Bride squad makeup bags

A lettered makeup bag does two jobs at once, which is why forty-eight of them stand on this page and no other single kind of small thing comes close. It carries an initial, so it works as the present handed over when somebody is asked to be a bridesmaid, and it holds what a person needs for two nights away, so it goes on being used after the asking is over. That is a rarer combination than it sounds. Most proposal gifts are looked at once and put in a drawer.

Check the size before ordering nine of them. A bag cut for a lipstick and a lash curler and a bag cut for a full wash kit photograph identically on a white background, and the difference only shows up when somebody tries to fit a bottle of shampoo in one. The sets on this page are usually sold as a group of six or eight with different letters, which is convenient until two people in the party share an initial, so read the letter list rather than assuming. Canvas takes a print better than satin and survives a suitcase better too; satin looks better in the photograph on the bed.

This page is one slice of the Bride Squad selection, cut by the job rather than by the shelf the pieces sit on.