Much more than a makeup mirror with lights, this is my review of the Simple Human makeup mirror with lights and Alexa build-in! Just this mirror is so worth having by itself, but all Alexa features make it even better!

I’m talking about the Simple Human Sensor Mirror Hi Fi, which is much more than just a makeup mirror with lights. But first, let me tell you why it’s such a life changer for me!

So, if you already know me, you know I wear glasses and I have myopia and if you don’t know me yet, nice to e-meet you! I’m Manu Luize and I have veeery high myopia and I wear glasses almost 24/7, so to me it’s incredibly difficult to do my makeup without a magnifying mirror.

I’m a beauty blogger and content creator, I LOVE to do my makeup, but having high myopia, I discovered many years ago a good magnifying mirror was actually a need for me. It makes doing my makeup so much easier! And that’s something I think is my biggest advice when someone asks me how do I manage to do my makeup without glasses. 😉

But now, back to this magic makeup mirror by Simple Human: it’s a 5x magnifying mirror with lights in different tones, it has a motion sensor (so it turns on the lights when you get near it and, of course, it turns off by itself when you’re done and move out) and it also has Alexa build-in the mirror.

So many great functions in only one item! That makes it so versatile and that’s why I said it’s much more than just a makeup mirror with lights. So now, let me tell you about them all.

• Simple Human makeup mirror with lights, a 5X Magnifying mirror

I had tried many different mirrors and 5x magnifying is the one I find the best one. Less than this is not good enough to help me see every detail and more than this makes it difficult to have a good idea of how the makeup is going. I even used a 10x magnifying mirror, but I prefer 5x much more for doing my makeup.

A 5x magnifying makeup mirror is good, but the Simple Human Sensor Hi Fi mirror is amazing! It has a motion sensor that makes the light go on when you get near it. And let’s talk about the light in this makeup mirror: it has tru-lux, like a true light, which means it will show our makeup the real way. No more doing your makeup home and finding out to be a different thing when you’re outside.

• Light shades of the Sensor Mirror Hi Fi:

With this Simple Human makeup mirror with lights we can choose the right light we want. Between day light for sunny days or cloudy days, office light, night light and you can even create a custom set up yourself.

This is great to do our makeup in the light which we will be, let me explain you: did it ever happen to you: you do your makeup with the normal bedroom light and you go out for a dinner in the evening, when you see yourself at the mirror inside the restaurant your makeup doesn’t look like you intended. Or the opposite, you do it in the house and when you can out in the sunlight it’s not very visible?

When, that’s when a mirror like this is great, you can do your makeup with the light and ambience of where you’re going to be. Or if you prefer, you can use the brightest white light to makeup and switch to night light to check how it’s going in real life in the evening.

• Makeup mirror with lights and Alexa built-in:

Like I mentioned, this sensor mirror is full of functions and advantages, but having Alexa built-in the mirror makes it much more fun. You can have all Alexa functions inside your makeup mirror with lights.

To me, do my makeup is always connected with music: I love to listen to music when I’m doing my makeup. And well, having Alexa available to help is very handy!

To find my favourite music while I’m busy applying the eyeliner, to jump that music I’m not a big fan of while I’m applying my mascara makes the process much faster and funnier. How many times did I stop to do my makeup just to go change the music on my phone that was lost somewhere in the bedroom? 😅

I always find it great to get the weather forecast while doing my makeup and even asking Alexa what time is, maybe having it available and easy all the time can help me not be late while I do my makeup. 😉

The sound quality is great and you can regulate the volume very easily just touching it by the side of this part that you can see in the photo above.

The Alexa works just like in any other Alexa device, you easily connect to your Amazon account and it’s all set up. The big advantage is that you have it inside your mirror, so one less device to have.

The Simple Human Sensor Mirror Hi Fi has a very modern design and all its functions make it a great mirror. To me, it’s for sure the best makeup mirror with lights I have ever used!

A product that I believe is definitely worth the investment, since it’s something you will use daily and not just for makeup. It’s now definitely part of my routine and a great of it, like I mentioned, I love to do my makeup and it makes it easier and more fun to do with this amazing makeup mirror.

A sofa is definitely a centerpiece in a living room and I was looking for a sofa 2-seater for my new house, that’s when I found Diiiz website and fell in love with their decor pieces!

So it was not different when I browsed through their different models of 2-seater sofas and found the perfect sofa for my living room! It’s the Sofa Two Seater Alice by Diiiz.

In Scandinavian style, this two seater sofa is elegant and classic in a minimal way that was perfect for my new house decor and in perfect colour combination with the colour palette I chose for my house.

So today I will show you a little about my new house decor to help to inspire you and to give you some tips on how to choose your 2-seater sofa for the perfect space!

• Where I shopped my 2-seater sofa:

Before my final choice, I dug into Diiiz website to learn more about this furniture store and I found out they create design furniture, but always with accessible prices! Which make our lives much easier when decorating or redecorating the house!

Nothing like design furniture to make our home more stylish and comfortable, specially during a period in which we are staying home so much! If the price is accessible, that’s a perfect match! Great quality and good price is always a great combination!

Also, Diiiz is working and promoting young designers and European companies, which I think is a great concept, since it also makes it easier to have access to furniture from all over the European Union delivered to our house! Which by the way, they also offer free delivery to countries in EU. But now, it’s time to go back to my sofa!

• How to choose a 2-seater sofa?

My first step in decorating my living room was to think about my colour palette: the colours I wanted to focus in order to choose my furniture and decorative items in the room.

This step will make your choices easier, because instead of looking for furniture in all the rainbow colours, you know how to focus and also how to get all the furniture together in a harmonic way. I’ve been decorating my whole house from zero, so I know how it all can be SO overwhelming at the beginning!

After my colour choices, I thought about all the furniture pieces I wanted in my living room considering all the dimensions of my space. To get this step done I had the help of my sister, who’s an architect and, of course, the specialist in this area. Something that I highly recommend, because a professional will know how to fit everything you want in your space.

That’s when we decided a sofa 2-seater was the best idea for the space I wanted to create in my living room.

• Here are 3 essential tips in order to choose the size of your couch:

1. Take all the measurements of your living room, so you know what can actually fit in there.

2. What will be the couch used for?

3. How many people live in your house? Do you often have guests or friends over for a chat or dinner?

I’m living by myself, so basically the sofa would be for my time relaxing and enjoying my living room, but also for when I have a friend or my boyfriend over. So I decided the best was a 2-seater sofa, it would be great for what I needed and for the space I wanted to create in my living room.

After it all was defined, I went back to Diiiz website to decide which sofa would be the perfect match for my living room. Truth be told, I had so many favourites from their furniture store that I didn’t know which one to choose from!

Before my final choice, I was in doubt between choosing one of these 2-seater sofa options from Diiiz, which were my favourite couches:

As you already know, my choice was the Alice 2 sofa seater in the top, in the colour light grey. Classic, minimal and super elegant, exactly what I was looking for in my living room.

My choice for the Alice sofa by Diiiz was the light grey fabric with wooden legs, making it an elegant couch that could be a great fit for a classic or a modern living room.

I decided to create a gallery wall with posters behind my sofa, to give some personal touch to my living room, so it would look more like my style, complementing really well my furniture.

Like I mentioned before, since I had decided on a colour palette, it was also easier to decide what posters I wanted to hang on my wall, in order to know how to create a beautiful living room all in harmony.

I arranged the 2 seater couch to create a cosy, but elegant living room with a touch of dusty pink. My living room is not complete yet, but since I’m decorating the house during this very weird time + near Christmas, many things are still to be delivered due to delays. The good thing is that the sofa was one of the first things to be delivered, so free + fast delivery definitely made me happy!

I’ll still need to add a carpet and the rest of the furniture in the wall facing my Alice sofa, that should complete my living room decor soon. But since so many people who follow me on social media are so curious to know more about my new decor and some style tips, I started to create some content already here on the blog and on my profile @manuluize to help and inspire you.

To make your home and living room cosier and more with your style, apart from thinking about hanging some posters or frames, you can add decorative items and also decorative pillows. Since my decor has a touch of gold, I added two golden pillows to bring a cosier touch to my sofa!

Decorative pillow cases, blankets and a carpet are a great way to complete your living room decor and things I can’t wait to be delivered to add to my final decor.

One of the most important tips on how to choose a 2 seater sofa is to think about quality and comfort. We all want style, but it’s a sofa, so it has to be comfortable so you can actually spend some good time relaxing or watching TV. I’ve been very happy and satisfied with my Alice Diiiz sofa, it’s not only the cutest sofa ever, but it’s also very comfortable! I can spend hours on it reading a book and chatting.

Every details is well made and you can see it was made with lots of attention and love to design!

You can find all measurements on Diiiz website for all of their sofas, here are the measurements of this 2 sofa seater:

The Diiiz Alice sofa is also available in other colours and with coloured buttons, for those who love a fun style! And it’s also available as a sofa 3 seater model for bigger spaces.

* This product was gifted, still, all opinions are my own personal and real opinions about any product I talk about on the blog, regardless if the product was bought by myself or gifted.

I had never thought a trash can could actually change my life so much and that’s what it’s all about: my Simple Human trash can review. I’m talking about the 58L Dual compartment rectangular sensor bin with voice and motion control that has made my life in the kitchen much easier!

Think about a very usual situation: you’re cooking and then you need to throw something in the trash, if you’re anything like myself that are always multitasking and you love to cook, during a recipe you will probably need to reach for the trash can at least a couple of times or more according to the recipe. So my usual situation was that I always had a lot on my hands and always end up making some mess in order to throw the trash away, something always used to fall on the floor or make my trash can dirty.

That’s when this life-changing Simple Human trash can gets in, it opens by itself when you get closer or with a voice command. So no more getting things on the floor in order to open the trash can, it can open when you get there (by motion sensor) or you just say “open can” and you will find it open. That’s for sure one of the coolest items in my kitchen and it’s been making my life much easier.

I know it may sound weird and actually I never thought I would be so excited about a trash bin before, but you know it all changes when you live on your own and have a whole house and life to take care of, that’s when even trash cans can be fun and help to make your life easier.

It may look like such a simple detail, but it has been making such a big difference to me! Also, this one is a two-compartment Simple Human trash can, so you can divide the trash. Here in Milan, we need to separate everything, so this is definitely helpful in order to have more in less space.

To make it work with the motion sensor or voice command, you just need to plug it to the electricity or use 6 AA alkaline batteries if you want to keep it cordless. You just connect it and that’s all, this simple!

For the motion sensor: you just need to get near it and with a wave of your hand, the can will be open. You get away from it and it will close itself after.

To use the voice command: there are 3 different voice commands you can use with the Simple Human trash can, just say:

• “Open can”: and the can will open the lid.
• “Stay open”: if you’re cooking and in need of the trash can opened for a longer time, you can tell it to stay open. It will stay open until you ask it to be closed or after 10 minutes.
• “Close can”: the magical word to make it close the lid.

To me, it’s simple things like this that make our life easier and I can say, it even make it more fun to be cooking in the kitchen, it’s like my little souschef to help me with the trash.

This Simple Human trash can is made of stainless steel and it also  has a fingerprint-proof coating that is infused with nano-silver particles that prevent microbes from reproducing. That means always a pretty and clean trash bin! To me that I’m kind of germaphobic🙈, that’s for sure a win-win situation and a must have in my kitchen!

Definitely a must-have item to whoever is also creating an intelligent house that can help us to keep everything in place and to make our busy and complicated life easier.

And I need to tell you, once you get an intelligent Simple Human trash can, there’s no going back. I already wish everything else in my house was this easy, simple, and intelligent.

You can find this intelligent trash can available at Simple Human website.

* I received this product for free from the brand, but as always, all opinions are my sincere and real opinions after using a product, regardless if I bought it or received it for free from any brand.

When you see a clothing store next to a decor one and you go straight into the decor store, well, that’s my mood at the moment, so if you’re looking for bedroom decor, that’s the article for you! With 35 amazing photos to inspire you in choosing your bedroom decor.
In the last few weeks I’ve been like that, if I stop in front of a Zara with a Zara Home on the side, I’m getting inside the second one. That department store with an amazing makeup floor, I’m going straight to the decor & house section  (ok, I’ll always stop by at the makeup floor as well). If you are also looking for inspiration on bedroom decor, I have selected the 35 most beautiful bedroom decor on the internet to inspire you in creating that lovely and elegant bedroom decoration you will love!
 

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Do not let the pink fool you, I selected bedroom decor in many different styles, including men’s and the perfect double room.
 
 

• Bedroom Decor: Fall in love by 35 different ideas

photo: poster at Etsy

Not just a mere detail, the bed is one of the main points in a bedroom and not just a decoration item of a room, since it needs to be comfortable and have its style, so it is often the center of the room’s decor. A lovely and comfortable bed is a must have for your room, after all, you will spend your nights there.
After the bed, the decor of the bedroom requires some thinking of what you need as furniture and the space you will need in your room. Do you need a place to work or study? A space for a dressing table? Bookshelves? These details will influence what furniture and how many of them, you will need to decorate your room.
 

• Bedroom decor: Master Bedroom

photo: poster at Etsy

A master bedroom can be either in neutral colors or in more vivid and colorful colors or they can blend neutral colors with colorful details.
 
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Take a look at this modern decor for a master bedroom, a neutral double room in light shades and white furniture.

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This is a bedroom decor option for small rooms:

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For anyone looking for inspiration and ideas of bedrooms decoration without the traditional closed wardrobe, an option is to use a clothing rack to hang your clothes, as in this next room photo:

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This another decorated bedroom as an example of a cozy decor:

photos: Avenue LifeStyle

• Women bedroom ideas:

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For those looking for women bedroom ideas, I ‘ve picked some photos from elegant, delicate and feminine rooms to inspire you.
 



 
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• Details of Bedroom decor:

The details always make the difference, elements of decoration like vases, mirrors and paintings / posters make your bedroom has even more personality and style.
 

 
I’m in love with this little corner with a super stylish dressing table:

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