hey y'all welcome back or if you're new here welcome aboard i'm not going to waste any time
today because i cannot wait to unbox this new bag it's called the ella tote from minke blue now
i've had this for a few weeks and it's been really hard to not open this box but i finally opened it
last week to give my instagram followers a little sneak peek at what the bag looks like
if you don't follow me on instagram i really would invite you to come over i'll put a
link in the description below um but we just have a lot of fun over there and i i usually
share a lot of my kind of behind the scenes stuff with my instagram followers in my
stories so over there you will have already seen this bag a little bit
you get to see our travel destinations before i even upload them here to youtube so it's
a really good time come join us over there but for now let's see if i can get this open
i'll show you what it looks like when you open it there we go so minky blue is a company that
started by i know her first name is shareel but i think her last name is mosey sherill mosey she
is a mother she is a former electrical engineer from philadelphia which if you saw my philadelphia
videos then you'll know how i discovered this i'm going to put those uh either a link right
here or maybe down in the description bar so you can see what we did in philadelphia we had such a
good time but she was a mother traveling back and forth on the train from work um she had three bags
one for her personal stuff one bag for her like uh work stuff and then another bag for kids stuff so
you know if you're a mom you know you're carrying around all these things or if you're just a
a businesswoman do you have some sort of businesswoman special i myself have got at least
two different bags when i travel but i still have to work so that's one of the reasons why i wanted
to get this bag just this last week cheril won a deal for a hundred thousand dollars on america's
big deal i'll put a link to the um episode in the description bar below i went and watched it it was
so good but she got a 100 000 deal with macy's for her bags so she won with the mariah backpack and
they do have other bags besides the totes i really would encourage you to go over to the website
and see if you can find a bag that works best for you i love backpacks but i ended up getting
the tote i saw a flight attendant kat nesbit she also has a youtube channel here i'll put a link
in the description below but she swears by this bag and minky blue for the quality um it really
keeps her life together when she's traveling all the time so i thought you know a traveler as well
i thought i would like this bag so let me get into it let me show you what it looks like it's so
pretty oh i watched her unbox this but also she just carries it around her videos as well
so you have a vegan leather here but it doesn't feel like vegan leather it's very supple um
and i'll tell you the stitching and everything looks really really well made um you also have a
nylon siding on the sides and on the bottom with feet i love having metal feet to just protect the
bottom of the bag and like i said you've got this i believe it's nylon it's very heavy duty i'll
show you the inside compartment in a minute but i need to show you kind of the showstopper here
in the back on the bottom it's quite a big bag in the back on the bottom is another compartment
so you can unzip this compartment and they have included in here for you an insulated
lunch bag i have also heard of some women using this as their toiletries bag as well if you
don't need this maybe you're traveling light you can also use this compartment for other things
i i would probably end up keeping my shoes in this because i believe a shoe bag is included as well
and so you can put those in there zip them up and they've got their own place to go also on
the back of this bag you have a strap so that you can hook this onto your luggage
if you're traveling in the airport and you have another let me pull this down you have another
zippered compartment here to keep something maybe like your passport your cell phone your wallet
on the side you also have two expandable pockets so you can keep other things in
here like water bottles and then let's undo i want to see the hardware let's undo these
i may need to get some scissors let me go get some scissors and i'll be right back one moment
okay got some scissors so let's be gentle and take this off and look at the hardware now these
bags do come in black and navy blue i chose the black because that's what i wear all the time
okay i got all the hardware wrappings off so you can see the very pretty gold hardware
uh it looks like a very elevated very expensive bag um now i'll tell you i ended up getting the
ella toe 2.0 that's what it's called but i got the bundle bag they ended up including
some extra little goodies that will help you if you're traveling let me point this
out these zippers are awesome they are smooth and i think that that's one of the things that
they switched out in the 2.0 i was reading um they switched out the zippers in the 2.0 to make them
more fluid you know you hate it when you're trying to um zip something up and it kind
of gets stuck so in the bag inside the black bag is a beautiful kind of royal blue lining
let's take some of the stuffing out so you can really see what's going on in here
so inside this bundle they included obviously the tote and then you also get a crossbody bag
who includes another basically purse with your bag that you bought i don't get that very often while
i'm thinking about it if you're finding this video helpful i would really love it if you could like
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but we also do a lot of travel videos to show you different destinations and things to do so if
that interests you come and join our travel family there we go and it matches the bag so if you order
a black tote you're gonna get a black um crossbody bag but look how pretty let's see if we can see
that can you see that on there it says minky blue opens up same beautiful blue lining
and it does come with a strap i'll un wrap that in a second and let you see it let's see here
so you've got one compartment
and then it does come with a zipper on the inside of that compartment so
you can kind of keep some things organized or just keep them safe
and i'll tell you one thing i love about this they did include this cute little tassel now this does
come off so if you don't like it that's okay you can take it off you can put it on the outside of
this bag if you want to but i just think it's a nice little detail and that was another reason why
i bought the bundle because a lot of times when we travel i'll keep things in a bigger bag obviously
like this when i'm traveling but then when i go out into the city i don't want to take a really
big bag full of stuff i just need a few things usually you know my id um some money maybe some
lip stuff or something not a lot and so i don't want to carry a bigger bag if i'm out seeing the
city sightseeing or something and that's why i love this because this was included i mean
where else can you get that kind of deal and i'm not an affiliate with them i'm not getting paid
for this i bought this with my own money um all of these opinions obviously are my own okay so
the next thing that they've included in here for you is a umbrella with a matching liner so again
everything's just coordinated and it all matches and i like that they have actually made this the
right size to put in your little side holder okay so inside the bag you'll see that we have a couple
of different compartments you've got a compartment on this one side and you have a bigger compartment
over here now i believe this compartment is the padded laptop sleeve and this will fit
a laptop up to 15 inches i believe my laptop is 16 inches so i'm going to put it in here in a minute
and we'll see how well that fits it's a little bit big but otherwise if you don't want to use it as
a laptop it's just another compartment for you to put your stuff in back on this back side is a
button so that you can button your laptop in it is magnetic so that's really nice on the other side
of this padded sleeve you do have two compartments here so you can keep some smaller items organized
and then on the back side of this bag you have another oh god the zippers are the zippers are
like butter um but you've got another compartment here that you can keep some smaller items as well
and then i always love these they've included a key fob in here so that you
won't lose your keys in the bag um but this is the part where you can make it either
one big compartment like i said maybe you didn't need to put your shoes in here maybe you didn't
need uh your lunchbox or anything like that you can open this up and it's one big bag or if you
want to keep it you just zip it back and now you've got a top side to keep stuff in and then
you still have your bottom compartment down here that you can you know like i say put your shoes
put your toiletries in put your lunchbox in whatever you need also another good feature
about this is if you do let's say keep the bag open so you've unzipped this it's just one big bag
you can access stuff from down here if you know where it's at so it's kind of nice having two
different ways to access your bag um especially if you've got some maybe bigger items that you
like to keep on the bottom it might be easier for you to just open this up and get them instead of
having to dig through the top of the bag and then let's open this up and see if there's
anything in here if it's just paper i don't know okay oh no there's your shoe bag okay
so in case you were wondering your shoe bag is inside of the lunch bag that's where you find it
future stacy here i just wanted to pop in and show you these are my hiking shoes i got today
for a west texas trip and they completely fit inside the shoe bag that was provided
and inside the compartment at the bottom of the bag you can also see i've already got
my 16 inch laptop in here as well so i've got plenty more room to fill this bag up with stuff
i really think if i'm honest i think you could probably fit a larger than a 16
inch laptop in here um as you can see i mean the laptop fully fits down into the bottom
it's completely covered by the padding and i ended up i was able to put it on the shortest
magnetic closure here um so yeah i really think you could go bigger uh maybe
18 inches i mean i don't know if they make laptops that big but all i'm saying is i
have a 16 inch it fits in there great uh so i think if you've got a larger one or smaller one
you're going to be really good with this bag so i'll put the weight and the dimensions down in
the description box below let me know what you think about this bag i am going to film another
video after i have tested it out because this is an unboxing video but i really want to tell you
what i think about it after putting it through the ringer we do have a universal studios
video that's going to be coming out here in a few weeks and then right after that we've got a
trip to west texas so i'm going to fly with this and i'm going to travel in the car with this for
long periods of time and let's put it to the test and see how well it lasts i'm going to put a link
for minke blue in the description bar below i know that they do live demos i think on their website
mondays at 7 30 p.m so hopefully you can get over there and see a live demo of some of these bags
be sure to check out their website because like i said they've got other types of bags other than
the totes i know they've got backpacks cross body bags and they're really trying to expand
their range again i don't have an affiliate code or anything but if you happen to purchase the bag
please let them know where you saw this video so that i can get a little bit of love back i'd love
to know what you think about the bag i would also love to know if you've tried these bags before
be on the lookout for my next video after i've tested this bag so i can come back and tell you
what i really think about it other than that thank you so much for watching we'll see you later bye
you