This is a contest I’m super excited about. MKAshley has teamed up with Dualstar (yup, Mary-Kate and Ashley’s own company!) to give away five (count ‘em five!) beauty gift paks in honor of their awesome new product Paper Me Pretty.

Each gift pak will include:

That’s 13 products in total!

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment answering the following question:

What’s in your make-up bag?

Please leave a valid email address so I can contact the winners. The winners will be drawn randomly at 11:59pm EST on September 14th. For customs reasons, only those who live in the USA and Canada are eligible to enter.

Good luck!

If you’ve ever wondered what Ashley Olsen carries around in her make-up bag, well wonder no more! She opens it up and reveals all at mary-kateandashley.com.

What’s in the bag is an interesting mix of low-end (mary-kateandashley $3 eye shadow) and high-end ($55 Terry Baume de Rose Lip Balm) products. And she carries it all around in a hip vintage Gucci clutch.

Find out what’s in Ashley’s bag here. I hope Mary-Kate opens her bag up next!

Thanks to a bit of research by Perez Hilton (I know, I know), I have learned that the Environmental Working Group has determined that most mary-kateandashley brand make-up is highly hazardous to the user’s health and their perfumes are laced with carcinogens.

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Perez points to this database as proof and suggests everyone checks out their favorite brands.

I’m not a fan of Perez, but this is actually a good suggestion. Consumers need to be informed about the consequences the products they are using have on their health and the environment.