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- Hey guys, I'm Shay Mitchell.
I'm an actress, entrepreneur,
beauty junky, and frequent flyer.
I've been juggling work and travel for quite some time
and along the way I've picked up some secrets.
In this series, I'll be opening up my little black book
to share some of the people and practices
that help make my life a little bit easier.
I'm so excited to take you behind the scenes
and bring you guys into my world.
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My love of travel started from when I was a little girl.
My parents were avid travelers
and from them, I truly caught the travel bug.
It's been something that I've also really got
to enjoy from the job that I have.
You know, you're flying to different places,
sometimes for 12 hours or sometimes for a week
to months if you're shooting a movie.
With that, you really have to be ready
to pack up your stuff and go.
So, my tips and tricks for being able to pack
a good suitcase or my airplane bag,
I feel like I've now become professional. (laughing)
I usually give my friends tips on how to travel
and just make it a nicer experience,
because you're leaving home and you want to be sure
that no matter where you are, you feel comfortable,
and that for me is super important.
And that is why I started my travel accessory
and luggage line called Beis.
And I wanted to do something that could provide people
with items that were fun and functional
and chic, but affordable.
I wanted to be so hands on.
I had to be so hands on.
Getting to go to China and see all the different fabrics
and pick the canvas that we used
was a really, really fun part of the whole thing.
I'm traveling about 75 percent of the year, yup.
Now when I come home, that's like a vacation from me.
I'm like, oh, I get to go home for a week.
That's like time off.
I started Shaycations when I started my YouTube channel.
I think that was really one of the reasons why
I wanted to start a channel was so that
I could share my travel experiences with everybody,
and I just have such a love for
getting to experience new cultures, people, food.
You name it and now it's truly
one of my favorite things to do.
I am actually really excited to be going to Paris
for my very first Paris Fashion Week,
and I leave in a couple days so I will be packing
all of my essentials that I usually bring with me
for anytime I go on the road.
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Okay, so this is the Beis Weekender bag,
and I created this bag because
I thought it was the perfect size
for either a day trip or a weekender trip,
and it's also great for the plane
because it goes right over my carry on.
So when I was in China, I was searching all of these
different store fronts for the perfect canvas,
and when I found this one,
they actually thought I was a little crazy.
'Cause normally what they would do
was to take this canvas and dye it a certain color,
but I wanted it in it's raw form.
And so they thought I was very interesting.
And now, I'm going to show you what is inside.
There's a lot, so get ready.
First is first, easy pocket to get to, has my phone.
My air pods and you will find out really soon
that everything I have is labeled.
First and foremost, my passport holder
because without this, you won't be able to travel anywhere.
My staying alive bag, this has vitamins,
Throat Coat, ginger, turmeric, herbal tea.
Socks, because when you're on a plane,
there's nothing worse than cold feet.
Tissues, a highlighter, because most of the time
when I'm on a plane, I bring reading material with me,
and a lot of that is scripts.
Scrunchie, obviously, and a regular plug in,
but not only do I have this guy for my cellphone,
this charger, and this charger.
Yeah, these are also labeled Shay one, two, and three,
just so I can keep track.
Next up, sunglasses, (foreign language),
especially when landing and you haven't slept.
Kind of like how I am today.
I have my travel adapter which is very important
when you travel as much as I do.
Okay, while we are on the plane, some reading material.
This is also one of my favorite books.
I do have a handy dandy iPad,
because on here I have one of my favorite apps.
It's called Texture, and it actually has all the magazines.
I don't work for them, but I probably should.
My computer, Shaycation, sleep mask.
I like having candy and snacks with me at all times.
My hot sauce, this I cannot live without.
I take this with me every place I go.
Wallet, obviously, Altoids.
And then we have my toiletry bag.
So this is also Beis and it's awesome
because it can fit a lot of stuff in here.
Now when I'm on the plane, I'm that person
who will be shocking everybody else when they wake up
and I have a full on mask.
Oh, this. Yes, a shower cap.
When I land at the hotel, the first thing I do is
wet wipe all of the remote controls and the light fixtures,
but I actually wrap my remote controller in the shower cap
so I don't feel gross when I'm using it
and eating french fries and all that stuff at the same time.
In this bottom portion I have my running shoes
because whenever I travel, I love to get a good workout in.
I bring a jump rope because it's super easy to do
wherever you are, and then I have a band with me.
I actually am that person that does it on the plane,
sometimes two, depending on how long.
I have my makeup bag, it's got my brushes,
my lip glosses, and all the things.
So that is what's in my bag when I travel.
And there's a little kid in here.
There's two squirrels.
Okay, so we're just heading in to my office
on the Warner Brother lot today
to talk all things luggage and travel with Beis,
and to see the new samples of the line.
So I couldn't be more excited
because this is the first time I'm seeing those samples.
Okay, so this is what I'm thinking.
We're already changing these handles
Still good. Yeah, yeah.
Like this still feels
super comfortable. Yeah.
I think this would look really pretty
if we did the baby blue.
For these guys, this and the passport holder,
I also thought it would be really cool
to do the pass port holder in the PBC and this as well.
- So what we're thinking of is actually
just increasing this, the height of this,
but putting a plastic chip board in the bottom.
So that makes it flat. Okay.
- Honestly, that's my biggest pet peeve
when you're packing shoes and like...
It's all wonky because of the stupid holder.
So I think Yeah.
that would be amazing.
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Can we just talk about my laundry bag for real though,
it says Dirt Bag, how cute.
I thought just even doing like three little hangers
could be kind of cool, Like the...
as for marketing, you know what I mean?
- [Assistant] We're going to have to make it fit.
- How cute is that though.
Did you see we have like little mirrors in the makeup bags.
This is what's going to come with all them.
Nothing crazy, I think you want it to be super light weight,
cause the last thing you want is this to be what causes
your bag to be heavy. Over.
- And then we'll add the icon here
to add that attach a bag, with the Beis logo.
- And I feel like this strap
could almost even say something funny.
Okay, so literally this is like my most fun project
that I get to work on because it's all things travel,
and I have so much fun in these meetings,
even though sometimes they want to kill me,
because I'm all like what do you mean it can't get done?
It has to get done. We're doing it.
But yeah, I'm really excited to see all this stuff
come to life and every single time we meet,
it gets better, so yay!
Colors, colors. (laughing)
Who wants luggage tabs?
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