Travel beautifully with our smart girls’ guide to packing your beauty kit.
While it might be fun and enormously rewarding, when it comes to the beauty stakes, globetrotting can be less than flattering. Have you ever arrived at your destination after a flight and your hair is either standing on end or stuck to your scalp? Your eyes look like red bulbs and your skin feels dryer than the Sahara? Not anymore.
We have sourced the perfect products that allow you to travel like celebrities and flight 
attendants, who seem to effortlessly disembark looking like they just stepped out of a Benefit beauty bar.
In a similar manner to the age-old holiday shoe dilemma, it’s very hard to know what you’re actually going to use on a trip, be it a weekend away or overseas jaunt. Ideally, if you’re chasing sunshine and good weather, lots of sun care products and minimal makeup will suffice, but most of us decide to err on the side of caution and throw everything into the bag just in case.
When it comes to packing your beauty kit for a trip away, it’s the small things that count. And by that we mean travel size.
Beauty travel tips
- Ziplock bags are your best friend
- Hydrate more than you’d think
- Pack products that multitask
- Downsize your beauty items
- SPF is the most important thing to pack!
Travel products
1. asap Skin Essentials Pack, $135. This travel pack has it all: cleanser, exfoliating facial scrub, gentle cleansing gel, moisturising daily defence SPF50+, soothing gel, hydrating lip balm+ SPF15 and a super soft and durable deluxe facial cloth.
2. Medik8 Ageing Starter Kit, $69.90. Who says you can’t address the signs of ageing while on holiday? This starter kit contains travel-sized gentleCleanse; Hydr8 B5; CE-Tetra; Hydr8 Day 360 with SPF15; and Retinol 3TR.
3. Biology Bare Essentials Travel Kit, $50. Pamper yourself every step of your journey with this 5-product kit featuring the essentials for beautiful feeling and smelling skin and hair.
4. Charlotte Tilbury Quick ‘N’ Easy Makeup, $100. Dubbed the 5-minute makeup revolution, this is the ultimate grab ‘n’ go makeup pack for creating a smoky Bond-girl eye and pucker-up lips.
5. Theorie Argan Oil Ultimate Reform Collection, $39.95. This hair and body pack is your ultimate travel companion. In a stylish case, hair will be luminous and resilient no matter where you are.
6. Mesoestetic Hydra-vital Factor K, $129. Ultra-moisturising complex based on a mixture of amino acids and bio-salts particularly indicated to help return smoothness and elasticity to dry skin. Keep it handy for a quick hydration injection for parched skin.
7. SkinCeuticals Hydra Balm, $27.80. Multi-functional ointment ideal for treating the symptoms associated with severely dry and sensitive skin while improving overall hydration.
8. Thalgo Cold Cream Marine Deeply Nourishing Hand Cream, $29. Soften and protect your hands from the ravages of plane travel with this rich hand cream for dry and very dry hands.
9. Synergie Skin Enviroshield, $89. An anti-pollution spritz to protect against the harmful effects of airborne pollutants and infrared damage. Helps protect and detoxify skin, chelate heavy metals and shield the skin from airborne particles present in environmental pollution.
10. Bio-Oil, $14.95. Get onboard with the travel-sized Bio-Oil (60ml), the ultimate multi-purpose skincare item.
11. June Jacobs Papaya Purifying Enzyme Masque, $26. Specially packaged for beauty on the go, these travel-friendly masks will hydrate and nourish dry and stressed skin.
12. Sisley Paris Eye Contour Mask, $160. Perfect after a long flight, this eye mask visibly reduces dark circles and reduces fine lines and puffiness.
13. Sisley Paris Floral Spray Mist, $120. Ideal for travelling to refresh and revitalise the skin. Active ingredients include softening cornflower, soothing orange blossom, purifying witchhazel and refreshing rose.
14. Napoleon Perdis Auto Pilot Moisture Mist, $25. Boost skin’s moisture levels while cooling the complexion and refreshing makeup.
15. Napoleon Perdis Auto Pilot Lip Service, $32. Conditions and repairs the lips with Vitamin E, providing protecting and nourishing benefits.
16. SK-II Mid-Day Miracle Essence, $75. This refreshing mist penetrates through makeup to lock in moisture and hydrate skin.
17. MoroccanOil Dry Shampoo – Dark Tones (65ml), $19.95. Travel-sized dry shampoo to leave hair refreshed and volumised.
18. Aspect Starter Kit, $129. This excellent travel companion contains four of Aspect’s key products to keep your skin in tip-top condition. Contains a cleanser, Vitamin C serum, exfoliator and 4-in-1 moisturiser.
19. Pevonia Flight Essentials Collection, $121. This pack includes all the necessities for keeping skin healthy from head to toe and is conveniently packaged in an airline-approved, clear ziplock bag.
