What Is In Your Travel Makeup Bag?

It's that time of year again, when everyone is going on vacation.  I generally tend to over pack, especially when it comes to my makeup and beauty items.  I really don't need to take 3 different colorless lip balms and yet I end up packing them anyway.

So,  "What is in your travel makeup bag"? How much makeup do you travel with? Do you pack for one day and one night look or do you go all out and make sure you have an unlimited amount of color combos? Do you bring several shades of one type of product, like 4 blushes or 5 lipsticks?

I always bring to much.  Here is what I will be taking with me on my next trip this August, and I have found that these products are usually all I will need.

• a good eye shadow palette (Urban Decay Naked 2)
• 1 cream eye shadow (Maybelline color tattoo in Bad to the Bronze)
• 2 or 3 blushes (MAC Blushbaby, Immortal Flower, and Launch Away)
• 1 bronzer (Too Faced Sun Bunny)
• 1 highlighter (the balm's Mary Luo Manizer)
• concealer (Smashbox High Definition Liquid Concealer)
• powder foundation (Smashbox Halo)
• eye shadow primer (my favorite is Benefit's Stay Don't Stray)
• black liquid liner (Revlon liquid liner pen)
• Waterproof Mascara (Currently using Maybelline Falsies)
• 1 brown and 1 black pencil liner (I use Chanel pencil eyeliner)
• Too Faced Perfect Lips Universal Lip Pencil
• several lip color options, ( 2 lipsticks and 2 glosses)

I always take too many lip colors, but that is what I'm most into right now.  I have to have MAC's Angel and Impassioned and I am currently loving Moxie gloss in Rock Star.  I take the Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stains everywhere I go.

I packed a very similar list (some lip and cheek colors were different) for my trip to Rome in March, and I found that this was enough product to give me both day and night looks while not over packing.

What's in your travel makeup bag? What products do you take to much of?

Kristen
xoxo

How Do You Change Your Makeup and Beauty Routine for Summer?

When summer comes, it seems we all wear a little less.  We exchange our boots for flip flops, our jeans for shorts and minis, and our sweaters for tank tops.  But how does the warmer weather change your makeup and beauty routine??

I wear sunblock all year round, so when summer comes I start self tanning my face a little more than usual.  I generally switch from a foundation to a tinted moisturizer with a light dusting of translucent powder.  My blush 

goes brighter and my eye shadow leans more towards shimmery golds and bronzes with bright pops of color.  My current favorite colors for eye shadows are teal, green, and orange.  I tend to stop wearing lipsticks, and I go for lip stains with balm or bright lip glosses.  I'm currently loving MAC's Impassioned (LE) Lipglass and Revlon's new Kissable Balm Stain in Valentine.   

 I love wearing my hair up any time of year, but when summer comes, I love rockin' a high pony tail, a high messy bun, and tousled beachy waves.  I use a dry shampoo at least every other day, because I love the texture I get with second day hair for my summer do's.

I like grey based polishes when it comes to my nails, but when summer comes around I turn up the volume with bright pinks, corals, and neon polishes.  I even wear blues and purples which I rarely choose throughout the year.  My favorite summer polish is Essie's Lapiz of Luxury, but I have fallen in love with so many more already this season!!

That's how I switch up my beauty routine for summer.  How do you switch up yours??


Kristen
XOXO