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What's in my Make-Up Bag?

Helena Feofanov
Feb 5, 2017
4 min read

This was actually a requested post so I thought why not show you what's in my every-day make-up bag... I have a big collection of make-up which I need to work as a make-up artist. So usually I experiment with everything, I keep a product to myself and use it for a period of time, after a few weeks I'll just transfer it to my professional make-up kit and find a new thing to use on myself. I always keep my own make-up and work make-up separately. For now, I have a bag full of products that are my all time favorites and I don't really want to exchange them so it's a perfect time for a post like this. To be fair I don't use that much make-up on myself, I keep my make-up rather simple and normal, of course I play with it and create different looks for photos and social media, but I rarely go out with bold make-up looks. So the make-up bag I'll introduce you today is very simple, it's products that I use the most and take with me when I go travelling etc.

Seda postitust olen ma nüüd päris pikalt edasi lükanud oma challenge pärast, aga seda paluti minult juba päris kaua aega tagasi nii, et siin see nüüd on. Kirjutan siis sellest, mis minu igapäevases meigikotis on... Mul on suur kollektsioon igasuguseid erinevaid tooteid, kuid enamusi neist kasutan vaid tööd tehes, pildistamistel ja klientide peal. Tavaliselt kui ma uue toote saan, eksperimenteerin ma sellega paar nädalat ise, ja siis lisan selle oma meigikohvrisse. Kui toode mulle väga meeldib, siis hoian selle aga endale! Selline süsteem on mul koguaeg olnud ja töötab väga hästi. Meiki, millega töötan, hoian alati eraldi enda personaalsetest vahenditest. Praeguseks on minu meigikotti kogunenud selline mõnus valik tooteid, mida olen juba kaua aega kasutanud ja mida ma ei taha üldse välja vahetada, nii et perfektne aeg selliseks postituseks. Ausaltöeldes ei meigi ma iseennast väga palju, mulle meeldivad väga lihtsad ja klassikalised trendid. Loomulikult katsetan ma igasuguseid julgeid trende ja värve ka, aga üldiselt ainult fotode, sotsiaalmeedia või lihtsalt lõbu pärast. Seega, minu praegune meigikott sisaldab väga tavalisi tooteid, millega olen harjunud ja mille endaga igale poole alati kaasa võtan..

EYES

I have a lot of eyeliners from Tarte and Artdeco, they're my favorite and I love the colorful ones like Artdeco's glittery copper color or Tarte's navy blue and aubergine, Rimmel's Glam Eyes is my favorite black eyeliner. I have Dior's eyeshadow primer, which has lasted me forever and I don't plan on exchanging it anytime soon. For eyeshadow I usually use my Tarte Pro Eyeshadow palette, but since it doesn't fit in my make-up bag, I have a couple small ones here instead-I love the copper color by Make-Up Factory and the golden eyeshadow pencil by LOC. Lately I've been using this dark greyish-blue, glittery color called Fathom's Deep by MAC which is so beautiful. I always keep a MAC pigment with me for when I want to add some sparkle to my make-up. At the moment I have it in color blue-brown which are the colors I use the most on my eyes so it's perfect, I love MAC pigments so much. I also have the Cynthia Rowley black eyepencil for my waterline which I use quite a lot because this one stays put all day. For eyelashes I use the Benefit They're Real mascara, which is the best I've ever used and for eyebrows I have a couple of products like NYX Pomade, MoreBrows Gel and Bourjouis Eyebrow Marker-eyebrows are clearly very important to me!

LIPS

So for lips I have around ten products which are ALL THE SAME COLOR! I don't like very dark colors on my lips because they make my lips look smaller, only darker color I have is NYX Lingerie in Teddy which is quite a dark brown that I do love. Otherwise they're all this nude-rose-brown color which suits me the best in my opinion, there's a few MAC Bullets, a MAC Velvetine, Pupa Liquid Lipstick, Pupa normal lipstick and a Gerard Cosmetics lipstick. For lipglosses I have a sparkly MAC plushglass, Soap&Glory Pillow Plump which I'm addicted to and a Clarins Eclat Minute. I only use one lip pencil by Lancome, because it obviously goes with all of my lip colors, because they're all the same so... I don't color my lips often, I mostly just wear 8-hour lip balm by Elizabeth Arden.

FACE

For my face I definitely have only those few things that I probably will never change, I'm just so used to them and they are perfect for me. As a moisturiser I use La Roche Posay Effaclar, this is my 5th tube actually, it has helped me to get rid of all of my impurities. As a primer I have YSL Touche Eclat which is so beautiful and golden and it smells incredible and makes my face so smooth - the perfect primer. For foundation I use Tarte Empowered Gel Foundation, it's medium-coverage, smells nice, is cruelty-free and good for my skin. I only use foundation when I go out though, daily I use the Lumene Invisible Illumination, this is actually quite new and I only got it a few months ago. I don't know what they put in it, but it literally changes it's color to match my skin tone and it makes my face look flawless without any foundation. I just add a little bit of YSL Touche Eclat concealer and voila! For contour and highlight I have my Tarte Pro Glow Palette, but since that doesn't fit my make-up bag either, I use the MAC Strobe Cream for highlights and I don't contour my face often anyways so when I don't have my palette with me, I just don't contour. My favorite blusher is by MAC and it's called Peachtwist. As a setting powder I have Missha The Style Cashmere and as a setting spray I use Tarte Rainforest of the Sea.