What products do you take with you to touch-up? Share!
On the rare occasion where this is something I do, I’ll take a pressed compact powder (Guerlain Les Voilettes) and my lip color du jour.
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For basic every day, lipgloss and concealer. For evenings, I add mascara.
Usually my lip color of the day and some Palladio blotting paper/powder in translucent. It’s a blotting paper with translucent powder on one side, so you can use the powderless side to blot and gently press the powdered side onto your skin to touch up. It’s surprisingly not cakey at all.
I personally find the blotting paper/powder to be much more practical than toting around pressed powder (and risk breakage) or loose powder (and risk spillage). Bonus: it’s also very compact and lightweight.
If I can be bothered, I’d probably also bring my eyeliner and my inner corner eyeshadow as well (yay for watery eyes -__- ).
Everything. I put my makeup on at 7 AM and don’t get home until 6 PM or later, so need at least 1 touch up during the day. Blotting papers, MAC Blot Powder, brow powder, eyeliner, shadow, lipliner, lipstick, blush, sunscreen
Powder compact w/mini kabuki brush, concealer, lipstick and/or lipgloss that I already have on, lipliner, eyeliner (although, I almost never need to t/u my eyeliner!), sometimes I bring eyeshadow withme if I know my allergies are acting up….no wonder my shoulder aches, lol!
It’s a rarity for me as well, as I tend to spend more time in the morning making sure I don’t need to touch up. When I do need to—say, the day will get longer—I usually just go for a sweep of NARS Light Reflecting Pressed Powder after blotting sheets. But with the onset of summer, which affects my base, I’ve been reaching for MAC Select Sheer Pressed Powder, which has the lightest coverage.
I will usually just use a blotting paper to get rid of any excess oil or maybe a q-tip if any eye makeup has gone awry. And the lippie I’m using for the day.
If I wear lipstick, that. Then I usually bring powder, and rarely, I bring my current liner, especially if I might be sweaty/I might cry, etc. and only if I’m wearing eyeshadow, as I don’t think eyeshadow with a naked waterline is attractive on me.
Usually just pressed powder and whatever lip product I’m using that day. I keep a black pencil liner in my bag to touch up my waterline as well, but its pretty rare that I use it.
I only carry products to touch up when I go out for dinner straight after working a whole day. Usually I then use the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette – I can use one shade all over, one shade as a blush, one shade as a highlight – and my lipstick of the day.
Or the MAC Careblend Pressed Powder and a foolproof blush like Benefit Dandelion.
Just lipcolor. Possibly blotting papers in the summer.
Same here. I always keep an extra powder compact in my bag and I’ll also bring the lipstick I’m wearing.
Always mattifying powder, and usually also eye pencil and lipstick.
Lorac Porefection Powder and my new favorite… Color Pop Lippi in Skimpi. I wish I had tried the Lippi Sticks before I invested in all the high end lipsticks. They are pretty amazing, especially for the price.
Pressed Powder
Lippie of the day
Blush – if I work out at lunchtime
Usually the lip product if I am wearing any that day. Lip balm for my dessert lips. Eyebrow pencil-I have yet to use it on the go, but it is in my little bag like a freaking security blanket. I have such awful sparse brows.
May I ask what brow products you use? I, as well, have pathetically sparse brows which seem to get worse with hormone changes/age! Eeeek! I tend to use a MAC pencil, Hourglass brow pencil and Anastasia powder (yes, all 3 at once!). I’m never really happy with the results. Any suggestions?
Lipstick, touch up concealer pen and blotting paper.
I’m not super oily but rather ton the dry side, but the blotting paper work to dap off sweat or any oil from the products I’m wearing that makes me look shiny. 😉
Having a concealer pen (Annabelle BB concealer) can help if I have anything like mascara fall out that i need to clean up under the eyes, and reapply some there.
The lipstick I am wearing that day and a lip gloss.
Bobbi Brown touch up stick, Bobbi Brown pot rouge and whatever lipstick I’m wearing. I might also carry a mini UD black pencil too just to redo my tight line
Just lipstick or gloss. I do carry a few other things like lip balm and Tatcha mist, but lipstick is the only makeup item.
In warm months,I’ll carry some blotting papers. A ply of tissue or toilet paper works in a pinch also. I also carry a pressed powder Which is either Guerlain les Violettes, Urban Decay Naked, or Wet n Wild take on the day mattifying for my t zone. Usually other than that,just whatever lip products I am using. If it’s an extremely long ,impotant , formal event, I would probably take blush,bronzer(if wearing) highlight, ,maybe liner and shadow ,mascara. For weddings and funerals which I will be attending for a long time , I would take touch up eye products as well and concealer.
Oil blotting sheets, my face powder (L’Oreal Infallible), my lip colour of the day, and a lip balm! If I’ll be out for a really long time (8+ hours) I’ll sometimes bring concealer and eyeliner for touch ups if needed. I never carry around a makeup bag though because then I’ll end up bringing too many unnecessary things around with me!
Only lipstick probably! For the rest, I can’t be bothered taking it with me, or I’m just way too afraid that the product will break/spill. 🙂
I always take my lippy du jour. I don’t often bother with anything else, but when I do, it’s usually a liquidy concealer and possibly a blush if my face is particularly dry at the time (because it tends to eat blush when dry, and then I start to look the ill kind of pale).
I always take: a pressed powder (right now the Essence all about matt), a brush or puff, blotting sheets, lip balm (usually Jack Black lemon), and a lip gloss.
I currently will bring a makeup bag with enough items to do brows, liner, mascara, and lips, but I should really downsize because I got a new purse that’s smaller than my enormous bag I was using before.
In which case I’ll try to do my brows before I go to work and just bring whatever lip product I’m wearing.
normally,just a lipstick and Bobbi Brown Sheer Finished pressed power but if my skin feel dry(I’ve a combination skin) I will switch it with MAC prep+prime Transparent pressed power
Lip color and blotting papers and occasionally my Armani pressed powder.
I carry concealer, eyeliner, lipstick, lip primer, and lip liner with me at all times
I always keep a neutral lipstick and blotting paper. I don’t really need to touch up much!
Usually just my MAC select sheer pressed powder, maybe whatever lipstick I’m using that day, and always a lip balm or lip gloss
Powder or blotting sheets, concealer and whatever I’m wearing on my lips. I’m not the kind of person to take much with me on a day-to-day basis. 🙂
Eyeliner pencil (for water line), numerous lipsticks, pressed powder and blush.
Blotting paper and whichever lip color I’m wearing for the day (unless it’s a Kat Von D Everlasting liquid lipstick, no touchups required there!) 🙂
I usually have my lipstick or gloss de jour and Mac Blot powder, but that’s is.
Just the lipstick or gloss I’m wearing.
Mostly I touch up with a powder compact, blotting papers, and concealer if needed. I use Skindinavia setting spray so usually my MU stays put for a good long time.
I always have 3 lipsticks in my handbag to choose from – depending on what I am wearing and my perfume of the day.
I take a lip product du jour, concealer, and brow pencil. Those never last long on my face.
I always have a powder foundation compact, a mini black eyeliner, a mascara sample, but the 2 things i use the most are blotting papers and bare minerals blemish therapy powder.
Only lip products
Blotting papers, lip color, eyeliner pencil.
I just take lipstick unless it’s some special occasion. I can’t be bothered with anything else.
It all depends on what I’m going to do. I always take my lip product of the day and blotting papers. If I’m going for a night out, I add mascara the eyeshadows and eyeliner.