Hi guys, Welcome to my tiny home.
My name is Whitney Leigh Morris.
We're here in Venice, California.
I live here in this house, which is under 400 square feet,
with my husband and business partner,
our three-year-old son, and our two rescue beagles.
This is Stanley. He's 13 years young.
Come on into the tiny house.
I'm a small-space lifestyle blogger and author.
This is basically it. It's only three rooms.
I show people how they can live happily in smaller spaces
and live with less, so we like to show people
how they can live sustainably in small spaces.
This is the bathroom.
It's tricky to shoot - we'll see, we'll see if we can fit.
It's a very small, tricky space.
The bedroom is great for tall people.
I just love that it's a bookshelf and storage.
So this is our tiny back garden.
We've got our little compost tumbler,
which we use trying to reduce our food waste.
We try to like, make the place look bigger
by using these mirrors.
We had it built custom locally with reclaimed wood,
and yet it's still like a seven- or eight-foot couch
that we can all lounge on together, all five of us actually.
So since we don't have space for a dining room,
we have this right here.
This is actually where we're going to do the beauty routine,
but that is pretty much it.
It's the shortest tour in the history of the world.
Tiny house and a tiny garden, but it's more than we need.
I'm going to go get changed, and I'll meet you right back
outside for the skincare routine.
So we're in my tiny garden- we're going to do this out here.
I actually really enjoy getting ready outside.
Because we live in Southern California,
the weather is gorgeous.
GP generously gifted this wonderful skincare routine
that I'm going to try out.
Some of these I use all the time,
some of them are new to me.
I feel like it's particularly helpful around the holidays,
you know, it's stressful.
There's, like, always some alcohol or sugar around.
You're kind of taking things in.
You know, with travel and airplanes and all that,
it just wreaks havoc on your skin.
So if I take care of the routine and take care of my skin,
then I can just focus on being with people
I love over the holidays.
Let's dive in.
Every morning I start the day with
GOOPGLOW Morning Skin Superpowder.
It's a great reminder to drink a glass of water
in the morning, actually,
but you just put a little packet of this
into your glass of water.
So what I really like about this:
It's got ingredients like vitamin C and E,
and it just tastes really good.
So it kind of feels like I'm having dessert
first thing in the morning, which, I don't know,
I'm down for.
So, really easy,
just put it in here.
This is just a great way to start the day
and make sure that your skin starts, you know,
glowing from the inside out.
And it is like, it's like, kind of like having candy
in the morning. I don't know,
(laughs)
I'm a fan.
So for cleansing, I'm going to start out with a-
this is a mouthful-
with a Malachite + Fruit Acid Pore Pure...
this is the G.Tox Malachite + Fruit Acid
Pore Purifying Cleanser.
Like I said, this is new to me, but I'm excited to try it
because I want something that's going to obviously
clean out the pores but not strip my skin.
Especially at 38, the last thing I want to do
is tear my skin down.
All right, so, let's see.
One or two pumps like this.
Oh my God, it smells amazing.
This smells so good.
(laughs)
No wonder everybody loves this.
Okay,
so I try to keep my skin-care routine super minimal,
but every time I went and got a facial,
everybody told me that I needed to exfoliate more.
But the problem for me with exfoliating
is I thought it was damaging my skin
'cause a lot of the products I was using
apparently were damaging my skin.
I have started using this- I've been using it
for about a month now.
It's the GOOPGLOW Microderm Instant Glow Exfoliator,
and it is my favorite new product.
And the reason that I love it, is it does slough off
all the dead skin cells without damaging the skin.
It actually encourages, you know, healthier skin.
It's kind of like this whipped consistency and texture.
I just take a little bit while my skin is dry
but maybe even a little dewy and a little damp,
and just do small circles.
What I like to do is do this for about a minute
and then I leave it on for another minute to two minutes
usually while I'm, you know, running around after my child
or after the dogs.
And when you take it off again, your skin is glowier.
This one is a physical exfoliant
with just a mild chemical exfoliant.
So, it really, it doesn't tear apart the skin.
It helps encourage to rebuild the skin and keep it smooth,
the way it naturally should be.
So, the next product is another one that's new to me.
This is the Malachite Pore Perfecting Tonic.
So this is great for minimizing pores
and really just kind of clean out all the dirt and whatnot.
And what I like about this is that you can use it after
a particularly rough day if you want,
or if you're just kind of targeting certain spots.
You can use a reusable cotton round
so you don't have a disposable one-
it's a little more eco-friendly-
or you can just put a couple drops
directly onto your, to your fingers like this.
Kind of pat it into little areas that you want to target.
So this is a water-like serum,
so it just goes directly into the skin.
It absorbs immediately so your skin doesn't feel
tacky or anything afterwards.
So it's just kind of a great mineral-packed solution
to put on your skin.
The next step for me is the Vintner's Daughter Active
Treatment Essence. I've been using this
since it came out relatively recently,
and it absolutely transformed my skin.
It's a tiny but mighty bottle.
You can just put a few drops on your hands
and just press it into your skin.
It smells earthy.
And this truly transformed my skin, problem skin.
Like I said, I'll sometimes have hormonal breakouts
and this almost completely eliminated those for me
more than any product has ever done.
I love it.
And then after that, I use the Active Botanical Serum,
which is another Vintner's Daughter product.
It's been out for a while.
I've used this for years and years.
It's got like 60 different ingredients
that are botanical-based.
They're just absolutely incredible.
You just need one, two, three drops,
and then you do this kind of push and press method
where you kind of push it into your skin.
You can kind of hold your hands there
for like 15 seconds or so.
Or sometimes if you're running after your kid, or dogs,
or in a phone call, it's a little bit quicker than that
and it still works.
But ideally, we take the few seconds to really get it
into your skin.
So this is a real nutrient-rich moisturizing product
that just really hydrates your skin
and really helps, just kind of, add everything back
into your skin that you might have, you know,
stripped from it during the day.
So, this is a super hydrating product.
This is the Alpyn Beauty wildcrafted actives,
and this is just going to keep your skin really moist,
which is great when you are traveling
and if you are drinking some alcohol
and maybe being a little, getting a little dehydrated.
This is just such a wonderful solution for that.
I just like to use a little bit in the morning,
and I feel like before you get on a plane,
it's like a nice extra layer to put on to protect you.
For me personally, so important to have clean products.
I mean I feel like right now we're inundated
with all these toxic chemicals,
whether we put them on our skin
or just come into contact with them really quickly.
The more we can reduce that, the better.
I started paying attention to this, like so many people did,
when I first got pregnant.
And then afterwards, with my son,
since he is constantly, you know,
touching me, sometimes licking my face,
whatever, you know, I want to make sure
that whatever I have on my body is healthy for him
if he is coming into contact with it as well.
Like I said, I live in a tiny house, and anytime
I can just condense, get two products in one,
I'm always down.
And so I use this Olio E Osso bronzer,
and it's wonderful because I can use it on my lips,
I can use it on my cheeks for just a little bit of color.
It comes in a bunch of different shades.
This one little thing is my single most important item
in my makeup routine, and multitasks- it pulls its weight.
And then a new one that I'm trying because it just came out
is this Westman mascara. I heard it's GP's favorite.
I have not been able to find a clean mascara
that actually works for me and this one, I think, is it.
I know that it took her two years to develop this formula
because it is hard to develop a clean mascara.
And so, I mean look at this:
It's like the most luxurious packaging.
So basically, this is my Christmas present
to myself, so thank you, Gwyneth.
Thank you so much for letting me do this with you today.
I feel like I have thousands of people here
in my tiny home now because of this, so thank you.
Don't forget to follow along with me if you'd like
to see our tiny-house lifestyle.
It's @whitneyleighmorris or the Tiny Canal Cottage.
All of the products that we used here today
are linked in the description of the video.
If you liked this video, please like it and leave a comment
below about the products that you have and love
or you're excited to try for this holiday season.
They'd make great stocking stuffers.