When will airports stop doing the damn 100ml liquid restriction???

Oh that's a shame. 🥺 I always hate it when something I love is limited edition!

I’ve just come back from NZ and couldn’t board with items that could smear. Classed as a liquid, so technically lipstick, lip balm would be a liquid to them. Granted I had over 100 ml, that was my own should fault for not putting it in check in. Was last minute supermarket run and I didn’t think

You can’t take liquids over 100ml. At some airports you now don’t have to take them out of your bag and put them in a little plastic bag, but you still can’t have over 100ml

Thanks! Oh believe me, I’ve long ago exhausted the stocks on eBay etc. it was a limited edition Poppy King sold in Boots as a No.7 collab, outside her Lipstick Queen range. Colour was History.

It was a good 10 years ago so any examples will probably be mouldy by now!! I’m happy with Revlon True Red and Certainly Red these days, but History was so good as a lighter more casual option 💋

vintage-frills.com/2012/10/20/no7-poppy-king-lipstick/

Oh no! Can you remember what the brand and shade name were and I can try hunting it down? (I am a lipstick fiend.)

Last time I flew out of Birmingham, two years ago, it was so confusing. I started to take my iPad and Kindle out of my bag but the security person supervising the filling of trays stopped me and told me it was okay to leave them in. I double checked in case I’d misheard and was told that absolutely I could leave them in my bag.
Three minutes later my bag was pulled aside to be checked because I hadn’t removed my iPad and Kindle and was told in no uncertain terms that they should’ve been placed in the tray.

LOL at the idea that it isn't. It absolutely is - different airports have different policies - and day to day. So one day you might need to take your shoes off. Another day you don't.

The liquids thing isn't strategic and that's because the machines were supposed to do away with all this hassle and then they (UK and EU authorities) decided they weren't working properly and changed the rules again. And then some airports don't have the machines yet,

I've taken lip balm separately every time I've flown. First of all it was inadvertent, and then when I realised they didn't care, I always put one in my bag and not the plastic bag. Might have to be careful about that in future!

There isn't a Boots at Southampton airport. I don't think there's one at Exeter either. So not every airport in the UK.

Ah, I've been through many airports but never Birmingham. Maybe they have different rules or you got a new / eager security person but sounds unreasonable to not allow you to then move it to your liquids bag though, even if it meant going back through scanning. I'd be gutted to have thrown a favourite item!

Birmingham. I’ve put it in the clear bag since but I agree I got unlucky, never had it happen before.

I flew in April.this year and all liquids are kept in your hand luggage and no limit on how many bottles you can take up to 100ml. It says this on their website

This!!
I flew out on 2 flights no problems. Don’t even have to take liquids out of backpack.
Coming back and the first airport decides I have too many to fit in one trip by zip lock bag and confiscates them! Inconsistency is annoying

Any sane person? You don’t have to check in a bag you know . Depends on why you are travelling, how much luggage you have, if you get charged extra etc.

I have too, I’ve just randomly checked Manchester Airport’s security page and it says this:

Please note: Lipsticks, lip balms, and stick deodorants are not classed as liquids, so you don’t need to put these in your clear plastic bag.

That’s good to hear! Every flight I’ve taken from Bristol over the last five years has had different security requirements. In May last year, it was electronics left in bags, but a maximum of one free plastic bag per person in the tray for all medication and toiletries 😬

Genuine lol at this

A friend is a pilot, he says he's had security on the staff security section poke suspiciously at his leftover home made curry in his lunch and make noises about it being too liquidy. Not to put too fine a point on it, if the pilot wanted the plane not to arrive, he wouldn't need to faff about with liquids hidden in a Tupperware of curry.

Order a click and collect to the boots in the airport, of which there is genuinely one in every airport in the UK...

you pay normal price, or just check in a bag like any sane person would

Which airport was this? I've taken lipstick and stick lipbalm through many airports as a solid (in a separate bag from liquids). Sounds like you might just have been unlucky with the security person.

Just decant things into smaller containers. Take an empty water bottle and fill it at the drinking water fountains once you're past security. Saves on plastic waste. As you said yourself - just organise your way out of this - it's really not difficult.

You don't need to put anything in separate plastic bags at Bristol

Got caught out with this bringing a fancy jar or marmalade as a gift for a friend.

Have also been pulled up because of dregs of water in the bottom of my water bottle.

Last time we travelled, I was super careful. Bag got pulled out again and they spent ages going through every single item. Turned out to be because the wing of my son's toy plane showed up on the scanner looking like a knife. You can't win.

Not want - I do!!

Haven't they already done it in many airports?