maybe because my skin was like already kind of sensitive because of the chemical exfoliant and then putting the nice and I might on top was a lot for it so it get kind of like red not irritated but get red and nice and am I can do that what I’ve read on the internet it says that nice and am I can make your face kind of red and that’s not necessarily a bad thing but I don’t know about all that but I would repurchase it but I don’t think that I will because I’m currently using the first date Beauty ultra Repair Cream and that’s one of my favorite moisturizers of all time I use that on my face it’s just like a daily moisturizer I’ll use it at night like every single night but sometimes I use it in the morning too so I like the versatility of that product a lot more the ultra Repair Cream I feel like mixes better with all of my other skincare routine products so I feel like I can use that one more often without having to worry about like mixing it with other things if that makes sense but I would recommend this product if you think it’s really nice I would use it again and if I had it but I don’t think I would go out and repurchase it just for that reason I used up another eye cream this is by the brand tarte and this is the american see bright nurse eye treatment this is kind of a it’s almost a kind of a thicker eye cream so the cool thing about this eye cream is that it has vitamin C in it I really wanted to try an eye cream that has vitamin C because I have a little bit of discoloration there’s like a little spot right here underneath my eye that’s dark for some reason I don’t know if it’s a sunspot or whatever so I wanted to try something that had more vitamin C and try to get some like brightening effects under my eyes and I really enjoyed this eye cream I think this may be the second one that I’ve used it might be I use this in the morning and it worked really well under makeup I didn’t think it was like too sick to use but I didn’t use a lot of it I definitely could see how this could be pretty thick if you use too much so if you just like use a little bit underneath your eyes it’s perfect I really like this I would definitely repurchase it and I feel like this has actually made a difference in brightening the area under my eyes so for that reason I would definitely use it again next up are two primers this first one is a travel size this is by the brand Smashbox and this is the photo finish primer Iser it’s a primer and moisturizer in one and this was okay and this is like a lot of people’s like Holy Grail primer and I could see why if you had really dry skin but I mean it was good I just think for the price for the full size it’s kind of just like a moisturizer it feels just like a really lightweight moisturizer to me so for me I have combination skin so a lot of times I like to mix and match my primers I like to use a more hydrating primer around the outer perimeter of my face not always in the summer but kind of other times of the year that’s what I prefer to do so I feel like I get a little drier on the outside and I have more oil in the t-zone so I was trying to use that method with this one and just it just felt like another layer of moisturizer to me I don’t really feel like it did anything extra then just like I already had moisturizer on and then I put on more moisturizer you know I want like some pore filling or some smoothing or something I mean it it could do the job of doing the outer perimeter thing but I have a first day beauty hyaluronic acid something or another primer that I use for that but I really like it and I think that it’s less expensive than this so I don’t really see the need to have this in my makeup routine you know it was good though no but I probably won’t repurchase it the next prime right here is one of my all-time favorites this is the Too Faced primed and peachy cooling matte skin perfecting primer and I love this primer keeps you matte all day without like drying and sucking the life out of your skin in your t-zone I have used this all over my face I’ve also used it in just my t-zone so both ways work worked great for me I’ve used this with all types of foundation I just really really like this primer the only reason I’m not considering repurchasing it is because of the fragrance I don’t know I need to do some research on like if this is fragrance because of the ingredients or is it fragrance because it’s fragrance you know what I mean boo I missed a skincare product this is the barefaced beauty skin moisturizing cleansing oil almond and vanilla and this was my second experience with a cleansing oil I wanted to start using a cleansing oil instead of using makeup wipes I feel like single-use makeup wipes was becoming very wasteful um it I don’t know I don’t want to sit over here and like pick and choose what I think is wasteful and like still I’m still like I still do other things that produce waste so I’m not like changing the world over here but I feel like that is a small step that I can take that you know to make the world by green or a better place I don’t know I’m trying okay for makeup wipes I’m trying not to use them as often so instead I wanted to start using a cleansing oil but like the cleansing oil comes in a plastic bottle so the makeup white you know I don’t know it just goes back in a circle like what do you do you recycle the plastic bottle is there a really an answer I feel like this did not get rid of all my makeup it did not break down my mascara and my eye make it very well and it left an oily residue all over my face and um smelled really good again fragrance see I don’t know if that’s natural or not I don’t know oh I don’t know but just as a product it just didn’t work very well for me someone did tell me that you use like you put the cleansing oil on and then try wiping it off with a face cloth so I tried doing that I also tried using a lot of it using not a lot of it mixing with water not mixing with water I tried all different methods to make this work and it just didn’t really work that well for me so there’s that I used up a travel-size batiste dry shampoo and this isn’t the fragrance coconut exotic tropical so I love this dry shampoo it’s my favorite I talk about it all the time I keep like one in my desk at work and I always travel with them so this is the one that I used up on our trip for our wedding this past month next up in here is the urban decay D slick makeup setting spray with oil control this is my favorite makeup setting spray I’ve used the all nighter before where my skin is now it’s not as oily as it used to be and I don’t know I don’t know if that’s because like I’m you know skins just changed my skin is just changing over time or like the weather skincare like I don’t know since I did use this up I just purchased another setting spray but it’s the all nighter so it’s the Urban Decay all nighter setting spray I don’t know if that’s specifically formulated for like any one type of skin but it doesn’t specifically say oil control so I’m gonna try that one out and see how it goes I might end up just coming back to the D slick because this is just it’s what I’m used to I’ve gone through so many bottles of this I have lost count so I love this makeup setting spray it’s fantastic it’s the best I love it I step in here is the Laura Mercier loose translucent setting powder and this is in a travel size this is the one that I’ve been taking with me whenever I would travel and it’s my favorite translucent like loose setting powder that I’ve ever tried I’ve tried several and this is always the one that I come back to I have a full-size here that I get ready with everyday but I always keep a travel size as well for when I travel so full size is really big but this is definitely really great for a combination oily skin like mine I use it to set my t-zone and underneath my eyes and my makeup is like locked in place all day it’s fantastic I love it thinking if you have dry skin I don’t know how well this would work for you cuz I could definitely see where it might be a little drying but for me it’s perfect I absolutely love it and I will continue to repurchase so the next thing in here is the lip gloss and I don’t even know the last time I finished like an entire lip gloss this is the city lips plumping lip gloss and this is just in the shade clear and I actually got this as a Christmas gift from my sister last year and she I’d never heard of it before and she was explaining to me she’s like it’s the best lip gloss ever like she’s so obsessed with and all this kind of stuff and I was like well what like it’s just clear lip gloss and she was saying like its lip plumping so she’s like you put it on your lips and like fills in like any lip lines that you haven’t like plumps your lips up and I’m like okay we’ve seen the plumping lip glosses and that kind of thing seems sometimes they seem kind of gimmicky to me or they make your lips tingle you know like okay you know so I was like okay really and this is cool there this is different this is different I don’t know how I don’t know why but this is a this is different and I kept this in my drawer at work which i think is why I was able to go through it so quickly because it is clear it was just easy to keep reapplying this lip gloss really does plump your lips like for real you put it on in it almost I don’t know the science behind it and I feel like there’s probably a website that’ll tell you everything about it but it it just it plumps it makes your lips look really full and it almost makes them like flushed like it like maybe it’s pulling blood to your lips I have no idea I don’t know if that’s what’s actually happening but like when you put it on it’ll plump your lips up and your lips will become like naturally like your natural lip color is like enhanced it’s amazing and you do feel you feel that tingly sensation I’m the more you use it the less tingly you feel I don’t know if that’s actually how it’s supposed to go but that’s kind of how it worked out for me because I would use it like every I was using it multiple times every single day and I don’t know if that means that my lips are getting used to it I don’t know if that was good or bad but I love this lip gloss this was amazing I definitely want to get another one this is really cool and definitely worth checking out next thing in herre is an elf brow pencil and you’ve seen this several times before this is in the shade taupe and I really enjoy this brow pencil especially because it is like $2.
00 and that’s why I keep repurchasing it it’s not my favorite honestly my favorite is still the anastasi at Beverly Hills brow is in the shade taupe I do like that micro brow tip on it I’ve tried dupes of that and I just can’t find something that I like just as much there are a couple other ones at the drugstore that I want to try some so I’m still trying to find a dupe for it but even everything else though nothing is as inexpensive as this and I go through brown pencil brow pencils so quickly that I don’t want to spend 20 dollars on a brow pencil that’s just that’s a lot to be using one or two a month you know so I’ll probably continue to repurchase this one and the next thing in here is the NYX epic ink liner in the shade black this is a brush tip liner and I’ve used up one of these before I just see ah what is that look it’s leaking you’ll see that I love how black this is and I love the brush tip but I just think it’s way too runny like the the actual formula of it is so liquidy it’s hard to work with I think I’ve decided that I don’t like this one because it’s just too hard to work with so I probably won’t be repurchasing I would use it if I had to like it’s fine but it’s just it’s hard it skips because it’s so runny it’s just all over the place so not my favorite I have two mascaras guess what they are insta l’oreal voluminous / paradise and the Maybelline lash sensational and both of these are in the blackest shade the one that I always get these are my favorite mascaras ever in the history of life and I don’t know if that will change I used the last paradise first and then I layered the Maybelline lash sensational on top of it and I’ve been doing that for a very very long time and it’s just the best now last thing in here is a perfume and this is the Tory Burch bill Azure perfume I got this as a Christmas gift maybe last year or two years ago I like it I don’t think it’s my favorite perfume that I’ve ever used in my life I mostly fell in love with it at first because of the bottle it reminded me of Capri I don’t I don’t think that’s how you say it but Capri Italy the island off the coast of Italy I went there I studied abroad in Italy when I was in college and I went there and this is like the color of the the Blue Grotto Google though if you’ve never heard of it Google de Blue Grotto it’s like it was like the Emperor’s private swimming pool or something it’s like a cave and like the something about the sunlight like bounces off the bottom of the thing and it like glows blue it’s like you get on this little boat and you go into this little tunnel and you’re you like it opens up into this cave and it’s glowing that’s like neon cobalt ish blue it’s like the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen and it was beautiful and just this bottle reminded me specifically of that so that’s what drew me and initially that was like a very deep connection that I had with this perfume bottle on the shelf like but yeah beyond that how does it smell it smells really fresh and clean a little bit of like I want to say it has look like I can’t put my finger on it if it’s Flutie Flutie mm-hmm if it’s fruity or if it’s floral undertone but it’s like a fresh clean fruit flower it’s definitely not like a sweet like vanilla e-type perfume that I would normally go for us this is like kind of a more like summertime ish fragrance for me so I really enjoyed it I don’t think I would repurchase it it wasn’t my favorite perfume feather ever but I did really like it I do think it is also a more mature fragrance it’s like a very mature summer like a hot woman summer not a hot girl summer hot woman summer that’s this all those are all of my empties for the months of November and December thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time bye
