What up, Carmex?

I flew from Boston to Denver for Labor Day weekend. Air travel just flat out sucks these days. There's no snacks and everyone's dehydrated from not bringing water on board. Since we can't bring most of our beauty supplies, most of us chicks look like crap by the end of the flight. I had to take a picture of what had been confiscated when I got to the airport - check out all the lip stuff!!

There are warnings posted all over the airports about how you're not supposed to bring liquids or gels thru security. In the picture, I get that whoever had the Asian toothpaste may not have understood all the signs and didn't know s/he was breaking the law. But whoever tried to smuggle on the Colgate, Purell, and baby sunblock - I just don't get it. Why couldn't the baby sunblock go in the checked bags? When were you/your baby going to be exposed to the evil rays of sun - in the terminal? on the flight? at baggage claim?

And to the larger lady sitting behind me on one of my flights, I have a message:

Screaming into your cellphone that "they took my mascara" made us all turn to check you out. Trust me, all us girls have beauty issues now that we can't bring our makeup and hairspray on board, especially on the longer flights. Your missing mascara is the least of your problems. I hope you contracted the same head cold that I did on that flight because we both looked like crap when we landed (just like every other woman on board), but some of us waited until we got to our blogs to complain in relative silence.

Cheers, Lara

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This sucks. I flew 'home' to Istanbul, Turkey 6 weeks ago (before the rules). Now I have to fly back to my hometown in the US for business. In all it is about a 24 hour day. I am gonna be so dehydrated and fever blistered when I get back to the states. Gross. This is going to suck.