Sun Travel Natural Beauty Essentials for Your Makeup Bag

Sun season is here! With travel days full of airports, museums, el fresco dining, beach side stays, these natural beauty travel faves are a must no matter where your summer adventures take you. Whether your walking the Champs d'Elysse, taking in the Santorini views or exploring Panama City, our beauty essentials will take you from beach to street throughout your summer travels.

 
 

Beauty Hacks: 6 Easy to Follow Beauty Tricks You Have to Try

From multitasking hair, beauty and skin products, these are our favorite go-to beauty tricks that will have you looking glamorous on the go while also providing quick nourishing, protective and healing comfort throughout your day!

1. Use a Dry Shampoo to Repair Hair Fails

Spray at roots of unwashed hair when your out of time, after the gym or while travelling to refresh your hair between washes. Give curls a beachy loose look with an all over spray keeping them from clumping together, lift volume at roots, lock in a back comb, prevents bangs from sticking to your forehead, conceal dark roots in blonde hair and add texturing grip to bobby pins.

Go-to product: SHOW Beauty Dry Shampoo, 47$

Photo via: Show Beauty

Photo via: Show Beauty

2. Remove Makeup with Coconut Oil

Remove stubborn makeup including mascara. Try it as a facial cleanser or moisturizer. Its the perfect go-to product for all skin types including, sensitive and blemish prone skin and has multitasking properties that nourishes nails, hair, lashes and skin while also providing soothing comfort to sunburned skin. 

Go-to productRMS Beauty Raw Coconut Treatment, 18$ - 42$

Photo via: RMS Beauty

Photo via: RMS Beauty

3. Blend a Fragrance with Lotion

Try a few drops of your favorite fragrance mixed into a scent free lotion or body butter for an all over moisturizing scent that will leave you smelling fresh and feeling smooth throughout the day. Re-apply sparingly and use a gentle fragrance for a clean and subtle lingering all over scent.

Go-to product: Le Labo ROSE 31, 240$

Photo via: Le Labo

Photo via: Le Labo

4. Apply a Beauty Oil before a Shower

Enjoy the moisturizing benefits of a beauty oil that will leave your skin soft and hydrated all through the winter months. Use a generous amount, warm in your hands before gently rubbing into skin. Use a facial oil on your face and shower. Add some to the ends of your hair to tame frizz and keep hair healthy.  Immediately follow your shower with a healthy organic moisturizer or your same beauty oil.

 Go-to productRODIN olio lusso Body Oil, 130$

Photo via: RODIN olio lusso

Photo via: RODIN olio lusso

5. Use a Sleep Mask to Fall Asleep

Get a good nights sleep by using an eye mask to seal out the light which helps to induce a restful and relaxing sleep by causing the production of Melatonin, the sleep chemical. Try the addition of a natural sleep remedy such as This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray for the perfect way to fall quickly to sleep and enjoy the overnight beauty benefits of a full nights rest. 

Go-to product: This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray, 29$

Photo via: Etsy

Photo via: Etsy

6. Protect Heels with a Band-Aid Stick

Walk a mile in your heels comfortably with the Band-Aid Friction Block. Apply to the back of heels, top of toes and side of your feet before you wear your shoes for blister and pain-free all day comfort your feet will thank you for. And we do mean ALL DAY. Be sure to let the product dry a bit to keep fee from feeling slick in your shoes.

Go-to product: Band-Aid Friction Block, 5$

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Photo via: Band-Aid

Visions of Sugar Plum Fairies: 9 Must-try Ways to Get the Perfect Pout

Photo via: VS All Access Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Photo via: VS All Access Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

While we still have visions of sugar plum fairies, mistletoe & chestnuts roasting on an open fire dancing in our mind, we're reliving the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show by 8 inspired ways from The Zoe Report to get the perfect pout. Whether your kissing that special someone at midnight or planting one on your little bundle of joy, treat yourself to these inspired tricks for healthy, smooth lips!

1.  Exfoliate

Exfoliate with a sugar scrub like this 100% natural cherry flavored whipped lip scrub from Bite Beauty that will give you soft, healthy lips while brightening and conditioning the line around your lips. 

Whipped Cherry Lip Scrub by Bite Beauty, 18$

Photo via: Sephora

Photo via: Sephora

Photo via: Sephora

Photo via: Sephora

2. Restore

Restore lips overnight and throughout the day with Bite Beauty's Agave Lip Mask perfect for replenishing moisture for an instant boost of hydration and long-lasting shine. 

Agave Lip Mask by Bite Beauty, 26$

3. Condition

Condition and soften chapped lips with this multitasking lip superfruits butter from Bite Beauty, ideal as a night treatment, is formulated to protect, nourish and boost moisture on lips, cuticles and skin for results that will leave you with a smooth and soft pout. 

Superfruit Butter by Bite Beauty, 18$

Photo via: Beautylish

Photo via: Beautylish

4. Smooth

Inspired by the supple feel of a shimmery gold YSL calfskin bag and Coco Chanel, give your lips the lip slip treatment by Sara Happ, for a colorless rich, glossy pout full of hydration. Wear it overnight or all day for a smooth cashmere pout to slip into.

The Lip Slip by Sara Happ, 24$

Photo via: Polyvore

Photo via: Polyvore

5. Plump

Plump lips naturally with this cinnamon lip oil by Bite Beauty that delivers a spicy bite to lips with a subtle warming sensation with proven anti-oxidant results, while locking in shine and plumping for long lasting all-day hydration creating a soft natural flush for the fullest possible pout. 

Cinnamon Plumping Lip Oil by Bite Beauty, 22$

Photo via: Sephora

Photo via: Sephora

6. Line 

Get a smooth seamless pout with this clear liner that can be worn under any shade of lipsticks that preps, plumps and primes lips keeping feathering away for naturally perfect lips.

Line & Define Lip Primer by Bite Beauty, 22$

Photo via: Sephora

Photo via: Sephora

7. Tint

Add a subtle hint of color in a variety of shades, to tint your lips with Josie Maran's Argan Lip Treatment age-defying moisturizing lip treatment for a youthful pout that won't leave a stain that will give you supple soft lips while it conditions, repairs, and protects your pout.

Argan Lip Treatment by Josie Maran Cosmetics, 34$

Photo via: Sephora

Photo via: Sephora

8. Remover

This multitasking raw coconut cream from RMS Beauty is the perfect lipstick makeup remover, that will erase any shade of lipstick from your lips and doubles as a deodorant, cleanser and hair treatment for a no fail pout to ring in the new year. 

Raw Coconut Cream by RMS Beauty, 18$-42$

Photo via: Metro UK

Photo via: Metro UK

9. Balm

Try this nourishing balm formula with moisturizing regenerative properties with Avocado Oil, Shea Butter, Meadowfoam Seed Oil, and Jojoba Seed Oil. With refreshing Peppermint and Rosemary Leaf Oils apply as needed, particularly when lips are vulnerable to the elements, or simply when dry or chapped.

Lip Conditioner Peppermint Balm by Beauty Counter, 18$

Photo via: Beauty Counter

Photo via: Beauty Counter

Our Top 5 Fashion Week Must Haves

Whether your attending fashion week or trying to stay model ready on-the-go, we're sharing our top 5 beauty essentials that should be in every fashionista makeup bag.  

1. Refresh on the go with Shobha Freshening Wipes

1. Refresh on the go with Shobha Freshening Wipes

2. Clarify & tone with Arcona Cranberry Toner Triad Pads

2. Clarify & tone with Arcona Cranberry Toner Triad Pads

3. Use Jane Iredale Double Dazzle Highlighter Pencil for eyeliner, highlight brows, inner eyes and your collar bone & line lips or as highlighting blush

3. Use Jane Iredale Double Dazzle Highlighter Pencil for eyeliner, highlight brows, inner eyes and your collar bone & line lips or as highlighting blush

4. Use RMS Beauty Coconut Cream to remove stubborn makeup

4. Use RMS Beauty Coconut Cream to remove stubborn makeup

5. Stay refreshed with Caudalie Grape Water

5. Stay refreshed with Caudalie Grape Water