Hi, everyone its Justine. I'm in Cologne, Germany, for four days.
I've got meetings on Friday, Saturday, Sunday is off, Monday more meetings.
I'm travelling only with a carry-on suitcase. The dress code is casual, but no pajamas because it still work.
So here's what I took with me, and how I packed everything so that I didn't have to iron anything when I arrived. Enjoy.
First, I pick outfits in my closet, and I group everything by category on my bed: pajama,
underwear,
sweater, plus the jacket I'll be wearing to travel which you don't see here; knitted tops
knitted dresses, the red one is to wear over pants if it's cold and the black one is actually just as a backup
just in case. I don't actually plan to wear it.
One dress to wear as a dress, the black one, two pairs of jeans, one pair of leggings,
and then one fabric bag for the dirty laundry. That's to let the fabrics breathe, but then for the trip back
I will put this fabric bag into a plastic bag so that it doesn't touch the clean things. Then one sports outfit without shoes
so I'll be looking for a yoga studio or something this weekend because I need a sport that doesn't require shoes.
A clutch, cables, camera tripod because I'll be filming the intro for this video once I get to Cologne and as you can see I'm
staying within a dark color palette. All the tops work with all the bottoms.
The only exception is the red dress that doesn't go with the sweater, but it goes with my other jacket, so it's fine.
To go with those outfits, I'm taking one pair of platform sandals, one pair of shake sneakers,
plus my white
minimalistic flat sandals which I will have on when I'm traveling. If you've seen my shoe collection video, which I will link in the corner
and in the description below, then you know which ones. Shoes should not touch clothes
So I put them in plastic bags to travel and then I unpack them when I arrive at the hotel. In the category
Beauty and accessories, I take one makeup bag which is transparent, one bag for liquids that includes a day cream with an SPF
hand Cream, BB cream, foot cream; the body cream comes with the hotel.
Contact lenses, one liquid lipstick. Both bags here are transparent so I can see where each product is
I don't have to look for them in the different purses. Then jewelry will be matching my outfits. Lots of hair bands;
I have hair bands in every single purse every single bag always.
Face masks because I love to do masks and then watch TV when I stay in hotels
I don't have TV at home. So for me it's like time out.
The purple organza little bag is to keep all the jewelry together in one place
So it doesn't get tangled with the rest, and then you see that I keep my stud earrings, the little ones, on a hair pin
So I don't lose one because I don't know if you noticed, but when you lose earrings
It's actually always just one from each pair, and then you're stuck with the other one.
Once everything is on my bed
and I have a good overview, then the actual packing goes really fast.
There are things that just stay in my suitcase like makeup removing wipes
because they're not considered liquid, a bag with toiletries, solid deodorants,
Doesn't go through security either. A brush, a pen, tissues, tea for my morning tea always tea
And then I start by filling the holes with the small things I usually put the things in the same corners the same way
so I always know in which corner of the jewelry is I don't have to look for it.
Those are my white sandals, and I'll be wearing the platforms to travel after all so you've seen all the shoes now.
I roll my pajamas to fill the gaps. I don't care if that gets wrinkled.
Then my sports clothing,
first pair of jeans,
leggings,
second pair of jeans.
Then I roll the sweater, and I keep it for later. You'll see.
Now I'm going to deal with the tops and the dresses.
And I don't want to have to iron them later so first I put them like this flaps.
I just fold in this sleeve, if any, but that's it professional packers here, even do this in a cross shape four-way
and they end up with one big bundle that fills the entire suitcase.
I only do it for the garments that are potential wrinkle candidates not for the rest.
And then once I lay everything flat and I flatten out all the potential creases,
I roll everything together
Without creases take the time to do it properly you won't regret it later.
And then I will unroll and hang up the clothes from this bundle as soon as I arrive at my hotel;
everything else will remain in the suitcase. I fit in the gaps again.
I add the last pair of shoes and the back with the liquid which needs to be accessible at Airport security/
I am done and the other half of this suitcase is still free, awesome. That's good if I gather documents,
presentation stuff, like that during the meetings or to bring back some souvenirs. And now what's in my purse:
a mirror, antibacterial gel because I hate to touch money
so I use gel to kind of clean my hands every time I pay cash,
hand cream, lip balm, wallet, earphones, phone,
charger, pen, mouse, microphone, camera, charger, usb stick, boarding pass,
laptop, and the most important thing on this entire checklist:
a well-written book in French for the evenings. If you need a visual packing checklist you can definitely
Screenshot those overviews just forget about the french book
So here are the overviews again all together. thumbs up if you enjoyed this video. I know that
I love to look into people's bags and bathrooms to see what products they use, how they're organized, etc.
So this video was a bit of all of that.
I see you in Berlin again.
And if you want to check my Instagram account here and in the description below I wrote the name as well.
You'll see some pictures of Cologne where I am right now, the city of Old Cologne.
New videos every Wednesday and Sunday on this channel, so don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so already and take care. Bye, bye