[SPONSORED] Beauty for the road

Girls, this one is for you!

How difficult is it for you to choose what beauty products to take with you for the road?

My answer - really difficult. Because I travel with carry-on luggage only, all my toiletries have to be under 100ml for airport security - which is a pain, to say the least!

When I look for toiletries to take with me when I travel, I'm generally looking for three things - size, efficacy, and multitasking ability. Size is an easy one to solve, since it's usually simple to transfer items from larger bottles into smaller, travel size ones. That means that multitasking ability and efficacy of beauty products then become my #1 concern.

What do I mean by multitasking ability? I mean a product performing more than one function. I'll want a moisturiser that comes with SPF so that I can take one product instead of two. But perhaps even more than that, I'll want products that actually do what they say they're going to do.

If your bathroom at home looks anything like mine, then you probably have more beauty products than you know what to do with. (I've actually had people come over and comment that it looks like a whole shop in there!)

There must have been a point in time I was trying to create the feeling of living in Boots.

Most people who travel once in a while can get away with leaving the majority of their beauty products at home and picking them up again once they get back from their travels. But because I'm on the road so much, I need to take these products with me or it feels like I'll barely be using them at all!

Recently, I've started moving toward using a bare minimum of hyper-potent products. I've got super duper temperamental skin - it's combination when I'm up north where the air is drier, but in the tropics where humidity is pretty darn near saturation my face looks oily as anything.

Bear in mind that everyone's skin is different, so what works for me might not necessarily work for you - but here's a short list of my favourite travel-friendly skincare products!

Kiehl's kiehls skin care, $38 / Face moisturizer, $31 / Carmex , $5.04 / L'Occitane , $34 / L Oréal Paris beauty product, $23

Among my favourites in this list are this eye cream by Kiehl's, and the wonderful hand and foot butters by L'Occitane (although to be honest, I absolutely love the smell of almost everything by L'Occitane!) Also, retinol creams are fantastic for keeping blackheads away - after all, you do want your travel photos to look good, don't you?

If you've got any products that are your travel favourites, remember to let me know!