Beauty Top Five

I am heading out of town this weekend and unlike most girls, I like to keep my luggage as condensed as possible. If I'm flying, I will shove and cram everything into a carry on sized bag so I don't have to deal with the baggage claim. If I'm taking the bus or train, I aim to fit everything into a backpack. Keeping this in mind, I would like to share with you the 5 beauty products I would bring with me no matter what:
1. Proclaim Glossing Polish:
This is seriously the only thing I ever put on my hair. The best thing about having dark hair? It's gorgeously shiny. This makes it even more so! It also will smooth out frizz on humid days but never weighs my curls down. I use the original, but if you put heat on your hair or color it, they make a heat and color protecting version too.



2. Buxom Mascara:
Unless I'm going out, I try to keep my makeup to a minimum. If I could only wear one thing on my face for the rest of my life it would be this mascara. Have you heard of Cover Girl Lash Blast? Well this is the good version of it. It's a little expensive for mascara, but you can build it to make your eyelashes look long enough to be fake. At 18 bucks, it's a little expensive, but I've had my current one for about 4 months now and it hasn't dried out and still works great.



3. Curel Ultra Healing Lotion:
I like my skin to be baby soft. And I've finally find the best lotions that do just that. This lotion is super thick and lasts for ages. I have a little travel sized bottle of this for when I go places, but I keep a big one of these in my bathroom. While I would only bring this lotion while I travelled, at home I like to combine this with Palmer's Olive Butter Formula Concentrated Cream (for my elbows and feet and such) to create the ultimate baby skin.



4. Benefit Benetint:
This combined with my favorite mascara will bring you from day time to night time in a few swipes. It's a lip and cheek stain, which I think is a brilliant idea since your natural lip and cheek color should be somewhat uniform. I find its best to layer it on, and although the directions tell you to apply it in dots and then blend I usually like to just swipe it wherever I want it and then blend with a brush. Did I mention it smells AMAZING?





5. Crest 3D White Advanced Vivid:

I've gotta keep my teeth looking pretty and white, don't I? I really haven't had any success with whitestrips or any other form of bleaching, my teeth are ultra sensitive. However, I have used this toothpaste and while it cant make someone's teeth as white as bleaching can, it certainly does a pretty good job! It's a little on the expensive side, which annoys me but I usually get CVS discount coupons in the mail and use them to buy this and anything else I hate paying full price for.


So there you have it, my top five beauty products of all time and my packing list for the weekend. Happy Valentines Day (and night) everyone!