Until fairly recently I couldn't bear to hear of anybody buying a toiletry bag or make up bag because I had a massive sack load of them in one of the drawers under the bed - and I was only too happy to drag the sack out for a rummage if anybody needed one.
I even took them all to a car boot sale at one point where we sold a few for 50p each, and then I put a bunch up on The Bay for sale and gave the remaining 50 or so bags to the Heart Foundation shop and our local women's shelter.
My favourite bag ever was a Smashbox make up bag with a mish-mash of fashiony type photos printed all over it. It was very plasticky but it made a pretty darn cool make up bag! It might even have been a set of two. (I wonder whatever happened to that?)
A dark brown and turquoise Models Prefer overnight bag is still in use. (I used it this past weekend when we travelled to a wedding) I like the sections and the extra bit in the bottom for your shoes. I also use a Models Prefer hanging make up roll both at home and when I travel. It makes me feel organized, and because the sections are clear it's all easy to find. I gave the red croc bag to my friend for Christmas and she still loves it. You can fit a laptop in it doncha know!
I kept all the Liz Earle bags for ages but none of the eveningy ones were really my style, and once I'd had one nice sized toiletry bag from her I didn't really need any more. They were very well made though weren't they?
The ten plus years old Liz Earle toiletry bag got replaced by a powder blue Elemis one about a year or so. My son and Hubby both use a gunmetal Elemis one and my daughter had a cotton Decleor bag as her PE bag for a long while. (It now lives as a "small but handy" reuseable shopping bag in my handbag.)
I use a Lord and Berry pencil case style bag to keep my on the go brushes in my bag, and my make up is in a small metallic silver Models prefer (again!) ring binder organizer make up bag with clip off and zip off sections.
My pink Mally make up roll from the last TSV got sold on The Bay because it was in no way large enough for all the make up I like to have at my disposal at all times. (It was cute though!)
There was a really small off white Elemis make up bag that was really too tiny to be very useful, but was made of this lovely strokeable slightly rubbery stuff...
Alpha H bags are quite useful with their clear sections and all, but unfortunately they have Alpha H written on them in big lettering and I have an aversion to that kind of thing.
I've still got the Models Prefer Black Clutch bag....still use it too!
My Mum has a bit of a thing about the Gayle Hayman ones so she gets them - although my daughter uses the leopard print slouch bag style one with the bronze trim from a few TSVs ago.
Blimey that's a lot of bags!
Until fairly recently I couldn't bear to hear of anybody buying a toiletry bag or make up bag because I had a massive sack load of them in one of the drawers under the bed - and I was only too happy to drag the sack out for a rummage if anybody needed one.
I even took them all to a car boot sale at one point where we sold a few for 50p each, and then I put a bunch up on The Bay for sale and gave the remaining 50 or so bags to the Heart Foundation shop and our local women's shelter.
My favourite bag ever was a Smashbox make up bag with a mish-mash of fashiony type photos printed all over it. It was very plasticky but it made a pretty darn cool make up bag! It might even have been a set of two. (I wonder whatever happened to that?)
A dark brown and turquoise Models Prefer overnight bag is still in use. (I used it this past weekend when we travelled to a wedding) I like the sections and the extra bit in the bottom for your shoes. I also use a Models Prefer hanging make up roll both at home and when I travel. It makes me feel organized, and because the sections are clear it's all easy to find. I gave the red croc bag to my friend for Christmas and she still loves it. You can fit a laptop in it doncha know!
I kept all the Liz Earle bags for ages but none of the eveningy ones were really my style, and once I'd had one nice sized toiletry bag from her I didn't really need any more. They were very well made though weren't they?
The ten plus years old Liz Earle toiletry bag got replaced by a powder blue Elemis one about a year or so. My son and Hubby both use a gunmetal Elemis one and my daughter had a cotton Decleor bag as her PE bag for a long while. (It now lives as a "small but handy" reuseable shopping bag in my handbag.)
I use a Lord and Berry pencil case style bag to keep my on the go brushes in my bag, and my make up is in a small metallic silver Models prefer (again!) ring binder organizer make up bag with clip off and zip off sections.
My pink Mally make up roll from the last TSV got sold on The Bay because it was in no way large enough for all the make up I like to have at my disposal at all times. (It was cute though!)
There was a really small off white Elemis make up bag that was really too tiny to be very useful, but was made of this lovely strokeable slightly rubbery stuff...
Alpha H bags are quite useful with their clear sections and all, but unfortunately they have Alpha H written on them in big lettering and I have an aversion to that kind of thing.
I've still got the Models Prefer Black Clutch bag....still use it too!
My Mum has a bit of a thing about the Gayle Hayman ones so she gets them - although my daughter uses the leopard print slouch bag style one with the bronze trim from a few TSVs ago.
Blimey that's a lot of bags!
at bags of bags! I can safely promise not to buy any make up and toiletry bags my sweet cos I don't think I ever have bought one. (QVC always gave them to me when I bought a bunch of other stuff! )
That bag was in the first Smashbox TSV I ever bought! There were two actually and they have poppers so they can be held together. It also contained the mousse blusher which I loved and my all-time favourite Smashbox lip colour called Shade.
Some of the bags described I have, some I remeber being aired but some of the early ones I've never seen sound lovely.
I do think a bag is a bit of a swayer when deciding whether to buy a TSV and they don't seem to do that many anymore which is a shame but at least I don't have to try to find a home for them!
My favourite bag ever was a Smashbox make up bag with a mish-mash of fashiony type photos printed all over it. It was very plasticky but it made a pretty darn cool make up bag! It might even have been a set of two. (I wonder whatever happened to that?)
I also use a Models Prefer hanging make up roll both at home and when I travel. It makes me feel organized, and because the sections are clear it's all easy to find. I gave the red croc bag to my friend for Christmas and she still loves it. You can fit a laptop in it doncha know!
What a fun thread!
Most of mine have gone with a gift or else to ebay included with the product. There is a limit to how many bags any girl can use and I used to be quite a beauty buying addict. Strange isn't it how they are so rare now compared with the past? Although this thread perhaps proves that few were of any real use to us.....
That Smashbox one has without doubt been the most useful as it has been in daily use as my make up bag since then which must be many years. I only kept the small one - the larger went to ebay, probably with the unwanted section of TSV.
Another one I found invaluable in gym bag and travel is a black make up roll (no clear sections so different to yours) and fairly sure it was a Models Prefer also? You can fit loads securely in it including brushes.
The MP red croc bag is still sitting in my cupboard without purpose so thanks for the laptop tip and I might just try it out
Until fairly recently I couldn't bear to hear of anybody buying a toiletry bag or make up bag because I had a massive sack load of them in one of the drawers under the bed - and I was only too happy to drag the sack out for a rummage if anybody needed one.
I even took them all to a car boot sale at one point where we sold a few for 50p each, and then I put a bunch up on The Bay for sale and gave the remaining 50 or so bags to the Heart Foundation shop and our local women's shelter.
My favourite bag ever was a Smashbox make up bag with a mish-mash of fashiony type photos printed all over it. It was very plasticky but it made a pretty darn cool make up bag! It might even have been a set of two. (I wonder whatever happened to that?)
A dark brown and turquoise Models Prefer overnight bag is still in use. (I used it this past weekend when we travelled to a wedding) I like the sections and the extra bit in the bottom for your shoes. I also use a Models Prefer hanging make up roll both at home and when I travel. It makes me feel organized, and because the sections are clear it's all easy to find. I gave the red croc bag to my friend for Christmas and she still loves it. You can fit a laptop in it doncha know!
I kept all the Liz Earle bags for ages but none of the eveningy ones were really my style, and once I'd had one nice sized toiletry bag from her I didn't really need any more. They were very well made though weren't they?
The ten plus years old Liz Earle toiletry bag got replaced by a powder blue Elemis one about a year or so. My son and Hubby both use a gunmetal Elemis one and my daughter had a cotton Decleor bag as her PE bag for a long while. (It now lives as a "small but handy" reuseable shopping bag in my handbag.)
I use a Lord and Berry pencil case style bag to keep my on the go brushes in my bag, and my make up is in a small metallic silver Models prefer (again!) ring binder organizer make up bag with clip off and zip off sections.
My pink Mally make up roll from the last TSV got sold on The Bay because it was in no way large enough for all the make up I like to have at my disposal at all times. (It was cute though!)
There was a really small off white Elemis make up bag that was really too tiny to be very useful, but was made of this lovely strokeable slightly rubbery stuff...
Alpha H bags are quite useful with their clear sections and all, but unfortunately they have Alpha H written on them in big lettering and I have an aversion to that kind of thing.
I've still got the Models Prefer Black Clutch bag....still use it too!
My Mum has a bit of a thing about the Gayle Hayman ones so she gets them - although my daughter uses the leopard print slouch bag style one with the bronze trim from a few TSVs ago.
Blimey that's a lot of bags!
