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Five — three lip glosses, one lipstick, and lip balm.
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Just counted 4! A Ysl Volupte sheer candy, one cleanser sample, on decanted moisturiser and Chanel Destiny creme blush (for the mirror and of course the color!)
Depends on the scope “beauty products” covers. At any given time I have 3-6 make up products plus things like lotion, tissues, bobby pins, comb, first aid kit, etc. If you count my entire “appearance emergency” kit it’s something like 18 items.
3 at the moment: Touch up powder, blotting sheets, lip balm. I’ll add 1-3 more depending on what I’m wearing that day (eyeliner, lipstick, lipgloss)
six ,one lipblam ,two lipsticks ,one blush ,one powder foundation ,one powder brush
I carry 8… 2 lipbalms, blotting powder, concealer, 3 lipsticks, and a travel perfume spray.
Eight products: two brow pencils, one brow gel, 2 lipbalms and 3 lipsticks. I used to carry much more in my handbag though 😀
Right now I have 4: UD Perversion eyeliner pencil, eos lip balm, Peformance Colors lipstick in Pink Choco, and Nyx lipliner in Nectar.
My permanent emergency purse kit (17 items):
*Light up compact mirror
*Mini-brush set
*Coastal Scents telescoping lip brush
*Credit card-sized, 10-pan lip palette with various lipsticks/glosses.
*Foundation sample (currently SuperGoop CC Cream in Fair to Light)
*Travel size powder (currently sample size of MUFE HD powder)
*Travel size black eyeliner pencil (currently Cynthia Rowley)
*Lip balm (currently Blistex Medicated)
*Sample black mascara (currently UD Perversion)
*Auburn eyebrow pencil
*Sample eye primer (currently Too Faced)
*Blotting papers
*Roll-on and/or solid fragrance (currently Pacifica Mexican Cocoa solid).
*Small neutral eyeshadow set (currently e.l.f. Brightening Eye Color quad in Brownstone)
*Small neutral blush (currently Tarte Pigment of Imagination cheek set)
5 lipsticks, 1 Lip Tar, 1 lippencil, 1 lipbrush, 1 powder, 1 perfume, blotting papers. in total:11 pcs. how can you wear small handbags is beyond me 😀
8!
(I swear I usually only have lipsticks and a mascara)
4 Eyeliners: two mini eyeliners from Stila & Nars, and 2 Sephora retractable waterproof eyeliners in a purple and teal.
4 FALL Lipsticks: MAC Rebel, Living Legend, Dubonnet & NARS Scarlet Empress
Three – a powder (Pixi’s Flawless Beauty Powder), a black eyeliner, and a Baby Lips lip balm.
2. 2 lipsticks, pretty typical.
I don’t keep a ton either, and it’s kind of odd how some people carry like every product they used that morning to get ready with like foundation, eyeliner, brow product, etc. lol. But usually just a lip balm, Nude lipstick, a clear lipgloss or nude/light pink, and a pressed powder. I rarely find myself touching up throughout the day, but if I do these are the only products that i’d need 99% of the time haha.
That’s just makeup though, of course I have other beauty related products like hand cream and what not.
I can’t speak for others, but I carry samples of everything in a little kit because I have a child with mental health issues, and my husband has several older relatives with health issues. I often end up at a hospital or ER, sometimes out of town, with little to no time to pack. This way I can leave at a second’s notice or spend overnight in an ER, and have my makeup to put on during the inevitable long waits. I carry sample/travel sizes so I don’t have a huge makeup bag in my purse.
As a child with mental health issues living in the hospital, I have the same kit set up in my bag ahaha.
We do what we gotta do to get through it. A little makeup can do wonders for morale, and not looking half dead from no sleep.
You have my sympathies, as my son was in and out of hospitals, residential treatments and day treatments until adulthood. Now he’s in a group home. It does get better, just slowly. Hang in there.
My heart goes out to you both!
Three lipsticks, four tinted lip balms, a concealer and two brow products, a powder and a gel to fix them. Yes, I know I have a lip product problem.
One– dior lip glow! Christine– would love to know what colors you have in those categories. Thanks!
I think the glosses are Bobbi Brown Nectar, Pink Sequin, and Black Ruby!
Just thee! One lipstick, an eye pencil and concealer.
In my purse makeup bag? A lipstick and lip brush, a mattifying powder (Rimmel) and brush and a lip balm (Jack black). I might also have a double ended 24/7 pencil in there but it might be in my gym bag..
Just four: a mascara, concealer, brow pencil and lipstick!
Guess who is a lip junkie! 😀
2 lipsticks, 1 lip gloss, 1 lip balm.
2, what a record…a lipgloss and foundation….no powder cuz i don’t have a spongy thing to apply it outside…but i also got a mirror, tho that’s not a beauty product.
None.
Three: Nars Dolce Vita lipstick, Clinique Longwear gloss in Bamboo Pink, and a travel-size container of Josie Maran Whipped Argan Oil Body Butter.
About twenty… hahah… I ended up doing my makeup at work, so I packed what I needed!
I used to do the same.
Way too many lol. I have around 15 lippies, an eyeliner and 2 mascaras. This just made me realize I need to clean out my makeup bag. There’s no way I need to be carrying around this many lippies
11 for me: 2 balms, 1 lip scrube, 1 nude liner, 2 macara, 1 concealer, blotting paper, and 3 lip colours. lol
5 lipsticks 2 gloss a lip liner and a face powder.
Eep… 16
Oh holy hell the one day that I have way too much in my purse…(oh who am I kidding I always have too many products in my purse!!!) I have 15 products and one kabuki brush
2 Lip Balms (Blistex Silk and Shine and Burts Bees Original)
1 Vaseline Rosy Lips
2 Lipsticks (1 Clinique (All Heart, classic color for me!!) 1 Essence (Almost Bare)
1 Mascara For some reason I always carry mascara and end up touching up my mascara at the end of the day!
1 Powder (Right now it is a Lancome Dual Finish)
3 Lip Liners (Rimmel East End Snob, Origins Plum, and MAC Spice)
4 Chanel Glossimers (Spark, Glaze, Giggle, and Desire)
1 Concealor (cle de peau)
1 Kabuki Brush (Guerlain)
Two, Blottingpapers and the lipstick of the day. But that’s after cleaning out a lot of lipsticks. Oh, a third, handlotion.
I have my travel bag since I was staying with my parents for a few nights. However, only counting my handbag I have:
Bobbi Brown Skin Weightless Prefer Foundation in 00 Alabaster.
Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer in Fair.
Lancôme Hypnôse mascara sample.
Suqqu Bright Up lipstick in 02 Hanabeni.
Maybelline Baby Lips in Cherry Me.
Not sure why I have the mascara sample in there as I don’t tend to wear much mascara at all let alone apply any during the day. Everything else I’ll use. 🙂
8 – ELF Bronzer/Blush Duo, YSL Rouge Volupte in Prune in Fire, Covergirl Skin Perfector, Jack Black Lip Balm, Lord and Berry Black eyeliner, Buxom Mascara, NYX HD Concealer, and a random Lancome eyeshadow mini quad 🙂
Only 4 – Brow powder, face powder, lipstick, and lip balm w/ SPF . What I put on in the morning has to last all day, because I don’t like carrying around a 10 lb bag full of makeup!
I have 18 beauty products: 10 lippies, 3 lip pencils, 2 lip glosses, 1 lip balm, 1 concealer, and 1 face powder
I have MAC lipstick in Brave, a lipgloss from Bite beauty, a little touch up powder from Bare Minerals, EOS lip balm and EOS hand lotion. That is all if you count makeup related beauty products. But I also carry a small pack of tissues, a nail file, hand sanitizer and a small pin/clip because you never know when you will have a button that is trying to stay open all the time or fix a shirt that shows a little too much cleavage.
I’m even embarrassed to say…
2 Lipbalms
7 lipsticks (!!!!??????!!?!????!?!???!??!!!)
2 lipglosses………..and another one is stashed in my coat pocket. Oh Lord.
Then I have 1 stick concealer and 1 mascara.
Don’t be embarrassed, LOL! You sound like my kind of person! The only reason I have so few lipsticks and glosses in my bag right now is that I had a cleanout recently 😉
Ahaha! 😀 Well I do clean out my bag periodically.. but lippies seem to never be able to get OUT of the bag once they get in.. I feel like I’m doing them wrong if I take them out LOL!
/cackles manically
ALL OF THE LIP PRODUCTS. I think maybe — a lip balm, a tinted balm, a Chubby Stick, and a lipstick? Which isn’t ridiculous on its own, but when you consider the fact that I don’t even carry a full-sized wallet because I don’t want my bag to be too heavy, then. Well. >.<
I usually just carry whatever lip products I’m wearing that day (lipstick, a lip liner if it’s a dark or red lip, or a gloss), and some blotting paper. Maybe some concealer if I know I might need a touch up.
Hm. At the moment:
Powder foundation compact, eyeshadow single for the mirror (also doubles as my eyebrow powder), three lipsticks, a gloss, eczema cream and…flash drives? There I go, the thesis goes, people. 😛
I have once powder, one concealed, one lip balm, 2 lipsticks, 2 glosses, 1 mascara. I do my makeup in the car a lot! 🙂 also dry shampoo, hairbrush, hair binders.
Four! Powder, a brush for the powder, a lip balm and a lipgloss!
Between 10 and 20 lippies at all times and blotting papers.
Five: 2 lipsticks, 2 lip balms and a pressed powder.
I have 4 lipsticks, a comb and perfume of the day.
Urban decay lipstick “fiend”, fresh lip balm
Five products total: Nars Matte Lip Pencil- Aubergine, Mac Del Rio and Fashion Revival lipsticks, Mac Beet lip liner and an EOS lip balm
19 – it’s been a very long time since I cleaned my bag! As many others, I carry multiple lip products, but I’m also carrying four eyeliners and 2 eyebrow gels. No wonder why I´m carrying 19 products….!
Far, far too much:
Batiste ‘Floral and Fruity Blush’ purse-sized Dry Shampoo
Neutrogena Deep Clean blotting sheets
Wet n Wild ‘Mauve Outta Here’ matte lipstick
Benefit ‘Some Kinda Gorgeous’ mini pan of foundation
Benefit ‘They’re Real!’ mini mascara
Lancome ‘Hynose Drama’ mascara
Benefit ‘Porefessional” primer
MAC ‘Studio Fix Plus’ powder foundation in NW20
A stubby Rimmel ‘Hazel’ brow pencil
Two Jersey Shore Sun ‘Mongongo’ lip balm in Orange Ginger and Blackberry (HG lip balm)
Pacifica ‘Color Quench Tint’ tinted lip balm in ‘Guava Berry’
I also have 3 types of lotion, bobby pins, a Denman styling brush, hair clips and ties, hair detangler, body wash, spray deodorant…the list goes on and on. Can you tell I was a Girl Scout? In my defense, I am at work (trauma ICU) and use a lot of these products on my patients.
Oh ……… a whole lot!
Hmm, probably around 20 in the makeup bag, 8 in a bag just for lipsticks, 14 brushes in a brush case, and 4 or so other products (including a shadow palette) are all kept in the largish tote I haul around with me. So, a little over 30 unless you count the brushes, in which case around 44.
IN TOTE, OUTSIDE MAKEUP BAG
Sunscreen: Hada Labo UV Creamy Gel SPF50PA+++
Sometimes a serum and/or moisturizer
Primer: Rouge Bunny Rouge Prelude in the Clouds Aqua Primer
Foundation: Rouge Bunny Rouge
Shadow palette: Either Tarte Rainforest After Dark, Laura Mercier Artist’s Palette for Eyes holiday 2013, or Z-palette w/RBR and MUFE shadows plus UD Naked2
IN MAKEUP BAG
2 Concealer: Cover FX (face) & Lancome Maqicomplet Concealer (under eyes)
4 Blush: Rouge Bunny Rouge Florita & Orpheline, Tarte Blushing Bride, Bare Minerals sample
Powder: Guerlain Crazy Paris Meteorites Compact
Lip Sunscreen: Alba Botanicals SPF 24
2 Lip Balm: Korres plum and raspberry lip butters
Eyeshadow primer: NYX or NARS
3 Eyeliners: Tarte plum eyeliner, Kiss Me Heroine Make Smooth Liquid Eyeliner, Sephora bronze
Eyelash curler
2 Mascara: Cover Girl Clump Crusher waterproof (“very black”) & Lancome Butterfly
2 Brow gel and powder (Anastasia)
SEPARATE SM BAG FOR LIPSTICKS
Lipsticks (separate container): about 8, including Rouge Bunny Rouge Murmerings, Word of Mouth, and Raw Silences, and Givenchy Rose Boudoir
HAKUHODO BRUSH BAG
About 14 brushes, including Ecotools angle and foundation brushes, Hakuhodo laydown, crease, and tiny pencil brushes (J242G x 2, J142 and a similar one, G5515); Hakuhodo powder brush and 2 concealer brushers; Koyudo blush, foundation, and pencil brushes
Way too many! I’ve been lazy this week, and I’ve been doing my makeup at work. Foundation, powders, blushes, primers, mascara. Oh, four blushes, folks, but only one mascara! How does that make sense? 🙂
At this very moment:
~2 lipsticks (Revlon SL Raspberry Bite and Lancome CD Fuchsia Clutch)
~1 lip gloss (Burt’s Bees Lipshine in Smooch)
~blotting sheets
~pressed powder compact (Maybelline Dream Matte Powder in Dark)
~lip liner
~brow pencil
~an afro pick…which is not currently needed as I just shaved my head! 🙂
too many to even count and the sad part is i havent used any of them all week. i keep adding with the intent to wear.. smh.. and then wen im ready to wear something ive cleaned out my back.. yes more than 7 products..lol
2: a lip balm and the new l’Occitane Whipped Shea hand cream. I would have more but this bag is really tiny, lol!
About 5-6, lipsticks, glosses and one mascara. I was a carrying a make up bag eighteenth pencil, powder foundation and a blush but lightened up considerably since I broke my left upper arm a few weeks ago. Now I don’t carry a wallet, just a few essentials and paper money in a fabric bag. Purse is very light.
I have 5. 3 lipsticks, 1 balm an 1 gloss.
3 actually!
Gloss – compact and my liner! Cannot do with these. Blushes do find their place in the bag occasionally!
um. this will totally explain why my shoulder hurts from carrying my bag.
– 2 different makeup bags
-2 foundations
-5 different mini face lotions and serums
-sugar lip exfoliator
-a case with 15 makeup brushes
-urban decay electric palette
-sephora palette with pink pearl case
-sephora palette with striped fabric case
-sephora palette that looks like an ipod case
-bronzer
-sephora contouring palette
-15 slot MAC palette with 15 eyeshadows in it
5 seperate sephora eyeshadows.
-17 lipsticks or glosses (yes i counted)
-mac blush in dollymix
-mac MSF in stereo rose and in lightscapade
-mac blot powder
-mac fluidline
-7 other eyeliners, 4 black, 1 grey, 1 blue, 1 purple
-one urban decay pulp fiction glitter liner
-riff raff palette from mac
-mac greasepaint sticks in blue and black
-mac cream color base in bat black
…im probably forgetting some stuff, i carry it with me because i frequently do my makeup on the train or at work.
As if I could count that high! 🙂
Let’s see … I have 100 + lipsticks, some of which should doubtless be discarded, at least 20 glosses, four foundations, three concealers, 70 + eyeshadows, around 10 eyeliners, 20 + blushes, and at least 10 lip pencils.
Yes, I need therapy. :/
in your purse?? i dread to think about my reaction if my bag ever was stolen with that much of my LIFE in it! happened a few years ago
4 lip balms (soap & glory, 2 burt’s bees, 1 softlips), 4 lipstick (MAC Del Rio, Etude House BE106, Etude House LipFit PP501, Maybelline Maple Kiss, ), 1 powder foundation (MAC C5).
I don’t normally have that many lipsticks but forgot to take out this many lipsticks or lip products…usually it’s just my soap & glory lip balm & whatever lipstick I’m wearing for the day but I forgot to clean out my purse this weekend.
3- lip blam tin, a nude pink lip creme (goes with most looks) and blotting sheets