A well-stocked makeup bag is the busy girl’s best kept secret – between coffee meetings, Thursday night happy hours, and whirlwind weekend road trips, the makeup wearing lady’s got to be ready for anything from touch-ups to superhero-like day-to-night costume changes.Full disclosure: I’m by no means a ~makeup guru~, and I feel like I still have a lot to learn when it comes to makeup (seriously, how do girls on insta get their brows to do that??) but I do wear makeup regularly, and these are the 10 things that I always keep in my makeup bag:

BB Cream

I do my makeup on the fly a lot, and I don’t always have time to do a full foundation, so oftentimes I go with an easy-to-blend bb or cc cream that has light-to-medium coverage. If you wear foundation regularly, feel free to sub this in for your favorite for touch-ups later, if need be.

Concealer

Because pimples, undereye bags, nose redness, etc. Non-negotiable. (We like Maybelline’s Fit Me concealer – it’s a great dupe for the NARS Creamy Concealer that everyone’s obsessed with.)

Again, a no-brainer. This is the one thing I try not to leave the house without – even if I’m just running to Whole Foods or Starbucks. I actually keep two different mascaras on hand – a black mascara with a larger wand for big, lush lashes, and waterproof brown mascara with a smaller wand for a more natural look.

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