Originally Posted by lexxity
EGCC today, one of my collegues was not allowed a powder eyeshadow through, but a lipstick was ok. Also the operating flightdeck of one our services were made to check their nightstop bags in because they contained such items as deoderants, etc.
Also found very little discretion at the security point for pax, if their one bag was even half a centimetre too big it was sent back to check in, which makes us look unproffessional. We have been given a security tray which is evidently bigger than the gauge security are using.
At EGLL they took away the lipstick from our flight attendants but left the eyeshadow
the security person said she didn't know why they needed more than one lipstick as she only brought one to work with her. BTW we are long haul and are away for extended periods.