flight plans; Tightened airport security means a scaled-back-strategically considered-beauty regimen.

Byline: Jane Shin Park

Parched lips, dark circles, dry eyes, stiff necks, and stale air have long been realities of air travel, but with strict new security regulations in place, arriving fresh and rested (looking, at least) just got a lot tougher. And the moment the Transportation Security Administration banned all liquids, gels, lotions, and aerosols from carry-on luggage, signs of separation anxiety began to show: A Cle de Peau devotee flying out of Oakland desperately tried to explain her $68 concealer stick's skin-perfecting-and perfectly regulation-finish to a baggage screener cruelly aiming it at the bottom of a waste bin; a panicked London-bound New Yorker miserably coped with how she would be seen in public without foundation-for the first time since she was thirteen-once she landed at Heathrow. After a seven-hour flight to Santa Fe, one frequent flier, stripped of eyedrops and lip balm, lamented, "I've never been so dry. I almost went blind."

Tried-and-true in-flight beauty regimens have taken a serious hit, but as savvy travelers have recently discovered, with a little creative thinking, their complexions need not.

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