Ask Evelina

Thursday, 26 April 2012

Question 6

Q“How do you dress and what do you do in the plane to look good on the meeting upon arrival?” Yanina Ivanova, Kazan

AEvelina Khromtchenko answers the question of Yanina Ivanova

Moscow – St.-Petersburg © evelinakhromtchenko.com

What to wear for flight. It depends on what are you going to do after leaving the plane. If you are going to a business meeting, there is no doubt it is better to wear a pants suit, in which the pants are made of wool with a bit of elastane, so that it wouldn’t be full of creases. But if you wouldn’t wiggle on the seat, there wouldn’t be any problem. You could take of the jacket and hang it on a hangers. So when you’ll leave the plane, the jacket would look the same like the time you’ve entered the cabin. I would recommend a black suit, because it is the most universal design, if you have a sticky roller in your bag. Sometimes dust sticks to black, and the plane is the place where dust gathers during the flight.
I usually take a small bag with documents and a small bag with rollers, to take all my work stuff with me. In my case this stuff includes beauty bag, bag with gadgets, laptop, camera, different phones, depending on the country I’m going to, magazines, the documents I’m working with at this moment and everything else every woman may need. Because during the flight it may be necessary to spray the face with water or take a vitamin pill. Speaking about people who travel with a small bag, I admire them. I don’t know how they manage to do it.
If you fly on a long distance, it makes sense to change clothes in the plane. Of course it is not very comfortable to take a change of clothes with you to a cabin. But if you have a very important meeting after flight, I’m, for example, not embarrassed if I need to make a small SPA on my seat.
In this situation it is better if you know your neighbor. If you share beauty procedures with your neighbor, no one would look open-eyed at you wearing mask.
Anyway you have to choose your priorities and decide if your fresh look is more important that open-eyed looks of your cabin neighbors.
Moreover that they are probably watching a movie or sleep. So do in a plane what is convenient for you within the law and without disturbing people around you. Then, when you’ll leave the plane you’d look fresh enough.
I’d recommend you eye mask for long flights. You could use the mask which just sticks to skin and may be thrown away after usage, it is not oily, and of course, make-up foundation before leaving the cabin is the thing that helps you to look good.
Never apply this cream with a finger, especially on the plane or in a trip. Small plain brush should always be there with you. And, of course, spraying the water on a face is a good thing, because air conditioners always dry skin.

After a long flight it may be necessary to make a massage, because body edema is a thing that bothers you half of the trip. And, of course, shoes in a flight should be very comfortable, and you should take a special crème, that would help you to prevent legs fatigue.
Have a good trip and soft landing!