hello friends welcome back i wanted to do a packing video and i feel like these videos
are really fun i love to watch them but i'm actually leaving tonight and i'm not
even back so somehow have to manage to pack five weeks worth of stuff outfits skincare makeup in
a couple of hours because i leave for the airport soon so i'm a little bit stressed
i had to film two youtube videos this morning and shot so much content yesterday so editing them is
gonna be a whole other story but right now i need to pack i also am so excited to pack for
new york i got some new shoes i feel like in la we don't really get to reap the benefits of the fall
outfits and look at these new loafers i got they're so cute they're so chunky it's
from this brand called vega bond i feel like they make really good
shoes and these are faux leather i believe they're so cute i feel like they're very
new york and my first pair of loafers so i'm really excited to style these they're brand
new so hopefully breaking in process won't be too difficult i got new luggage in the back
from cow pack that rhymed so they sent over some new luggage i'm gonna unpack this and start
filling them up i'm excited so cow pack actually sent over two pieces of luggage and how gorgeous
are these they sent over a large trunk luggage in a medium size but since i am going to new york for
a whole month i did have to bring an additional large luggage but these are super cute it makes
me like excited to pack we are actually starting off with the shoes whenever i pack for a trip i
always start with the shoes because i feel like those are kind of the base for any outfit and it
really helps to control the vibe the direction of all the outfits i want to wear so it is going to
be a little bit colder and cooler in new york so we have all of the fall fashion all of the
boots sneakers loafers this looks like a lot so i did end up refining what i brought with me next
while i'm packing the clothing obviously had to check the weather and it just helps me to prepare
what type of things i want to bring i wanted to bring a lot of dresses just because i feel like
i never really wear any and they're fun to style especially with boots and in the fall with cute
jacket over top they are so cute so i'm bringing a couple of fun dresses with me some good basics
that are great for layering and then we're going into the more casual fits i'm going to be wearing
every day i'm pulling some tops jackets pants whatever basics i feel like are good that will
really go well together then in the middle of filming this i decided to do a capsule wardrobe
and i'm watching best dress video for inspo and i love her capsule wardrobe video pretty much she
packs 30 to 40 items and uses all these pieces for 30 days to make outfits and i feel like whenever i
do look books or anything like that i really try to reuse a lot of the pieces and make multiple
outfits from them because i feel like that's how fashion should be not just wearing one piece
one time you know what i mean so next the most challenging part is packing the suitcases brandon
actually taught me this hack i can't believe we've been dating for seven years and he just now
taught me this so he actually stuffs all of his sneakers with his socks and that way it
just makes sure that you have the correct socks for all the shoes and you have enough socks to
bring and this hack helps to save space it helps to protect your shoes make sure that they are
nice and stuff so they don't crease while you're traveling and i just think that this is genius i
am bringing a lot of shoes but i am gone for a while so i just want to make sure that i have
enough options okay we have a couple of heels in there some workout shoes and some slides as well
next packing in my jackets and coats like i said it is going to be a little bit colder in
new york especially at night and near the end of the month so i want to make sure that i'm equipped
and i have lots of fun pieces to wear on top of my otherwise more basic staple pieces you know
easy nice now we have to see how much it weighs so this is actually a device i ordered from
amazon and it weighs luggage because usually before we would literally have to put it on
a scale and like hold it first we'd have to measure his weight and then have him
hold it and then subtract his weight from the total weight but this is a new tool that oh it
46. oh my god 36.3 yes so now we know exactly how much our luggage weighs before we go to the
airport okay one suitcase down we have another to go we are packing all of the clothes i have
lots of jackets and shirts and tops i feel like jackets are a great way to really dress up and
change an outfit so i wanted to make sure that i had enough variety there everything else i tried
to pack fairly light just because i want to make a fair attempt at trying out a capsule wardrobe for
30 days and maximize the number of outfits that we're getting without bringing so many items with
me and then i'm also packing some activewear workout clothes especially while we're there i
don't have any personal training or gym membership or anything like that but a lot of the places that
we're staying will be having gyms so i want to make sure that we are working out and i feel like
packing cute workout outfits will encourage me to work out right then throwing in the steamer and
lint roller and finishing up all of the clothing next we are moving on to my favorite part the
skincare and makeup so in my last vlog i filled up my makeup suitcase this one here is from amazon
it's my favorite but i was realizing that my suitcases were getting pretty full and
heavy so i needed to kind of refine what i was bringing so i am moving everything into a smaller
makeup bag and only bringing one to two options of whatever i need i have something to put in the bag
we're also packing charlie with us no i'm kidding but how cute is he he's just sitting there
vibing he's like are we going somewhere are you taking me with you
he's so cute i miss him makeup is all packed i did a good job of refining it i think next
we are packing the skincare and this is one of my favorite body lotions of all time it's
refillable so i want to make sure that it is topped off before we leave hi vlog no wave
i'm moving my sister was facetiming me we talk like almost every single day so she's helping
me pack and then i'm packing some of my skincare necessities especially when i travel i always just
like to bring what i know works for me a lot of my holy grails and that way we are not playing any
games with the skin we just know i have everything that i need that works and here is the true test
what's your guess i feel like it's 54. 54. yeah holy sh 58 pounds yikes
48. hell yeah brother stuff back in
wow that's pretty good
hello friends so we are actually winding down for the night it is
1am i i told brandon that i was gonna try to go to bed early today and it just
did not happen but it got to one am yeah got late but anyways today is the end of day one
and pretty successful day so we have a total of what five bags six bags four like big luggage and
two carry-ons we each brought three so we have a lot of stuff so it's a little bit of a struggle
getting into the hotel and actually for the whole month that we'll be here we have a new place every
single week it wasn't really intentional ideally would have been nice to have like one apartment
for the entire month but we actually were able to get the apartment compt which is great so the only
way that we were able to do that is if we switched apartments every week so then we just got a hotel
for the first two weeks which ended up working out so it'll be fun because each place is kind of in a
different area so we'll get to explore different neighborhoods and yeah today was pretty fun as
soon as we landed we went and got smoothies and kombucha's and then popped over to prince
street pizza to get a slice felt like we had to do that but the hotel what do you think of the hotel
it's uh a room is i really like our room i wish it had slightly more storage um but the hotel
is super cool it's very high tech you have awesome like work space slash breakfast um
brunch thing downstairs that uh will definitely take advantage of that i feel like yeah because
it's a complimentary breakfast but i feel like whenever you hear complimentary
continental breakfast you're kind of like i don't know if i want to go to that but this place
actually seems like high quality like they might have some good pastries bacon bagels fruits
ooh a bagel and it's unlimited coffee as well so might have to make use of that hopefully they do
like some espresso or whatever so that'll be nice but we're staying at the citizen m we
have a gorgeous view of the city and the room is i think 15 square feet is like what it says
online which is it looks like it might be 20 square feet like it's it's small let me show you
this so we're like we're on the bed that's the window there's like no space between the bed
and the walls fits in here perfect it's like built into the walls and then we have all
of our luggage we really have to finagle the whole situation because we have like
two suitcases stuffed in each other his suitcase my suitcase we have another suitcase like tucked
into one of the drawers under the bed so we really had to do what we could and then we have like some
bags stuffed under this bench that used to be over here so yeah and that's a shower in the bathroom
we have like the vanity over here and you could see like stuffed everything over there
even on like these shelves utilize that storage so yeah we are real tight i feel like as far as
a small room goes like it's very high tech and we feel like it's not really messing anything
and it's nice and it's super modern oh yeah so we have like an ipad that pretty much controls
it does control everything in the room let me set the mood shall we
oh the focus one's kind of fun i think that's kind of crazy for focus
i don't completely understand that one turn real low get the vibes in here you know
it's a tic tac room that's a tick-tock room let's put the blinds down shall we
oh also we also worked out today oh yeah after we got back from pizza i
actually didn't think that this hotel had a gym don't advertise that they have a gym
for good reason it's not really you can't really call it a gym it's pretty it's a room with a bike
two treadmills and miscellaneous weights yeah so we did a quick little workout came back showered
did some more work and then it's now 1 30. so it's bedtime are they seeing your nails
how cool my nails are nails that broke and i literally had to super glue it today but yeah
christina and i literally came up with these i had a ton of uh screenshots and photos of nails that i
like so we took one nail from every single inspo pig picked the colors and put it all together so
it very much is like a custom nail this one's my favorite anyways i think we're going to bring this
video to a close uh just wanted to take you guys along on the whole packing journey day one of like
the trip i guess but we are gonna start vlogging every single week so stay tuned for that but i
also am thinking of filming a capsule wardrobe video so i intentionally packed very little stuff
and even brandon when he was looking through my stuff he's like you didn't really pack a lot so i
try to pack like 30 to 40 core pieces and i'm just gonna use these pieces for the entire 30 days so
i am filming a capsule wardrobe video and like all the outfits i put together in 30 days using those
pieces so stay tuned for that we're going to be vlogging like every single day and uploading once
a week so while we're here in new york because we have to let you guys know what we're up to
and stuff like that and all the new places that we stay so yeah that is it if you guys want to stay
more up-to-date on what we have going on be sure to follow us on instagram also they should maybe
drop some recommendations if they have yeah if you have any like restaurants that we need to go to
or some cool like shops or thrift stores we love the vintage shops we love thrifting so let us know
but that is it thank you guys so much for watching and we'll see you next time next video bye