Beauty Spotlight Desert Island - my turn to be stranded

I'll admit I was feeling quite complacent about this Beauty Spotlight task. I like beauty stuff as much as the next beauty blogger but my routine is minimalist - I don't do much hair styling, I don't wear foundation or powder and I don't go for complicated eyeshadow techniques. Coupled with that, the rules are that sunscreen and lipbalm are miraculously on the island already.

It was actually quite hard! I only just squeaked through on the twelve items and I'd have liked another couple of options for lipstick at least. I didn't cheat and use any palettes though *coughs at fellow Spotlight team members*. I did decide to hitch a lift with Christine over at 15 Minute Beauty to a hotel with shampoo/conditioner/skincare already on hand, so I didn't include any of that. (I just cheated, didn't I? So much for that moral high ground.)

Starting with the easy ones, my absolute essentials:

1. Rahua Finishing Treatment - I put a pea sized amount in damp, just washed hair, and I'm done. No blowdrying required.

2. RMS Beauty Un Cover Up in 22 - for undereyes, around nose, and anywhere else that needs a little evening out.

3. Shu Uemura Hard Brow Pencil in Seal Brown.

Also relatively easy - blush.

4. Nars Mata Hari blush - this matches my natural blush almost perfectly. It's my favourite blush at the moment.

5. Shu Uemura Pony blush brush - I like this brush because it is quite small for a blush brush, allowing good placement control, but still fluffy enough to blend/blur the edges.

6. Roxana Illuminated Perfume GreenWitch. If I can only take one fragrance, it's GreenWitch. 

7. Oops. Forgot the brush for applying the RMS concealer. Becca Eye Cream brush, a flat, tapered synthetic.

 8. Eyeshadow brush - MAC 217.

9. Rouge Bunny Rouge Solstice Halcyon eyeshadow. Still my favourite and my best natural shadow.

10. Laura Mercier Black Violet Eye Kohl pencil. This doesn't look obviously purple/violet, but is a bit softer and brighter than a plain black. Very good on brown eyes.

11. Ilia Beauty mascara. Finally, a worthy replacement for Shu Uemura Basic mascara.

12. Dior Addict lipstick in 865 Collection. The last choice was really difficult - I do like to have choice in lipsticks, but I didn't have enough space left to take more than one. This is the most recent addition to my Addict collection, a clear, popsicle pink/red.

As you will know if you've read my posts, I'm getting seasonal colour typed in March, and I'm obsessed with what season I might be. This is a Bright Winter lipstick, and I think it looks quite nice on me. If I do turn out to be a Bright, the makeup won't be a problem but it'll be a bugger to find the colours in clothes.