Mini Me
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Seasoned traveller Debra Brock on why well-chosen miniatures are the passport to beauty.
In a previous life, I had a job that involved a lot of European travel. To be honest, it sounded like exciting international jet-settery when I first got the job, but I soon realised it actually involved spending a lot of evenings in airports, way too much time in taxis and that pretty much all of Europe?s industrial estates look identically bleak. On top of these valuable life lessons, I also learned that standing at baggage carousels at 10pm praying you?re not today?s luggage lottery loser is fraught and tedious. So I rapidly swapped to travelling hand baggage only, at which point another couple of life?s universal truths became apparent: packing a full beauty kit into a cabin sized bag will mean that you only have enough space left in the case for two pairs of knickers and a stocking in the low denier, and lugging a full beauty kit through Amsterdam Schiphol will give you a shoulder injury within three trips. I quickly became expert in blagging sample sizes from beauty counters and decanting the things I couldn?t blag into mini size bottles (I?m still a sample size hoarder. They?re all sorted into freezer bags by product category. Some of them have been on at least two house moves with me). The mini beauty kit and I continued our travels around Europe quite happily for many years. But since then there?s been a huge change in the way we travel. The rise of the budget airline means ...
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