Tips for the Female Traveller

One of the most important things to remember when travelling is that the bag on your back has to be carried around a lot and it’s likely that you will become obsessed with the bare necessities when you hit your destination and have to lug your home around every day, all day; hoisting it on to luggage rails and walking up mountains in the midday sun. You want to look the part of the traveller without all the effort. Here are a few ways to keep yourself looking decent without breaking the bank, wasting your time or weighing your backpack down.

Sinks may be scarce when travelling, as will mirrors so stock up on baby-wipes, and take a tiny compact with you. The wipes will compensate for showers, water, and loo roll and keep you refreshed on long, sweaty journeys. Try and buy one with a moisturiser in so that your skin doesn’t dry up. A mirror is useful for checking bites and sunburn, and you can always find room for a squeezy tube of gloss to apply for a gap year night of glamour.
For bad hair days – and you will have them– take with you a bandana or fashionable scarf to wrap around your locks. If you long for the option of different hairstyles, just take variety of pretty scarves to make you feel spruced up. They will also help to prevent the pain of sun-stroke.

Even with a scarf, your hair is going to dry up in the heat and humidity. So here’s a tip: fill up a squirty bottle with water and some conditioner and shake it up and you’ll have a leave in conditioner that you can spray on your hair any time it needs some nourishment. The concept of multi-purposing is a good one, and you can reduce your carrying by combining your beauty products into a supreme master- version. For example, mix up your lip-balm, moisturiser and sun-cream and buy a sun-block that serve as all three. The Gap Year Shop has a range of nifty products to take with you so that you save space, like the all-purpose-travel-soap.

Check out Cheapflights.co.uk for a range of deals and cheap flights, they search the web for the best deals on flights so you don’t have to. Also, don’t forget your travel insurance, which can be found at AA Travel Insurance - they offer a number of different packages to suit all types of holiday.

You can invent other tricks to keep extra baggage at a low. The reality is, when travelling vanity pretty much goes out the window and you’ll have to grin and bear the frizz-and-grit. However, also remember that you’ll have a lovely sun-kissed complexion so you probably won’t even need make-up.

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