Quarantine Empties: The 30 Best Beauty Products We Just Used Every Last Drop Of

Twenty-twenty has been theme park–level wild, and the highs and lows of our beauty routines feel like a roller coaster. I've talked to so many people about their quarantine experience with respect to beauty, and the responses have been all over the spectrum. Most people I know have barely touched their makeup bag (or they're leaning heavily into eye makeup), many people have had some "crisis" relating to their hair (whether it's stress-induced strand loss, foot-long roots, or at-home cut nightmares), and there's also been a lot happening with our skin—the good, the not so good, and everything in between.

After surveying all of my beauty-loving co-workers, it became pretty obvious that while we've put certain products on hold since March, we've been blowing through others at record-breaking speed. Because we've collectively accumulated tons of product empties since quarantine began, we decided to put all of our testing to good use by sharing 30 must-have items we've used every last drop of (and whether or not we'll be repurchasing). Keep scrolling to find out which beauty products we've used and loved most.

Erin Jahns, Beauty Editor

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Kat Collings, Editor in Chief

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Candice Aman, Social Media Editor 

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Nicole Akhtarzad Eshaghpour, Senior Market Editor

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Michaela Bushkin, Senior Fashion Editor, Branded Content

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Caitie Schlisserman, Managing Editor, Branded Content 

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Sarah Yang, Managing Editor, THE/THIRTY

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Allyson Payer, Senior Editor

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Beauty Director

Erin has been writing a mix of beauty and wellness content for Who What Wear for over four years. Prior to that, she spent two and half years writing for Byrdie. She now calls Santa Monica home but grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and studied writing, rhetoric, and communication at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She studied abroad in Galway, Ireland, and spent a summer in L.A. interning with the Byrdie and Who What Wear family. After graduating from UW, she spent one year in San Francisco, where she worked as a writer for Pottery Barn Kids and PBteen before moving down to L.A. to begin her career as a beauty editor. She considers her day-to-day beauty aesthetic very low-maintenance and relies on staples like clear brow serum (from Kimiko!), Lawless's Lip Plumping Mask in Cherry Vanilla, and an eyelash curler. For special occasions or days when she's taking more meetings or has an event, she'll wear anything and everything from Charlotte Tilbury (the foundations are game-changing), some shimmer on her lids (Stila and Róen do it best), and a few coats of the best mascara-type product on earth, Surratt's Noir Lash Tint.