The INSIDER Summary: Traveling can be tough on your skin. Celebrities have been traveling with sheet masks. Sheet masks are an easy way to pamper your skin on a flight. I tried one, and my flight experience will never be the same.After almost every flight I've ever taken, I've landed with a growing pimple somewhere on my face.I figured it was just a fact of life. The air inside plane cabinsis notoriously dry, which is not great for your skin, and combined with the stress of flying anywhere and touching surfaces likely teeming with other peoples' bacteria, it makes for a pimple-prone flying experience.But after supermodel Chrissy Teigen posted a photo of herself putting on a face mask on a plane ride, I was intrigued. These sheet masks have become super popular with the celebrity set and promise a myriad of results, from hydration to pore minimizing.So before a recent seven-hour transatlantic flight, I decided to give it a try. I went to my local Sephora where I picked up a Boscia Sake Brightening Hydrogel Maskfor $8 from a huge selectionit was honestly hard to choose just one, but a Sephora associate said this onewas her favorite kind since it "both brightens and hydrates."She also recommended I pick up a travel-sized version of makeup-removing, cleansing towelettes. Before you put on a sheet mask, you're supposed to remove all of your makeup and clean your face thoroughly. I didn't exactly want to wash my face in the plane bathroom sink, so the cleansing towelettes seemed like a good option.I went with the coconut oil kind, since I'm a sucker for coconut oil.After I got on the plane, I made sure to take all my makeup off first before the flight since I was going to try to get some shut-eye. Then, assoon as we were about to land, I wiped down my face one more time and took the mask out of its packaging.It felt disgusting. Slimy, cold, and slippery, it was a challenge to unfold the two parts of the face maskone for your lower face and the other for the upper part of your faceand remove the plastic backing. It was even more challenging to fit the mask perfectly to my face without a mirror, though I did manage to do it successfully in the end.This is what I looked like (my boyfriend couldn't even look at me):I knew I looked like a serial killer, but the mask wasamazing. My skin, which had been paradoxically both dry and oily, now feltcool and clean. I also feltmore awake and pampered, and not at all like the disheveled traveler I normally am.Even though it did wonders for my skin, I knew the mask didn't necessarily look great. At first, I was extremely self conscious. 20 minutes is a long time to leave something so conspicuous on your face, especially when you're hoping no one on yourflight notices you and your bizarre beauty routine. But to my surprise, no one seemed weirded out by my masknot the flight attendant who came to take my trash or even my seat mate who kept watching his iPad the entire time. It was liberatingI looked like I was wearing someone else's skin, but no one really cared.When I finally took off the mask, there was a lot of excess product on my face, which the sheet mask packaging recommended I rub into my skin, neck, and dcolletage.The end result' My skin looked prettyfantastic.While I can't promise you'll land with perfect skin, I can say that using a face mask on an airplane is a pampering experience, not to mention a good way to keep your skin clean and hydrated while you travel.And if you're embarrassed at all, just remember that celebrities do it, flight attendants don't care, and sometimes, the pursuit of beauty is worth any goggling.Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Animated map shows the best and worst states to raise your family
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