Travel Beauty Month :: Jane Iredale Giveaway

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August is Travel Beauty Month at Trip Styler. Since we already know you’re beautiful on the inside, we’re featuring posts devoted to helping you maintain and enhance your outer allure—which can *sometimes* show hints of travel’s time-zone hopping and lack of H2O.

All month we’ve been doing travel beauty-themed giveaways for products that take the edge off of jet-setting. This is August's last giveaway! Don't miss out.

Week of August 30th Jane Iredale Contest Details 1) One lucky winner will score: -  Lip Fixation: Double-duty beauty with two products in one: lip stain and gloss in complimentary colors. - Powder-Me SPF™ Dry Sunscreen – SPF 30: Use it on the body and face for UVB/UVA SPF 30 protection.

2) How to win: RT any of @TripStyler's tweets on twitter as well as this tweet: RT @TripStyler to enter to win a @janeiredale Lip Fixation and a Powder-Me SPF http://bit.ly/9smpDc #travelbeauty The more you RT, the greater your chance of winning. If you're not on Twitter, but still want a chance to win, share any of our posts on Facebook (click on the 'share' link at the bottom of our status updates) and tell us on our wall.

3) Contest begins Monday August 30th, is open to residents of Canada and the US, and closes Thursday, Sept 2nd.

4) The winner will be selected via random.org, announced and contacted following the contest's closing.

Good luck! Don’t forget to tell your friends.

Update: Congrats to Harmony, our lovely winner.

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Travel Beauty Cheats

Look fabulous and feel better even when your journey involves lots of layovers and flights...

{For our third Travel Beauty Month contest, win some fab travel-sized Tarte products by engaging with our Facebook group.  Details Here. Contest ends this friday.}

Let's be honest. The rigors of traveling can wreak havoc on your appearance. Last year after a flight from Milan to London, a sweaty run through Heathrow, London to Istanbul, and finally Istanbul to Nairobi, I remember arriving in Nairobi tired, sick and run-down. Upon arrival at 1am, I asked my husband if I looked presentable and he tactfully replied, "you're not at your best."  AKA - i looked like I'd been travelling, or perhaps slightly alien-like.  If I'd spent only 2 mins in the airport bathroom 'freshening up,' that conversation would have not occurred.  And so...

For our third Travel Beauty Month post, we’re featuring travel beauty secrets and cheats so you can arrive fresh-faced to your next destination! Thanks to my friend and flight attendant for helping with the below tips!

Pre-Travel

• Drink emergen-c to ensure your body's at its best and you stay alert.
• Moisturize like you've never moisturized before. Recycled plane air does nothing for the skin.
• Drink lots of water. Bring an empty water bottle with you through security and fill it up after. This one is <duh> obvious, but even though you'll be that person getting up to #1 all the time, try to sit in an aisle and rejoice that your hydrated skin will be more plump than your non-peeing neighbors'.
• Eat a good meal and bring a healthy snack onboard. Airplane food is high in sodium (= bloating).
• Resist the urge to pile on the make-up. More make-up = more fussing and more opportunity for raccoon eyes or make-up-stained pillow.
• If you are going to wear eye make-up, use a sheer, slightly shimmery neutral tone like this Nars Duo Cream Eyeshadow to brighten your eyes.
• Trip Styler Tip: forget mascara, and tint your lashes and eye brows. You'll look alert and pack one less item!

During Travel

• A moisturizing spritz like this Evian travel-sized spritzer is your friend. Use often. Not only will it refresh your complexion, but a quick spray when you land will ensure you'll walk into the airport with a glow.
• Every time the drink cart comes down the aisle, get one or two waters. Hydrating and avoiding salty plane food will help keep swelling in your extremities down.
• Dab a small amount of vaseline on your lips and contours of your eyes to keep them ultra moisturized.
• On a multi-leg flight schedule?  Bring dry shampoo to add a day or two onto your coif.
• Get your shimmer on. Try Benefit's Realness of Concealness kit packed with their bestsellers like eye brightener and lip plumper to give you that natural I just look this good all the time look.
• Colour me.  The perfect size for travel, Tarte's Bronze to Go provides just the right amount of bronze to make it seem like you were in St. Tropez for a week, in which case, I'd be jealous.

Post Travel

• Do a little impromptu stretching to get the bloodflow back!
• Wash and moisturize hands. The dry air, as well as airplane bathroom soap always dries out the skin.
• Have another emergen-c drink.
• Brush your teeth, like a shower, it'll immediately refresh you!
• Spritz again, or wash your face...
• Expand your eyes. When it's time to hit the town and your post-flight cat-nap just didn't cut it, turn to Tarte's travel-sized High Definition Eyes with an ingenious eye-liner that actually sticks to your inner rims and a natural mascara that increases lash volume by a whopping 424%!

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Travel Beauty Month :: Tarte Giveaway

August is Travel Beauty Month at Trip Styler. Since we already know you're beautiful on the inside, we're featuring posts devoted to helping you maintain and enhance your outer allure---which can *sometimes* show hints of travel's time-zone hopping and lack of H2O.

All month we'll be doing travel beauty-themed giveaways for products that take the edge off of jet-setting.

Our first post focused how to add mileage to your coif while away, our second post featured our fave travel-sized beauty minis and our third post shares tried-and-true travel beauty cheats!

Week of August 23 Tarte Giveaway Contest Details 1) One lucky winner will score Tarte travel-sized: -  High Definition Eyes: A deluxe kit of tarte's best-selling EmphasEYES™ inner rim eye liner and clinically proven natural mascara. - Bronze To Go: A deluxe kit of tarte's best-selling Mineral Powder Bronzer in Park Ave Princess with a Glam on the Go Kabuki Brush! 2) How to win: - if you haven't already, "like" us on Facebook.com/TripStyler, and - suggest Trip Styler on Facebook to your friends, or share a Trip Styler facebook post on your wall, and - then write on our wall telling us you've liked, and suggested or shared us! 3) Contest begins Monday August 23rd, is open to residents of Canada and the US and closes Friday, August 27th. 4) The winner will be selected via random.org, announced and contacted following August 27th.

Good luck! Don't forget to tell your friends.

Update: congrats to Nicole S for winning! Thank you to all those who entered!

Travel Trends :: Minis

If at all possible, packing fewer, smaller items simplifies travel. I'm not suggesting you jet-off avec the clothes on your back and a bikini/speedo in your pocket---although that does sound great---but packing fewer and more thoughtful double-use items saves time and money in baggage fees while you vagabond.

Thankfully, beauty companies have responded to the packing lighter trend minifying their essentials so they can be easily slipped into a ziplock bag for a swift and non-confrontational encounter with airport security. <relief> For our second Travel Beauty Month post, we're featuring beauty minis.

Beauty Minis Skin Skoah's Holiday Travel Kit provides everything you need for glowing skin (kleanser, tonik, face skrub, face kream and face mask), and you'll love its cucumber-infused scent. Just toss the items into your clear ziplock and you're good to glow---I mean go.

Fragrance Unless you've got an ultra mini perfume tube that you're sure won't leak, I suggest going with two practical travel options: a) a roll-on perfume, like this one from DKNY (bonus, it comes with two scents!) b) a solid fragrance, like this natural gardenia-scented one from Pacifica

Make-up Don't let travel win over your face. Drinking water can only do so much. That's where Benefit's travel-friendly Realness of Concealness kit comes in, packed with their bestsellers to enhance, plump, brighten and erase the effects of travel.

Hair Say goodbye to watered-down versions of hotel shampoo & conditioner-induced bad hair days, and bring along Alterna's travels-sized Caviar minis instead. PS - this product was our first Travel Beauty giveaway and we just noticed it was mentioned on Sephora's Am to Pm Beauty email yesterday!  Our lucky winner got a hot product.

Mini Beauty Resources 3floz.com Love mini toiletries? You'll never have to worry about your beauty products being too large for the plane, but rather which ones to choose! Check out this online boutique carrying luxury name-brand beauty & grooming products all 3 fl oz or less.

Sephora My fave destination for everything beauty has an entire section devoted to plane-friendly travel called Beauty Minis.

Your local Drugstore Stock up on your mini travel essentials like toothpaste, etc...

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Travel Beauty Month :: Skoah Giveaway

August is Travel Beauty Month at Trip Styler. Since we already know you're beautiful on the inside, we're featuring posts devoted to helping you maintain and enhance your outer allure---which can *sometimes* show hints of travel's time-zone hopping and lack of H2O. All month we'll be doing travel beauty-themed giveaways for products that take the edge off of jet-setting.

Our first post focused how to add mileage to your coif while away, and our second post will feature mini products perfect for travel!

Thursday August 12th Contest Details 1) One lucky winner will score a Skoah Holiday Travel Kit containing kleanser, tonik, face skrub, face kream and face mask! 2) How to win: make a comment on your favourite Trip Styler post. The winner will be chosen at random from the master comment list, so if you comment more than once on different posts, you have a better chance of winning! 3) Contest is open to residents of Canada and the US and closes Wednesday, August 18th. 4) The winner will be announced and contacted the following day.

Good luck! Don't forget to tell your friends.