In terribly sad news, we had to let our sweet boy Cheddar go a few weeks ago, after a brief medical emergency related to a heart condition that he was diagnosed with in late 2024.
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May 2026 Empties
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Late Spring Empties
Happy June: my birthday month! This will be my inaugural birthday as a California resident. We’re going to have a housewarming/birthday gathering at our place and I’m looking forward to hosting friends and family.
I emptied some beauty products last month, but it was a fairly light month for empties. We went on a couple short trips in the last week of May, so I did finish up some minis during our travels.
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April 2026 Empties
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First Empties from Our New House!
Happy May! I’ve already blogged about my first Sephora sale haul from our new home, and now it’s time for my first set of empties in our new space. We’re settling in quite well and have unpacked all of the important stuff, though we still have plenty of organizing and some furnishing to do. We’re getting there, though!
I emptied a fair amount of beauty products last month:
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March 2026 Empties
Late Winter Beauty Empties
Wishing you a happy spring and happy April from our new home! This is not an April Fool’s Day joke (I can’t stand those and would not do that to you). Our movers arrive from DC today to move all of our stuff into our rental home here in the Los Angeles area. So after two months of staying in a long term Airbnb, we will finally, officially live in LA and will actually be able to settle in here.
Shall we move on to my empties, aka the actual point of this post?
February 2026 Empties
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First Empties from Los Angeles!
Happy March and hello from Los Angeles! We aren’t fully settled here yet, but should get to settle in the next month or so. I won’t get into our move details in this post. But considering the wind chill was zero degrees in DC the morning that we left and the ground was still covered in sheets of ice, landing in LA on a sunny 74°F afternoon was absolutely incredible.
Let’s get into my February beauty empties!
January 2026 Empties
A Ton of Pre-Move Empties
It is February 1, 2026 and I am currently flying to Los Angeles with John and our two cats, Cheddar and Linus, on our big move day! Obviously, I pre-scheduled this post to go live. I had a lot of moving prep to do last month, but I also had a lot of product emptying to do so I made sure to make time to write about my empties.
I am not including links to any of the products in this post because it would be too time consuming to create a custom link to each one. My ShopMy shelves are a little out of date, but you are always welcome to shop using my links there (I earn a small commission any time you shop using my links).
Before I get into my empties, I have something completely unrelated to comment on. What ICE has been doing, and what the fascist administration has been saying in order to justify arresting children and gunning people down in the street, is vile, un-American, and 100% unacceptable.
If you are able to make a donation, a couple organizations that help immigrants are the National Immigration Law Center and MALDEF. The ACLU of Minnesota is another organization to which you can donate.
There’s no good way to transition back to empties from there, but I needed to say something about what’s been going on. So, let’s just get to it.
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December 2025 Empties
End of 2025 Empties
Happy New Year! Welcome to my final blog post of 2025, a year that everyone is excited to say goodbye to. I’m especially looking forward to our big move to LA next month, even though I’m also nervous and have a ton to do leading up to the move!
Let’s take a look at the beauty products that I emptied in the final month of 2025:
November 2025 Empties + An Announcement
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Late Fall Empties
Happy December! I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving with your loved ones. We spent the holiday at my parents’ house in St. Louis and had some quality time with family.
Before I get into my November beauty empties, I want to share some news: John and I are moving to Los Angeles in early 2026! This has been in the works for a long time, and we’ve finally put concrete plans into motion. We are going to be sad to leave our home in DC, and big changes are always very stressful for me, but it’s also exciting. We have friends and family in LA so there’s already a built-in community waiting for us out west. Not that I blog a ton these days, but if I disappear for awhile, it’s because we’re in the process of packing and moving. I’m going to try to keep up with my blog as best I can, though.
With that news out of the way, let’s talk November empties…
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Sephora Rouge Fall 2025 Savings Event Haul
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A Small(ish) Fall Haul
The Sephora Fall Savings event took place recently. This time, I didn’t even put together recommendation lists on ShopMy. The sale kinda snuck up on me…and I wasn’t planning on buying a ton. As you can see in the photo below, my first order was relatively small.
