October - December Haul 2024

Here comes the latest update on this years cosmetics and beauty shopping. I am sure I have bought enough for three or four girls during the span of the year. 

Toner, scents, spf, eye cream and eyeshadow

Face mask, brushes, blush, lip liner, powder and an eysshadow

Omnilux led face mask

Lindex beauty bag, Riddle parfum and a solid shampoo bar

The body shop - Aloe soothing toner (250 ml): My normal refill on this one - I love it and will continue to buy it. 

Bath and body works - If you musk, fine fragrance mist (235 ml): This I would have preferred in a smaller bottle, but the fine fragrance mists at Bath and body works only come in the full sizes. This particular scent is supposed to be a semi dupe of Glossier You, but to me it actually smells better than the original. And as I am finally about to finish the full size fragrance bottle I have been focusing on for the last few years, and sold the only body mist I had from Bath and body works in September 2023 - it was easy for me to get tempted to purchase. 

Innbeauty project - Mineral sun glow broad spectrum spf 43 (50 ml): This was recommended by Jessica Braun on YT. It is supposedly the perfect sunscreen under makeup, which I have been struggling to find, plus it is a mineral sunscreen which suits my perioral dermatitis skin better than chemical sunscreen. So it ended up in my basket during the Sephora sale - well "sale" as I got a 15% discount.

Kylie Cosmetics - Cosmic eau de parfum (1.2 ml): This sample I grabbed on one of the event evenings in Kringla.

Jo Malone London - Wood sage & sea salt cologne (10 ml): Again I got sucked in on a Sephora sale, 20% off everything mid December. This has been on my wish list for years, and as I am super sensitive to fragrance nowadays, I decided to dip my toes in, and only purchase a small bottle, and it does not come much smaller than this one, does it?

Merit - Solo shadow matte eye color in vachetta (5 g): I had been curious about this brand, and these eyeshadows. Usually this brand gets two thumbs up in reviews, but these eyeshadows have had very mixed reviews. I love the idea of a one and done eyeshadow, so after a series of eye-infections I bought them for myself as a treat.

Blue Lagoon - Eye cream with BL+ complex (5 ml): I won this in a "spin the wheel" game with the Blue Lagoon store in Kringlan, which turned out pretty good, as I finished my Kiehls eyecream within 2 weeks after getting this one. 

Nickak New York - Soothing aloe facial sheet mask (1x20 g): One of my amazing co-workers gave each of us in the crew a small gift bag, one of the items inside - this face mask!

Tromborg - Vegan brush nr. 5: This I forgot to "declare" and take a picture of in my July-September haul, as I bought it in Copenhagen in July. The brush is very nice, but I seriously question if the white handle is made of plastic, as it is high shiny, milky tone of white - and feels very plastic. On the plus side, it works amazing with the Tromborg silk from my January-March haul.

Vieve - Sunset blush balm luminous liquid blush in strawb (15 ml): This is my third item from this brand and the other products I simply love - I was planning a trip to Glasgow, where I was planning to swatch all the items from this brand I could get my hand on, but I ended up not going - so this was swiftly added to cart on Cult beauty on Black Friday weekend. Red liquid blush anyone?

Sephora - Pro powder brush 50: So much for my 5th goal in my project pan for 2024, only to buy one makeup brush - I ended up buying three of them. This one of course to go with the excessive amount of facial powders I own, and as a matter of a fact - picked up during the Sephora sale.

Jones Road - The lip pencil in nudist (0.92 g): On one of my work-trips to New York, I headed for Greenwich village, where one of the brick and mortar stores for this brand is located. 

Caia Cosmetics - Glow bronzer in gold coast (10 g): This had been on my wish-list for a few years, and I decided to grab it on a 20% off black Friday deal. 

Sephora - Microsmooth powder in 15 neutral (8 g): Did I need a face powder? No not at all, so why did I decide to buy this one during the Sephora promotion, with a 30% discount. Well the 30% discount might have something to do with it. 

Elf - Fine as fleck glitter eyeshadow in champagne showers (2 g): On one of the last Target runs of 2024 this one just accidentally ended up in my basket. 

Omnilux - Contour face led mask: This was without a doubt the most expensive purchase of the year, and that would hit the final nail in the coffin for a serious shopping restraint for 2025 in the department of beauty and cosmetics. 

Lindex beauty bag: I had seen this particular bag years ago in Lindex, light pink with rose-gold zipper - with solid bars inside so it stays open for easy access. I had resisted the urge till now, but when Lindex Iceland sent out a 1000 ISK credit code I caved. 

Ridddle perfum - Original (8 ml): This was a christmas gift from my sister, she has one herself and loves it. Apparently it suits people who are sensitive to scents so this sounds perfect for me. 

Fisher soap company - Champagne toast solid shampoo bar (79 gr): One of our passengers gifted all of the female cabin crew one of these shampoo bars. She is the owner of the brand and I am super excited to try a solid shampoo bar, and this would be perfect for holiday with restricted liquids. 

So what has 2025 in store for me? Well I think you guessed it - a serious retail rehab.

Project pan 2023

So it's the time of year to choose my items for my project pan, set a few goals, and try my best to reach them.

As so many years before I have chosen 10 items, to finish - or reach a certain goal with:

The 10 products in my project pan 2023

Status of the Fenty match stix and Becca under eye corrector

Supergoop - Zink Screen SPF 40 (50 ml):

Weight at the start of 2023 (with packaging and cap): 85 gr

Goal: Finish it

Why: It technically has expired, and I want to use it up, plus I should make a habit to use spf on the daily

Estée Lauder - Pure color creme lipstick in Rose tea (0.12 oz/3.4 g):

Length at the start of 2023 (measured from plastic base: 2.4 cm

Goal: Finish it

Why: It is getting old and I want to get more use out of it

Becca - First light priming filter (15 ml):

Weight at the start of 2023 (with packaging and cap): 16 g

Goal: Finish it

Why: I bought it around Christmas time in 2019 - and I have several primers, so I need to start to use them up, and this is quite small and should be manageable. 

Elizabeth Arden - Green tea honey drops body cream (500 ml):

Weight at the start of 2023 (with packaging and cap): 245 g

Goal: Finish it

Why: The remaining product was left outstanding after Project pan 2022, so this year I want to use it up

Caudalie - Beauty elexir (30 ml):

Estimated product at the start of 2023: 1/3 

Goal: Finish it

Why: It has a heavy scent to it and it would be good to have one less setting spray in my collection

Bath and Body works - Fine fragrance mist in French lavender and honey (236 ml):

Goal: Use about 1/3 of the remaining product - or down to the lower purple line on the bottle

Why: It is getting older and I want to get some use out of it.

Kiehls - Midnight recovery concentrate (4 ml):

Amount left at the start of 2023: Just below half

Goal: Finish it

Why: I got it some time back, and have several serums and similar products in my stash, so I thought this one could be finished quite fast, so I could focus on other items.

Sensai - Bronzing gel in BG 62 Amber bronze (50 ml):

Weight at the start of 2023 (with packaging and cap): 64 g

Goal: Use 10 g of it

Why: I have never gotten into the habit of using this bronzing gel, as it remains quite a hyped product within Iceland. So I want to try to figure out a way if I can use this product.

Fenty Beauty - Match stick, matte skinstick in Amber (7.10 g):

Start of 2023: When fully screwed down, the product sticks out 6 mm from the packaging.

Goal: To use enough product that when it is fully screwed down, the product will not stick out at all.

Why: This is the original formula, and I must have bought it in 2019, so it is about time I get some use out of it.

Becca - Under eye brightening corrector (2.3 g): 

Weight at the start of 2023 (with packaging and cap): 23 g

Goal: Use it up

Why: I have owned this since the end of 2019, even though I did not start to use it until late 2020 - it is time to finish it up, plus I have a full size backup.

Other goals for 2023:

1. No colored lipstick nor lip-gloss purchase in 2023

2. No mascara purchase in 2023, second year in a row

3. Use a face mask once a week

4. Only buy one colored cosmetics per month - or 12 items in the year 2023

Empties May - August 2018

So here come the empties for the summer of 2018

Empties summer 2018

Bath and body works - Farmstand apple hand cream (59 ml): An above average hand cream, I might repurchase.

Wet and wild - nailpolish in the color 442A (14 ml): As I loved this color, and it was hard to replace, I am still glad this is finished and one bottle less in my pile of nail polish - maybe I will pan another one in 2019.

Dove - Repair therapy, Color radiance hair mask (200 ml): talked about this one in my last beauty goals update (see here). 

Herbal essences - hydralicious reconditioning shampoo (300 ml): One of my favorite shampoo's and it has been ever since my hair was super dehydrated from bleaching it a few years ago. Have been trying to find it in Target in the USA without success.

La Roche-Posay - Toleriane ultra face cream (40 ml): Loved this face cream for the summer, ultra light and did not irritate my skin at all. The only downside is how difficult it is to get the last drop of product out of the packaging, as I attacked it with a knife to break into it.

Victoria's secret - Unwrap me, beauty rush, whipped cream and winter pear, body dial-a-shimmer lotion (200 ml): finally this bottle is finished, and omg what an effort it took, had to depot it into other jars to use it up while on holiday, and at home. Even though I am ecstatic that it is finished, I will miss the shimmer in it a bit though.

BIO Effect - EGF serum (3 ml): it is a super moisturizing serum which I use underneath my day cream, a bit on the sticky side though.

Helena Rubinstein - All mascaras complete eye makeup remover (125 ml): I did not find this makeup remover to work as well as my Estee Lauder bi-facil eye makeup reomover. Maybe it works good on regular mascaras, but on water proof and stubborn ones it does not work as well as bi-facil.
Erborian - BB cream au ginseng (sample): Love this bb cream, would love to repurchase, but am not sure on the SPF ingredients in it. A lovely light but a bit orangy formula, but it works fine now as I have worked up a bit of a tan over the summer. Reminds me a bit of my favorite Garnier miracle cream.
It Cosmetics - Your skin but better CC+ cream with SPF 50+ (fair) (sample): I am on the fence with this product after using the sample up, it is very pigmented, but still light on the skin. But it might be a little bit too pigmented for my liking, as I like a very sheer foundation on my skin most of the time. Might repurchase in the future though.
Inglot - Beautyfier tinted cream, shade 101 (sample): I loved the texture of this light "foundation" or bb-cream. But not sure it was working with my perioral dermatitis. I found some irritation in my skin on occasion. So not a winner, sadly, as I really wanted it to be. Full info here.
The body shop - Pink grapefruit hand cream (30 ml): a light and pleasant smelling hand cream, but after I started working as cabin crew, my hands have become severely dehydrated, and this was not moisturizing enough for my dehydrated hands. Before that job, I could though not see any fault with it.
Tatcha - The water cream (1 ml) (sample): See description in this post.
Mádara - City CC -hyluronic anti-pollution cc cream SPF 15: I am not sure if this was aggravating my perioral dermatitis breakout, as I was using this in conjunction with my Ready set gorgeous foundation from Cover Girl. Will report back when I try to find out which one is the culprit.
Neutrogena - Light sesame formula body lotion: This has been living in my gym bag for years, along with a few other hotel body lotions, so now this summer I decided it was about time to use some of these samples up and get rid of them. So this is the first of them, was it good, no, I would say below average body lotion.

So now three more items of my Beauty goals for 2018 are used up, leaving me five items which I have yet to reach my goal on; Dove - intense repair overnight cream (120 ml), Bourjois Paris - Happy light luminous serum primer (15 ml), Estée Lauder - Double wear, stay in place powder makeup SPF10 (16 g) - color 2N2 Fresco 01, Lancome le crayon kohl noir (0,7 g) and my Clinique - Blush in Fig (1,8 g). So five items left when there are 4 months remaining of this year. Not an optimum situation, as I had hoped I would have finished more items by this point of the year. But realistically I am sure I can finish the Dove hair cream, the Lancome eye kohl pencil and perhaps the Bourjois primer. But as the year has progressed I am not sure I will be able to finish the Estée Lauder powder foundation or the Clinique blush as there is so much remaining of those products, as could be seen in my six month update for the Beauty goals for 2018.

Empties January - May 2016

So here are the products I have finished in these first months of the year

Empties January - May 2016

Penzim: serum/gel-cream I used on my face when I first was diagnosed with perioral dermatitis, it did not cure it but I know it is free from nasty chemicals and parabens.
The body shop, sweet lemon body butter: just a regular body butter from the body shop.
Dove summer glow body lotion: finally I finished this up this spring, it has changed packaging 2-3 times since I bought this one (which even has the label NEW on it). I have already bought a new version of this cream.
Sheer eau de toilette by Aerie: nice scent, glad it is finished before it went bad on me.
Garnier micellar cleansing water: love it, and in fact do not sense a difference between this one and the one from Bioderma.
Physicians formula organic wear BB mascara: it was ok, the wand was a little bit too strange for my liking, and prefer the original one in the green bottle.
Bath & Body works nourishing hand cream in fresh sparkling snow: this was a nice and nourishing hand cream, but the scent was a bit too strong for my liking. Would not buy again.
Labello caregloss & shine: too sticky, with no colour and will not buy again.
Boots no.7 eyeshadow in a pinky purple shade: finished this one finally off. Ended up using it as a blush and an eyeshadow, and eventually when there was maybe 1 month use of it left, it broke into pieces and fell into the sink - good it was not a favorite!
Elf blsuh in mellow mauve: it was a super nice blush, but I got so tired of trying to use it up, and I got sick of the colour, by using it every day for a long period of time. Will not repurchase in the nearest future.