1. Clinique Superbalanced Makeup [Sand]- ($25, Ulta, Sephora, Clinique counters)- This foundation claims to have special technology that reads your skin's type and adjusts accordingly to give you a natural finish. This is my 2nd bottle of this foundation and I will not be repurchasing. I tend to have dry-combo skin and this made my skin look naturally dewy. It has amazing coverage behind it (medium to full) and it lasts all day. Sounds pretty great right? So why am I not repurchasing it? I'm not repurchasing it because 1) I love a matte finish which cannot be obtained for me with this foundation and 2) It almost feels heavy on my skin. My absolute holy grail foundation is the Revlon ColorStay for Combo/Oily Skin. It feels lighter on the skin than this, and I can get the coverage I need.

2. Rimmel Stay Matte Primer- ($6.99, drugstores)- This product has been previously reviewed here. Long story short, I have repurchased yet another one of these primers. 

3. Maybelline Fit Me Concealer [Cafe]- ($6.99, drugstores)- If you have been following me for the longest time ever, you would know that I mentioned that I didn't like this concealer and said that in one of my empties videos. With that still being said, I still hate the shade range of the concealers in the Maybelline Fit Me line. [I seriously contemplated how they could increase the shade range of their foundations to encompass more people and not expand the shade range of their concealers as well??] There is no perfect shade for my skin tone in the concealer line. However, I do like the coverage of this concealer. Therefore, I bounce between the two darkest shades of this product and use it underneath my foundation. I do still really wish that there was actually a shade that matched me.

4. Maybelline Brow Drama Sculpting Brow Mascara [Deep Brown]- ($7.99, drugstores)- I recently just purchased my second tube of this product. It is a tinted brow mascara. It is not a product that is going to take you from no brows to glam, full brows by itself. I use this to set my brows after I have filled them in with a pencil. This product is also great for filling in that teeny tiny spot that you might have missed when filling your brows in with pencil/shadow. If you have a problem with your brows smudging off or the pencil/shadow doesn't last all day by itself, Try this product. I did and now I will always own a brow mascara.

5. ELF Liquid Eyeliner [Black]- ($2, eyeslipsface.com/Target/select Walmart stores)- This is one of those eyeliners that has a brush tip. It is not one of those eyeliners that stays super shiny when it dries down. I haven't experienced any cracking/flaking/disintegrating with this eyeliner either and I have oily eyelids. I would definitely repurchase this in the future since I currently have 2 other liquid eyeliners in my collection.

6. Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz [Dark Brown]- ($21, Ulta/Sephora)- I absolutely love this eyebrow pencil. It is holy grail status in my book. I like how the pencil is fine so you can draw precise lines that look like brow hairs. I love how it is not intensely pigmented so you can achieve a natural brow look. This lasts all day. I get so many brow compliments when I fill my brows in with this (from both girls and guys). I do not really even have to set this brow pencil. (The color stays and my brow hairs generally do not move. I do set them anyway, however, just for assurance purposes.) I have recently been trying out other brow pencils that are designed to look like the ABH Brow Wiz. They have worked pretty well but they have not compared. The L'Oreal Brow Stylist is the closest comparison that I have tried, I have to set the L'Oreal pencil because the color tends to break up at the head of my brows (the part where I have to fill in the most). I also tried the ELF Instant Lift Eyebrow Pencil. I technically do not have to set this pencil either. The pencil is so much more thicker than the ABH Brow Wiz though. I particularly am not fond of the thickness of this pencil.

7. Precision Beauty Blending Sponge by Swissco- ($3.99, Marshall's/more stores will be listed below)- Honestly, I know that I will never convince myself to buy an actual Beauty Blender while I am in college. For me, it is hard to justify paying $20 for a sponge. I heard about this sponge so I decided to try them out. All of my beauty sponges will forever come from this brand as long as I can find them. They expand more than other dupes that I have tried. They blend in my makeup so nicely. I can literally wear a full face and have people tell me that they like that I don't wear too much makeup. You can find these in different shapes: the classic teardrop, hourglass, etc. You can also buy these sponges infused with different things (charcoal for clearer skin, argan oil for hydrated skin, etc.)

More Places to Buy:

Swissco site ($8-$9 for 1): all shapes/sizes/infusions 

Ulta ($5.99 for 1): only the hourglass shape

Walmart (about $8 for 2): I've seen these in my local Walmart but I can't seem to find them online.

8. Creme Makeup Blending Sponge- ($3.99, TJ Maxx/ Burke's/ Ross/ Marshall's)- I hate the Creme Beauty sponges. They are incredibly hard. They do expand, but not as much as the previously mentioned sponges. They are also harder to clean. I will not repurchase. 

Total $ for Empties Featured in This Post: $77.95

Total # of Makeup Empties for 2016: 43

Total $ for 2016 Makeup Empties: $245.29