What makeup do you take with you when you travel? Say you’re going somewhere for a week?
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I’d take 2 15-pan palettes, a couple of pigments, 5-10 lipsticks/lipglosses, 3-5 blushes, a few eye liner, and of course, the usual staples (foundation, moisturizer, etc.)!
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The last trip I went on was to Japan for three weeks and I took:
– Laura Mercier Precious Metals Palettes (2)
– Dior Petal Shine Quint
– Dior Tinted Hydraction in 3
– Anastasia Tinted Eyebrow Gel
– Dior ICONIC Mascara
– MAC HK Blush in TIPPY
– 4 glosses/lip sticks
I think I did good! I mean not counting skin care, I fit everything into a small makeup bag. Including brushes!
I’m going to travel next week. I think I will take a minimum amount of makeup since I’m going to buy MAC when I arrive to my destination. A quadful or two of e/s, a primer (eyes), a blush, concealer(s), small loose powder & a blot powder, some lippies, a mascara and some brushes.
i take:
– a day cream
-foundation
-concealer
-mascara
-a neautral eyeshadow
-eye kohl
-lipbalm and gloss
but this is online if I leave for just a day. a sleep-over or something like that.
A brush roll full of brushes, foundation, concealer, powder etc., a couple of 15-pan eyeshadow palettes, a few pigments, eyeliner, mascara, brow shadow, UDPP, a couple of blushes, one or two msf’s, 5-6 lipsticks and about the same ammount of lipglosses.
1.day and night cream
2.E45 cream for dry skin or all over body cream love this stuff
3. boots no7 protect and perfect eye serum
4. bio oil
5. contact lens kit(lens, eye drops, solution, glasses)
6.UDPP
7. urban decay book of shadows palette
or a small e/s pallet
8.e.l.f cream eye bases duo
9. 1 brown and 1 plum colour lip liner.
10.boots no7 lip lacquar in PLUM(its the duo one side gloss one side matte colour like MAC prolong lip wear)
11.avon lip lacquar in a browny rose colour
12.mac mineralised blush duo in hot planet and light over dark
13.body spray!
14.perfume!
and thats trying to travel light LOL! x
For one week? Foundation + brush, concealer, loose powder + brush, two eyeshadows, mascara, my eyebrow kit, two or three glosses and one lipstick or two. I don’t need more.
Oh for a week? What a question!
I’m totally rubbish and tend to take everything everywhere, because you just don’t know what look you might want!
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blot powder+kabuki on a stick (aka merle norman face #3)
foundation+MAC 190
olay moisturizers (day&night)
paint pot in painterly
a mac quad featuring shroom, saddle, carbon, trax, hello kitty too dolly quad+ MAC 224, 219, &lise watier eyeshadow brush
mascara
loose pink blush (dunno the brand…)
TLC in pink fish
duck powerpoint eyeliner, smoulder liner, (or feline, depends which i grab first)
lusterglass in love nectar
and makeup remover!
thats not too bad…
This depends on where I am going. What I would pack for going to the beach for the week, is much different than if I was going to Vegas. Usually it would be a moisturizer, concealer, powder, mascara, black and brown eyeliners, a few neutral eyeshadows, two blushes, and a few brushes.
– Shu Uemura Face Architect Remodeling Cream Foundation
– MAC Studio Finish Concealer SPF 35 NC30
– MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation NC42
– Chanel Inmitable Waterproof Mascara
– Philosophy’s Never Let Them See You Shine Oil and Shine Control Velvet Touch Primer
– MAC Lipsticks
– Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler
– Ever Bilena Pencil Eyeliner Black
– Travel toothbrush and toothpaste
– MAC blushes or Mineralize Skinfinish Natural Powder in Deep Dark
– Retractable Brush for blush powder
I’m traveling this weekend and I have plans of taking only the following:
No e/s
MAC studio fix powder foundaton w/ my 129 brush
MAC studio sculpt concealer
2 lipglasses
1 lipstick
2 lip pencils
Oh I’ve been thinking about this for ages now because I’m going on holiday for two weeks in July and I can’t take too much stuff with me. I don’t want to take anything that I really like or really expensive in case my luggage is lost, but also we’ll be going to the beach every day, so won’t be wearing much make up anyway.
Last time I went away (5 days at Disneyland) I took my 88 shimmer palette, few eyepencils, couple of mascaras, foundation, MSF natural+shimmer duo, 4 blushes, and a number of long lasting lipsticks (Lipfinity). I might just do the same again, it’s easier to take one palette than 10. 😉
I’d take:
– face moisturiser & eye cream
– concealer stick
– undereye concealer pen
– pressed face powder
– 1 or 2 pencil eyeliners
– 1 powder blush
– 1 or 2 small drugstore eyeshadow palettes
– lip balm
– 3 or 4 essential face & eye brushes
I would take…
-Holiday warm and cool eyes palettes
-Lights Camera Splashes Mascara
-Black funk e/l
-Foundation
-MAC paint in bare canvas
-Bronzer
-Gel blush
-Circa Plum and Teal pigments
-Strawbaby l/s
-Bare necessity dazzleglass
-2 glosses from style warrior I bought
-travel brush set from MAC+ some other travel brushed I have added
I tend to pack:
– Royal Assets smoky eye palette
– Viva Glam lip palette, warm
– mascara
– earthline technakohl and industry powerpoint
– blushbaby
– tinted moisturizer
– blot papers
– eyeshadow primer..maybe a clinique quick eyes cream shadow ‘cuz it does double duty as lid color
– brushes
For my trip this week I’m planning to bring:
– My staples (facial cleanser, moisturizer, makeup remover, etc.)
– Philosophy Clear Makeup primer
– BE Foundation
– BE Mineral Veil
– Studio Sculpt concealer
– Blot Powder
– MAC Line Filler (to prime my undereyes)
– Soft Ochre paint pot
– one 15-pan palette
– Naked pigment
– Fix +
– A couple of lipsticks and lipglasses
– MAC Eversun blush and NARS Deep Throat
– Brushes: Kabuki, 129, 217, 239, 224, 195
It depends, if I am going somewhere like Japan or HK where I will buy a load of makeup there anyway, I will bring less makeup.
The usual stuff including skincare, primer, foundation, concealer, powder, brushes, a 4 pan quad, brow pencils, 2 blushers etc.
If I am going somewhere beachy, then I will bring less stuff.
Travel size Shu oil cleanser, toner, SPF, Foundation, powder and brow pencil. With color makeup stuff, I deliberately leave most at home, so that I will have an excuse to buy all new ones 😀
I def. try my best to pick color combinations that can go with an array of outfits so that I can mix n’ match without having to take too much. For a week, I’d probably bring:
– 1 15-pan palette filled with the color combos i plan to mix n’ match
– black & brown eyeliner & maybe 1 or 2 colored ones if needed
– eyelash curler & mascara
– pink, nude, & brown lipliners
– pink, nude & brown lipsticks w/ coordinating lipglosses
– pink & peach blush
– foundation & concealer
– bronzer & blot powder
I’m traveling (for one week) in a couple of weeks and won’t be checking a bag, so I have to cut waaaay back! I’ll be taking:
– foundation (one of those samples they give you at the makeup counter)
– one blush
– a few eyeshadows
– one eyeliner (normally I just use a wet brush and apply dark eyeshadow as eyeliner)
– a few lipsticks and lip glosses
– mascara
– moisturizer
– a few brushes
It should all fit into a little travel makeup bag!
Wow, apparently I travel light. Comes of being a pilot’s daughter and watching and learning from Dad’s ability to pack for a week in about ten minutes flat.
For a week I’d take with me:
1 mascara (the only one I own)
1 Eye Kohl
2 eyeshadows – my neutral base shade and my most-neutral crease darkener
maybe my rapidblack, depending on if I thought I’d be going out in the evenings
lip balm
Love Nectar lipglass
pressed powder and bronzer
LOL this is timely…. I’m going away soon and am trying to decide what to bring… I just hate leaving things at home.
I really only need to take one MSF, not two, right?
i have this old ‘Caboodle” i’ve had since i was…probably 11. (27 now). I cram it full with cleanser, oil of olay complete moisturizer.
-My mineral foundation, mineral veil.
-A neutral quad that has the brown I use for my brows as well as 3 other great neutrals
-UDPP, a handful of other shadows. Typically some plums and a couple brights.
-Black, Brown, and sometimes Navy liner. Mascara
-Kabuki, face, blush, eyebrow/spoolie, and at least at 3 eye brushes
-Typically just one blush. a bronzy peach shade
-lots of glosses and lippies
i try to bring minimum! normally it would just be a powder foundation, one blush (chanel’s tweed are my fave to bring along!), multi-coloured eyeshadow palette, one neutral eyeshadow palette, gel liner, brow powder, 1 lipstick, 1 lipgloss.
Think that’s about it! Travel light ;P
I bring my Coastal Scents 88 eye palette, because it has a few shades of each color. I also bring my Kat Von D Metal Orchestra palette. I don’t tend to bring lipstick, but occasionally I’ll bring a good red to go with my black eyeshadow. I almost never bring foundation, since I so rarely wear it, but I do bring a concealer and blush. I always bring my brush set, and, of course, face wash and moisturizer.
I get nervous bringing my really good stuff, like the Kat Von D palette, because things can get so easily broken while traveling.
Daily travel? To like work…shopping?
I take my powder, a mascara and my lip stuff. That’s it.
For travel travel?
…one of everything, a couple of nail polishes, a 15 pan palette and all of my MAC brushes.
I’d take MAC Shroom, Sable, Sweet Liason duo, Dare You lipstick, Soap and Glory Marvelips, MAC Powerpoint in Engraved, a ton of q-tips, Fuschia and that white pigment whose name escapes me, Lingering brow pencil, all my brushes, my L’Oreal shadow quad, one mascara, my Sonia Kashuk bubblegum pink cream blushstick, Springsheen blush, my Bonne Belle quad, shadow base, face wash and on-the-spot acne med, conditioner, leave-in hair conditioner and my hairbrush.
I’m pretty minimalist both in my entire collection and when I travel. I’m leaving today for Amsterdam and Paris and have:
-1 Smashbox 6 eyeshadow palette
-1 Pixie (from Target) 6 eyeshadow palette
-Covergirl LashBlast mascara
-3 urban decay eyeliners
-Bare Esentuals foundation and powder
-Skincare stuff (moisturizer, etc.)
-Smashbox primer
-Brow powder
-4 or so brushes
-3 Lancome Juicey Tubes
Hm, not as minimalist as I thought, though it all fits in a tiny makeup bag. I don’t use blush because I redden super easily already and it’s just overkill. I don’t really care about bronzer enough to travel with it.
Way too much! MAC travel brush set (holiday collections), a few palettes, 2 blushes, foundation, concealer, powder, lipstick palette, 3-6 lipsticks & glosses, shimmer powder, moisturizers (day, night, eye), mascara, dark brown eyeliner, black eyeliner, eyelash curler, tweezers, glitter eyeliner, liquid eyeliner, and nailpolish. Yea, its a lot! I don’t end up using all of my eyeshadows, so next trip will be less I think.
Foundation, black liner, mascara, a MSF, my fav gloss at the moment and my contour powder. As for tools, I bring my stippling brush (holiday set) and a blush brush. And really, I only break those out when I feel like I really have to doll myself up. I don’t actually do full on “looks” when I’m traveling because I always feel like I’m wasting time or something…
Revlon Colorstay Foundation or Tinted Moisturizer
MAC Mineralized Skinfinish in Medium Dark Natural and Shimmer
If its summer, Get Baked palette from Urban Decay
MAC Brule eyeshadow for highlight
224, 217, 227, and kirkland flat shader brush
188 brush for foundation
eco tools blush brush
clinique moisture surge
stila bronzer in shade 01 w/ kirkland contour brush
hue and creme d’ nude lipstick
TLP petting pink
Telescopic Mascara
MAC blacktrack fluidline and liner brush
haha wow, that’s a lot of stuff!
A warm neutral to smokey palette (1 15-pan, or just a cheapo coastal scents neutral palette since i’m not too worried about it shattering at ALL)
MAC Brushes: 129, 134, 182, 187, 209, 217, 219, 222, 224, 239
Spoolie from Sonia Kashuk
2 blushes, 1 bronzer
5 lipsticks, 2 glosses
Invisible Set powder
Loreal Voluminous Mascara
MAC Liquid Last in Boot Black, and Blacktrack fluidline
Studio Fix Powder
Liquid Foundation
Studio Finish Concealer
Painterly Paint Pot
2 pigments
and that’s about it for makeup.
When I travel, I always carry light, and I mean LIGHT.
I only take an eyeshadow palette that contains an eyeshadow brush, moisturizer, face wash, toner, and some lip gloss 🙂
Yeah, I try to keep it light as well. As far as color, I carry a few shadows, a couple lipsticks and blushes that work well together so that I can create different looks with the same products. I also love to collect sample size items that come with gwp’s and I use those for travel and for my purse.
I do take my travel brush kit as well (these are not the same brushes I use at home on a daily basis – they are dedicated for travel only).
Too much! I always end up taking most of my stuff!
Hmm…I’m headed into a humidity-intense place this weekend, so I’ll be bringing the following:
Tinted moisturizer
Mac Blot Powder
Mac Cleanse-Off Oil (can’t leave without it)
UDPP
Painterly Paint Pot
Mac Quad with Espresso (brows), Brule or Arena(highlight), All That Glitters (lid), and Swiss Chocolate (crease)
VS tinted lip balm and black eyeliner
NYX blush in terracotta
UD liner in Stash, Loreal Liner Intense (liquid black liner)
VS lid/crease/angled (for brows) brushes
Wet n Wild Protein mascara/Maybelline Lash Stylist
6 random lipsticks/glosses that compliment (3 of each)
Sunscreen
VS eyelash curler
No matter how long this list is, it’s actually not much 🙂
When I go anywhere for a few days I have 2 bags, one for brushes and one for makeup.
Brushes:
-flat top blush brush (Sonia Kashuk)
-blush brush (Sonia Kashuk)
-MAC 239
-MAC 217
-MAC 224
Makeup: (varies depending on how much time I expect to have for makeup)
-MAC Mineralize Skinfinish
-id Bare Minerals Allover color- Clear Radiance
-UDDP
-MAC Paintpot- Painterly/Rubenesque depending on time
-brown eyeliner (Clinique)
-depending on time either an e/s duo (Buttered Bronze by Clinique), an e/s palette (UD Sustainable Shadow Box), or a couple of MAC e/s
-bronzer
-chapstick/lipgloss
And I forgot mascara: MAC Fiber Rich Lash
I’d take a tinted moisturizer, Benefit’s Get Bent mascara, black eyeliner, Benefit’s Erase Paste, a few MAC mineralize eyeshadows, and a few lipglosses. 🙂
I would pack :
SKII Miracle Water in a Fix+ Trial sized bottle
Fix+ Rose
Sebamed Face + Body Wash
Q-tips, tissues
L’Occitane Grape Cure Beauty Milk (to double as moisturiser)
HK Beauty Powder in Pretty baby (to double as blusher as well as compact powder)
182, 214, 226, 165 brushes
SW bronzer in Refined Golden ( to double up as dark blusher )
Penultimate liner
Dazzle Black Mascara
Eyes on Manish palette
SW BNB lipstick
Cremesheen lipglass in Looks Like Sin
VG VI SE lipglass
As a former flight attendant – fired – i initially started out taking quad pallates for my work makeup, a couple of pigments, 2 or 3 regular brushes and more SE brushes (didnt want to lose the real ones) and many other things..but the point im making here is i was handling my own luggage and my quads were breaking all the time making a big mess of crumbled mixed up pan shadows. So it happened a couple of times and i had to rebuy 8 shadows as pots, but i would never travel with a pallate, this way if its going to break its going to stay self contained, and im a very experienced and professional traveler, who has also loaded luggage for the airlines as well. do no pack pallates in checked luggage. We arent called ‘bag throwers’ for no reason! But I’m all done with the airlines, too unstable and I dont like always not being home or getting stuck somewhere because of weather. But thats my advice from a makeup obsessed girl who worked in all aspects of aviation and many airlines for 10 yrs, most recent job Flight Attendant for 6 yrs and I can even fly em, I just dont have enough hours to get a rating!
I don’t usually wear Bare Escentuals makeup, but I have the starter kit that comes in a great box to just throw into my suitcase. It has nice brushes so I don’t need my MAC ones (I do have to bring eye brushes, though). I put a couple MAC quads into the box and it’s perfect!!
I take the same twelve items every time. I’m very habitual, so I consistently keep all twelve items in my travel bag….hahah
1) A MAC 15 palette with eight neutrals and seven brighter colors
2) A brush roll with five brushes
3) MAC MSF Natural in Medium
4) Benefit 10 (cheek highlight and contour)
5) NARS Laguna Bronzer/Orgasm Blush duo
6) MAC Dazzleglass in Baby Sparks
7) Lip Conditioner or Chapstick
8) MAC Clear Gloss
9) MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer (sometimes I don’t bring this if I’m going to a hot climate)
10) Moisturizer
11) Lash Blast Mascara
12) MAC kohl eyeliner
That’s it!!!! 😀
i fit everything in a medium size sephora makeup bag that holds brushes.
1. 217,266,265, 168 and 182
2. studiofix powder
3. bobbi brown concealer
4. 1 mac smokey eyes palette
5. two faced shadow insurance
6. nars deep throat blush
7. loreal telescopic mascara
8. bobbie brown gel liner
9. mac hug me lipstick
10. rosebud salve
everything fits pretty well and compact. i travel a lot and i save facial cleansers and moisturizers samples inside as well.
I’m actually going to visit my bf for 4 days in late July and have been thinking about this a LOT.
I’m popping the insert out of a palette and taking 7 or 8 shadows, 2 cream blushes, 1 powder blush and 1 CCB in that
moisturizer, primer, foundation, concealer, fluidline, pale yellow eye kohl or fasicnating, mascara, a couple tendertones (no other lip stuff, he hates it and I don’t want to hear about it, LOL), MSFN, setting powder, fix+ and my brushes. it all fits in a TEEENY cosmetic bag (except my brushes, they have to go in a brush roll). He is not prepared to see it all yet. IDK what I’m going to do when I move there. He’ll freak out seeing the HUGE train case, LOL.
My holiday kit would be:
-moisturizing cream
-loose powder (T. Leclerc)
-neutral EY – shimmery EY in white/golds
-black mascara
-a few lip glosses/lip balm (pink/coral/mauve)
-highlighter compact powder
-rose/gold blush
-concealer stick
and last but not least:
-baby talc powder ( a life-saver if you are in tropical countries 😉 )
I just got back from Alberta for 12 days:
Primer
Clinique Almost Makeup
Nars Orgasm blush
Shroom, Fig 1, Satin Taupe, Expensive Pink eyeshadow
Fresh eyeshadow palette in Fig
Benefit Bad Gal mascara and eyeliner
Dior Diorshow mascara
Nars and Urban Decay eyeliner
and a ton of Nars and MAC lip glosses, too many to name.
And Burberry Brit
Hehe, I am traveling right now, so I can tell you:
Skincare: w/ hair & body care in my random Long’s toiletries bag
– Soapalaya Soaps lavender cleansing grains
– Soapalaya Soaps Chamomile Calm soap
– Ole Henriksen Pick Me Up Face Tonic
– Ole Henriksen Truth Serum
– moisturizer (I make my own “oil concentrate”)
– TBS Tea Tree Oil Mattifying Moisturizer (in a sample jar – this is my spot treatment lol)
– Korres Moisturizing Yoghurt Mask (in a sample jar)
– DDF Enhancing Sun Protection
Makeup: in my Sonia Kashuk small train case
– EDM mineral foundation
– MAC Mineralize blushes in Dainty and Nuance
– Kat von D Ludwig & Beethoven palettes
– MAC Painterly paintpot
– UDPP
– HIP Showy duo (in case I want teal lol)
– Kiss Me Heroine mascara
– Anastasia Brow Powder duo
– MAC Golden Nectar High-Light powder
– MAC Tahitian Sand beauty powder
– Dior Addict lipstick in Gallant Bronze
– Dior Addict High Shine in Gipsy Red
– MAC Fanfare, Hug Me & Cute-ster
– Prestige wp liners in Granite and Surf
+ brushes (I bring almost all of mine b/c I can lol), eyelash curler & lash comb
I’m also loving Neutrogena’s Sensitive Skin SPF30 and Juice Beauty’s Body Moisturizer SPF20 for body care.
Though, I just went on a 2.5 day backpacking trip and then all I took with me was the toner, moisturizer (turned multi-purpose) and sunscreen.
Depends on where I’m going and why I’m going there! But usually:
Foundation, 1 blush, 2 or 3 lip products, 1 eyeliner, 1 neutral eye palette (4 colours), and 2 brushes (one for shadow, one for foundation)
I pack light 🙂
Let’s see.. I would take as much makeup as I can cram in my train case!!! Foundation, blush, 5 or 6 brushes, brush cleaner, 6 of 7 l/s and the same l/g, as many 15 palettes as will fit in the bottom (about 6), mascara, 2 paint pots, and that should about do it!!
P.S. I’m not high maintenence!! LOL!! My hubby made me put that!