No manual. They give you this like book, but I don't want to call it a book because it is basically regular white paper they printed and stapled together lol. It is good for I guess basics but not much else. Just shows basically face shapes, eyebrow measuring etc. i don't even have mine anymore since I lost it but I have never once reached for it. They do not give you a bag, they give you a small train case, the kind with a handle and it is silver aluminum. Almost like a caboodle but nicer. You basically get a few pencils (lip and eye, almost like a wet n wild lol), some brushes (cheap with von lee printed on them), 2 cinema secrets foundation palettes and 1 lip (you can see what they look like on the cinema website), brush cleaner, sponges, brush cleaner cup, disp. mascara wands, 2 blushes (cinema), pencil sharpener, silver palatte to mix found. on, this long silver tool used to scrap the makeup but I forget what it is called...oh, spatula. They also give you a short white cape. That is all I can remember. Trust me, the only thing you will end up using are the foundations, silver palette and spatula. Nothing else is worth using in the real world. Oh and the case, you will use that, it is very very nice. Towards the end of the class our teacher let us bring in our own makeup (b/c the colors they make you learn with are so drab) so we can make up our classmates and have more fun with it.