BAGSMART Faro Collection - Best Everyday Bag?

Hola! Erica here. Today I'm going to be reviewing two items from BagSmart. This is the Faro collection. This is the Faro Light Backpack 0.4 and this is the Faro Daypack 26. Normally I'm reviewing BagSmart's toiletry bags, other travel items like carry-on rollers or travel backpacks. BagSmart's a great company because they have great quality and great prices. Let's start this review off with the Faro Light Backpack 0.4. Now this backpack is so pretty. They have so many different colors. They have a black one too if you want something a little bit more plain. This backpack weighs about 425 grams so in pounds it would be 0.94 pounds. This backpack can hold 20 liters and the material is water resistant so if you're looking for a good day bag just to go hiking with or if you want something to take to a coffee shop or maybe just something for an overnight or just something really light, this is a really great bag. I'm gonna pack this up real quick and show you how much it can fit as well as the cool pockets. Look how pretty this bag is. It is so nice. So let me go through the comfort of the bag. It has a chest strap right here which is adjustable. It also has this little bungee part right here and then this part is not bungee so if you're moving you do get a little bit of give through here. I love that the backpack straps are padded and they also have some clips through here so you could put like a light bulb or something. You have like a little lantern like this. You could also put like maybe like your JBL speakers on the back right here. This backpack is super comfortable. I weighed it earlier and it was about 14 pounds but you'll see what I put in here to make it 14 pounds. It stays nice and flush against my back. You can adjust it through here but you can just pull it tighter. When I first got this backpack in the mail I didn't have anything in the backpack so I felt like this part cut into my neck but once you put actual items in the backpack the weight holds it down and then the backpack straps are at the perfect location on your shoulders. I also had my husband wear this backpack and he found it super comfortable. He liked that it hugged his back right here. 16.9 pounds. It has my laptop in here that's why as well as like a full water bottle. This backpack is super sturdy. I just love it so much. Okay let's start with the exterior pockets of this backpack. So it has nice water bottle holders right here and then you can also if your water bottle is tall enough you can also clip it through with this little buckle and then tighten it like that. I love the mesh material right here. It's really pretty, nice and flexible but not that kind that's gonna like rip after you like stick one thing in there. I would however leave your water bottle to a more circular shape or oval shape instead of a rectangle one just so you don't stretch out the fabric but this mesh material is really soft. The other side right here I just have some bug spray. Picard and bug spray is the best. Way better than DEET. If you go camping you know what I'm talking about. So these are just nice quick accessible pockets and they're deep enough so if you're like shaking your bag it's not like it's gonna fall out. Also another thing to note about the water bottle holder here you can't fit like a Stanley Cup or a really big hydro flask or a really big Nalgene. This is just like a standard a little bit bigger than a standard water bottle but what I did fit was a bottle of Sriracha here and a bottle of Sriracha is quite thick. So here's a normal water bottle, here's a Sriracha bottle. So that just slid real smooth in there. I guess the tip doesn't really stay but my Sriracha bottle does not fall out if I'm shaking it. On the bottom part right here it has two straps that are not elastic. This is for if you're maybe going camping or maybe you're going hiking or if you have a jacket or something. I have a microfiber towel right here so let's just say I took a shower at the beach or something and I just wanted to dry it on the outside of my bag. You can totally do that and hold it like this. Super cute. So I do like that this bag has so many different options of where you can hook things. If you have a flashlight you can put it here. They have a lot of little loops that you can put little clippies on all the way down on both of the backpack straps as well as this nice rope handle here. Let me just give you a little close-up of the backpack straps right here. So the backpack straps are nice and padded. They also have this mesh material where you can breathe. Now I would say the material is not the softest softest but it is quite soft but if you wanted it extra extra soft just throw your bag in the washing machine like a couple times. This bag is also washable so you could do that and then the material will loosen up or just wear and tear over time. This material will get softer. Take a look at the superior stitching. I love backpack reviews because I'm super picky but look at the triangle design right here. Triangle means that when you're pulling the backpack here that it's not gonna rip from inside the bag. Any backpack that doesn't have a triangle that's not a good backpack. Nice and reinforced. This is really sturdy material so it's not like that kind of nylon that's just gonna rip. This is like really nice nylon material. Earlier when I had my husband try this out he was like oh I really like this handle right here it's kind of cool and then we're thinking we're kind of wondering like how sturdy it really is. We went in from the inside and we do see that it's very reinforced. You can see all the reinforced stitching through here. So it's not like this rope is just hanging on through thin nylon material. It's actually sewn like into the structure and most of the time when I hold backpacks I just hold it like an actual backpack not at the handle up here but it is quite sturdy. This is nice and padded but also mesh so it gets nice airflow. There's a trolley pull-through right here so if you wanted to travel with this bag and have it as your personal item you could totally connect it to your carry-on roller like that. Moving on to the front pocket here just amazing zippers. BagSmart is known for their amazing zippers. I'm a big zipper person. I'm just gonna show you what's inside. So this is like a day bag stuff so it could be whatever you want for the day. So here's snack one. Macro bar. Lemon one is so good. Almond macro bar. Oatmeal macro bar. I have just my cube, my anchor cube for my computer. I also have my cable for my computer. Element raspberry salt and element raspberry salt. Also there's a clasp up here. I didn't really feel like it was necessary to have so I'm just gonna open that. Then I have this zipper up top and this is where I like to keep my battery pack. This is my anchor battery pack. I like this one because it has a retractable USB-C cable. Then I have my AirPods right here. This is my new AirPod case because it looks like petroleum jelly and at first glance people aren't just gonna take it so it's like my anti-theft AirPods case. And then the last thing I have in here is my Clip-A-Bag hanger. So this is if I wanted to hold my bag on a table just like that. This top pocket is fleece lined which is really nice. Instead of having to hold just the metal part to unzip your bag, it's just nice to have this little string with the rubber. It's just so pretty. Adds a really nice like rugged touch. Very good. Opening up this zipper here. Very good. So you have to remember this is a day bag so it's not like a travel backpack where everything stays upright and rigid. So if I do open this and I had all those items in the front pocket, it will just go like that which is totally fine because your stuff is very secure. And the way that the pockets are designed, it's not like you put this down and then all your stuff just goes to the bottom. They have a good pocket up top. They have a good pocket right here. So you saw how much I had in those pockets. The next thing in here, I put three cans of soup. One, two, three. And this is why my bag was so heavy and that's why my face is kind of sweaty. Then also I have my tripod selfie stick. I always bring this with me wherever I go because you just never know if you need a good picture. I have my jacket right here because it is a day bag. But if you wanted to, you could put a bunch of clothes in there. You can bring a pair of shoes. Then there's also two mesh pockets right here. Now the mesh pockets are just like the water bottle pockets. They're just so smooth, nice and stretchy but really good quality. This elastic is the kind that's gonna stay elastic for a while. Not like the one where you put it in the closet for like a few months and it's already creakily crackly. You could put so many things in these two mesh pockets. They're identical size. I just decided to put my lotion. This is like the best lotion ever. I just did two of them. That's also why my bag was so heavy. But honestly if you just put normal people things in the bag it's not gonna be like over 15 pounds and everything's gonna be so much lighter. The last thing I have in this day bag is just my laptop. Now this is a 14 inch laptop sleeve. Pull that out. I have my laptop right in here. The only thing is you have to make sure you have a laptop case when you are carrying this day bag only because the back part is squishy but this part here in front it's not squishy. It's just the nylon polyester material so if you have clothes in here then your laptop will be okay. But if you're someone that likes to have a laptop case like me then I would say put your laptop case in this laptop sleeve. Also the elastic is really nice through here as well. The other thing is you kind of have a secret pocket through here so if you wanted to like slip some cash in there or some important papers you totally can. But they also have like this removable foam thing. This is to keep more of the structure of the backpack but I actually found that I didn't quite need it. So it is removable and it is wipeable. It's just like foamy material but the kind that is like water-resistant foamy instead of the one that like absorbs everything. Okay so this is the Faro light backpack 0.4. Definitely one of my favorite day bags that I have now and then I'm also gonna show you the Faro day pack 26. Let's get to that right now. This bag is also pretty cool. The only thing is there's only two colors so it's either this color or the black. This backpack is about 1.7 pounds empty. The material is also made of nylon and is water-resistant. As far as the sizing goes you can fit 26 liters in here. Alright this backpack is nice and packed and I just wanted to show you what I put in this bag. So it also has this chest strap right here. Stretchy material and then the material that does not stretch. The back does a pretty good job of staying flush against my back but it also has these little straps right here to put around your waist. Now I did not find this the most comfortable because it's not like a thick one but the bag does stay on a little bit better if you have this waist strap on. But if you don't like how it looks or you don't like it when it goes like that all low and hangy and dangly you can actually just take it off and then voila it is off. My husband also tried this on. He's about six foot tall and he actually looked quite good in it as well. They have this like cell phone thing right here that you can velcro onto the backpack. It's kind of cool. Let's just say it has a very functional look when you wear it so I might not wear it. I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max and it actually fit my phone perfectly. It has a little clippy right here. I just say it kind of looks a very functional. That's why I probably would want the black backpack. Also the velcro is really really strong. This material is super good quality and I love Vagsmart so much. Okay let's quickly go through this backpack. Okay you have compression straps right here so you could pull that quite tight if you would like. Unclip. I like that these mesh pockets are already tall. So here's my water bottle. Not even falling out. Sriracha safe and sound as well. Everything is really nice and mesh like. Backpack straps are breathable and padded. They also have loops through here so you could put your speaker or your little light bulbs and flashlights on there. The only thing this backpack does not have and I wish it did even though it's a day bag not a travel backpack but it had some kind of trolley pull through so you could put it on top of the suitcase, the carry-on roller or check-in bag. That would be a nice additional touch. Great zippers. I love that this backpack has like this hook right here. So I'm going to open this up and this is actually the laptop compartment. They say that this laptop compartment can fit a 15 inch laptop. However my laptop is a 13 inch and there's plenty of space because this laptop case is bigger than a 13 inch and there's still a lot of space. So if you had a 16 inch that should fit in here just fine. Also if you didn't want to have a laptop case this part through here is really squishy and then this part through here is nice and squishy. Alright moving on to the front part of this backpack. This is water-resistant material. Nylon material. It can also go in the washing machine. So there's bungees right here. So if you really wanted to you can bungee like microfiber towel, your jacket or something. You can put that here in the front. There you go. You got two pairs of slippers or you can put sandals here. You just tighten that down and you're good to go. Then right behind this bungee cable you have this nice clip right here and then you have a thin area where you could put I don't know like post-its. I just put my macro bar in here. Just some examples but the mesh quality is really nice and it's the same as the water bottle holder on this backpack as well as the other backpack. I also like that it has this little clip right here. Not like anything would fall out but it's just kind of a good touch. Alright opening up this front pocket I have a mesh zipper right here and this can go down about halfway right through here. I just put here oh look at that nice quality. Nice and soft mesh but this is the mesh that has a little bit bigger holes but it's not very rough. Very nice good lightweight quality. So I have my USB-C cable for my computer as well as my Anker Cube. Close that up. Then it has two nice pockets. It goes down to about right here so if you really wanted to you could put stuff all the way down into this bag. Like let me show you my protein bar. Here's my protein bar all the way down there. So if you wanted to slip some items all the way down you can. But here in this pocket I just put my elements there. Put my Anker charger and then there's another zipper right here. Really good quality. Here I just put my AirPods as well as my clip-a-bag hanger. The possibilities are endless what you could put in this bag. Okay the last zipper in here I just have my three cans of regresso soup as well as my jacket. And then I just decided to put a whole soccer ball in here. If you wanted to you could put two soccer balls in here but I wanted to show you that you can still after a soccer ball you can fit in a lot of clothes. So if you wanted to use this as like an actual weekend bag it actually wouldn't be a bad idea just to have a few packing cubes and put that in here. But yeah a soccer ball. Think about how much clothes that is. So this backpack the Faro Daypack 26. Really nice quality. Alrighty so this is the Faro day bag collection. I just love it so much especially this one because it's so pretty and it fits a lot. So take a look at the colors on this one. I really like black in this one. So if you're looking for a good day bag, good travel item, a carry-on, travel backpack, toiletry bags, purses, or other tote bags I definitely recommend giving BagSmart a try. Great quality, great prices. Thank you so much for joining me with this review video. I'm going to put more videos on the screen for you right here.