What’s In My Makeup Bag: Emmily Banks

If you’re looking to make to switch to a more ethical, eco-friendly natural beauty routine, then you’re going to love Emmily Banks. The natural makeup artist, eco beauty advocate and founder of Depths of Beauty, is passionate about inspiring others to swap their go-to beauty products for more conscious choices.
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We spoke with Emmily to discover her holistic beauty approach, her everyday makeup routine and the natural lipstick she uses as cream blush.
What are the 5 beauty products that you can’t live without?
Five beauty products I am loving right now are:
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Ere Perez Versatile Vanilla Highlighter
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Edible Beauty No. 3 Exotic Goddess Serum
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Weleda Skin Food
What beauty products do you always carry with you in your handbag?
I love carrying my Hurraw Lip Balm in Cherry. I use it as a lip and cheek tint, so it doubles as a product. I really love my Ere Perez concealer pot for its versatility and size. It’s compact, so it doesn’t take up much room plus doubles as a foundation. I also always make sure to carry a mascara with me and I’m loving INIKA Organic Long Lash Vegan Mascara in black.
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Describe your everyday beauty routine?
I like to keep it simple when it comes to looking after my skin. I always make sure to moisturise my face and body with an oil - favourites include anything on a base of jojoba or rosehip, and I include essential oils like Frankincense and Lavender for their antibacterial qualities. I am a big believer in beauty from within, so always ensure I am drinking plenty of water, eating clean, nourishing wholefoods and moving my body every day, to ensure a radiant, dewy glow.
Do you have a go-to everyday makeup look?
I like to keep my everyday look natural and radiant, with a few key products rather than a whole kit of makeup. I use a concealer as foundation to cover hormonal areas of the face, including the nose, chin and forehead.
Next, I’ll use a lipstick as a blush for a radiant glow that’s also quick and easy. Karen Murrell Natural Lipstick in Violet Mousse is a beautiful, nude favourite of mine. I follow with a highlighter on the cheekbones and brow bones - Ere Perez is my favourite. Finally, I finish by colouring my brows with a Lavera brow pencil and slicking on some mascara like INIKA Organic Long Lash Vegan Mascara in black.
Image via @depthsofbeauty
What are your top 3 makeup products of all time?
It’s impossible for me to choose, as there are so many amazing products regularly launching, so my favourites are always changing!
Three products I am currently loving are:
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Ere Perez concealer pots - they double as a foundation, have a great colour range and offer brilliant coverage.
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Weleda Skin Food - a great all-rounder, suitable for all skin types, and can be used as a body and face moisturiser.
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INIKA Organic Certified Organic BB Cream - for its beautiful, dewy texture and finish, including natural antioxidants, vitamins and minerals to illuminate the skin.
If you could offer one piece of advice to busy women who struggle to find the time to get their skin looking bright and glowy in the morning, what would it be?
To keep it simple! Remember to highlight your natural beauty - invest in a few key products and try a less is more approach. A simple BB cream and a good highlighter make the world of difference.
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Your skin is incredible! What’s your biggest skin care secret?
Truly I believe what we put on the INSIDE is just as important as the products we use of the outside. Our skin is our largest organ, absorbing more than 60% of what we put on it, straight into our bloodstream. I am so incredibly conscious to use only natural, organic beauty products as they are literally feeding our skin. When it comes to that inner glow, I make a conscious effort to ensure wellbeing is optimised on all levels - mind, body and soul. It is truly a holistic beauty approach!
What’s your favourite way to style your hair on an average morning?
I prefer to just leave it natural - my hair tends to do its own thing - sometimes it’s wavy, other times a little straighter than usual. I’ll run a comb through it and be good to go!
To find out more about Emmily Banks, visit Depths of Beauty.
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76 Member Comments
I really want to get around to trying these brands.
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Ere Perez is such a good brand. Love their foundation which I recently trialed :)
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Lots of great beauty information. The items I am never with out in my handbag is a lip gloss, lipstick, tissues, comb, mints and hair band.
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I've now tried the weleda and love it! Added it to my bag now haha
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I haven’t heard of her before, but I totally agree with her.....keep it simple!
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Skin food sounds interesting
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Love the picks. The INIKA BB Cream is fab, so creamy and such amazing ingredients!
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Very natural and easy going beauty !! Sounds good to me!
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I don't care that I don't know who she is. But its interesting to see what natural makeup products she uses. Thanks bh.
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I'm surprised that anyone would carry mascara in their handbag. I put it on in the morning, then that's it!
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Agree, when packing up my makeup I never add mascara....
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I've also been using concealer as foundation to do spot cover up of any blemishes rather than doing a full face coverage. It feels much lighter on my skin.
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I admire these simple natural beauty routines but I love using lots of products and I like full coverage
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Love that it's all natural!
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Some more beautiful natural beauty products. I am just loving the month of Natural Beauty with BH.
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Great perspective on skincare
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I have couple of Inika products, good stuff. Also Hanami, eye of horus, NBN, Kjaer Weis... and heaps of natural based skincare. I am all for it!
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Love the more natural products!
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I love this! I love the natural, eco-friendly, minimalist approach to make-up. This has inspired me!
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it's good to use natural products but sadly they contain too many stimulating oils and they irritate my skin worse than chemicals - the Weleda skin food has a host of irritants like coumarin, citral, geraniol, linalool, limonene so I can't use it. It also contains beeswax and lanolin so I'd definitely question the "it can be used on face and body". Not mine anyway
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You've made a good point which is often missed when they talk about natural skin care products.
Same goes with products which are not tested on animals, I am not for animal testing, what they do is horrid but I remember when I was growing up so many people I knew were aware that I had sensitive skin (it's not that bad now that I am an adult) and they always looked for products which were not tested on animals thinking that they were better for sensitive skin and I had to give away so much to others as I couldn't use what I had been gifted.
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I second this. The phenolics and volatile oils in botanicals are incredibly irritating for the most part. Cyanide and lead are natural and we don't rush to put these on or in our bodies!
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Some great vegan products here
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Ive no idea who she is either but we are all beauty addicts so love to hear what others are using, etc .....this has given me an idea.... BH should look at forum members to do a monthly article on. Whats in our makeup bags, our favorite skincare items, perfume, body and haircare, etc ..... I think that would be so fun and as we are so keen to delve into others beauty routines im sure it would be very popular. Heck we have all read this article and we dont even know who she is. What does everyone else think?????
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