Travelling with makeup can be difficult, but not impossible. This SlideShare presentation offers 5 helpful tips to help you to pack the essentials you need to look your best while on vacation, without the hassle.

2. The holidays are just around
the corner! This is a popular
time for millions of
Americans to travel.
Packing your bags and
jetting off somewhere? Or
maybe just hitting the road?
Regardless of how or where
you plan to travel, consider
these 5 tips for packing your
cruelty-free makeup
essentials to effectively and
efficiently (and dare we say
flawlessly?) conquer the
Labor Day look.

3. Rather than carting around
messy, loose powders, an
array of various makeup
brushes, and tiny mirrors –
which are never locatable
in the cosmetic bag – pack
compact products instead.
Some products come
equipped with travel
brushes and mirrors that
eliminate the disarray and
the mess of a cosmetics
bag or purse cluttered with
free-floating colors and
tools.

4. Saving space is commonly the
goal when traveling any sort of
distance, and especially when
limiting yourself to carry-on
only. But it’s not easy! We can
sympathize. But one way to cut
down on packing bulk is to de-volume
your makeup bag –
here’s how: pack one or two
neutral eye shadows (a lighter
tone for all over color and a
darker complement for adding
drama) and a few colored
eyeliners. Not only are colored
liners an easy way to ramp up
your look, they occupy very
little space in the makeup bag.
Plus, no mess!

5. We’ve all been there – you
carefully secure all of your liquid
cosmetics in perfectly TSA
approved quantities, tuck them
nicely away in your carry on bag
and take off…You land, reach for
a touch up, and boom!
Foundation makeup everywhere.
Rather than risking the mess of a
liquid-gone-bad, pack a cream,
face foundation as an alternative.
No TSA restrictions will keep this
foundation from travelling, and
thankfully, rapid air pressure
changes won’t incite an eruption.
Not to mention, it’s a compact –
mirror and applicator included.

6. You have dozens of lip colors –
more than you could likely
wear in a month – so how to
narrow it down for a long
weekend? We know, it’s hard.
But trust us on this one, you
need not bring more than four
colors – just four – two bold
lipsticks and two lip glosses.
Choose one, bold lip color (a
classic red, fun pink, or trendy
orange) and one neutral (your
favorite beige-y pink should do
the trick). In addition, choose
one gloss to wear over each.
Simple as that! You’ll have
glossy sheer or bold pigmented
options for any occasion.

7. The fifth and final tip is quite
possibly the most important.
Never, and we repeat never, put
all of your favorites in the same
bag. It’s tempting (we know) to
pack all of your go-to’s, your
faves, your #1’s for a weekend
away (gotta look great in the pics,
after all). But consider this, on
average 1 in 150 airline travelers
lose their luggage. That 1 could be
you and it could also be your
makeup (eek!). Instead of risking
having to re-buy an entire
makeup wardrobe, try packing
the essentials, but those you could
potentially live without. Always
better to be safe!

8. Look forward to looking
great this holiday
season with Cate
McNabb’s natural
makeup products!