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

Drugstore Lipsticks

Gosh.. It's been raining non stop here in Indo. It's just impossible to take good quality pics outdoor. 


Anyway, I went shopping last saturday, and found a good deal for maybelline lipsticks. They are 45% off. So, I picked up a bunch of them. 


I'm in a lipstick and nail polish horde. I never did a nail polish haul because I'm too lazy to do the swatches. I don't like putting on and removing nail polish over and over again. It's just too much work. 

There are one MUFE and 3 revlons as well. so here it goes.

1. Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Natural in Folk

This is part of a collection (I'm not sure which, but I think it's the boho collection or bohemian). It's quite sheer being a rouge artist natural. To tell you the truth, i don't like the special packaging. It doesn't look sleek and nice like their usual packaging. It just look tacky to me. 

2. Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Blushing Mauve (460)

Revlon is probably the drugstore brand i'll go to when i'm looking for lipsticks. They are very pigmented and not drying. I can't wait for the lip butter to come in. It's supposed to be around feb-march. YAY!

3. Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Pink In The Afternoon (415)

A really nice pinky nude colour. I feel like there is a lot of misconception about nude lips. I don't think that nude is super pale almost skin tone colour (like ex: MAC creme de nude). I think the best nude is something that is one to two shade lighter than your natural lip colour, not skin colour. 

4. Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Wild Orchid (457)

Okay, the pics are not doing justice for this lipstick. This is like a gorgeous orchid colour with a ton of blue and purple iridescent sparkles. So gorgeous. I don't own anything like this and that's saying a lot, considering my 158 lipstick collection (I really have to stop buying lipsticks!).

Moving on to the Maybelline's 

5. Maybelline Color Sensational in Cosy Tangerine (C31)

6. Maybelline Color Sensational in Coral Pearl (CP02)

7. Maybelline Color Sensational in Nude Pearl (BP03)

8. Maybelline Color Sensational in Toffee Cream (B43)

9. Maybelline Color Sensational in Loving Red (RM41)

So, If i have to choose, i'll say i love the revlons' more than the maybellines'. But, that's solely because of the packaging. Revlon's packaging is sleeker and it has some weight, where as the maybelline's is kinda light and feels cheap. In terms of the consistency, i find that both are pigmented and gildes on easily. I don't think they are scented. It's not a big deal for me, but maybe some of you would like to know. 

Overall, I'm happy with my purchase. specially the maybelline's which is about SGD 2.50 each after discount. 

I hope your days are better than my gloomy rain days. 

Love,

Couture MACqueen