This is what the microphone should actually. Be used for probably. And then I don't feel so. Bad. Welcome to this episode of the Tiger Sisters. I'm Cherie. I'm Jean and we're the Tiger sisters. Do you ever have that like cool friend or like that best friend who just like, knows what's good and you're like, OK, I'm going to be in this place at this time. What are your recs for like shopping for like travel destinations for restaurants like that?
Like stylish cool friend? Yeah, like I know for you it's me. And I know for you it's me. About you, it's me. So we're trying to recreate that and give you the tops of our top, our lists of things that we love and our. Favorite things, Favorite things, favorite things. Yes, so. This is going to be a fun episode and we'll link everything that we talk about in the description in the YouTube if you guys are interested in checking them out or just
learning more about them. Yeah, and nothing is sponsored. Nothing is sponsored unfortunately. Yeah, or if you're. Watching this and you'll want to sponsor. Yeah, you know, this isn't stuff that we truly love and are excited to talk about. Yeah, and that we've been using for years. And things like not just like Knick knacks, but things that like we really cherish are very meaningful for us and kind of like weave into our lives and like, how does owning this thing
and having this thing? Make our lives better. Make our lives better. And then also like for me, like sometimes like gives me confidence. And they're like, money can't buy you half, but I'm like, sometimes it can buy you confidence. Yeah, which is like a building block of happiness. I agree. It's like the amino acid of
happiness. Some might say, all righty, let's get started, let's do it. We have so many recommendations that we want to share with everyone, but we tried to limit ourselves as much as possible so it's not like a 10 hour long episode. So we've come up with several categories where we're each going to say one and then we'll have some shared categories. Because obviously we have a framework for how this episode is going to go. We have categories, it's organized. Yes. OK.
So the categories just so you can be excited are tech, clothing, beauty and high end. And then we have, so we're each going to say one. And then we have 3 sort of shared categories of items and they fall into 3 buckets, wearable, consumable and ineffable. Ineffable. Ineffable. Ineffable. Ineffable, which basically means so good that you can't speak about it. I don't know. I just, it just came to me. It just worked. OK, man. Wearable. Consumable.
I think the vocabulary. 800. Bitch wait, you got an 800 on your? You didn't know that. I thought you had like a 780 or something. It's rude. You've won 800. She's. She's. Trying to She's trying to downplay me. She's trying to push me down. I might have gotten 100 points lower than that, but we don't need to go back to that. It's it's my high point. No kidding. Wait, let me see. What does ineffable mean?
We're getting distracted. It's so it's like so beautiful that you can't even speak about it, is what ineffable? Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words. Hello. Is that not what I just said? That's pretty good, 700. Just kidding. OK, so let's get started. OK, let's start with, let's start with the tech category. OK, Sheree, what do you have for
tech favorite things? So you already know this and I got you into it. So maybe I should get a referral bonus, but this Garmin watch, OK, guys, it's not the prettiest thing. I know it's super sporty looking, but I use it every single day. I use it to track all of my biometrics. So my heart rate, my body battery, which is basically like how much energy I have throughout the day, my sleep and
I wear this to sleep. It's, I mean, this is not meant to be a sales thing, but I guess it just goes to like a deeper like desire of mine to like understand like what's going on in my body and also tracking it over time. I'm like a little bit of a nerd about that. So then I can see how my sleep score, you know, if I have like a big thing the night, the day after, I'm like, I really want to get good night's sleep and track it. And you know, how does it also relate to like, my cycle and
then my stress? And so it gives you your sleep score. You didn't say that part. Oh yeah, sleep score and then body score and just like rate and all these other biometrics that I'm like constantly looking at almost to like an obsessive amount. But I really like it because it helps me stay healthy and active and like I know people like the aura ring.
I honestly haven't tried it but it's just like I don't think I could wear a ring I. Could not wear a ring to sleep I don't know why and you know me I'm obsessed with rings I love rings like I would be usually wearing even more rings but I couldn't wear one to sleep I. Honestly don't like wearing anything else really to sleep. Like I don't wear necklaces or rings but. Like I wear these, I never take these off, but they don't come. Off. Well, yeah, so I just wear the watch every day.
So my pick is the Garmin watch. This is the venue S the Venue S2, which is an older model but Jean has one of the newer models. Yes, she did get me into the garment watch and I'm also into like, what do they call it? Like self quantification or something like that? Like personal quantification. Who calls it? That, no, that's like, that's like the like category bio, yeah, like bio measurement, biometrics, whatever. But I have gone through 2 Apple Watches, sadly.
The first one was actually even the Hermes version, which was the limited edition. And I loved it so much. But one day it fell like face down onto like the tile and it just cracked and broke. And then I had a second one. Which was which was mine. Because. I used the Apple Watch for years, but yeah, I started like the battery, you need to charge it every single night. So that's true you're unable to wear it for sleep purposes. And maybe it's gotten better now, but I had mine a while.
Ago. Yeah. So then I had trees and the same thing happened. So then I finally got the garment. I gave up. I mean, like, do I love how it looks? No. But I I've accepted it. Yeah, I don't know. It's just like super functional. I have to charge it like once a week or even if like once every like 10 days which is amazing. Yeah. And then the reason I got it also is because it gives you the sleep score and you wear it overnight. It tracks your sleep.
And then you can kind of have a better idea and like have a benchmark or just like a way to measure yourself to improve, because you guys know I'm always trying to improve my sleep. That's like my. Number one goal. Yeah, it's my like, whatever. What's the reference of the guy pushing the stone? Oh shoot that Greek mythal. Assist or something? Why is that the reference? Because I'm always trying to like, improve my sleep, but like, I pushed up and it comes down like I'm always, you know.
OK, Gene, So what is your recommendation in this tech category? Mine is podcasts so I don't know if anyone like has not tried podcasts. Try a podcast. But they're just, they're awesome. And like, I think people don't realize how many different categories of podcasts are out there today. So like if you have a niche interest, there's probably a podcast about it. Is there one that comes to mind to you? I like to listen to like Bachelor recap podcasts.
One that I love is called Here to See It and it's by these two really smart women. And they basically recap The Bachelor and The Bachelor Bachelorette and other reality TV shows. But they like talk about it through the lens of like feminism and through the lens of like cultural dissection and through the lens of just like they feel like women that I would love to like talk to and like have a conversation with. And it's just really fun to like, listen in on their conversation.
I love me some cultural dissection. Yeah, the one that I also listen to that people love to hate is all in podcasts. Oh yeah. I feel like Eddie would love. Of love. Day also. Yeah, I don't know. I have so, so many mixed feelings. I see. Everyone I secretly. Like it, but I know that's not a popular opinion especially. It's a popular opinion. I think it's kind of like anti feminist in a way. Is it? I don't know. It's just like, why can't we have like a woman version of that?
It's just like such like boys club that it's like a little bit frustrating as like a listener. Yeah, I mean, I guess we're trying to do that to have like an, you know, yeah, a fresh version of that. I don't. I mean, I don't know if they're anti feminist specifically. They're like anti everything. I didn't mean to.
Label. It they're kind of like anti everything, but I love to like have it on just to kind of like almost like eavesdrop and like listen in on like the conversations of that friend group. Like you really feel like you're in the group chat. Yeah. Right. And it's kind of the same for this other this other podcast that I, I listen to. Yeah. So maybe that's like the style that I like, but I love to just have them on when I'm like folding my laundry or like
chopping vegetables. What do you do that? I used to do that a lot more before you lived here. So yeah, podcasts, I don't know, pretty basic. If you haven't tried it out, feel free to try out the ones that I just spoke about. Or also just subscribe to this podcast we're listening to now True. Yeah, this is a podcast. This is a podcast. Meta. All right, Next category is clothing. Okay, Sherry, what is your
favorite thing for clothing? So this might be a bit of a hot take, especially if people haven't been there in a while, but it is Abercrombie and Fitch. They have had a revival over the. Past 2000 3. Yeah, I was an Abercrombie and Fitch Stan when I was like in fifth grade, like 2003 to 2005 time. And you also wear so much tie dye. Oh my yeah, tie dye 4th grade gaucho pants. Like a gaucho pants. You were so cute in them.
But so Abercrombie, you know, however, you know, almost 20 years later is really having a revival. I'm a big fan of like 2 categories and I get so many questions about it on my Instagram. Like whenever I wear Abercrombie jeans, people in real life and on Instagram are like where those jeans from? They look amazing. Abercrombie Jeans. I need to get on that. Yeah, I think like one time I went to Abercrombie and I tried on a bunch of jeans and I, like, didn't find the right one for me.
And then I just like, gave up. Yeah, gave up. Like never revisited. It well so they have petite sizes like petite sorry, I guess heights. Oh OK like so so I wear usually like the short ones OK, because the like normal ones are like a little too tall for me That's useful so that's handy yeah that's really handy and they also have high waisted ones which I feel like look good on me. So Abercrombie jeans, like go try on like 20 pairs and then see if you like one of them.
And then like, I yeah, would highly recommend. Yeah, because once you get like one good pair of jeans, like you just need like two or three. Oh, you have a lot of. I have a lot of. She has a lot of jeans. She has like a major collection. But for me, I'm like, as long as you have like two or three that are like dependable and like you feel good in them all the time. It's like, oh, feels so. Good. Yeah, I. Can always just like grab them and.
Especially if they're like a little bit soft and stretchy over like you wear them over time then you're like these are actually comfortable jeans I would wear on a plane. Yeah. Which I do sometimes. And the second thing at Abercrombie I would recommend are the tank tops. They're just like the very basic standard, like scoop neck tank top that you can wear under. You can layer it. And I think it looks really good. They have a bunch of different
styles now. It's linked on my Abercrombie like creator page, if you guys want to like, get a link directly to it. Yeah. They look really good. She got me into. Them, yeah, they're like, just like a nice basic and you can keep them for like many years. And they're fine. They also come in like short and long. Yeah, they have like a. Cropped one and a long 1. The cropped ones are nice for certain outfits but I like the long ones because they seem a bit more professional like the
cropped ones. Like sometimes you get a little bit of mid drift and I was like, that's not really the look I'm going for. Depends where you are. OK, Jean, So what is your top pick for the category of clothing? OK, my top pick is Set Active sets. So set Active is like a newish brand that's based in LA and they do mostly active wear, mostly out of active wear. They do sets. So like they're really cute looking like top and bottom that are matching in the same. And I feel like their price
point is like just right. It's definitely it's less than Aloe. Less than Lulu. Less than Lulu and the colors are really up to date. I do feel like, I think Lululemon, like I love their technical fabrics and I do think they genuinely have like fantastic innovations and their cuts are great, but a lot of times they're like colour collections. Are off. They're like maybe like one or two seasons. Yes, seriously, they're just
like a little. And I think that's why people sometimes like younger people think that Lulu is like choogy because like the colours are just not, they're not on point, they're not like in line with. What's going on? Yeah, it's just they're just slightly off. For example, like of those three brands who would have black green, first it would be set, then Aloe, then Lulu. Yeah. And then aloe. Aloe I think is very expensive. And then typically their fabrics
are like really like thin. Wait, I've heard a like a conspiracy theory on this that it's just like Aloe's like pretty cheap, like very, very cheap material. And it's like manufactured in this, like, really cheap way. And like, it's like, not good at all, but it's just like marketed up because of the branding. Yeah. I mean, where's Lulu? I feel like you get what you're paying for. Like, it is very technical. I don't feel the same way about Aloe.
I mean, I think the fabrics are generally like you can get them at like literally Costco because they're all from the same manufacturers, manufacturers. But I think the innovation is in like the cut, the the innovation was in the fabric before with Lululemon because they were the first ones to like weave in like silver, right? Yeah, that's like antimicrobial, microbial, etcetera. But anyway, I like the.
The aloe yoga pants, yeah, because they look so good, especially because they also get petite. Yeah. But they're so pilled and disgusting. Oh really? That I only wear them like on the airplane? Oh no, I know they don't look good. Yeah, and only on long haul flights, guys. So sad. I know, I know, it's a rough life. Some of them send her some. Aloe. Send me a new pair of aloe.
Anyway, so I love that active they come in, we'll like I'll pull some photos and we'll like put them here so that you can like see what they look like. But the good thing is they have like several different lines of fabrics so that you can find the one that like suits you best. The one I always wear is called sport body. They just came out with and it's actually the only one that I wear. They came out with another one that's like brand new.
I haven't tried on yet. And so I will, I will be honest that like the first few runs that they had, they were very inconsistent on sizing. So like literally it would be sport body, but like the different colors on the same same size, but different colors would like fit differently. So like I think by now they've worked out those kinks. But but yeah, generally it's just like a great brand so that you can buy like multiples of the same thing in different
colors. They have like different cuts of like the bra tops and. It's so cute. It's just cute. Like it just for me, I was like, I didn't used to spend a ton of money on like gym wear or like active wear. But then I kind of realized like, you know what, like anything that makes you more excited to go to the gym and like actually like do that workout class and like go consistently and like you don't have to worry about like, oh, like which top and which bottom
should I wear? You just like pull the set every time and you're like, I know it looks good. I know I feel good in it. Like, it's almost like a way to like, simplify your life. Oh, you know. Totally. And like, going to the gym is hard enough mentally, yeah. So anything to simplify that and take like the barrier out of the way is just like, so worth it, I think. Yeah, I will say there's this one set that I got. It is so cute.
Perfect color, perfect cut. I was on vacation in Australia and we need to, I need to still address this. Yeah. So needs to be addressed. It needs to be addressed. It has a. Zipper SOS. Literally like leggings don't have zippers usually but it's like it was super cute. You just zip it up here and there's a zipper for the top part. It was matchy. The zipper busted open and I busted open. And I'm not saying this that's a good quality thing. I just saying I need to address it.
I'm gonna go to said act. Might be I have the same leggings and mine have not busted or just have not busted mine mine unbusted. Literally, I was with my friends and then like we're sitting down in the car in Australia and then I was just like, guys, my like, like the zipper, like busted open and I was. Just goes all the way low like you can't. Yeah, there's no way to recover from that because the zipper goes down really low and I was with a bunch of girl and guy friends and classmates.
What'd? You do. I thankfully I had like another like I had a dress in the car because we were going to take photos until like so I had a change of clothes, but like they're just like what are you talking about? Your your pants busted open. So I'm going to go to set active in LA and hopefully bring it to them and be like please can I have another pair slash and or like. An exchange credit or something?
Yeah. The other thing is I think what's really interesting about them is that they are started by a female founder and the way that she does marketing is very interesting. Do you get their marketing emails? No. So they have this like, do you follow them on TikTok or anything like that? No, OK. The way that they do their like brand marketing is very like behind the scenes. They bring you into everything.
She writes these brand emails that are like directly from the founder that are like like stream of consciousness, like unedited, like, hey guys, like this is what I've been working on. Like I'm so excited about this launch. Like I think this went really well. Like this didn't go well. Like we're working on this part like and it's just like so transparent. And you read it.
Yeah, I read like a good amount of them, especially like more than like the other, like really polished ones that I get. And I mean, I didn't unsubscribe. That's even like a big thing. And like, sometimes they'll send out like, literally like screenshots of their Slack chats with each other and they'll be like, this color is like sold out, like we need to reorder right away. And you're like, whoa. It's just, it's just a really fresh way of engaging with the community.
Building in public. Yeah. So I've just been, I've just been like thinking about their their brand. They're like, kind of like. A company to keep your eye on. Yeah, OK, Moving along. Because there's too much, there's too much side chatter here. There's too much chitchat. I'm being silent. She's being she's, she's a young. Are you silent? Were you silent or were you silenced? There's Oprah that's so funny. So good. What an icon. Oprah, Oprah.
My like original idol. Oprah, if you're watching. This old Oprah, we love you. Oprah, we saw you. Oh my gosh. Oprah. We were together at The Four Seasons. We saw her at The Four Seasons when we were there for my graduation with my family. Like Oprah. Oprah. OK. The next way, the next category is our beauty recommendations. All right, Gene, go ahead. My beauty recommendation is generally acids for your face typically.
So there's all different types of acids you can do like BHA's like glycolic, like lactic acid, etcetera. You can like find which is the right one for you. But what I really like are peel pads because I also have like I also have acids that like come in like a container container. But then you need to like do the like, you know, it's just like this is just like easy. And when you're you're tired, you don't need to think about it. So these are two of the ones that I consistently rebuy.
This one is Arcona triad pads refresh. You can use any time to cleanse, tone in, or remove makeup. I've actually never seen this before. Really. Yeah. You. You've been using this for a while. Yeah. I love the. Smell too. It's like a cranberry smell. It's potent. Yeah, I think it smells really good. Yeah. But it's great for just like, like at the end of the night or actually before you put on
makeup. So sometimes I feel like this is actually like the secret for like before you put on makeup, you should be doing some form of exfoliation so that your skin is like prepped and like there's no dead skin so that the makeup goes on really well. Not that I don't, I don't even use foundation. I just use like tinted moisturizer. But so you do also have this like pad and then you do moisturizer, then sunscreen. Yes, tinted sunscreen, tints sunscreen, Yeah.
And then that's my situation that I have going on. And then this one, Doctor Dennis gross, This is a little bit stronger. Yeah. And these are called Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel. And there's like 2 parts to it. There's like the first one is like the actual like activated peel. And the second one is a neutralizer, I guess to like neutralize the the acids. Oh, just as a warning, it says
it on the package. But if you're using these, make sure you definitely use sunscreen because it makes your skin more sensitive to the sun. These are just awesome and I always buy either one or the other every year at the Nordstrom Anniversary sale. You've given me a bunch of these. Yeah, you don't use them that much. I kind of forget I need to remember to use them. Like I fall out of practice of
using them. But it's also good because if you're traveling, yes, eyes are really good to bring. Yeah. And because they're so like saturated with like liquid, you can do your face, you can do your neck, you can do your decollage, declaitage, declaitage. And then you can also like do like your elbows as well and like. Hands so it's. Like very saturated to do the hand. You can do it like I just use everything to it's very last oz, very last drop.
And you can just put it places where you also want to exfoliate. Yeah, so. Yeah, I highly recommend these. I think they are very like under look and they're like the basis of like healthy glowing skin. So that's mine. Cherie, OK for mine for a beauty, let's do a little ASMR. I want to do ASMR but yours. Doesn't sound as good. Yours sounds like crackle you can do. OK. So. Y'all know what I'm about to talk about It is Tower 28. Shout out to the CEO Amy.
It is an Asian woman founded makeup brand and they are like cruelty free. Like I think they have like the natural symbol at Sephora. So what is it like clean? Yes clean. They have the clean symbol at Sephora. So it's like clean makeup. I have this lip product and I use. Sure. You sure? You could say no sesame. This is the lip Jelly Jean knows. I don't like it when she's in the lip product, so that's why she's the dingy right now.
And so and I also have these like mini ones because I got it at like a little sample thing that Amy gave them out. So I just Oh my God, I guess I didn't realize I have so many of these lip jellies in different colors. Love Tower 28, love supporting Amy and all that she's doing. I also have this bronzer in Bronzino Gold Coast.
I have it this, I don't know what it's called, but like they just have a bunch of different colors and they also have this in blush, which I've used and given to Gene. Their mascara is amazing. I am a big fan of Tower 28, especially because it is clean beauty and that's something that I'm like trying to incorporate more into my life. Same. As much as I love my like, you know, Dior Chanel, like mascaras because it's just like fancy,
but it's like not clean. I'm like, there's a reason why it stays on for 48 hours is because there's nothing clean about that, you know? Yeah. And I have this thing, this, Yeah, I have a bunch of these in like a blush color. And I like to just keep them in the car because literally you can use this for everything.
Like I'll use it on my cheeks and like here and then I'll also use it as like eyeshadow, like a little bit of eyeshadow, even though it's like it's like a darker like plummy blush colour and it's just like totally like oh, and also I'll use it on my lips and it totally like enlivens you. It's like literally all you need. You could just go out with just this on. It's very dorsal colour, yeah. I mean, this can be used in
multiple places as well. On your face, Jean is very much about like ease and like versatility. So you like a one stop shop for all your makeups, which I totally agree with. Yeah, Tower 28. Highly recommend. Next category is we are going to talk about generally things that we love that are high end, so wide category, but we can do a lot with it. And like, I feel like Gina and I don't usually talk about our high end things. You know, we love a good deal.
We love, you know, Goodwill, Salvation Army, thrifting, consignment shops. Like there's like a side of us that like, Oh my God, we like live for a deal. But on the other end of the spectrum, there is something very beautiful and historic and like almost like an appreciation for beauty and art when it comes to things that are high end. And heritage. Yes. And so there is obviously going to be a section where we talk about the more expensive things in our lives that we also enjoy.
I love nice things. I'm not going to. I'm not going to hide it. I do like nice things I. Love nice things and nice things love me. OK, so why don't you get started Jean? Like in this high end category? What is your wreck? My favorite thing in this category is my Jacques Marie Marsh sunglasses, so you guys have probably seen me wear these a bajillion times. Light sensitivity. I know so when I had a light sensitivity because I was wearing them once in a story when I was like indoors, but I
just come inside. But so these are my sunglasses. I love them. I I'm like so in love with them and these were they were very pricey for me. How much were they? They start at like 700 something. Oh Dang. So like it's not like a like a casual purchase for most people, but I get so much wear out of them. I love them. I wear them like pretty much every day, multiple times a day. And these are they're handmade in Japan and they're made out of this amazing, like really,
really high quality acetate. They're. Very light they look look like they would be heavier, but they're super light you. Know but they're just like so like thick and they also they do the thing where they're like oh limited design so like every design they have like several 100 so each one is marked like you know 2 of this one, this one is #358 out of 450 that were made. God, we love a limited release. I know, I love the limited release. I'm such a hoe for a limited
release. They're just like the thickest, highest quality glasses I've ever worn, sunglasses I've ever worn. And I actually want to get them in glasses too, but I haven't like pulled the trigger. I also feel like Jacques Marie Maj. I hadn't heard of the brand before you had told me about it. It's kind of like one of those in my mind. And like one of my, like, fancy friends also has glasses, but it's like a if you know, you know, kind of brand in my mind
because it's super understated. It has like, a very specific, like, look and like, logo to it that like, if you recognize it, it's also like a point of conversation. Yeah. And also, I think they got kind of popular because the actor who plays Kendall Roy on Succession, like made a big deal out of specifically getting these glasses because he was like Kendall Roy would wear these glasses. So like, that was like one of the like, pop culture moments that kind of like put them more
on the map. But they're still very like under the radar. It's carved out of like a block of acetate, like one single huge block. Maybe that's what they do for like Luxottica too. Like maybe that's like every single high end sunglass brand. But these are just different. Like I've never had a pair of sunglasses that feel so like special and like meaningful and I actually take care of them like way better than like my other sunglasses. Yeah, they, they look fantastic on you. Thank you.
And I feel like if there's a way that you can like, make it like do some like amortization in your mind of like, Oh my God. Totally cost per. Wear exactly. Cost per wear. Oh, it's a $700.00 pair of sunglasses. But if you literally wear it every single day, as opposed to like a $700.00 dress that you wear once a year, like it doesn't make sense. But like that were true sunglasses, cost per wear makes, like, so much more sense. Yeah, exactly.
And they totally change your whole like look like you feel. I feel like it's one of those things where you like, can put them on and you like feel different or you like, feel better. I like the idea of cost per wear because that also dovetails into mine where my favorite high end thing that I own is my jewelry. And so there are two that I want to talk about. One is my Van Cleef. It is a necklace that I have that was a gift from Jean.
It's the Alhambra like it's the very iconic one that's in the what color? It's like in the white yes, it's in the mother of Pearl color. I wear it almost every single day. Like if you've seen any of my videos, you will see me wearing it undoubtedly. It's just so beautiful, so simple, and I think it goes with everything. And because it's the mother of Pearl, I really like it because I think it goes well with my
skin tone. I think it also like really brightens up like my complexion all this. Draws the eye to your face and there's like a little. Bit of fluster. Damn damn damn damn. But there, yeah, it draws the eyes upwards towards the face and it's just so beautiful. It's also like a couple of thousand of dollar, like I think it's two or three, like between
2:00 to $3000. It's definitely an investment piece that you can hold and have for a very long time, especially if you take care of it. Mother of Pearl, I can you. I don't wear to work out. I don't wear in the shower. I take it off every single night. Like I keep it very, very well, you know, protected because I cherish this necklace. And the second thing, it was also a gift from Jean. Wow, I love my sister. I love my sister who gives me nice jewelry.
And it's the Justin Clue Cartier bracelet. It is like the smaller version in rose gold with the diamonds in it. And it's just a really beautiful bracelet. And I think when I wear these two things together, it's like I feel more confident and just like more elevated and more polished because of my jewellery. And it is an investment, but I guess with cost per wear and also cost per wear over a lifetime because I plan on having these for a very long
time. And if I can, you know, pass it on to like, my children, too, I think it's just one of those things that I really cherish. And I think also, like, wearing something beautiful kind of can help you just, like, remind you that you're beautiful. Yeah. I don't know, like not to like impute too much power to like physical. Things, things defining our beauty. But like, yeah, there is something like really not. I just like feel put together when I have like, nice jewelry on.
And I think it's also, it can be a conversation starter too. Yeah. Like I've had questions where people ask me about my bracelet and especially if they they've been looking at one as well. And they're like, oh, it's like, what size is that? What color? It looks so good. Like I've been thinking about getting like the white gold. What do you think? Like, there's just been like, you know, some conversation starters on it as well. Nice. Now moving on to Section 2, Portion 2, Part 2.
It is our shared items where we both use them and both love them. And the three categories, just to remind you, are wearable, consumable and inevitable, inevitable, inevitable. Which we all know the definition of now. Yes. OK, so wearable. This one will be really quick for both of us. It's Birkenstocks.
I love Birkenstocks. I've been wearing them since I was in middle school, I think when they were like all the craze and we went on a family trip to Germany and I was like, I need to buy Birkenstocks in Germany. Actually, that's like the beginning. Of how I loved his. Life of how I love to buy things like while I'm traveling, especially from their home country. Last time I was in Germany, I bought a bunch of those Remova bags, like the suitcase, because
they're. Yeah, because they're made in Germany. Oh, I. Didn't know that. Yeah, but anyway, I love to shop guys like. Yeah, she's buying Ramona bags in Germany for the. Culture for the culture, OK, because to honor, to honor the craftsmanship of the country. OK, so Birkenstocks. So Birkenstocks, yeah. Yeah, I got my first pair in 7th grade. I remember it very distinctly because they were $77.
And I remember thinking, holy crap, this is a lot of money to be spending on a shoe or a sandal. And everyone had Birkenstocks. But I was just like, I really wanted them and my mom got them for me. And when I tell you I wore these things to the ground, Arizona's and the Boston's are the ones that I own now. And I love the Boston clogs. Me too. I also have Arizona's in blue big buckle. Check out the big buckle ones. They look really good.
They actually look like kind of elevated like literally you could wear them with like a nice outfit. Check out the big buckle. OK, the next category of consumable is tea. We love tea. I love tea. Yeah, I love. OK, I love how tea. It's a consumable, but it's also like a routine. What is it called? It's like a. Routine. Okay, it's, it's like a ritual kind of yeah, it's like you I love to drink herbal tea at night because then it's like, oh, like the night time has come.
It's time to like wind down maybe time tea. Yeah, and I love to gift tea. Oh my God, yes we. Oh wow. Maybe that should be our category of like teas we love to give. Yes, Oh my God. Barney and sons Barney and. Sons. Their tea sets are gorgeous like especially during the holiday time and it's not even that expensive like it might be 25 to $30.00 for like a beautiful tea set. Yeah. Or like I think it's more like 50 to 60, maybe like 30 for like
a small one or something. I've gifted like a small, yeah, a small one for like a friend for the holidays before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're just like universal and they're healthy. They have like tons of amazing health benefits. Yes, and also like teas hold a very special place in our on our lives and our family, like our family is just like such big tea drinkers especially I think in a lot of Asian cultures, it's like at every meal you will have some
sort of like hot tea. Like when you go to dim sum they always ask you what type of tea do you want to drink. Cuk Fatah. Cuk Fatah. Obviously, guy. Chrysanthemum tea. That's chrysanthemum. See. It's herbal in Cantonese, yeah. And so. Tea holds a really secial lace in our lives. And then as you guys might know, I worked on a Jaanese tea farm. A lot of that, like love and like long time devotion to tea is the reason behind why we're starting our tea brand, Yes.
And so you guys might have already seen hopefully all of this sort of like behind the scenes and the unveilings behind our tea brand. We're starting with Matcha planning to expand. We want to capture all the amazing qualities of tea and all the same positive associations and like the ritual of it and the sort of like gift giving aspect and we want it, we want to share that all with you guys.
Yes. And like, we also want to bring you guys along on the journey and a lot of the behind the scenes of how we've thought through this tea brand, this matcha brand, how we've sourced it, where we're getting it from, and also the story behind it and why it's so meaningful for us and how we want to bring you into the fold and into the story. Yeah, but I just like we, I both feel so passionately about this and I cannot wait for you guys to to see it and like hold it in your hands yourself.
I'm so I'm so freaking excited. And so I guess just to represent our love for tea, I just want to show you this matcha bowl and this matcha whisk that I got when I was in Japan last summer. And it's something that I use every single day to whisk our matcha in. I know a lot of people use electronic whisks, but I don't know. It is a really beautiful ritual to use this bamboo. It's fun. It's fun. It's like very soothing. It's a way that I like to start my day. It's a moment to myself.
And so yeah, I love like beautiful pottery as well. And it's just a a nice way to get in the right mindset. So you can pre-order our matcha at the link in the description and we will also have some of the tools that go along with making matcha. Available for purchase and our plan is to eventually make like gift kits. That you can give. I'm. So excited you can't wait. I just want it to all happen
like yesterday. And also as always, like as we're building this company in public, we really want to hear from you guys. So any ideas, thoughts, questions, comments you have on our company and what we're doing, leave them in the comments because we always read every single comment. Yeah, and also like. Part of the reason why we want want to build this company and create this matcha brand is because of you guys.
Because of the. Community like and that's why we're doing this episode like we want everyone to know and love and use the things that we love and. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. And so for our last and final category in this episode, we are going to be talking about the ineffable. OK, it is clearly perfume. I'm obsessed with perfumes. Like, I cannot emphasize how much I love perfumes and how they are just this like indelible part of my everyday life and they like change my
mood and they. There's something powerful in, like, the, like, I don't know, the brain chemistry in sense. Yeah. And how, like, smells for me, like, bring me back to a certain place or time. And they also, if I want to feel a certain way, I will wear a certain scent, like to feel more confident even. So for this episode I put on my Joe Malone Orange Blossom Cologne like this is how. It was just.
The vibe I wanted to give and have in this episode and it was very much like dictated by like how I smell. Yeah, I feel like also for me personally, I think I have a really, really strong sense of smell. My hypothesis is that my sense of smell is like heightened because I have really bad vision. I think that's why my sense of smell and my sense of taste are heightened, because my vision and my hearing are. Not as good. That sounds like it's possible.
Yeah, that's my like pseudoscience explanation. I feel like. Perfumes can just really like change how you feel your entire day and they also for me, they very much like Mark a moment or like a. Period in time for you. Right. Like I very, very rarely ever finish an entire perfume bottle.
Like 1 of. Actually, like Balda Freak is by by Rio is one of the few that I've like gone through multiple bottles and like repurchased, but it kind of just like it marks a moment in time and like how you were feeling at the time and it's like a way to like remember a time. Through. 1/5 through like a different.
Sense like that's not usually like photographs yeah I mean they they do say like online it's just like Oh my God, when like women go to like a perfume store and they smell like light blue like the Dolce and Gabbana one or like whatever. There's another one where it's like this a toxic men have this very one specific sense, you know what I'm talking about, or it's like something like some, you know, Dolce Gabbana one or like you know, some like Prado. Alpha di Jo.
Maybe. Actually I like Alpha Di Jo. It smells good. I like that one too, but you know what I mean? Like it brings people back and they're like. There's this one Dior. No, there's this one. Like Armani perfume. Oh, maybe that's what I did, Armani. Code or something that like this guy dated for and like now like whenever I smell I'm like. I it's a, it's literally like a federal. Reaction. Yeah, not because it smells bad, but just because I'm like.
It's like. It brings you back to a time where you don't want to be preferable to. So my recommendation is Joan Malone. It's a perfume that I've been using for several years. I love them. It's actually maybe the only perfume I really use. I have a bunch of samples. It's the one that I've like really fallen in love with and I like how stackable the perfumes are. So instead of just wearing like one, they mix very well together and in that way you can make it a little bit more bespoke.
So I like I've had this one Peony and blush suede this one for like 5 years. It's like actually kind of changed colors. I. Think because. It's like so concentrated now, but and I also have this wild bluebelly. You can see they're both kind of running low, but I like mixing these two together. It just feels like spring to me. And then I recently got into wood sage and sea salt. So I have the travel one and also this like smaller one, this one, it has a little bit of a muskier smell.
It's more it smells a lot like cedar. To me, and it might. Be a little bit more masculine. Rather than feminine, but I like it for when. Like I'm trying to feel like the most confident version of myself. Like, oh, I have like a thing that I'm presenting. Like we'd embody my like feeling. Smells like a forest, like at either twilight or that's what it smells like, or like right in the morning. That's kind of beautiful.
Yeah, like a forest with like, lots of tall pine trees and then like Pines that are like, all scattered on the ground. It's a cedar. Yeah. The last one that I'm going to share is just Orange Blossom. This one I got in London in March of 2024. This was like, I'm in Joe Malone. I got to buy Joe Malone Breweries in London. And this one is just fresh. It's a little bit girly and like feminine. I really like it. I love, I love the smell of orange blossom.
It's just a really straightforward orange blossom. It kind of it's like it's. Vanilla too to me. It's not really to me it reminds me of what are the like honeysuckles. Smells very honeysuckle. I like this one as well. So yeah. And I only really want to get the one this one in like the travel size. I feel like Joe Malone still is a pretty pricey perfume and I I like to savor it. Yeah. It's actually that's a good way to like get into perfumes is to start with buying like the small
ones. Yeah. Especially because like even when I like rarely ever make it through. So for me, I like discovering like kind of more like niche. Perfume brands. Like, it kind of started with, like, Lavo. That was literally from 10 years ago. That one is a really, really strong. I know Shiri doesn't like strong scents, but this one is, like, freaking amazing. It's July 49, and yeah, and it is like the strongest. Like you can say I've barely used it. It is very sent forward, but it
smells freaking amazing. It's like, and I was like resin. It smells a lot like resin. It smells like a grandma to me. OK, yeah, so like lava. I also have. Been wearing a lot of Leaves by Lava, which also comes in a roller. So you can also try buying a roller first. Yeah. I just want to, like, try out a perfume. Yeah. But like, for me, the fun of it is also to like, explore and like discover perfumes and to find something that like nobody else is really wearing.
Yeah, scent is such a personal thing. Like everyone is always talking about their signature scent, yeah. So if you're able to make it more of your own, then that's like I. Don't know so special. Yeah, so like one of the scents I've been wearing a lot recently is Vanilla Riviera by Miso Rivacci, which is a Parisian brand. Let me smell it, that it just smells.
It's like vanilla but like, also like green, like flowers, but the green like the stems of the flowers, you know, Like it just feels like you're in this like jungle, doesn't it? I'm getting. More of like a. An open woods. I'm not yet in the jungle, yeah. To me that is like very jungly. It's very like hot jungle summer night. But yeah, this is like a a brand that I discovered at a perfume store.
And then here's another one that's called Udmar Kuya, which is a passion fruit, I think, right? This one's insane. This one I got for you when I was in. Paris, yes. So I asked Cherie. This is by Maison Corvelli. I asked Cherie to pick this up for me in Paris because it's an X-ray. It was cheaper in Europe because it's also. These are all made in. Paris. This is spicy, smelly. Yes, it is. It's well, that's the food. It's like a leather component. Yeah, smells like.
It's like, it's like leather and passion. Fruit. No, it's like spicy leather to me. Yeah, it's like, it's like. Nothing you've ever smelled before. And it's just like once you put one of these perfumes on it, you're like, I'm a different person. You're like, watch out if you don't even know me, you know, like it's just totally, it's just totally transformative. Like perfume is such a transformative quality to it. It's really ineffable. I think we can we can wrap it
from there. The only last thing to say is that like if. Perfumes are a little strong. For you, you can start off with like a body oil. That has like a scent. This one is Nooks. And it comes in either this like glitter, like kind of glowy finish or like a clear finish. You can kind of just like spray it on your skin and rub it in and it, it smells so good. It's like very, very light, but it smells. Can I also put it in my hair as well it?
Smells like a sexy baby. Well, I put it in my hair too. Yeah. So yeah, I think that's what we have for you guys for this episode. Hopefully you enjoyed getting some insight into the things that we love and we wanted to share with you and the things that like make our everyday like a little bit brighter, a little bit happier, a little bit make you feel a little bit more confident, like going through life with a little bit more. Ease. Healthier. I love it. Yeah.
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