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How many beauty products do you have in your bag right now?


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Five — three lip glosses, one lipstick, and lip balm.

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Rachel R. Avatar

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)

janka Avatar

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 😀

Rosie Avatar

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

Theresa Avatar

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.

Rachel R. Avatar

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.

Rachel R. Avatar

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.

Astrild Avatar

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.

artemis Avatar

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.

Janelle Avatar

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)

Gillian Avatar

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. 🙂

Katherine T. Avatar

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!

Hazzel Avatar

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.

Nikky Avatar

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.

jess Avatar

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.

Nurse Ratchet Avatar

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.

Christy Avatar

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

Melle Avatar

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! 🙂

Susan Dowman Nevling Avatar

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.

alie Avatar

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.

Carla Avatar

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. :/

Diana Avatar

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.

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