Spring Break Skin Prep: How to Get Your Skin Travel-Ready
Spring break is the perfect time to relax, recharge, and enjoy a change of scenery—but travel can be tough on your skin. Between dry airplane air, increased sun exposure, climate changes, and long days outdoors, your skin can quickly become dehydrated, irritated, and out of balance.
The key to maintaining healthy, glowing skin during your trip is preparation. Scheduling the right treatments before you leave helps strengthen your skin barrier, boost hydration, and ensure your complexion stays smooth, calm, and radiant wherever your travels take you.
When to Schedule Your Pre-Travel Treatments
For best results, we recommend booking your skin treatments about 2–3 weeks before departure. This timing allows your skin to fully benefit from the treatment while avoiding any sensitivity close to your travel date. If you’re considering more intensive treatments such as Fraxel or deeper peels, plan at least 3–4 weeks ahead to allow proper healing time.
Best Treatments Before Spring Break
WestEnd Signature Facial (Customized for Your Skin)
Our most popular pre-travel option is the WestEnd Signature Facial, a fully customized treatment designed around your skin’s unique needs. Whether your skin is feeling dry, congested, sensitive, or dull, your provider will tailor every step to focus on hydration, gentle exfoliation, calming, and barrier repair. The result is balanced, refreshed, and vacation-ready skin.
DiamondGlow or HydraFacial
DiamondGlow and HydraFacial are excellent choices for an instant refresh with no downtime. These treatments gently exfoliate away dull, dry skin while infusing nourishing serums that replenish moisture and support overall skin health. They help smooth texture, brighten tone, and leave your complexion plump, hydrated, and glowing before your trip.
Clear + Brilliant
Clear + Brilliant is a gentle laser treatment that improves overall skin tone and texture while stimulating collagen. It helps refine pores, smooth roughness, and enhance radiance with minimal downtime. This treatment is ideal for achieving a brighter, more even complexion so you head into spring break looking polished and refreshed.
VI Peel
A VI Peel is a great option if you’re looking to improve skin tone, texture, acne, or pigmentation before your trip. This medical-grade chemical peel helps reduce sun damage, smooth fine lines, minimize breakouts, and brighten overall complexion. Light peeling typically occurs over several days, revealing clearer, more radiant skin underneath. For best results before travel, we recommend scheduling your VI Peel at least 2–3 weeks in advance to allow your skin time to fully heal and glow.
Lymphatic Massage
Travel often leads to puffiness and fluid retention. A lymphatic massage helps reduce swelling, improve circulation, and leave your skin looking lifted, sculpted, and energized.
Maintain Your Glow While You Travel
Prepping your skin before you leave is only part of the equation—keeping your routine consistent while traveling is just as important.
The Epicutis Luxury On-The-Go Set is a TSA-friendly collection of travel-size essentials designed to keep your skin hydrated, calm, and protected throughout flights and changing environments. The set includes the Epicutis Oil Cleanser, Lipid Serum, Hyvia Cream, Face Mask, Eye Mask, and Lipid Body Treatment to support your skin barrier and maintain moisture from head to toe. It’s everything your skin needs to stay balanced, comfortable, and glowing wherever your travels take you.
Get Vacation-Ready Skin
Spring break appointments fill quickly, and the earlier you prepare, the better your skin will look and feel when it’s time to travel. Whether you’re heading somewhere sunny or escaping to a new climate, a customized treatment plan can help you arrive with healthy, radiant skin.
To schedule your pre-travel treatment, call or text 970-429-8243 or book online.
At WestEnd MedSpa, we believe healthy skin should travel well—so you can focus on enjoying your vacation while your glow comes with you. ✨