Emirates Airlines Flight Attendants Reveal Just How Much Goes Into Their In-Flight Look

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While the airline industry has evolved past the harsh beauty standards once placed on female flight attendants, the profession still requires employees to dress the part. Though there is no doubt that aircraft safety is the primary (and extremely demanding) job responsibility of a flight attendant, there is also a deeply rooted, historical style element amongst cabin crews, especially when it comes to their uniforms.

For Emirates Airlines, which boasts some of the most sophisticated and luxurious planes in the world, that traditional style element is still highly valued.

We sat down with flight attendants Maria Pedersen and Laura Kellam, two members of the elite, diverse crew (which is made up of people from 130 different countries!) to learn more about the uniform guidelines involved when working 36,000 feet above the ground.

HuffPost Style: Your crew always looks so well put together. How much of your training program is about image? What are some of the rules?

Maria Pedersen: Our service training program is two weeks, but we do have one full day of training on grooming that focuses on image and uniform. It’s pretty important to the airline. The red lipstick is pretty signature, in whichever shade suits your skin tone (it also must match the hat). They had a bunch of different Clarins shades for us to try on when we first got our uniforms.

Laura Kellam: There is a list of things we have to wear (like foundation), but we actually get a little manual with all the rules in it. Nails have to be clear, french or the same red as the lipstick and hat. If your hair touches your collar you have to put it up, but there is some flexibility based on texture. We can do a French roll or twist, and we just got braids approved… so bohemian [laughs].

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