5 Beauty Essentials For School

Girls,

School is almost starting! Crazy I know. I can't believe summer is over (insert tears here). 

While I'm not the person to wake up an hour early on school days just to make sure my hair and makeup are perfect, I do have 5 essentials that I never leave my house without. And without further a do, here they are...

1. Mascara

Mascara can give the illusion of longer, more voluminous lashes, bigger eyes and it takes less than a minute to apply.
Lately I've been using the L'Oréal Butterfly mascara. I love that it doesn't clump and fans out my naturally long lashes. As you can see I love all the Maybelline mascaras. It's kind of an addiction.

2. Hair ties/hair clips/hair pins

You never know when mother nature or even an intense phys ed  period will strike and frizz up your hair, so you've gotta be prepared.
I've recently been using tiny hair clips (I'm sorry bows!).

3. Lip balm/gloss

Never suffer having dry lips. It stinks, it's totes not cute and it makes you feel totes not cute.  Moisturize your lips between classes ladies (you never know when you'll spot your crush jk). 
My all-time fave balm is def Nivea because it moisturizes like a dream and doesn't dry out my lips at all like Chapstick and Blistex do. For gloss I love the Clinque and Revlon line.

4. Oil absorbing sheets

Being oily is just not fun. Could I be any more obvious? After a long day at school and gym class and sweating your face might get a wee bit oily. Oil absorbing sheets are awesome in that, they'll get the oil off your gorg skin and won't ruin your makeup (total win).
I have combination skin type and I tend to get oily on the bridge of my nose and my chin. Ugh not cute. So thank heavens for oil absorbing sheets. ☺

Last but certainly not least....

5. Compact Mirror

I think that carrying one is just sooo important. I don't know how much I can stress it.  You might have friends who are too nice to tell you that type got your lunch stuck between your teeth (like I do). Or you might have friends who mess around with you, or maybe you don't have any friends :(. But hey, at least your mirror won't lie to you and will be there for you through thick and thin.
But what I'm trying to say is that if you go to school with your makeup/hair on point, don't go the rest of the day blind; you don't know if your mascara or lipstick has smudged or if your ponytail isn't smooth (its happened to be before.... soooo embarrassing).

So there are my top 5 beauty essentials. If you have some beauty essentials, let us know what they are in the comments down below.

XO,
Kim 

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