Rummaging through your makeup bag for a specific item doesn't have to be a fruitless task that leaves your hands covered in cosmetic debris. If you're looking to clean up your makeup stash, or starting from scratch, makeup artist Shaby Dassi shares her top makeup bag must-haves.
Sunscreen
Regardless if you're putting makeup on for the day or not, the most important step that you should not skip is SPF. Blue Lizard Mineral Sensitive Face Sunscreen is lightweight, oil-free and for everyday wear. This product does double duty by protecting you from the UV rays while hydrating your skin with hyaluronic acid won't clog pores, and it contains no skin-irritating chemical sunscreen ingredients.
Shop the Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen Mineral, $14.99 on Amazon
Foundation
IT Cosmetics CC Illumination SPF 50 cream is a wonderful multitasking product that helps to correct imperfections and gives a flawless finish. Their new lightweight technology camouflages imperfections including dark spots. Plus, it's formulated with an advanced anti-aging serum made with collagen, peptides, niacin, that diffuses the look of wrinkles and minimize pores. It's full coverage and can act as your moisturizing day cream.
Your Skin But Better CC+ Illumination with SPF 50+, $52 at IT Cosmetics
Concealer
Whether you want to hide dark under eye circles or blemishes, then this is a creamy and lightweight concealer from Fenty Beauty for you. It easily builds to full coverage and instantly brightens while concealing blemishes and reducing redness. This crease proof liquid concealer is available in 50 easy-to-shop soft-matte shades.
Shop the Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Concealer, $35 at Sephora
Brow gel
This product. is enriched with volumizing wax, nourishing vitamin E, and natural pigments that lift and tint shapes, sculpts and adds structure your brows. Brow gel is great for a much more easy-going look and doesn't make them looked pencilled in. The unique micro-fine miracle precision brush from Charlotte Tilbury evenly coats, shades, and grooms every hair.
Shop the Legendary Brows, $30 at Charlotte Tilbury
Eye shadow palette
If you're looking for an eyeshadow that gives you tons of options that you are throw in your purse, this Smashbox Colour Shot Eyeshadow Palette is the perfect product. It includes six eyeshadows and two double-size. base shades in a range of finishes including cool mauves, warm nudes and deep, dramatic black. This palette offers mattes that never fall flat. The eyeshadows are soft and velvety with an ultra-high coverage.
Shop the Cover Shot Eye Shadow Palette in Matte, $36 at Smashbox
Eye Liner
Upgrade your every day look and your makeup bag with a really great eyeliner. Urban Decay's 24/7 eye pencil goes on smoothly, stays soft and super creamy for blending and is super long-lasting. It comes in a multiple range of finishes, including matte, metallic, satin and shimmer. Line your eyes with a hint of colour or opt for black or dark brown for a dramatic look.
Shop the Urban Decay 27/7 Eye Pencil in Perversion, $30
Mascara
L'oreal Paris Voluminous is a classic makeup essential! It's a volume building product that's formulated to resist clumping and builds lashes up to five times their natural thickness. It contains panthenol and ceramide-R to help protect and condition lashes.
Shop the L'oreal Paris Voluminous Original Mascara, $11.49
Blush
Cheek to Chic Blush is a beautiful, colour-rich product with a pearlescent finish. It's perfectly smooth for blending and delivers just the right amount of colour and glow to the cheeks. You can use the outside colour for a more subtle look, the centre for a more subtle look or all three to get a little bit of everything in a beautiful blend. It also has light flex technology. that creates the appearance of capturing light and re-emitting it for a luminous-looking complexion.
Shop the Cheek to Chic Blush in Pillow Talk, $50 at Charlotte Tilbury
Lipstick
There's nothing like a great lipstick and when it comes to makeup bag essentials, you can't go wrong going with a neutral or a showstopping colour. These Cheekbone Beauty products are ultra-pigmented and buildable, with a colour that lasts all day long.
Shop the Cheekbone Beauty Sustain Lipstick, $32
