Dubai Girls Club Must-Haves

The real magic of a night out happens in the girls' bathroom. Between the perfume clouds, lip gloss reapplications, and five new friends made in under two minutes, it’s basically a parallel universe. So obviously, we had to ask the question: what’s one thing in your bag that you absolutely need for a night out?

Someone whipped out a Touchland hand sanitizer and said, “this literally goes everywhere with me.” Another pulled out a tiny travel perfume bottle from Amazon with the confidence of a woman who knows exactly what her scent says. A few girls were team lip. One swore by her YSL Loveshin Lipstick, another had the Huda Beauty Lip Contour Stain while another had the Seventeen Cosmetics lip pencil “for dimension.” Someone had the rhode Peptide Lip Tint because she “can’t drink or dance with dry lips, that’s criminal.”

Someone else flashed her Urban Decay Big Bush brow gel like it was a VIP pass. And of course, there was the girl who pulled out a portable charger, looking at us like we’d asked a trick question. “How else do you expect me to make it past midnight?” Right after, another girl (different bag, same energy) waved her phone and said, “This is the only thing I need. If I lose this, the night is over.”

Someone else slid a pack of Extra spearmint gum across the counter and said, “I’m not taking risks tonight.”

They weren’t all beauty products, but they were all essentials (survival, glam, and girlhood).