Beauty Products I Was Influenced to Buy on a 10 Person Girl's Trip
18.05.2023 - 16:19
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, because it wasn’t a regular no-wash day. After a day of , I was dealing with some serious post-flight hair—as in, hair that won’t pump up volume-wise, even with maximum effort.
Upon checking my suitcase, I realized I had forgotten to bring some (unfortunately, this is majorly on brand for me), while also finding out I’d bypassed some of my other beauty go-tos due to . At that moment, I’d accepted my fate: would be incomplete—I was down too many key players.
That was until my saving grace entered; a voice asked, “Why don’t you just use mine?” The voice was one of the girls I’d been sharing an Airbnb with for a long weekend in Nashville. Ten of us decided to travel together, despite being a mixed bag of friends of friends that somebody inexplicably linked somehow.
Most of us were meeting for the first time and, more importantly, swapping beauty secrets for the first time. That’s why it was even more impressive that the sentiment of “Just use mine!” continued throughout the weekend, each person in our Airbnb swapping their favorite volumizers and texturizing sprays, giving their best and , and praising their holy-grail and can’t-live-without products.
Unintentionally, we’d become our very own influencer brand trip. To keep the non-gatekeeping spirit of that weekend going, I’ve rounded up the beauty products from the trip that made me add to my cart and my wishlist—because, honestly, there’s no influencer more effective at marketing than the one who lends you their face wash after a long night out. My savior borrow of the weekend was this non-aerosol dry shampoo from R+Co. It’s similar to baby powder in terms of consistency and absorbency, and it effectively soaks excess oil at the root without leaving residue or
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