But the constant partying and gift buying and endless loops of the same ten songs can get you down after awhile. But nothing, and I mean nothing, gets people down more than holiday travel. It can seem as if the whole world is going exactly where you are at exactly that same moment. Long lines at the airport and the stop-and-frisk tactics of the TSA have you irritated before you even get inside the dry, recycled air palace that is an airplane. Dehydrated and puffy, you stumble off of the plane, greet your relatives and immediately seek to wrap your taste buds in the creamy comfort of a spiked eggnog. Shoot. You deserve it, girl!

But what if there’s a better way? Master Beauty YouTuber Michelle Phan is a world traveler and fortunately for us, is not about that dry skin life. Michelle made one of her phan-tastic (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself!) videos detailing her long haul beauty and skin health regimen. And then it hit me– I had all of the answers right at my fingertips! I needed beauty that was TSA approved. That’s when the BeautiControl TSA Skin Survival Kit was born.

The TSA Survival Kit contains essential products to help you keep yourself as fresh as a daisy no matter how long of a flight. The kit includes Skinlogics™ Lip Balm, Platinum Regeneration™ Rejuvenating Eye Treatment, Nutri-Rich Oil, and my favorite, BC Spa Manicure Extreme Repair Hand Therapy.

Use Nutri-Rich Oil in your hair and pat it gently onto your face and smooth through your hair. Moisture barrier= check

Apply Rejuvenating Eye Treatment patches. These tighten the skin and help to retain moisture in the sensitive eye area. Make sure to bring two packs– prep yourself for roundtrip travel! Gentleman, please don’t be scared to do this, too. If eye patches are good enough for Diddy (remember this?), then they’re good enough for you!

Smear on some of that Lip Balm. Don’t be stringy, you know how much cracked lips hurt.

Don’t forget about your hands– seal them with Extreme Repair Hand Therapy.

There you go! Now you have a plan– your beauty, TSA Approved! I can’t guarantee you’ll have a turbulence free flight but I can promise you’ll look good when you get there.

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I became aware of the crookedness of my teeth since age nine and soon after, stopped smiling with my mouth open until I got the ultimate suburban accessory– braces. Years later, my teeth came back to haunt me in the form of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fall 1996 brochure. I remember my classmates coming screaming into the cafeteria, waving orange and purple letter-sized pamphlets. “Kerri!! Kerrrrrriiiiiiii! Is this youuuuuuuuu?!!!” And it was. On the cover, I’m talking the entire cover, was 8 year old me, teeth-besnaggled and on full display. At the sensitive age of 11, this was the ultimate humiliation.

I grew into my face and my teeth, assisted by nearly 5 years of braces, straightened themselves out. I battled acne all through my teenage years and ran a constant battle with the blemishes and hyper-pigmentation that that acne left behind. I, fortunately, had great skincare and boy, did I have makeup. Makeup helped me to FINALLY feel pretty. I was never one to glop it on but it did have a certain placebo effect for me. I had a good face underneath it all but with my magical makeup, I could banish the dark circles that had always plagued me, I could give myself some eyebrows (any shape I wanted!) and I could make people believe that I was beautiful.

But recently, I spent some time with a friend who has known and seen me in nearly every state imaginable, from pukey ill to black-tie ready. I hadn’t put my makeup on yet and he said unprompted, “You know, you’re not really one of those girls who needs makeup. I don’t mind it, but you look pretty good already.”

That struck me. So last week, I went to work without makeup. Intentionally. I was fully dressed and about to do my face and then, I stopped. I looked at myself in the mirror. Really looked. My skin was soft and smooth. I’d started using BeautiControl’s new Instant Radiance Beauty Balm (full review forthcoming) so my skin was actually kind of glowing. I was there and that was me and I was happy and healthy. I looked at myself in the mirror and I finally felt alright.

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