Cosmetics Bag

Is this really a fashion must-have? I suppose, given that I just about always have one with me. Nina does admit that it’s “insignificant”, however, and that it’s what’s on the inside that matters, rather than the bag itself. Nina shares her bag’s contents with us, and reading it is just like rifling through someone’s bag, each item triggers a little comment in my head. La Roche Posay sunscreen (oh, absolutely, wouldn’t be without it), Kiehl’s lip balm (I use Natio’s SPF30 stuff)… Tweezerman tweezers (there’s a good idea) … Oh, crikey, Maybelline Great Lash mascara, for real? That stuff isn’t good …

Anyway, what I find odd is that there is no lipstick in her bag, even though red lipstick features in her One Hundred. There is ALWAYS lipstick in my cos purse. Not that it’s anyone’s business, but the contents of mine currently are:

• La Roche Posay Fluide Extreme SPF50 sunscreen
• Natio SPF30 lip balm
• Travalo atomiser filled with Marc Jacobs perfume (if you don’t have at least one of these things, you really, really should check them out)
• Becca Sheer Tint Lip Colour (lipstick) in Vendela
• Kai roll-on perfume
• Aspirin
• Mini bottle of Dettol hand sanitizer
• Shu Uemura Drawing Pencil eyeliner in ME Brown
• Ear plugs
• Single-dose eyedrops
• A bandaid
• Becca Beach Tint in Watermelon
• Oil-blotting paper
• Becca concealer

That does seems like a lot, but everything is small and fits into the little zip-up bag I got years ago from Aesop easily. Do you have any cos bag essentials?