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Hello everyone!!

In this month’s post I am going to talk about some tips that are quite useful for traveling, I am referring especially to long trips. In the current moment, traveling seems a thing of the past, but sooner or later we will return to normality.

Due to my job I have traveled many times on long flights (transoceanic), flights of at least 10 hours. The longest lasted 14 hours! So, I have some experience and I have seen what is best for travel, from my personal experience. I am going to offer a list of recommendations, especially suitable for long flights, although they could be used for other types of trips, I hope they serve you!:

1. Comfortable clothes. I am always surprised by the photos of celebrities arriving at the airport super divine, with jeans, heels and makeup. I suppose those are occupational hazards. But for those who are not or aspire to look like celebrities, the best thing in the case of long flights is to wear comfortable clothes: leggings, sports shoes, sweatshirts. Clothes with which you can sleep in the most similar way to how you would in your pajamas. Footwear that you can put on and take off easily. And don’t wear a bra. If you have big boobs you can wear a comfortable sport bra. I don’t wear any bra when traveling. In a previous post I already talked about the lymphatic system and the convenience of not wearing a bra, but on a long flight this is even more necessary. When I have flown in the summer and I was wearing a T-shirt at the airport because of the heat, and I felt that I could not go without a bra because it was going to be too evident, what I did was to take it off in the bathroom of the plane and put it in my handbag or backpack. On airplanes it is never excessively hot, rather it is cold because there is usually ventilation going on, so you will be able to put on a sweater, even if it is thin, and not feel that people will realize you are not wearing a bra. Although, as I mentioned in my previous post, wearing a bra or not, noticeable, or not, shouldn’t be a problem or cause for embarrassment. Also, even if it is summer/hot, I think it is always better to wear more than less clothes when flying. On airplanes, I repeat, it is usually cold. Although they give you blankets, you can get cold, and anyway the excessive clothes that you wear can always be removed. For this reason, I never get on a plane wearing sandals (unless I have thick socks in my bag to put on later) or with not enough clothes, I always wear at least one sweatshirt just in case. And I also wear a neck scarf because the cold of the plane can cause sore throat.

2. Travel pillow. Although they also give a mini pillow on the plane (in the case of Iberia) it is better to take a travel pillow for the neck. You can end up with a terrible torticollis if you fall asleep with poor neck posture.

3. Glasses. If you wear contact lenses, do not take them to travel. You can take them off when boarding the plane or going directly to the airport with glasses. On airplanes your skin and mucous membranes get very dry, even if you do not fall asleep it would be very bad to fly for many hours with your contact lenses on.

4. Big bottle of water. Continuing with the above, on the plane you get very dry on the outside and on the inside. It is advisable to drink plenty of water during the flight. At meals time (on a transoceanic flight there are usually 2 meals and a snack) they offer you a glass of water, but it is advisable to drink much more. And it is better not to drink wine, coffee, or anything like that, just water. Since I cannot carry liquids, I always buy a bottle of water as big as possible (1 or 2 liters) in a store inside the airport.

5. Ear plugs, eye mask, headphones. Again, they usually offer them to you on the plane, but just in case. The earplugs can help you sleep well, the mask protect you from the light, and the headphones are in case you want to listen to your own music, audiobooks or whatever, or if you are uncomfortable with those that are provided on the plane.

6. Toothbrush and toothpaste. After a long trip and several meals, bad breath can occur. At least before landing it is advisable to brush your teeth. Depending on whether you are going to see someone important when you arrive or not, you could also wear some cologne or makeup. I prefer not to wear makeup for long flights, because the skin suffers a lot on those trips. Sometimes I put some aloe vera before landing in order to hydrate. Some underarm wipes can also help you arrive with more dignity (I remind you that I don’t use deodorant).

I hope it helps you! Until next post!

Hello everyone!!

In this post I am going to talk about the bra and its relationship with the lymphatic system. And why it is good NOT to wear a bra. Feminist arguments about not wearing bras or makeup, about how bras and heels are instruments of the “oppressive patriarchy” (I love saying this, hahaha), are quite right, whether you support feminists or not (debate in which I will not enter and that seems absurd to me, obviously you must support feminism).

Well, focusing on bras. Depending on one’s breast size, a bra is more or less necessary. As I have small boobs, I really wear it more for aesthetic reasons (for clothes to fit well) than out of necessity. In fact, the 3 things I always do when I get home are: take off my shoes, take off my contact lenses, and take off my oppressive bra (hahaha). I understand that a girl with big boobs has more need to wear it, also to fight against the force of gravity (which will end up winning the battle anyway).

There are different types of bras: with wire, without wire, with padding, without padding … A bra without underwire or padding is much more comfortable, but those of us who have little boobs need that extra help to look good with cleavage, with certain shirts…It is also true that we have a pre-established image of the shape boobs should have (the round one of the bra cup) that is not the true one, because if we were not wearing a bra, at least in my case, the shape would be more or less pointed. But I still don’t dare to not wearing bra when I’m wearing only a shirt. The good thing is that in winter, when you wear a lot of clothes, you can really go without it.

I have even taken off my bra while at work because I felt it bothered me. It was something I hadn’t thought about much, but online I found that there is a reason for this: wearing tight things hinders the circulation of the lymphatic system. Lymph flows through the body and wearing tight clothing and bras makes it difficult for it to flow well. In addition, there have been studies that relate whether or not to wear a bra with the presence of nodules on the chest, which is not a joke. I am going to attach here the information from Rawvana’s video about the bra and from Elsa Pataky’s post in which she talks about how to take care of the lymphatic system (with dry massages and lymphatic drainage):

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To finish, my recommendations are: do not wear a bra at home or to sleep, opt more for sports or bralette types and use the uncomfortable-padded-wire only for social occasions that require it: to show off, to suffer? Rarely.