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This week Mi-Anne follows up the Whole Beauty challenge with a trip to Trader Joe's where she tries out all their skincare and haircare products.
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00:00Hey guys, it's Mianne and this is Beauty With Me.
00:02There is one place that I go every single week without fail, and that is Trader Joe's.
00:08I would always walk by the beauty aisle at Trader Joe's, but I would never really stop
00:13take a good hard look.
00:14Last month I did an entire routine using only products from Whole Foods, and when that video
00:18went up a bunch of you guys were like, do Trader Joe's, so I was like, okay.
00:23So I went to Trader Joe's earlier today, I got a big ol' bag of stuff.
00:29Sadly, unlike Whole Foods, Trader Joe's does not have a makeup section.
00:32I got a bunch of stuff, from my hair care, to my body lotion, to my toner, to my sunscreen,
00:37and the entire thing came out to $89.10.
00:411, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 17, 17 items,
00:47and the most expensive
00:49thing was $8.99.
00:51Can't complain, the price is right at Trader Joe's.
00:54I'm gonna try all this stuff for the remainder of the week, and I will let you know.
00:58At the end of the week, what I thought about everything.
01:01So I will see you guys then.
01:02Bye!
01:03Hi guys!
01:04I am back, and it has been 7 days since I last saw you.
01:07I have been using the Trader Joe's products for the entire week, and I have really enjoyed
01:12it.
01:12Please excuse the hair.
01:14I am filming a video later this afternoon that is related to this hair, and it's going
01:19up in two weeks.
01:20But enough rambling, let's get into it.
01:22The hair care aisle was a little bit daunting for me, just because my hair is color treated
01:26now.
01:27I was a little bit nervous about finding color-safe options at Trader Joe's, but I did.
01:32This is the shampoo that I chose.
01:34It's the Tea Tree Tingle shampoo.
01:35It has this beautiful, refreshing tea tree eucalyptus-y kind of scent.
01:39It has no sulfate in it, and it is safe for all hair types.
01:43It makes your hair feel very clean.
01:45This is the Tea Tree Tingle conditioner.
01:47I actually expected this to be a lot lighter than it was.
01:51It actually is super hydrating.
01:53It made my hair feel super smooth.
01:56Again, no sulfates.
01:58All around good conditioner, good little companion to the Tea Tree Tingle shampoo.
02:02In the shower, I used this oatmeal soap.
02:05I put this thingy back on it because it was kind of gross.
02:08But I really like this soap.
02:09It's a really no frills, like oatmeal-infused soap.
02:12It smells good, and it doesn't make your skin feel dry.
02:16The hair mask that I used was this one.
02:19It's called the Trader Joe's Shea Butter.
02:21I always say shea butter.
02:23Shea butter and coconut oil hair mask wasn't as hydrating as I would have liked.
02:28It does have a really nice texture, though it comes out like as a nice smooth cream.
02:32I like that it comes in a squeezy tube rather than a pot.
02:34I really don't like that so many hair masks come in pots and you have to stick your hands in
02:39it,
02:39your hair gets in it, water gets in it, it's disgusting.
02:42This is nice.
02:43It didn't give me that like smoothness that I like out of some of my other hair masks.
02:47It did make my hair feel very soft.
02:49I would even just use it as a very deep conditioning treatment, like just as my conditioner.
02:53Let's talk about this body butter because I loved this body butter.
02:59It smells so good.
03:00This is the coconut body butter.
03:02It has coconut shea butter and vitamin E in it.
03:05Instead of being like a twist off cap, it just...
03:08Wait.
03:10It just opens up like that.
03:12You know when you have like body butter all over your hands and your hands are all like greasy?
03:16You don't want to have to screw a cap back on something.
03:18You don't have to.
03:20It absorbs really fast.
03:22It's great just to slap on all over and doesn't make my skin feel really gross and oily.
03:27So in the morning and night, I would use this Trader Joe's Spa Face Wash with Tea Tree Oil.
03:32I liked it.
03:33I think it was a nice gentle cleanser.
03:36However, it's a little bit soapier than other face washes.
03:40It just hangs around longer on the skin.
03:42So you have to use a bit more water to wash it off.
03:45But I do like that Trader Joe's has a face wash that is targeted more at acne
03:50because tea tree oil is amazing for acne because it's antibacterial.
03:52So at night, before I would go in with the Tea Tree Oil Cleanser, I would use the
03:57Trader Joe's Facial Cleansing Oil.
04:00I really like this.
04:01It cuts through waterproof mascara really easily.
04:03It's a good basic cleansing oil.
04:06It removes makeup really well.
04:08It doesn't leave my skin feeling too oily.
04:10Although I always double cleanse after I use a cleansing oil.
04:13Once my skin is clean, I'd move on to toner.
04:16And this is the Rosewater Facial Toner.
04:20It just smells so nice.
04:23Rosewater Rose Oil Witch Hazel.
04:26Good for oil control.
04:27Doesn't irritate my skin.
04:28So it's good.
04:29So moving on to serum.
04:31And I was kind of surprised to see this hyaluronic acid serum at Trader Joe's
04:35just because it's kind of a fancy product for them to have.
04:38But it is really nice.
04:40It has a really nice like gel liquidy consistency that absorbs really quickly.
04:44It is the summer right now.
04:46So my skin is quite oily.
04:47I don't think that this serum is something that I need necessarily for this time of year.
04:52I think that I'm going to whip this out again in the winter
04:55because I think it's going to help with like the flakiness that I get.
04:57So it's good.
04:58But I don't think I need it right now.
05:00I love this moisturizer.
05:01It's the Trader Joe's Nourish Oil-Free Antioxidant Facial Moisturizer.
05:05It's liquidy.
05:06It absorbs really fast.
05:08It doesn't leave your skin feeling sticky or tacky.
05:11It applies under makeup beautifully.
05:13I actually was using this in the morning and the night.
05:15It is on the lighter side when it comes to moisturizers.
05:19And it was enough moisture for me.
05:20As a spot treatment, if I had a breakout or if I felt like I was getting a breakout,
05:25I would use this tea tree oil.
05:27I'm just going to take a little bit of the tea tree oil,
05:30mix it with a little bit of water to just dilute it,
05:33tap it onto my little zit areas.
05:36I think it's a versatile good product just to have in your arsenal.
05:40The final step of the routine skincare-wise, SPF.
05:44Now, this is a little bit upsetting because I went to Trader Joe's.
05:47I was expecting them to have like different mineral sunscreen options and they really don't.
05:52So the reason that I was looking for mineral sunscreen is because mineral sunscreens are coral safe.
05:57So there are some ingredients, oxybenzone and oxytenoate cause coral bleaching.
06:02So I wanted to use a mineral sunscreen that doesn't have those ingredients.
06:05And this was the only one that was there. So it was a stick sunscreen. It's SPF 50.
06:10I don't like stick sunscreens, but I had to use this.
06:12And I will say I really liked it.
06:14I brought this as my sunscreen like in my purse last weekend when I went to Chicago during a heat
06:20wave.
06:20Unlike a lot of stick sunscreens, it absorbs relatively quickly.
06:25It feels kind of like a balmy moisturizer.
06:28Twice this week, I used masks and I bought one mask from Trader Joe's.
06:33They have this blueberry acai facial scrub and it smells so good.
06:40Oh my God. I want to eat it.
06:43Confirmation. It smells good.
06:45It has a really nice creamy texture.
06:48You can actually see the little like berry seeds in it.
06:52And that's what like you can use to physically exfoliate your skin.
06:55But it also has like fruit enzymes and different fruit acids in this.
07:00So it will chemically exfoliate too.
07:01So I put it all over my face, let it sit for a few minutes and then gently rubbed it
07:06off.
07:06And my skin felt super smooth and nice after.
07:08I think it's a good weekly exfoliant if you want a little bit of a...
07:13Sorry, I got distracted.
07:14If you want like a weekly exfoliation.
07:17Then I made my own mask.
07:19So I usually mask like two to three times a week.
07:21And I was like, I can't just use this one mask.
07:23So I got a bunch of ingredients from Trader Joe's to make my own mask.
07:28So I use Greek yogurt, honey, and oats.
07:31Oats are naturally very soothing.
07:33And they also provide a little bit of physical exfoliation once you take it off.
07:37The Greek yogurt, unsweetened, has lactic acid in it.
07:41So it helps kind of slough off dead skin cells.
07:43And then the honey is a natural humectant.
07:45It is hydrating.
07:47And I just put it all over my face, let it sit for a bit as well,
07:50wash it off, continue with the rest of my day.
07:52So that's a really great thing with really common ingredients.
07:55Like stuff that you would literally have for breakfast in a yogurt bowl.
07:58But you put it on your face.
07:59Last but not least, the deodorant.
08:01Trader Joe's Stocks Toms of Maine.
08:04And this is the unscented version.
08:05Hey, guys, so I am back from work.
08:07I'm going to give myself a little smell test.
08:10Not smelling anything so far.
08:12I think I'm staying pretty fresh.
08:14I will say, though, it wasn't a very, very hot day.
08:17And I do think because it is unscented,
08:20if it was like swelteringly hot and I was like walking around
08:23or like hiking or something, I think I would smell a little bit.
08:25I liked it.
08:26I think the Toms brand of deodorant is really nice.
08:29It feels really good under the armpit, which is like a kind of a weird thing to say.
08:32But you're not going to want to wear deodorant if it doesn't feel good on your armpit.
08:36That's everything.
08:37Honestly, I don't think it was the product that I didn't like.
08:39Hero products were definitely the Antioxidant Moisturizer,
08:43the Rosewater Facial Toner.
08:44I really like the SIE Mask, the Tea Tree Tingle Shampoo,
08:48and the Coconut Body Butter.
08:50And that is it.
08:51That's a lot of product.
08:51I hope that you guys enjoyed this video.
08:53So I will see you guys next week.
08:55Bye.