How to Travel Light: Key Tips For Holiday Packing!

We all know that last-minute holiday panic that consists of ten bikinis, six pairs of shoes and a drawer full of make-up versus one, modest-sized suitcase. But while many of us would love to breezily skip through customs with nothing more than fake tan weighing us down, travelling light is harder than it looks...

•  Divide and Rule

One rule to ensure everything fits is when you have your selection laid out on your bed, just cut it in half. Drastic, but it forces you to focus and just remember all the items you have taken on holiday before and never worn. You feel different on holiday and being comfortable and feeling special are what's important: concentrate on items that help you do this.

• Think what and where

Consider everything you might be doing (tennis? posh dinners? hiking? swimming? city explorations?). Anything that doesn't have a specific use doesn't need to come without you.

•  Colour code your clothes

Look at everything and choose items based on the fact they will work with lots of other items. 

• Dress for success

Dresses are very hard-working and also scream "holiday glamour" - a good choice for slimming down that suitcase. In the day, wear with flats, beach with flip flops and sunglasses, then use the same piece by night with heels and lipstick. Easy travelling = sorted.

• Slip in some scarves

Scarves add very little to your load and will multi-task on holiday like a pro. Use to double over as a mini skirt on the beach, as a cover up over a bikini en-route to the bar, turban style on your head to protect hair during serious sun bathing and, of course, conventionally around your neck to brighten up a plain top or protect shoulders from sun during lunchtime.

• Say yes to swimwear!

Ideally take a costume if you want to seriously swim, dive or snorkel - and as many bikinis as you love: after all, they only take up a tiny bit of space!

*Source: http://www.stylist.co.uk/

Your Luggage - Barcelona Issue - Spring 2013

Packing for the perfect trip can be a little bit of a hassle, with frantic thoughts on what the most suitable wardrobe pieces are to take that are also très chic? What makeup is suitable for the weather forecast to prevent looking either dried up like a desert or melting like an ice-cream? But also, what in the world you you pack in-terms of top of the range products to keep your skin and hair on top form whilst giving yourself a much needed holiday pamper?

Now.. Keep calm, breathe, and read SUMARIE's Spring Barcelona guidance to the above holiday panic situation below..

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