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pack mini sized stuff
saks polished face kit!
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: No, I don’t believe we’re going anywhere.
Your top travel tip for beauty: Travel size stuff is great!
Best beauty gift you
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: No, but I don’t mind I need time to relax at home!
Your top travel tip for beauty: In the winter & during travel, skin gets very dry. Make sure to gently exfoliate your skin regularly – it allows moisturizers to be more effective.
Best beauty gift you
—Not really, I’ll spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my in-laws at the other side of the island (about 2 1/2 hr drive)
—Plan ahead what you are taking with you and what you really need, so you can travel light.
—I don’t usually give that kind of gifts, but one time I gave new cosmetic brushes to a great friend and explained to her how to used them (she had no idea, really).
I’m going to spend the week of New Year’s with my boyfriend and his family. =)
Oh man, haha. Whenever I think of traveling I automatically think about flying and how much I hate it. I fly with extra moisturizer on my face, moisturizing lip balm, no makeup, and bring a solid lotion bar or butter for my hands. And fuzzy socks!
Makeup brushes. =)
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: yes, to visit the parental units in Jakarta, Indonesia
Your top travel tip for beauty: no makeup on the plane! and moisturise, moisturise, moisturise!
Best beauty gift you
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: Nope, staying here in San Francisco.
Your top travel tip for beauty: on the plane, use alot of moisturizing products. also, remember that if it is only a weekend trip, keep in mind that you might only need one eyeshadow palette, NOT UR WHOLE MAC PALETTE! haha, also, bring a lot of fun lip colors, and change them regularly.
Best beauty gift you
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: nope. staying to revise for exams… and because all my friends are coming back to where i am for christmas.
Your top travel tip for beauty: keep things simple. if the look is very complex it’s difficult to touch up when you’re on the go. simple can looks beautiful 🙂
Best beauty gift you
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: Miami, FL from Dec. 24th through the 28th with my husband to see my mom and dad.
Your top travel tip for beauty: Always dress up more than you feel like, because if you don’t you may end up feeling like you look like crud compared to everyone else on the plane (at least that has been my experience).
Best beauty gift you
Are you going anywhere for the holiday season: SADLY NO BUT I WANTED TO TRAVEL TO MEXICO
Your top travel tip for beauty:TAKE YOUR OWN MAKEUP YOU DONT ANT TO BORROW MAKEUP AND SOMETIMES EVEN IF YOU FIND A MAKEUP STORE IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE IT CAN BE OVERLY PRICED
Best beauty gift you
I’m sticking around locally, though I’ll be heading to my parents for Christmas, and then spending New Year’s with my boyfriend’s family. 🙂
Seattle, makeup I can’t get here in Canada, and a twenty dollar mall gift card (our The Bay has a great MAC counter).
Going anywhere? Well, since we went to Rarotonga last year, this time we are staying home. Maybe we’ll get away to the beach or lake for a few days in late January though.
Top travel tips? Buy miniatures or pick up a travel kit with teeny bottles and jars for your essentials. Have lip balm handy at all times. Take a decent size fold out mirror. I have a Chanel compact that has a medium pink blush, 4 eyeshadows, 2 lipsticks and 2 lipglosses plus 3 brushes in a velvet pouch – that and a sample size Dior mascara, eye pencil stub and mini bottles of foundation and concealer can do a very polished face in under 10 minutes.
Best beauty gifts? Brush set to my BFF, pink DiorKiss in a bright pink Dior makeup bag to my soon to be SIL (who loves pink!) and Guerlain Meteorites in Beige Chic to my mother last year. She nearly cried.