Travel Sized Beauty - Overboard for Hawaii

That is a tooooooooooooon of makeup to take! But you did great estimating what you’d use!! & you look beautiful as always in your pics, which makes all the packing worth it!

lol Christine, you basically took my entire make up collection with you ;)
Love it! I’m too scared of my luggage being lost to take very much :/

my word………..the above is NOT the definition of travelling light!! LOL i am the same way when i travel — i’m always afraid i will get there and be missing 1 part of a look so i pack EVERYTHING — even to go to my parents house for a weekend :)

after looking at what you brought, i realized having kids, i sure have made so many sacrifices in order to make room for their stuff. lol

LOL, I love how much you brought. If I wasn’t so paranoid about losing my makeup items (and, well, everything else on vacation), this is *exactly* what my stash would look like!

My god girl! Did you need a suitcase for all that? ;)

Wow…that’s a lot. On the upside it doesn’t look like it’d take up much space, but that is as LOT of make-up.

so did you pack this in carry on or checked bag? i actually just flew to minnesota from detroit with my boyfriend to help him change apartments (he goes to u of minnesota law school) and i had one quart sized bag of lipgloss and mascara and another that i stashed in bfs bag of shampoo etc. lol b/c i’m so paranoid of losing it. i hate liquid bans.

So how did you pack all this? Did you put it all in your checked luggage? Or did you carry some of it on the plane with you?

LOL - thanks for posting this. I thought I brought a lot but what I take with me on vacation is nothing compared to your list. I feel so much better now. ;-)

j/k

My dad still makes fun of me because about 22 years ago I brought 5 mini sized bottles of Love’s perfumes with me on our family vacation to Mexico.

22 years ago. I should show him this.

OMG!! How long were you gone?? I don’t think I would pack that much even if I were gone for an entire month! LOL! I usually pick one or two versatile looks and take the products for those with me, and to hell with the rest! It’s vacation! That means relaxing my makeup routine as well.

Wow, and I thought I overpacked when I went there earlier this month. Haha! At least you put most of them to use.

Heh, the most interesting part was that your list of things not used is pretty short.

I never bring that much when I visit the family back there, but then it takes me a couple days to get used to the humidity before I attempt wearing makeup.

LOL, that does NOT look travel-friendly! I agree, did you need a separate thing to pack all that in? Gosh, I wouldn’t know what to do with that much makeup on a regular basis, let alone on vacation. Crazy!

I was laughing as I read your entry….that’s because it reminded of the time I went to England for a week and brought pretty much every other thing I thought I needed but ended up not using! Took up so much space in my luggage! At the end of my trip, as I was packing to go home, I looked at the stuff I brought and thought to myself - wow i brought SO MUCH?

That is alot…well, can’t say you’re not prepared!

I am cracking up at all of the stuff you brought lol
Next time my bf complains about how much stuff I bring with me on vacation, I’m going to bring up this page to shut him up! hehe

I have TOTALLY done that; I wont even lie! Good for you for actually using so much of it and giving us lovely vacation faces :)

I agree with Chica, I’m too scared to take too much cos I’m sacred that my luggage will get lost, I was watching Oprah a while back and they recommended when you travel to basically pack your luggage like you’ll never see it again, isn’t that crazy? but its reality…
and of course most of us never do cos we girls need to pack all that we need to look fabulous! LOL!

I have been travelling a lot, and I take less and less with me–which is making me get rid of many parts of my beauty stash, because if I can do a lot with very few products, then I don’t need the huge amount that I have.

That said, I think the supplies you took on your vacation rock!

to heck with minimalism ;)

Wow!! And that was just for travel, huh??? LOL..I must say, you’re a brave girl! I am so afraid to lose my things that I only take a handful of makeup. I did take two palettes when I went to Puerto Rico for two weeks though. Regardless, you looked great!! Thanks for the tips.

So how do you pack it all, Do you have a separate makeup case?

Don’t worry Christine - I actually probably take WAY more than you! I’m kinda OCD like that…like if I don’t have it with me, then I feel like I HAVE to use it right now! haha :-) No, but seriously I don’t check any of it either. So I’ll have to be careful what lippies I bring next time with this liquids ban…I haven’t traveled in a while.

Wow I don’t even OWN this much makeup :0

Wow that’s a lot of makeup that you brought along!!!
But at least you managed to use almost everything. :)

I’m usually pretty terrible at packing too…my beauty products usually end up taking more space than my clothes in my luggage!

LOL I’m surprised at the general shock over your travel stash… without your selection you wouldn’t have been able to dazzle us with all those great looks! Plus, to be honest, how could someone who runs such a HUGE beauty website be expected to vacation with just the basics? Certainly not when you can pick and choose from a collection such as yours! You have a nice variation of colours (it’s not like you brought 5 brown eyeshadows and 6 purple ones.) Thanks for sharing! That’s fantastic that you planned so well beforehand and used most of what you brought.

Wow, my husband would flip!
I love it, thanks for that post. It is a lot of work being a beauty blogger!

Wow, i take much less. But then again, I don’t even have a quarter of your make-up I think. *Feels jealousy come up*

LOL, Christine! I’m terribly shock, really! But considering you have so many in your stash, I know it would be so difficult to decide which babies went to hawaii. However, considering you used most of the products, I’d say you’re well prepared.

wow you brought along so much stuff. that’s like more than my entire MAC collection.
When i travel i often run into the same problem, i want to bring as much as i can, but i am also worried about my MU being damaged or stolen, so i just try to bring only the basics and also the versatile multi-use products to let me do a few different looks.