Offensive Officials Revisited
I recently read a highly entertaining article about airport security staff - who are employing new techniques to gain respect and co-operation from frustrated, abuse slinging travellers. Because Beauty Terrorist was born off the back of the new hand luggage - product restrictions and one particularly fascist airport enforcer, I decided to take our monthly beauty expose back to the airport and see what gets through and what doesn't, in the summer of 2008. Brace yourselves for the best budget friendly products mixed in with some highly ingenious and simple ways to get more beautifiers in your hand luggage.
Story Highlights
- Space Saving Soap
- Sight Seeing Statistics
- Little Luxuries
Space Saving Soap
The beauty of this tip lies in the simplicity. Take a bar of soap with you instead of shower gel. It's not a liquid, it does the same job and it doesn't take up valuable space in your transparent, 20cm by 20cm, 1 litre capacity bag. Also make sure you open the wrapper carefully because you can re-use it for future travels. Just seal it off with a paper clip and wrap the bar in toilet tissue to stop it becoming mouldy!
Sight Seeing Statistics
I conducted an experiment on a recent trip through Stansted Airport. Observing the ten plastic bag wielding passengers in front of me, I noted the style of said bags, the regularity of the guard intervention and whether or not the two were related. Surely enough the four reinforced – transparent carry cases with thin strips of fabric on the lining, (specifically manufactured for the restrictions) made it through with no questions. Of the six remaining, run of the mill specimens, a whopping five were checked and products were removed from the majority of these. So in essence sandwich bags get pilfered and professional ones don't. Elemis do the best, restriction approved, transparent travel bags so look out for them in the bigger pharmacies and department stores.
Little Luxuries
In the past there's been talk of the big bottled Dermalogica products. They're a great investment but most are too big to make it into your one litre, transparent product package. Now you could sacrifice the daily care routine that we've been working on for the past few articles or you could invest in a travel friendly Dermalogica Skin Kit. This retails at £19.95, you can pick it up from salons across the land and I can confirm that it successfully combats the acne inducing stress and the de-moisturising, high altitude air conditioning, involved in modern mini breaks.
I tried out the Normal / Oily kit which includes a 22ml Skin Prep Scrub, 22ml of Active Moist, 50ml worth of Special Cleansing Gel and 50ml of the spray on - Multi Active Toner. So a two facetted approach to cleansing, the usual moisturising and toning regime, and a collective liquid content of 144ml. At a push this'll last you two solid weeks and the toner and cleansing gel can be refilled and re-used. Terrific.
- Rob Savage
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