Ok those of you who travel, or rather, fly around a lot, do you have any inflight beauty essentials? You know those beauty items that you make sure you have with you in the cabin, no matter what?
I usually carry my whole toiletries kit on board the plane actually. I just make sure that everything in there is 100ml or under and I’m good. Never been stopped yet for lugging a cosmetics kit heavier than my luggage! Ok… not that dramatic, but close.
While most of the time, my cosmetics kit ends up in the overhead compartment (weight and bulk y’know), there are some things I usually ensure I have with me in my seat so I can use them throughout my flight, long or short.
I’m sure you have your essential items too, that you don’t like to fly without so do share what yours are 😀
Well, ok the boarding pass is a no-brainer LOL! I have a travel pouch that I keep all my stubs and boarding passes and passport in so it’s technically a prop.
But what I do make sure I have close to hand are these:-
- Hand Cream – I’m horrible with using hand cream on a daily basis, but when I fly, I’m a dedicated hand cream user. The air in an airplane cabin is dry and I always notice that my hands come out the worse for wear. We all know that hands show our true ages more than our faces right? So, I carry a hand cream with me, preferring to go for something lightly scented or non-scented. I trialed the Nuxe Reve de Miel Hand and Nail Cream on my recent flight. I liked the texture and it absorbed quickly and it was very good for very dry skin. But I wasn’t keen on the scent that I found a bit strong so it’s not one I’d tote on board again although I’d use it in a hotel room or at home.
- Face Mist – I used to carry a bottle of Evian face mist but there’s a recent ruling that prohibits you from carrying pressurised or aerosol cans on board flights, so rather than risk my face mist being confiscated, I switched to a mist in a non-pressurised bottle. The Bobbi Brown Face Mist is on trial and I can safely say I like it a lot! Cabin air is very dry and drying so regular spritzes of face mist keeps your skin moist and refreshes you before arrival. The gentle refreshing scent is lovely and perks you up, which I found very helpful when feeling tired, headachey and cranky after a long journey. Heck, even my parents couldn’t resist stealing it to use for themselves!
- Lip Balm – Again, I’m not a big lip balm user, but when I travel, that’s when I whip them out on a regular basis. In the dry cabin air, I find that a layer of lip balm helps my lips stay supple and protected. I only had about 5 hours flying time, but it was enough for me to feel the effects, and the La Mer Lip Balm was absolutely lovely. I liked how well it protected my lips and the lovely tingly minty feeling. Again, the parents were generous with their use of it. Happy to know that it was La Mer as well LOL!
- Water – Not something I’d bring on board but this is the most essential inflight item for me. I always take water on a flight. When served drinks, I may take a juice, but I always also ask for a cup of water alongside. These days, I even travel with an empty bottle, which I then ask the flight attendants to fill up with water for me, so I don’t have to trouble them with my incessant demands to be watered. I guess I’m like a plant – I need lots of water LOL
On a short flight (I consider anything under 6 hours short) these are all I have with me. About 45 minutes before landing, I usually grab my kit and head to the toilets to clean my face, reapply my moisturiser and maybe put on a little makeup, if I’m feeling it. Otherwise, I just make sure I refresh my skincare.
If it’s a longer flight, I usually do 2 face washes – once early in the flight, when I then put on a face mask or sleeping mask before going to sleep; and once more before landing to refresh my skin. Some day, when I take a longer flight, I’ll be sure to share my inflight essentials then too 🙂
Do you have any inflight beauty essentials? Do share, I’m nosy!
The 4 essentials I’ve shown you above are usually kept on hand as a basic in-flight package. It does amuse me to note that I don’t even regularly use 2 of them but I’m a changed person when I leave my regular routine. Strange eh? 😀
Paris B
Not many beauty essentials but:
Facial wipes
Any sample sized cleanser to use prior to landing.
Dior Lip Glow
1 lipstick(must look decent when I’m picked up at the airport)
Nixoderm(I always “grow” pimples on the plane!)
Dior Prestige Moisturiser(sample tub)
A small perfume vial(need to smell nice on and off the plane)
MUST-HAVES:
Minyak Angin(I always get a migraine no matter how much water I drink)
Shelby’s Shhh-leep Balm
Migraine pills
Haha I usually have some makeup on hand too but it’s only because I keep my makeup in my hand-carry, never in check in luggage. But because I’m usually so lazy right, when I’m on vacation, I just step off with skincare. Lucky I rarely if ever travel for business LOL
I travel on average about 30-40 flights a year (between 3-13 hrs long normally and I usually carry these with me on flights)
Badgers balm (or the stick form in case I feel nauseous or under the weather)
Sisley express flower gel mask (you can put this on after taking your makeup off and it’s clear so you dont look too weird on the flight ! I do this twice on a KL-London flight to keep my skin hydrated)
Elizabeth arden lip balm
Handcream(whichever I can find from my sample drawer as I dont ever normally wear handcream otherwise)
Rosewater spritz to calm the redness and refresh my face (at the moment it’s diptyque and it works fine but a bit $$)
A pack of antibacterial wipes (NECESSITY)
Some cotton pads
A tiny spritz bottle of Bioderma to remove all traces of make up
Toothbrush and toothpaste
I normally pack these into the smallest containers/tubs I find so it goes with me in my handbag.
Wow Doreen, you are the quintessential globetrotter! Hats off! Thanks for sharing your flight essentials – it’s very insightful. When I travel anywhere longer than 6 hours, I make sure I do a mask too and yes, sleeping packs or gel/cream masks are less frightening than a sheet mask right? LOL
Oooh I love travel posts like this! For me, it would be all that you mentioned and:
– Toothbrush + toothpaste
– Moisturiser
– Minyak angin
– Eye mask (not the skincare sort)
– Facial sheet mask (I put this on when the lights are out)
– Hair brush
And then the usual earplugs, noise-cancelling headphones, iPod, iPad, etc etc.
Toothbrush! Yes, that’s so important especially on a long flight coz a clean mouth goes a long way towards feeling refreshed 🙂 I never got the hang of wearing an eye mask though so I don’t, and I don’t use noise-cancelling headphones but ear plugs! I am ever thankful for them, especially on that one flight where I travelled in the same area as 3… 3! crying babies. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone!
SO TIMELY! Can I be stupid and say in my 1 hour plus flight Syd-Melb yesterday I had EVERYTHING and more with me? 😛 Yea, domestic travel, no liquid restriction so I didn’t bother checking in my luggage. So, makeup, skincare – I have it all 😛 For international:
1. Cleanser
2. Face mask
3. Facial mist
4. Facial oil
5. Lip balm
6. Cheek/lip tint
7. Hand cream
8. Toothbrush/toothpaste and floss
After I’m done with cleansing/face mask, I usually spritz on facial mist and apply facial oil instead of moisturiser. I feel I need the heavy duty oil rather than moisturiser to combat the sahara-like air in the cabin. I’m almost always makeup-free and I travel with my glasses.
LOL! If I fly 1 hour (to Singapore usually) I don’t even have time to open up my handbag much less do anything LOL! Good idea on using facial oil on a long haul flight. The last time I flew long haul, I wasn’t yet into facial oils, but now that I am, I will definitely take them on board with me! I never wear makeup on board or on landing, come to think of it. Most of the time I’m too tired when I land, and besides, I don’t know anyone at the end of it, so it doesn’t matter how horrendous I look 😀
Love this topic! I travel at least one every two monthly and for flight with more than is 3-4hrs I will bring the following:
– Facial wash/wipe
– Anti bacterial hand wipes
– Toner
– Eye mask
– face cream
– Sleeping pack
– Lip balm
– hand cream
Gosh, this is a lot and oh, i bring my basic makeup kit on board. :p
Thanks for sharing, Lorraine! Gosh, you travel so often, I feel a little left out hehe… But I think you packed some useful items especially the sleeping pack! Very helpful for long trips 😀
I have a similar kit with a few additions:
– Toner/cleanser + cotton rounds (to fight oilyness especially in long trips)
– Face mist
– Lip balm
– Hand cream
– Sleeping mask
– Hand sanitizer
🙂
Good idea on the toner and cotton pads! It is so refreshing to clean your face on a flight isn’t it? I don’t know why I never thought about doing it back in the day, and I’d arrive feeling and looking all grimy LOL
I used to do nothing during flight and then wonder why I turn into an oily slick at the end of the flight 🙂 Now I bring:
– Lip balm (it’s a must – blistex medplus or colored Fresh lip balms)
– menthol balm (chronic sinusitis – it’s a b..ch during flights)
– hand cream (Herbalife aloe vera hand and body lotion)
– face mist (last I used was Caudalie beauty elixir)
– travel size face oil (last I used Fresh sea buckthorn oil, it is a great product)
– hand sanitizers / wet wipes
I believe that’s it 🙂
LOL! I feel ya Casey because that’s what I used to do too. I used to wonder why I’d arrive feeling like something the dog dragged in until I read about cleaning my face in the plane and then the lightbulb came on! 😀
Hi Paris, I think it depends on how long the flight is. I usually like to travel light, but I always bring with me hydrating masks to apply when I’m flying. Drinking lots of water is a must, but I hate using the toilets. LOL!
I’m actually ok about using the toilets…. except on flights to-from China. Then, just ‘tahan’ 😛
1. Yu yee oil :p
For nausea and stomach upset.
2. Multi purpose balm – for dry lips, skin, and everything else!
Eh but you didn’t need the yu yee oil on that flight to BKK! 😉
Oooh this is a topic I can totally get behind!
My flight necessities are:
– wet wipes
– a stronger moisturiser, for now it’s Haba Labo’s lotion
– facial cleanser, my regular is Curel Sebum foaming wash
– blotting papers
– a moisturising lip balm / gloss – I LOVE Kiehl’s lipgloss but it’s been discontinued, ugh!
On long haul flights I also pack:
– toothbrush n toothpaste
– Laneige water sleeping pack
– Powder shampoo, I’m trying out the Lush one, it comes in small bottle without aerosol.
Ooh powder shampoo/dry shampoo is an excellent idea! Makes you wonder how in that sort of controled atmosphere, we can still get so oily everywhere right? The only thing we really lack is a shower, and that’s the first thing I want the minute I leave a long haul flight!
I’m flying again this weekend so perfect! I take pretty much the same thing-lip balm is a must, I take my mini Caudalie Elixir, gravol because I get air sick so I have to take one an hour before any trip, hand sanitizer, hand cream and WATER-lots of it too! I’m so paranoid about running out of water hahaha-I always make sure I have loads around otherwise I’m pretty sure I’d shrivel up in about 20 minutes! I haven’t been on a long haul flight in over 4 years, but I really want to go back to Europe soon. And this time I know better! I was so dried up after that 8 hour flight-this time I’m taking face masks for sure.
Ooh being air sick is no fun, but it’s good to know that you know it and take medication for it! I hear ya about water and every time they come around, they only give you one little cup. I’m like “Dude! This is one mouthful yo! Gimme more!” So these days, I carry on board an empty bottle and get the stewardess to fill it up for me so I don’t hassle them and don’t shrivel up! 😀
Is it weird that I don’t have any kind of inflight beauty must haves? I just carry whatever I would carry with me on a normal day and drink more water than usual. That includes a hand sanitizer, a lotion, a face powder, a lipbalm and lipstick. Oh, and some oil blotting sheets. However, whenever I do carry my small sling bag, I only carry a face powder, a lipbalm, lipstick and oil blotting sheets with me.
Oh girl, you do carry a lot of stuff with you daily! LOL I think I’m the only person I know who barely carries any beauty related items on a day to day basis. The only things I carry are lipsticks for touch up. Nothing more! :O
yes, these. but I also must use antiseptic wipes to wipe down the seat’s touchscreen and foldable table after I read of all those horror dirty tales of the plane seat!
I must be the only person out there not carrying antiseptic wipes on a plane 😛 Ok, next thing to pack!
My inflight essentials are: Lip balm, wet wipes, hand cream, blotting papers, eyebrow pencil, water bottle, painkillers (for headaches), and this eye mask that emanates a bit of heat.
Brow pencil! I took a tiny bit of effort most recently and did my brows before landing. What a difference a brow makes 😀 Oh and that heated eye mask is interesting! Must be so comforting on a long journey
A put together eyebrow makes you look better by 10x already, no matter how tired you are!
The heated eye mask is called: Kao Megurizumu Steam Hot Eye Mask A friend introduced me to them by gifting me a few as a souvenir from Japan and I fell in love (and thankfully soon after they started selling them in Taiwan’s drugstores).
Thanks for the info about the eye mask! I’ll take a look online – Sasa should have them 😉
Pretty much what everyone else said (hand cream, lip balm, face mist, etc.) but one thing I always have with me are eye masks. Right now, I’m liking The Face Shop Bright Eyes Modeling Gel Patches. They are clear, so they are not too obvious, and they feel so cool and soothing.
I’ve noticed that so many people are mentioning eye masks! I shall have to try that next time and The Face Shop is affordable so I’ll try those! Thanks for sharing 😀
I actually dislike washing my face over the tiny sink in the plane loo so I bring cleansing facial wipes to clean my face when I board and just before I land. I also bring a rich face cream or oil for the flight. And hand cream is a must as my hands dry out due to the frequent hand washing (changing diapers is so bad for my hands!!) and hand sanitizer because planes are seriously very dirty places.
I made the mistake the first time I travelled and brought skincare on board, by trying to wash my face over the sink. BIG MISTAKE! Wet myself and the floor and looked like I peed all over myself LOL! So this time, I brought cleansing water and cotton pads and a non foaming cleanser I could wipe off with cotton pads and whew! No mess 😀