What’s on your nightstand can be as telling as what’s in your bag. In our nosiest shopping column, Where Did You Get That?, we’ve been asking our favorite creatives specific questions about their favorite objects, including what is on their nightstand.
So, it’s only fitting that during Sleep Week, we highlighted a few of the nightstands of past interviewees.
So, what’s your nightstand personality?
➼ The Convenient Nightstand
➼ The Functional Nightstand
➼ The Sexy Nightstand
➼ More Nightstand Essentials from Cut editors
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The Convenient Nightstand
If you have six mugs (and counting) on your nightstand, then you’re like influencer Michelle Li: A self-proclaimed convenient gal. How is having that many mugs convenient? Well, Li wants everything to be within arm’s reach. “Once I’m in bed, I’m not getting out,” she says. “That’s why I have a little bottle of perfume by my bed; my face moisturizer, and lip balm.” And if there’s something else the convenient gal is it’s consistent. Back when we interviewed Li in 2022, her nightstand didn’t look that much different.
“I try so many products, but the ones that stick, stick,” says Li. (Like using the Kate McLeod Daily stone moisturizer all over her body.) Now, she has introduced McLeod’s dry brush. However, what has really elevated her nighttime routine is her Louise Poulsen lamp.
“Now I don’t even use the overhead light,” she says. “It’s so much more convenient. I can read at night and then turn it off from here.” Easy.
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The Functional Nightstand
Model Imani Randolph describes her nightstand personality as functional with a touch of uselessness. (Hence the Nintendo Switch, which she got during the pandemic and uses to play Animal Crossing.) But not everything serves a function, and some items are more aspirational. For example, those vitamins? They haven’t been touched. But one thing she always does before bed might be well, surprising.
“I have a three-tier nightstand and one drawer has all of my nail polish and anything nail-related,” says Randolph. “I don’t know if anyone else has ever stored all their nail stuff in a nightstand.”
So, instead of taking vitamins, she paints her nails right before bed: “It always has to be the last step in my routine. If I’m preparing for an event that I have the next day, I’m going to wash my hair, put on lotion, brush my teeth, do my skincare, and then I’m going to paint my nails.”
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The Sexy Nightstand
“My bed is for sleep,” says Beverly Nguyen. “My nightstand is for fun.” For this stylist and store owner, “fun” means adding a touch of something unexpected before bed, like perfume or a room spray. Last year she debuted three scents in a collection called Memory Book. She keeps Memory by her bed, a scent from the collection which includes lemon leaf, juniper, and myrrh.
“I’ve always been interested in fragrances, but a room spray feels much more approachable since perfume is so personal,” she says. “You can still use them as a perfume, but I wanted people to be liberal and spray them everywhere.”
But year-round you will find the same essentials on her nightstand: “It’s always a Chanel hand cream, an Eadem lip gloss, a book, water, a candle, my glasses and my jewelry.” Chic.
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