The title of this video should really be What’s In My Makeup Bags, plural, not Bag, singular, because – at last count – I have four different versions on the go. The first one (my special edition Swag Bag with Scamp & Dude – all profits go to my chosen charity, the Genesis Research Trust) is in the bathroom and contains four newish foundation launches, eight mascaras that haven’t made the grade and about ten or eleven bronzers. (The Swag Bags are HUGE – you can find them here.)
Another of my toiletries bags has been jammed full of brushes that need cleaning, cream eyeshadows that need testing (I like to give them a few days to see if they crease in different conditions!) and a load of liquid lipsticks that all seem to be so long-lasting and pigmented I’m almost scared to use them. Then there’s the slightly smaller bag, the bag I took away with me last week, the one that has been at least a little bit curated – that contains just one foundation (Dior Forever Mousse), one mascara (KIKO Buildable) and one lipstick (Clinique’s Beige Pop) in amongst the jumble of blushers, highlighting pens and brow gels that were inexplicably present.

But it’s the last bag that I want to talk about here; the one that gets chucked into my suitcase and taken back out again at the end of a trip, the one I’d grab if I was running to catch a flight and didn’t have time to pack. The one with the essentials du jour....