In My Kit: My New Zuca Makeup Cases!

My wonderful and supportive husband suprised me on my birthday the other week!  OK, so I wasn't all that suprised...a man does need a little help when a woman is hoping for something very specific.  But I am so excited for my new Zuca Artist Sport and Zuca Artist Backpack cases!

Zuca is a luggage company that became very popular with beauty stylists because of their great designs, so they've come out with a line of cases designed specifically for artists.  I chose to go with the Zuca Sport Artist, which contains 4 inside pouches and several zip pockets.  It has double wheels that make it easier to climb stairs (which is a back saver when my client lives on the 3rd floor!).  The Zuca Backpack is designed for hairstylists, and even has a spot for a blow dryer - but I use it mainly for more makeup supplies.

I'm often asked what makeup I use...well, pictures are better than words, right?  Well, maybe we'll have both :)

Here are the cases all packed and also shown open:

The Backpack fits nicely on the top of the rolling Artist case.  I've re-arranged some things since I took these photos, but wanted to show you what I carry inside on a regular basis. 

These are the products I typically take with me on any given makeup job.

Below is the Backpack unpacked:

The backpack comes with 2 small pouches, that hold a lot of supplies!  I carry my studio light and extention cord in one pouch, and Airbrush compressor, gun, battery, cord, and depotter in the other pouch.  On the top of the pouches, I store my airbrush makeup in a plastic box and some extra extention cords and a surge protector.  In the zip pockets on the door of the backpack, I hold my airbrush cleaning supplies, nail polish, and hair pins.  On both of the outsize zipper pockets, I hold some basic hair supplies - flat iron, hairspray, bobby pins and elastics.  I can definitely fit more into the pouches than I have currently, but I didn't want to risk damaging my light.

Let's move onto the big case!  Here's the rolling Sport Artist unpacked, still in the 4 pouches:

I have basic sanitary supplies stored in the velcro compartments on the inside door (shown to the left side of the photo).  These include a stainless steel palette and scraper, mascara and lip wands, facial wipes, sponges, and tissues.  On the outside zipper compartment, I store busiess supplies such as notepads, a calculator, and pens.  I keep my brush apron on the mesh compartment on the other side.  Each pouch is dedicated to a particular part of the face: skincare, face and blush products, eyes, and lips.

Face Products:

Here I've shown most of my foundation and face products, including primers (Nature's Own, Nurturing Force, Smashbox, Urban Decay), concealers (Graftobian color corrector palette, Temptu Concealing Wheel, Paula Dorf, Keromask and Amazing Cosmetics concealers), Foundations (RCMA Shinto and KO palettes, Graftobian Warm, Neutral and Cool palettes), Blush (La Femme 12 color palette) Nurturing Force blotting papers, and Foundation Setting Spray.  My brushes are shown in this photo, but as I mentioned above, they are kept in the side mesh pocket.

Lip and Skincare pouches:

Here are shown both my lip and skincare pouches, unpacked.  I keep most of my skincare products in the black and clear mesh bag (makeup removers, moisturizers, more setting sprays) as well as more hygenic and medical supplies, such as q-tips, neosporin, and benedryl strips.  I also keep hand towels in this pouch, along with a few touchup kits (shown in the ivory bags).

My Lips pouch contains 2 tackle boxes that I use for lipsticks - I've taken them out of the tubes and put them in here for easy transport.  I have the names and brands of the lipsticks written on the bottom (MAC, Smashbox, Urban Decay, as well as many random lipsticks I've picked up all over the place).  I also have my 2 Smashbox Lip Service palettes and 2 Graftobian lipstick palettes, along with a small plastic box of lip glosses (Urban Decay, MAC, Smashbox, NYC, NYX) and lip pencils (NYX, among other brands).  I keep my OCC Lip Tars in a small plastic bag in this pouch as well.

The Eyes:

I tried to get all these products into one picture, but wasn't able to.  I have all my eye shadows in this pouch, along with 2 cosmetic bags - one holds my brow and liner pencils and products (Urban Decay, MAC, Smashbox, Revlon, Sonia Kashuk, NYX, among others) and the other bag holds my eyeshadow pencils and single pan shadows (MAC and NYX mostly).  Seperately, I have my gel liners (MAC black and brown, CRC black) and mascaras (black waterproof and clear) along with my eyeshadow palettes (2 La Femme 12 color palettes, 1 MAC 15 color palette, 2 Yaby 40 color palettes, 1 NYX 10 color palette).  My Makeup Forever Flash palette is kept with the eye products as well.

I keep my lashes in a plastic box on top of the 4 pouches:

They were shown off to the side in the top picture, but like I said, I move things around a lot!

So here's everything in the rolling Sport Artist unpacked:

My kit is always evolving and growing - I've actually added an additional eye palette (Yaby palette) since this photo was taken.  With the Zuca cases, I'm not at a loss of where to keep it all!