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Traveling is enjoyable because it allows you to see new and beautiful physical and cultural landscapes. It is also enjoyable because you get a chance to make fantastic memories. And these memories you will want to capture on camera. Because if you don’t take pictures, it didn’t happen – right? And if you are taking pictures, you might as well look great while you do it. You know you’ll be showing these to friends and family. So you’ll need a great makeup arsenal. But packing too many beauty products can add unnecessary bulk and weight to a bag, not to mention more opportunities for leakage and ruined clothes. So let’s preplan part of your beauty regimen, so you can take less, and make more space in your bags for gifts and souvenirs! Here we share our 6 must-have makeup products that have proven to be effective and space saving.
Makeup For Vacation
Clarins UV Plus HP Day Screen High Protective Tint SPF 40; Sephora.com
Sunscreen is a must for long days spent sightseeing, and it’s a lot easier to wear one that does double-duty as both protective and perfecting. Clarins Protective Tint is the perfect compromise. You get great coverage with its skin-smoothing benefits while receiving excellent protection with a high SPF of 40.
Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place Powder Makeup; Bloomingdales.com
A premier long-wearing powder from Estée Lauder’s premier Double Wear line, this powder creates a smooth finish that is incredibly long-lasting. Bonus, it does not leave your skin feeling dry. In a wide range of colors, this powder is perfect when worn alone, or try over your Clarins tint for a FLAWLESS finish.
Clinique High Impact Waterproof Mascara in Black; NeimanMarcus.com
This mascara is phenomenal. It glides on easily to create the look of full volume lashes without feeling dry or flaky. One sweep of this is all you need for a put-together look on your vacation.
Clinique Almost Lipstick in Black Honey; Sephora.com
This is a sheer, lightweight lipstick that slicks on smoothly leaving lips with a kiss of natural-looking color. Clinique’s award-winning Almost Lipstick is the only lip color you need in your traveling makeup kit.
NARS NARSissist Blush, Contour, And Lip Palette; Sephora.com
When traveling it’s always a good idea to bring a palette with unique shades to create different looks for day, night and in-between. This NARS palette is great because it includes 3 beautiful blushes in differing shades, a bronzer, highlighter and lip gloss in one nice, neat little package.
In keeping with the palette suggestion, bringing along a packable palette with fun eyeshadows is an easy way to change your look without overfilling your makeup bag. Try any of these 3 favorites for show-stopping looks. In order from left to right, these are our top picks:
Stila Eyes are the Window Shadow Palettes; Sephora.com
Laura Mercier Eye Art Artist’s Palette; Sephora.com
Urban Decay Naked2; Sephora.com
BONUS – Gorgeous Makeup Bags
Try packing your makeup in an extra special carryall for your next vacation. Check out the bold colors of this season in these bags from MARC JACOBS, KENZO and FURLA!
