Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne, and this is Beauty With Mi.
There is one place that I go every single week without fail,
and that is Trader Joe's.
I would always walk by the beauty aisle at Trader Joe's,
but I would never really stop to take a good, hard look.
Last month, I did an entire routine using only products from Whole Foods,
and when that video went up, a bunch of you guys were like,
"Do Trader Joe's!"
So, I was like, "Okay!"
So, I went to Trader Joe's earlier today...
I got a big ol' bag of stuff.
Sadly, unlike Whole Foods, Trader Joe's does not have a makeup section.
Before we get into it, though, please make sure you are subscribed down below,
click the little red button.
Hang out with me every single Monday.
Beauty With Mi comes out at 11am!
I bought a bunch of stuff, from my hair care to my body lotion to my toner to my sunscreen,
and the entire thing came out to $89.10.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17...
17 items, and the most expensive thing was $8.99.
Can't complain.
The price is right at Trader Joe's.
I'm gonna try all this stuff for the remainder of the week,
and I will let you know at the end of the week what I thought about everything.
So, I will see you guys then.
Bye!
Hi guys!
I am back and it has been seven days since I last saw you.
I have been using the Trader Joe's products for the entire week,
and I've really enjoyed it!
Please excuse the hair.
I am filming a video later this afternoon that is related to this hair, and it's going
up in two weeks, so let me know in the comments what you think I'm doing because it's a little
bit different for me.
But, enough rambling...
Let's get into it.
The hair care aisle was a little bit daunting for me just because my hair is color treated now.
I was a little bit nervous about finding color safe options at Trader Joe's, but I did.
This is the shampoo that I chose.
It's the Tea Tree Tingle shampoo.
It has this beautiful, refreshing tea tree, eucalyptus-y kind of scent.
It has no sulfate in it.
And it is safe for all hair types.
It makes your hair feel very clean.
This is the Tea Tree Tingle conditioner.
I actually expected this to be a lot lighter than it was.
It actually is super hydrating.
It made my hair feel super smooth.
Again, no sulfates.
All around good conditioner; good little companion to the Tea Tree Tingle shampoo.
In the shower, I used this oatmeal soap.
I put this thingy back on it because it was kind of gross.
But, I really like this soap!
It's a really no-frills like, oatmeal-infused soap.
It smells good, and it doesn't make your skin feel dry.
The hair mask that I used was this one.
It's called the Trader Joe's Shea Butter...
I always say "she-ya" butter...
Shea butter and coconut oil hair mask.
Wasn't as hydrating as I would have liked.
It does have a really nice texture, though, it comes out like, as a nice, smooth cream.
I like that is comes in a squeeze tube rather than a pot.
I really don't like that so many hair masks come in pots.
And you have to stick your hands in it.
You hair gets in it.
Water gets in it.
It's disgusting.
This is nice.
It didn't give me that like, smoothness that I like out of some of my other hair masks.
It did make my hair feel very soft.
I would even just use it as a very deep conditioning treatment like, as my conditioner.
Let's talk about this body butter because I loved this body butter!
It smells so good.
This is the coconut body butter.
It has coconut, shea butter, and vitamin E in it.
Instead of being like a twist-off cap, it just...
Wait.
It just opens up like that.
You know when you have like, body butter all over your hands and your hands are all like,
greasy, and you don't want to have to screw a cap back on something?
You don't have to!
It absorbs really fast.
It's great just to slap on all over.
And doesn't make my skin feel really gross and oily.
So, in the morning and night, I would use this Trader Joe's spa face wash with tea tree oil.
I liked it.
I think it was a nice, gentle cleanser.
However, it's a little bit soapier than other face washes.
it just hangs around longer on the skin,
so you have to use a bit more water to wash it off.
But, I do like that Trader Joe's has a face wash that is targeted more at acne because tea
tree oil is amazing for acne because it's antibacterial.
So, at night before I would go in with the tea tree oil cleanser, I would use the
Trader Joe's facial cleansing oil.
I really like this.
It cuts though waterproof mascara really easily.
It's a good, basic cleansing oil.
It removes makeup really well.
Doesn't leave my skin feeling too oily, although I always double-cleanse
after I use a cleansing oil.
Once my skin is clean, I would move on to toner, and this is the rose water facial toner.
It just smells so nice.
Rose water, rose oil, witch hazel...
Good for oil control.
It doesn't irritate my skin, so it's good.
So, moving on to serum.
And I was kind of surprised to see this hyaluronic acid serum at Trader Joe's just because it's
kind of a fancy product for them to have.
But it is really nice.
It has a really nice like, gel, liquid-y consistency that absorbs really quickly.
It is the summer right now, so my skin is quite oily.
I don't think this serum is something that I need necessarily for this time of year.
I think that I'm going to whip this out again in the winter because I think it's gonna help
with the flakiness that I get.
So, it's good...
But I don't think I need it right now.
I love this moisturizer.
It's the Trader Joe's nourish oil-free antioxidant facial moisturizer.
It's liquid-y, it absorbs really fast, it doesn't leave your skin
feeling sticky or tacky.
It applies under makeup beautifully.
I actually was using this in the morning and the night.
It is on the lighter side when it comes to moisturizers.
And it was enough moisture for me.
As a spot treatment if I had a breakout or if I felt like I was getting a breakout, I
would use this tea tree oil.
I'm just going to take a little bit of the tea tree oil, mix it with a little bit of
water just to dilute it, tap it on to my little zit areas.
I think it's a versatile, good product just to have in your arsenal.
The final step of the routine skincare wise, SPF.
Now, this was a little bit upsetting because I went to Trader Joe's...
I was expecting them to have like, different mineral sunscreen options,
and they really don't.
So, the reason that I was looking for mineral sunscreen is because mineral sunscreens are
coral-safe.
So, there are some ingredients...
Oxybenzone and oxtinoxate cause coral bleaching.
So, I wanted to use a mineral sunscreen that doesn't have those ingredients, and this was
the only one that was there.
So, it was a stick sunscreen; it's SPF 50.
I don't like stick sunscreens.
But I had to use this, and I will say...
I really liked it.
I brought this as my sunscreen like, in my purse last weekend when I went to Chicago
during a heatwave.
Unlike a lot of stick sunscreens, it absorbs relatively quickly.
It feels kind of like a balmy moisturizer.
Twice this week I used masks, and I bought one mask from Trader Joe's.
They have this blueberry acai facial scrub, and it smells so good!
Confirmation it smells good.
It has a really nice creamy texture.
You can actually see the little like, berry seeds in it, and that's what you can use to
physically exfoliate your skin.
But, it also has like, fruit enzymes and different fruit acids in this, so it will chemically
exfoliate too. So, I put it all over my face,
let it sit for a few minutes, and then gently rubbed
it off, and my skin felt super smooth and nice after.
I think it's a good weekly exfoliant if you want a little bit of a...
Sorry, I got distracted.
If you want like, a weekly exfoliation.
Then, I made my own mask.
So, I usually mask like, two to three times a week.
And I was like, I can't just use this one mask!
So, I got a bunch of ingredients from Trader Joe's to make my own mask.
So, I used Greek yogurt, honey, and oats.
Oats are naturally very soothing and they also provide a little bit of physical exfoliation
once you take it off.
The Greek yogurt, unsweetened, has lactic acid in it, so it helps kind of slough off
dead skin cells.
And then the honey is a natural humectant.
It is hydrating.
And I just put it all over my face, let it sit for a bit as well, wash it off, continue
with the rest of my day.
So, that's a really great thing with really common ingredients like, stuff that you would
literally have for breakfast in a yogurt bowl, but you put it on your face.
Last but not least, the deodorant.
Trader Joe's stocks Tom's of Maine, and this is the unscented version.
Hey guys, so I as back from work.
I'm gonna give myself a little smell test...
Not smelling anything so far, I think I'm staying pretty fresh.
I will say, though, it wasn't a very, very hot day.
And I do think because it is unscented, if it was like swelteringly hot, and I was like,
walking around or like, hiking or something I think I would smell a little bit.
I liked it.
I think the Tom's brand of deodorants is really nice.
It feels really good under the armpit, which is like, a kind of a weird thing to say, but...
You're not gonna want to wear deodorant if it doesn't feel good on your armpit.
That's everything!
Honestly, I don't think there was a product that I didn't like.
Hero products were definitely the antioxidant moisturizer, the rose water facial toner,
I really like the acai mask, the Tea Tree Tingle shampoo, and the coconut body butter.
And that's it!
That's a lot of product, I hope that you guys enjoyed this video.
Please let me know in the comments below if there are any other retailers or cool brands
out there that you want me to try, and let me know what your favorite Trader Joe's products are.
So, I will see you guys next week!
Bye!
Thanks so much for watching, guys.
Let me know what you want to see next on Beauty With Mi in the comments down below.
And click here to subscribe to Refinery29.
And click here to watch another video.
Bye!