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Who's Driving the Get Unready With Me Trend?
The "Get Unready With Me" format - a skincare-focused inversion of the classic GRWM - emerged as one of 2025's most commercially effective content trends, turning the nightly wind-down routine into a high-performing vehicle for skincare brand partnerships. The format's appeal lies in its intimacy: unscripted, low-production content that audiences read as genuinely personal, making product integrations feel earned rather than placed.The top creators in this report generated a combined $5.5M in earned media value across 2025, with Neru Lera leading at $2.4M and Aysha Harun's single Origins partnership post driving $433.6K from one TikTok alone. Gabriela de Graaf produced the most striking data point in the dataset: 7.3M engagements and $366.8K EMV from 103.9K followers — a 20,937% engagement rate that underlines how format fit and audience trust can outperform follower scale entirely.TikTok was the dominant EMV driver across the cohort, with the platform's algorithm consistently amplifying unready content beyond existing followings. Brands that leaned into the format's naturalistic framing - Origins, CeraVe, Celimax, Nature Class, and L'bel - generated stronger results than those treated as straightforward product placements. The most effective posts featured multi-step routines with named products and honest skin context, from Emmy Combs' eczema routine to Aysha Harun's post-glam removal, giving audiences something useful alongside the entertainment.
Key Insights
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TikTok drove the majority of EMV across the cohort, with the platform's algorithm consistently amplifying unready content well beyond creators' existing followings.
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Micro and mid-tier creators outperformed on engagement rate, with Gabriela de Graaf generating a 20,937% engagement rate from 103.9K followers, the highest in the dataset.
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Skincare brands that leaned into the format's naturalistic framing - named products, honest skin context, multi-step routines - consistently outperformed straightforward product placements.
Neru Lera
US-based model whose GURWM content generated $2.4M EMV across three posts, with a single TikTok hitting 9.5M engagements at a 1,200% engagement rate. Her unready routine featured Celimax, Bioderma, Dermalogica, The Inkey List, Dieux Skin, and COSRX, a credible, multi-brand edit that read as genuinely personal rather than promotional. Instagram was her highest EMV platform at $1.9M, driven by reach rather than engagement rate.
Emmy Combs
US beauty and comedy creator with 12.2M followers whose dry skin and eczema nighttime routine on YouTube hit 894.7K engagements and $254.7K EMV. Her F1 get-unready post – filmed during a cross-country road trip – generated 741.7K engagements on TikTok, demonstrating that lifestyle context amplifies skincare content beyond a purely beauty audience. Also featured NuolaWigs across multiple posts, weaving haircare and alopecia advocacy into her unready narrative.
Shreemayi Reddy
India-based beauty blogger whose GRWM content consistently performs strongest on YouTube, with her top video hitting 5.1M engagements and a 2,250% engagement rate from 472.6K followers. Her unready content is anchored around post-wedding routines, framing the skincare wind-down as an essential ritual rather than an afterthought. Generated $558.9K EMV across six posts, with Instagram posts regularly exceeding 20% engagement rates – well above category benchmarks.
dasha taran
Belgium-based beauty creator with 6.4M followers whose GRWM content is almost entirely Instagram-native, generating $537.8K EMV across four posts. Nature Class toner pads featured in two of her top three posts, with both driving strong paid partnership performance at over 1% engagement – solid for a creator at this follower scale. Her skincare ASMR framing and soft, intimate aesthetic are consistent across all posts, creating a distinctive content identity within the format.
Aysha Harun
US beauty and fashion vlogger whose Origins partnership post became the standout in this dataset, generating 8.3M engagements on TikTok – a 1,430% engagement rate – and $433.6K EMV from a single video. The Youthtopia Apple Butter Cleansing Balm was framed around post-glam removal, making the product feel essential rather than incidental. Also partnered with Pacifica Beauty for a more affordable double-cleanse routine, showing range across both premium and accessible skincare positioning.
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Plastique Tiara
US drag queen and content creator whose post-show de-drag GRWM format is the most visually distinctive in this cohort, generating $487.2K EMV across six posts. Her top post — an ASMR transformation after a live show – hit 129.7K engagements on Instagram. Her skincare routine post named Elemis, Caudalie, Laneige, Clarins, and Tirtir in a single video, signalling a genuinely premium routine that contrasts sharply with the drama of her full-glam starting point.
Dafa Atmaja
Indonesia-based male fashion and beauty vlogger with 9.6M followers whose GRWM content on TikTok generated $418M EMV from just two posts. His top video – featuring Originote cleansing oil – hit 2.6M engagements at a 26.6% engagement rate, one of the stronger male creator performances in the format. A second Originote post added 274.6K engagements, confirming the brand as a consistent fit for his audience and content style.
Gabriela
Netherlands-based fashion blogger and stylist with 103.9K followers who generated $366.8K EMV from a single TikTok – an extraordinary 20,937% engagement rate. Her CeraVe partnership post, filmed in Dutch and centred on the new Balancing Air Foam Cleanser for combination skin, hit 7.3M engagements. The strongest proof point in this dataset that a highly engaged micro audience can generate media value at a scale that dwarfs creators with fifty times the following.
Ana Breco
Mexico-based comedy and lifestyle creator with 8.2M followers whose two GRWM posts for Lbel generated a combined $364.1K EMV. Her top post hit 7.7M engagements at a 119.7% engagement rate – one of the highest raw engagement numbers in the cohort. Her second Lbel post followed in November with 1M engagements, demonstrating consistent audience response to the brand partnership across different content moments.
Anastasia
Russia-based makeup artist whose K-pop-framed GRWM post – positioning belif, CNP Laboratory, and The Face Shop as a glass skin night routine – hit 2.4M engagements on TikTok at a 28.7% engagement rate. Generated $319.1K EMV across TikTok and Instagram from a single content concept, with the cross-post to Instagram adding 77.6K additional engagements. One of the clearest examples of K-beauty and the GRWM format being used together to reach an audience primed for both trends simultaneously.
