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- Okay, hello, welcome to what is a packing vlog
and a moving vlog.
I'm moving house in two days.
To say that I am overwhelmed is an understatement.
I wouldn't necessarily describe myself as stressed,
but I'm packing, and to comprehend the sheer process
of packing, it's actually really overwhelming for me.
So I've decided to start with this chest of drawers
we have in the kitchen which I used to stock
my beauty stash originally when we first moved in.
I completely forgot that I put a lot of stuff in there,
so now I'm going through and I just found
this box which is an absolute relic
of all the makeup I wore in university
that for some reason I've kept.
I just wanted to show you some of the bits
because there are some absolute gems in here.
This is before I was cruelty free,
so that's like at least five years ago,
if not like six, seven, eight years.
Obviously all of this will be binned, unfortunately.
A lot of it had a lot of good use.
One of them is the Stila In the Light palette,
which was a cult classic favorite palette.
And then, oh my gosh, there's just so much funny stuff.
One of my favorite lipsticks, this lipstick, right,
I don't know if you're cruelty free or not,
but this color goes with everyone's skin type.
It is MAC Chili, it's a matte lipstick.
This red is like an orange-toned red,
and it goes with everyone's skin tone.
Everyone looks amazing.
I used to wear this at parties, this is pre-COVID,
such a pre-COVID moment.
I'd bring this to parties and people would go,
"Oh my god, what lipstick are you wearing?
"Can I wear it too?"
I remember one party where like five girls
ended up wearing Chili because I had it
and everyone thought it looked nice on me
so they all went round and put it on themselves.
Oh my god, I do actually still love these.
The Born Lippie Lip Balms from Body Shop
are a Gen Z, Millennial classic from when we were younger.
Oh my god, this passion fruit smell,
I'll never forget it.
This was like the era of beauty maximalism,
it just doesn't exist anymore.
I'm such a beauty minimalist now.
I have one little Muji drawer set of stuff
that I use regularly.
Like I saved up so much money
and I bought this gorgeous Tarte palette of blushes,
but who needs 10 blushes?
(laughs)
Like I can't imagine, like I would wear this nude here
and probably this nude here, and that's it.
Like I wouldn't touch this highlight, it's way too pink.
This was my jam in uni, this was the NARS
Velvet Matte Skin Tint, theoretically with SPF30.
I was the shade Finland, which was light one.
I owned so many Kat Von D, what are these even called?
Like I guess just like lip paints, probably?
Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks, so I just found one as well
that I wore in a video once,
and I got 80,000 views because of the thumbnail,
I'm wearing this color, it's called Nosferatu,
no it's not, it's called Bat House,
this one is called Nosferatu,
which I don't know what really either of them mean.
Obviously Bat House is the art movement.
Yeah, this color is actually like in hindsight,
I would totally wear this color again.
I got this in an airport on the way back from a vidcon
when I was 18, my first vidcon,
and this is the shade Melba by MAC,
and it's the loveliest blush shade.
Like if you could get me in a blush,
I'd probably go a bit darker and more neutral
than this now, but it's a gorgeous peach.
It feels very youthful and like young.
But yeah, oh my god, imagine me buying MAC now,
like it feels like a different era.
Oh my god, I remember buying this,
this is the Elizabeth and James Nirvana Black again,
I just went to Sephora and just went in,
which I still do now, to be fair.
Oh my god, I hardly wore this,
why did I hardly, it just smells like alcohol
and fancy perfume now, but this is the,
Mary Kate and Ashley Olson's beauty brand I think,
Elizabeth and James.
This was so popular, it was like such a cult fragrance
back in the day, so I bought a little sample of it.
It smells lovely, it smells like sweet,
it's very like musky and sweet
which is one of my favorite kind of scent profiles
for me to wear personally, it's very eveningy.
In fact I'd totally buy this again, actually.
I'm such a Mary Kate and Ashley Olson fan,
I love the Row, obviously if I could afford any of it.
I've chatted enough about this, but it's basically
a box of products past which is such a shame,
but it is time for it to go.
Okay, right, well I have to bin all this
and that's just awful.
That's the note we're starting this packing journey on.
Get ready (laughs) it's gonna be a wild ride.
Okay, so the first box is packed up,
it is beauty products, I've managed to compact
everything into one box which is amazing.
It's all the products that I actually use.
I also have a few press samples left over
from when I was making the giveaway goodie bags
which I have and I'm ready to send
and then I also have like one or two empty
so I guess I should kinda make a video out of those tomorrow
but other than that, beauty is packed,
and then beyond that, I am just currently putting
the second box together which is books.
I'm feeling okay, I've eaten some food,
just normal stressed now, not hangry stressed.
- Right, it's looking so empty, god, I'm gonna cry.
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- [Vlogger] Bye bye last pot, well no,
I'm not saying goodby to it.
- I am, my little child but I care for it on my own.
- Thank you, Aviva. - Farewell and good luck.
- This is just so weird.
It's so, so weird.
I spent years of my life here.
Ready to clean it, that's for sure.
'Cause I can understand why my dust allergy was playing up.
It is so weird.
It feels like a new chapter of my life if starting.
I don't know if you get that when you move as well.
It's very strange.
I don't feel sad, but I do feel kind of
like nostalgic, I think.
We've moved nearly everything, the wardrobe is staying,
Aviva's looking after it for me, and yeah,
I just can't believe it, like it just feels so weird.
I know that's not poignant, I know that's not exciting.
It's just super strange.
After this, I'm going to the new house.
Obviously I'll be back, like I think maybe this move
feels a bit different because I spent so much time
in especially these four walls, this here,
but also Aviva's not going anywhere,
so I know I can see this home again
and like it'll be different, but I'll still be able
to be here, which is like really reassuring.
I don't know, it doesn't feel like I'm divorcing the house.
I think it'll hit me in a day or two.
I don't think it's hit me yet.
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Yay! - Cheers.
- Hello, my skin looks golden today
because I'm using a Victoria Beckham moisturizer
that has like gold in it, but I literally look,
I don't know if it's a vibe, I'll be honest.
Good morning, I didn't film yesterday
because we couldn't get the boiler working
so I was just grumpy and unpacking all day
and then we managed to finally find the way
to turn the boiler on.
Oh my god, it was just like really random,
it was in like you'll see like the cupboard in my office
behind a curtain, which is just, I don't know.
This house is very quirky.
But we managed to finally get the heating on
and I've just been doing some work this morning,
I've got a bit more to do before we can start
painting my office.
We're just putting like a just like slight off white color
over the entire thing, because the paint job here
is like so fine, it's just neutral
but it's kind of like well worn and quite stained,
so we'd just like a fresh coat of paint, really.
Landlord called yesterday, and he seems lovely.
Oh my god, also, I feel like I'm just (babbles)
here's lots of thoughts.
When am I not like that, to be honest?
I got fully dressed today because I was just wearing
a tracksuit basically for two days
and I felt so grim, so I'm actually wearing jeans
and I've got my clothes on,
I got coffee this morning.
As much as I love getting a proper coffee,
I cannot wait for the coffee machine to arrive
because this is expensive.
And we got the shower working, the heat is on,
the tank is clean.
We'll give you a little video tour
but I think like there's just a lot of like rubbish
at the moment around, like just behind you
is loads of boxes, so stuff like that
I'd quite like to you know, get out of the house,
put in the recycling.
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The house just makes noise.
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Hey, welcome to what is currently the living room.
Everything is a mess still.
Layer one of paint is on in the other room
which is so good.
We definitely only need to just do one other layer today,
I'm pretty sure, so that makes me feel so much better
about the fact that I can get part of my stuff
into that office and like my equipment and my filming gear
and the product stash that I still somehow have
even though I thought I cleared it all out.
I'll feel a lot better once stuff is in that room
and it's painted and this, especially this living room,
like everything needs a home.
So we have two good deliveries today.
One was the coffee machine,
and one was the internet box which goes on tomorrow.
Thank god because my 4G is getting a workout.
There's been a lot of people asking
for one house hunting video, that is coming,
and I'm very excited to show you that,
but two, people have been asking what my rent was
at my previous place and what my rent will be here.
I've decided not to share that obviously
because it's not just me that rents,
like it's Jack as well and it's Aviva
and I don't think they're comfortable
with me sharing that kind of information
when it's you know, it's a group thing,
and they don't want their finances talked about online,
I don't blame them.
Finances are quite a private thing.
I'd love to dispel some of it and I'd love to educate people
but I think you know, everyone's got different boundaries,
basically, and the second reason
is that the London housing market right now
is completely different to any other time
I've ever looked for a flat,
because I think they say 700,000 people have left
so there's been a mass exodus,
and so the competition just isn't the same anymore for flats
unless you've got a really, really beautiful flat.
I'll show you one we looked at that got snapped up
the day we looked at it, and it was amazing.
But if you don't have something like that,
like this place was on the market for months
before we got it, so we had a lot more negotiating power.
So I don't necessarily think it's representative
of the value of a flat in a typical environment.
We were looking at stuff that ranged
within about 1,000 pounds of budget,
because we knew we could negotiate down,
and we've never had that power, either of us,
when renting previously, 'cause the London housing market
is normally functioning on a massive housing shortage
and incredibly inflated prices.
It means that for example, people don't have
to take care of the properties at all,
the landlords can just leave it to basically break
or very basically function,
and everything can be in really poor condition,
and they can get away with it.
I'm not necessarily saying all landlords are awful
or all landlords are trying to scam people
but in London, you can really get away with scamming
if you want to do some scamming.
Had it been 2019, I think we'd pay an additional 500 pounds
a month for this flat, which is just like,
I can't even think about it.
(laughs)
So, we're very lucky basically,
but I don't think it's representative,
and also, for other people's privacy,
it's not just my information to share,
I'm not gonna share rent.
I hope you understand, I'm sure you do.
(calm music)
We did it, yeah.
What are you doing?
- I'm strong.
(laughs)
What does this do?
- Okay, so here it finally is,
something I've been putting off,
but I feel like we're finally kind of ready to do it.
I'll be honest with you, I completely forgot
to do an empty house tour when we first came in.
It's been a week that we've been here,
it's now Monday so I'm just gonna quickly show you around.
Nothing is done.
(laughs)
It is very much still in the middle of the process,
but we're not gonna have any light for the next week
because it's raining, and there's finally
some sun right now so I would love
to show you around right now.
Also, as is classic with the move,
I can't find my steady little camera,
if you've ever seen that in my previous video
of my final flat tour, yeah.
I use normally for stuff like this,
this really steady camera called an Osmo Pocket,
can't find it right now, so we're just going in
with my normal M50, apologies.
So as we come up the first set of stairs,
there is this lovely little garden like patio bit
that I know our landlord used to keep herself,
and it's a bit worn out so hopefully we will,
I don't know, plant some other stuff,
like it's just a bit dead at the moment,
or revive some bits.
And then as we go up here, so our first set of stairs,
you come onto the hallway,
and then let's go kitchen first.
This is our little kitchen.
It's very nice, I mean it's not a little kitchen
at all, it's huge.
One of the novelties of this flat
is there's a lot of weird stuff,
so for example everything's a bit wonky,
the whole house like tilts
and then you've also got these floors
which are, the floorboards are like rusting and old
so you just tread through them
and then you break a floorboard.
(laughs)
And then another quirk of the flat
is there are two different types of cabinets.
Some are very new, they were installed really recently,
and then some are, I don't know,
maybe from like the '80s, they're like fine,
they totally function, the '80s or '90s,
you can see form this kind of texture on the wood covering.
Don't really know what you call this,
but it's very nostalgic.
And like you know, they don't quite fit together
but it's a lovely and huge room.
We are so lucky to have it.
This is the most ridiculous purchase I've made
in a long time, but basically I've owned
two Hoovers in my adult life and both have broken,
so for the third, I thought I'd just go all in
and upgrade and I do not regret it.
Massive fridge, amazing.
Semi-dead plant, these baskets came with the house actually,
they're super useful.
Hello.
And then yeah, all this storage all down here.
And then you come back into the hallway
and you turn into the living room.
So this is the main shot that you will see
of the living room, we have these gorgeous like,
oh my god, the whole thing is so beautiful,
we've got a real fireplace.
I mean obviously it's blocked up
because if you don't know, London banned fireplaces
in like the 1800s because there was all these issues
with smog and air pollution,
so it's all blocked, but gorgeous fireplace,
we've got these two amazing bookshelves here,
and then we're waiting on a sofa.
We're waiting to do this entire room.
So we've been using a sofa bed,
and do you remember my loveseat?
My loveseat will live in my office
but right now it's here
and we've been using those two to like map out
where the sofa will go.
The side you don't currently see is chaos.
We have my lovely bookshelf but at the moment,
as you can see like so much is just chaos on this side.
MY poor cactus has taken a little topple.
These hallways are amazing but I cannot tell you
how angled this one is.
You're walking downhill, you're walking down this.
And then this room here is Jack's office.
I won't show you too much in here.
Can you see how wonky this door is?
They've had to cut it to fit the room.
So you come out of that room and then we have
this little area here, this is a little pile
of painting stuff that we used the other day.
I'll take you actually into our bedroom.
This is the nearest to livable place in the flat.
This is Jack's wardrobe, this is my wardrobe.
This is so Jack, do you find that boys
just hang towels on any corner they can?
This is our bathroom.
You can kinda see it's just been newly done
by the landlords, I'm so grateful for that, it's great.
Got a few little products in here.
Ah, this is the best thing, right?
This shower head is mains, so it's so powerful.
I really warned you, didn't I?
This is not like perfected in any way,
but yeah, we've got a lovely sink
with this pull out storage, which as you can imagine,
I was thrilled that we now have.
We hadn't seen this bathroom til we moved in
and then the classic little cupboard with the mirror.
Inside the cupboard just has some everyday bits
and some skincare, toothbrushes.
It's so rare to find an old property with a good bathroom.
I think we got so, so lucky with this place.
Jack's mum, because she's an absolute angel,
bought us a little Joe Malone candle,
so we've popped it in the bathroom.
And now for the final room
that we spent last week painting,
this is my office, and a warning,
there's a lot of stuff.
I love this room, even though it's smaller
than Jack's one, I think it suits me so much better.
So we got the piano over here, and then hopefully
I'll set up a microphone at some point,
and then this lovely fireplace again,
love the fireplaces, a huge, huge cupboard
which used to have the boiler in it apparently,
and I'm currently gonna sort out today.
Oh, and now it's apparently an airing cupboard,
but yeah, I've already done some shoe storage in here,
got some shelving up here as well.
It's a great little space.
I will say, what you can't see here is like
you can see the original floorboards down there,
and they are destroyed, like we really should try
and get some MDF or something and cover them
so we don't damage them further.
Anyway, so that's this little cupboard,
and then as we go around here,
yeah, you can kind of see where my desk is.
Then there's these three shelves here,
I think I'm actually gonna make this
my little filming corner and then put my loveseat in here.
I'm actually gonna get my loveseat reupholstered
when I can afford to, so loveseat will go in here,
boudoir lamp on here.
This desk setup has made my life,
I love it so, so much.
It's in this little nook here
and oh my god, it makes me so, so happy.
But yeah, I'm gonna get a proper desk chair
because we need to save our backs, guys.
Self care is taking care of your back.
I just can't believe that Jack and I found a place
with our own offices, like that is just so much luxury,
I'm so glad we hit let's look at two to three beds,
not just two beds on our Zillow and like Right Move Search.
Yeah, immensely grateful, full of gratitude
that we have such a gorgeous home,
and thank you ultimately because you are a big part of this
and how I'm able to afford to live in London
and do what I do, so thank you so much, there are no words.
So yeah, thank you for watching this moving vlog
and I hope you enjoyed this little tour
of the current house.
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