You know how it is. You spend your hard-earned cash on a Chanel Boy bag and leave mere pennies left for investing in the dressing of what people see far more of - your face. Well, not just your face - your hair, your hands, your fingernails, it's all on display far more prominently and potently than any beautiful leather accessory. Your face is there all the time, showcasing you to the world.

Luckily, the democratic nature of the beauty industry is such that you can still take care of yourself and look your finest despite not investing wads of cash. In fact, it's just as vital, if not more, that our handbag beauty armoury is as fierce as the comprehensive all-singing, all-dancing vanity box of skin and make-up saviours we keep at home. They need to be tiny. Tiny enough to fit into said Chanel Boy bag itself.

And because so much of our own personal beautifying happens on the go; between meetings, in the back of cabs, in the powder pink bathroom at Claridge's, our own personal beauty toolkit must come with us. We've vetted the beauty landscape for the most nourishing hand cream, the best economising red lipstick, capsules of fragrance for on the go and the essential oil that will calm your nerves on a sardine-packed commuter train at 7.14am. 

And, quite astonishingly, these are all under £10. Small, yet mighty. Go wild.