Summer is the time for mischief and getting crazy. Make certain you’re prepared for whatever (and whoever’s bed you may fall into) by carrying these must haves in your purse.

1. Condoms, dental dams

If you forget everything we list to pack in your purse here, make sure you include these guys. Never leave it up to your new partner to grab protection and always make sure the ones you carry aren’t expired. I’m seriously trying to not sound like your health teacher here, but it can’t be said enough: Condoms protect you from infections (as do dental dams), and prevent unwanted pregnancies.

2. Face wipes

While, yes, washing your face before you go to sleep is totally preferable, the second best thing is using face wipes. You can use these to freshen your mug (and other places if you’re in a pinch) in the morning.

3. Minimal makeup

We’re betting you didn’t get a ton of sleep last night. And that’s OK! You don’t need a lot of makeup to look awake, so just keep the essentials on hand: a BB cream with SPF, mascara, and a bright lip color, or lip gloss. All of this stuff will help you look more awake (even if you start to nod off at your desk around 3 p.m.).

4. Something minty

While I’m a fan of keeping a travel-sized toothbrush and toothpaste in my purse, I realize that I’m kind of a dental health freak. So, if your main goal is to keep your breath fresh smelling OK rather than keeping your mouth clean, keep some organic mints handy.

5. A contact case with solution

If you wear contacts, this is a must. Simply keep a contact case in your purse that already has solution in it so you can pop those babies out whenever you need to. To keep your lenses really clean, it may be wise to keep a travel-sized lens solution in your bag at all times, too.

Now, we realize not every sleepover is unexpected. So, for the ones that are more planned, we suggest packing the following items, as well:

1. A clean shirt, pair of underwear (and a plastic bag to put the funky stuff in).

2. A reusable water bottle (for if you have one too many).

3. Body oil (if you’ve been up all night, you may want to dab a little something behind your ears).

What do you pack in your purse before you head out? Do you have any favorite essentials we forgot to list here?

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I don’t know about you, but I am pretty happy that the low maintenance look is in. Because there’s nothing that I love more than a minimal makeup routine paired with dirty tresses and armpit hair.

If the above description made you a little queasy, you probably shouldn’t click over to Instagram any time soon, because hairy pits are in. In fact, they are so in that celebrities and normal people everywhere are snapping photos of their prolific armpit hair. (Let us introduce you to the hairpitsclub, an Instagram account dedicated to women who rock their pit hair with confidence.)

Instagram accounts like this are normalizing a totally normal and feminine thing: female armpit hair. Because really, what’s more feminine than the armpit hair you got when you started puberty? And I write that last statement without any sarcasm, too. I, for one, love forging the razor because my skin is incredibly sensitive and I a little bit love making people feel squirmy with my appearance.

Also: I especially appreciate this new hairy trend after seeing this bogus, recent report concerning women’s facial hair.

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on my couch, casually enjoying some coffee when some woman on a morning show said what Hairpin later quoted:

“Michelle Money, who appeared on ‘The Bachelor,’ made a YouTube video about shaving her face. ‘I don’t care who you are, ladies, you have hair on your face,’ she says in the video, which has had more than 251,000 views. ‘Men don’t like it. Get rid of it.'”

Gah! That statement made me so mad. I mean, I have never shaved for a man, anyway. What I do with my body hair is my business. And I suppose that’s why I’m so happy that armpit hair is trending. Because it’s not the sexy norm that women are sold. Every lady should be able to do what she wants with her hair.

So, ladies: Join the hair armpit force or don’t — you should be able to wear your pit hair, and your body hair, the way you want.

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