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Saturday, November 28, 2009

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5 Products to Instantly Makeover Your Makeup Bag

A girl's makeup bag often reflects a lot about her personality--some look like a second purse and are packed full of every beauty product under the sun, and others are tiny and concise and only hold the few products you need each day.

Janice Chou for instance, has (or had before it was stolen out of her car...) the smallest makeup bag ever, but packs it full of stuff for Carol Han to take from her every night. So, just to make our lives easier, we have listed below the five must-have beauty products we think you need to be stuffing into your makeup bag each day:

1. Maybelline Great Lash BIG Mascara in Very Black, $5.99, at drugstore.com

This mascara is an updated version of the tried and true classic from Maybelline, and let me tell you-- it makes your lashes HUGE. I've used it for months now, and I'm sticking with the classics-- I don't even use an eyelash curler anymore (half because I'm scared of them, half because I don't need it.....)

2. Clinique Perfectly Real Makeup Teint, $23, at clinique.com

Clinique's Perfectly Real foundation has a light and airy feel yet still has great coverage. This foundation can conceal blemishes (not that you have any) and also just give you that light coverage, depending on how much you put on-- and it never looks caked!

3. Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Bronzer, Blush and Eye Shadow, $12.89, at ulta.com

This amazing bronzer brick can also be turned into a blush and eye shadow set-- the perfect little cube to stuff into your makeup bag when you need a little pop of color on your face.

4. Benefit Smoky Eyes Sexy Eye and Brow Makeover Kit, $36.00, at ulta.com

This kit may be a little pricey, but it really does have it all. Not only does it include an instruction booklet on how to get the perfect smoky eye, but there is a mini eyeliner pencil, shaping wax and tweezer set as well. Who could ask for more?

5. NYX Cosmetics Black Label Lipstick in Tribute to Marilyn, $7, at nyxcosmetics.com

Last but not least, you have to have a bright red lipstick in every makeup bag. This color by NYX does the trick, and is cheap enough that you can use it to leave cute messages for your boyfriend on his bathroom mirror, and not care that you constantly have to replace it.

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  • mrh's Avatar
    Posted by mrh Fri Oct 2, 2009 11:20am PDT

    I think it's time for me to do a little cleaning out of the makeup bag...I'm pretty sure I have some glitter eyeshadow still lying around from 7th grade. Not okay!

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  • Janice's Avatar
    Posted by Janice Fri Oct 2, 2009 11:44am PDT

    Love the red lipstick!

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  • daws1186's Avatar
    Posted by daws1186 Fri Oct 2, 2009 11:46am PDT

    Love the lip color!

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  • Anne's Avatar
    Posted by Anne Fri Oct 2, 2009 11:53am PDT

    there's a BIG maybelline great lashes now!?? i have got to try it!

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  • Meghan's Avatar
    Posted by Meghan Fri Oct 2, 2009 11:58am PDT

    I have the mascara and the Clinique makeup teint and they are both awesome! I really want to get that red lipstick ASAP!

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  • Haley's Avatar
    Posted by Haley Fri Oct 2, 2009 11:59am PDT

    That Physicians Formula Bronzer/Blush/Eye Shadow will definitely save room in your makeup bag!

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  • Karen's Avatar
    Posted by Karen Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:05pm PDT

    great lash is the best thing everrrr

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  • Simone's Avatar
    Posted by Simone Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:25pm PDT

    That is the perfect shade of red lipstick!

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  • Carol's Avatar
    Posted by Carol Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:37pm PDT

    I still love Great Lash.

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  • Shirley's Avatar
    Posted by Shirley Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:39pm PDT

    such intense color of lipstick! but the other suggestions are great, thanks

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