What's in my travel makeup bag - Bali edition

I went for a 5 days trip to Bali last weekend and I'd like to share with you guys what makeup I brought with me. I was gonna take the pics while I was there, but I ended up being so busy I didn't have time. 

So here are the makeup bag that i brought with me 

I like to separate my liquid and powder stuff. I checked in the liquid bag and carry the powder ones in my hand bag. I don't want to risk shattering any of my pressed powder compact and liquid stuff is just too heavy to carry in my purse. 

Here are everything in the pressed powder bag.

1. MAC quad

Manilla Paper, Soft Brown, Corck, and Carbon

here's the swatch

Manilla Paper, Soft Brown, Corck, and Carbon

2. MAC mineralize skinfinish natural 

The only powder I brought to set my foundation

3. Urban Decay Brow Box in Beige Betty

4. Benefit Powder Flage 

An awesome product to set under eye concealer. (I heard benefit is discontinuing this product T.T)

5. Shu Uemura eyelash curler (gold edition)

6. Ardel Accent Lash in 318

These are my favorite fake lashes. They are wispies accent lashes. Looks very natural on the eyes and I always gets compliments whenever I use these.

7. Single Eyeshadows

L-R: MAC Blac Type, MAC Jaunty, Stilla Kitten, Urban Decay Secret Service 

L-R: MAC Blanc Type, MAC Jaunty, Stilla Kitten, Urban Decay Secret Service

8. Bare Minerals Ready quad in The Truth 

Swatches,

9. Blushes 

NARS Deep Throat and MAC Stunner 

NARS Deep Throat and MAC Stunner

NARS deep throat is hands down my favorite all time blusher. It's a warm peachy pink. 

MAC stunner is part of a limited edition MAC me up collection. It's such a pretty pink blush with a gorgeous sheen. it's definitely cooler tone compared to NARS deep throat. 

10. Bronzer and Highlighter

NARS Laguna Bronzer and Dior Amber Diamond 

NARS Laguna Bronzer and Dior Amber Diamond

And now, what's in my liquid makeup bag:

11. Shiseido Sun Protection Foundation 

I brought this foundation with me because of the SPF and because it doesn't budge once it's set on the skin. Perfect for the hot and humid Bali weather. 

12. Make Up Store Cover All Mix

This is a new addition to my foundation routine. I love the texture and coverage of this concealer wheel. 

13. Minis

I like to travel with mini products. So, I poured in some of my chanel vitalumiere aqua foundation in the MAC sample jar. I also brought with me benefit minis that I got from the rare beauty kit. High beam is the perfect liquid highlighter and I mostly use benetint on my lips. It creates the most beautiful pinkish healthy look on my lips. 

14. Tools 

As for tools I only brought with me my mini tweezerman tweezer and sephora sharpener. 

15. Duo Eyelash Adhesive in Dark-Tone

16. More Concealers 

Urban Decay 24/7 concealer, Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer, and Garnier eye roll on

17. Revlon Brow Fantasy and Revlon colorstay Eyebrow Liner

Mainly I just use the brow gel on the brow fantasy and use the pencil from the colorstay eyebrow liner. 

18. Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto Waterproof mascara

This is my current favorite mascara. It has some fiber that will lengthen the lashes. I got tons of compliment wearing this mascara. A lot of people thought I wear false lashes when I use this. It made my non-existent lashes very noticeable. The funny thing is, every time I told people It's just a drugstore mascara, no one believes me. It's really amazing. 

 19. Clinique Bottom Lashes Mascara 

20. Lipsticks and Lip glosses

Loreal Glam Shine Miss Raspberry, Lancome Rouge in Love 230M, Etude House Roll Roll Gloss in no 05 

Loreal Glam Shine Miss Raspberry, Lancome Rouge in Love 230M, Etude House Roll Roll Gloss in no 05

21. Eyeliners

top to bottom: Urban Decay Perversion, Urban Decay Midnight Cowboy, Urban Decay Corrupt, MAC Fascinating Eye Khol, Dolly Wink Liquid Liner

L-R: UD perversion, UD Midnight Cowboy, UD Corrupt, MAC Fascinating, Dolly Wink Liquid Liner

Benefit holiday set

I am back in town!!! ^^

yesterday i paid a visit to sephora near my house because i have a 40 dollar voucher that is almost expired. 

I ended up purchasing more than i thought i would. 

A few weeks back when i got my copy of benefit's fall/holiday 2010 catalogue, i have planed to get one of their holiday limited edition set or palette. Benefit's sets are always really worth it. You will pay littler money then if you buy them separately. (that's the reason why i hardly ever buy benefit's items separately) 

So for this holiday i purchased "Some Beauty To Love" set, which looks like this:

I did not know that they have this set. because in the catalogue they only have this one:

The boxes look really similar, but i am glad that they have a completely different things inside.

So, instead of some kind a gorgeous (that i HATE) and high beam (that i already have), this is what's inside: 

- A full size of benefit coralista powder box

- A full size of benefit eye bright

- A generous sample size of benefit bad gal lash

- A sample size of that gal face primer

This is such a perfect set for me. I have never had any of these and also been dying to try these out. 

This set's value is most probably twice of what i paid. 

Coralista Blush 

I have been waiting for this to come out in a set for almost a year. A lot of people say that this is really comparable to NARS Orgasm blush, so here is a them side by side:

They kinda look pretty similar in pan, but this is the swatch:

Yea, they are pretty different. Coralista is in cooler tone pink if you compare it with orgasm. 

I like both, but they are certainly NOT comparable. 

I have to say that benefit's powder boxes packaging are mostly pretty, but they are not ergonomic. I like to use a big fluffy brush for my blush, like MAC 134 or Sigma 150. The problem is, they don't fit in benefit's powder boxes. The brush that benefit provide is too scratchy and bad quality!

A Little Bit of Bad Gal Lash

I heard a lot of good reviews about this mascara. That's why i wanted to try this so BAD. 

And here is how the brush looks like :

That Gal Face primer

I think this is supposed to give your skin a brightening effect by putting some illuminator in it. when blended this primer will leave your skin looking dewy 

Eye Bright

Instant eye brightener. you can use this in the inner corner of your eyes to open up your eyes a bit or even on your brow bone to highlight. 

I do have benefit high brow, which is made specially for brow bone highlighting. 

so here is swatches of both side by side:

left to right: That Gal, Eye Bright, High Brow

They are pretty similar. There is only a slight of different undertone. Eye bright is slightly more pink than high brow. 

In conclusion, i think this is a very "worth-the-money" set. I do recommend you guys to pick this up while they still have some stock left. I think this will sell out pretty fast ^^

That's all for today, i wished you all have a great monday >_<

Love,


Couture MACqueen