By Jessica Ye (Jessica Yap)
There’s always that one part of travelling that gets neglected: your skin.
Between long flights, unfamiliar weather, too much sun and the inevitable blast of hotel air-conditioning, even the best holiday can leave your complexion looking a little worse for wear by the time you get home.
Glow Recipe is making a case for packing smarter with two new mini skincare sets designed to cover both sides of the journey, from keeping skin fresh while you’re away to bringing back that dewy look once you’ve landed.
First up is the Glow-Tinis Mini Skincare Set, a six-step routine packed into travel-friendly sizes. The line-up includes the Mini Avocado Cleanser, Mini Watermelon Toner, Mini Prickly Pear Mucin Serum, Mini Watermelon Glow Dew Drops, Mini Plum Plump Hyaluronic Cream and Mini Watermelon Glow Ultra-Fine Mist.
It is essentially your full Glow Recipe routine, just shrunk down enough to make a little more sense in a carry-on.
Then there’s the Hue-Tinis Mini Tinted Skincare Set, which takes the same idea one step further by bringing skincare and makeup together. Inside are the Mini Plum Plump Hyaluronic Serum, Mini Watermelon Glow Pink Juice Moisturizer, Mini Watermelon Glow Dew Drops, Mini Watermelon Glow Hue Drops Sun Glow, Mini Watermelon Glow Dewy Flush Watermelon and Mini Glass Balm Watermelon.
The idea here is less about piling on makeup in the heat and more about giving skin a bit of colour and glow without the full face of foundation. Think a sun-kissed flush, dewy skin and products that can survive a humid day without turning into a midday touch-up exercise.
And that makes the sets particularly handy for the kind of trips where the weather is doing its own thing. A weekend in Bali calls for something different from a work trip to Tokyo, while year-end travel usually means packing for anything from tropical heat to a much colder destination.
Glow Recipe’s mini sets cover the practical side of that suitcase dilemma too. Instead of bringing full-sized bottles that take up precious space, you can put together a complete routine without sacrificing the products you actually want to use.
Because holiday packing is already enough of a game of Tetris.
Whether you’re heading off for a quick escape or have a long-haul holiday coming up, these are the kind of beauty essentials that earn their place in the carry-on. One set keeps the routine going while you’re away, while the other adds a little colour when you want to look like you’ve had eight hours of sleep, even if the flight says otherwise.
The Glow-Tinis and Hue-Tinis are available in stores and online at Sephora Singapore.
