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Minimalist Style On A Budget ft. Gemma Dimond · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast was recorded on wundry Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Landis. I'm sal keep that in And
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  Speaker 1: this is a Rochis life lessons and tips to make
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  Speaker 1: you rich in life. And we are joined by the beautiful, amazing, stunning, Brave,
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  Speaker 1: Gem and Diamond today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you what a thrill. That was a real gusher.
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  Speaker 1: We don't every felt more.
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  Speaker 2: Gusher than usual because it's in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to impress you.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, and that's a wrap tick, That's that's all
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  Speaker 2: I've got.
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  Speaker 1: But you are I was going to say, a man
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  Speaker 1: a jack of many trades?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the same jack of all tropes? Just kidding?
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  Speaker 1: But today we've got you on to talk about fash
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  Speaker 1: We're going to some style tips, shopping tips, all the
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  Speaker 1: tips from you, just the tip, just the tip. We're
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  Speaker 1: very excited, but before we get into it, we start
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  Speaker 1: with a life lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Of the way.
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  Speaker 1: So would you like to kick us off?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: I found this is an old old TikTok video. The
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  Speaker 3: creator's name is Denisha Carter. She gets so much hate
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  Speaker 3: because she's so beautiful that all of the comments are
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  Speaker 3: like you must be ai, which like what that's the
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  Speaker 3: problem to have.
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  Speaker 2: That's what people come into my photos all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, may imagine. I don't think it's a compliment,
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  Speaker 2: but she was.
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  Speaker 3: Doing a video about I don't even know what the
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  Speaker 3: context was, but I feel like you guys will get
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  Speaker 3: this because it's she was talking about. When you post
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  Speaker 3: something on the Internet and you have a very clear
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  Speaker 3: point that you're trying to get across and someone wants
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  Speaker 3: to argue with you, and instinct tells us like, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: I want to explain my point further. What they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to argue has absolutely nothing to do with what you
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  Speaker 3: were saying. Yep, the quote that I pulled from it.
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  Speaker 3: I can't compete with the voices in your head, nor
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  Speaker 3: will I waste the airtime or give you the clout
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  Speaker 3: of going back and forth with you. I'm no longer
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  Speaker 3: responding to clarify things that were crystal clear in the
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  Speaker 3: first place.
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  Speaker 2: Boom fucking Mike drops. Yeah. So I'm just not arguing.
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  Speaker 3: You know what.
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  Speaker 1: We need to create some sort of thing in the
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  Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok comments where we can like automatically go
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  Speaker 1: back to me in comments saying that exactly we always
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  Speaker 1: say like, you're not allowed to make me feel bad
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  Speaker 1: on the phone that I pay for love that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I love that. Put that shit on shirt, but
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  Speaker 2: that ship, I've got it tattooed on my lower the
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  Speaker 2: whole paragraph. I love that. I love that. What's your
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  Speaker 2: life lesson?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: My life lesson.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling sal about it the other day and
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  Speaker 4: I was saying how sometimes you don't need to like
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  Speaker 4: know the plot twist of like everything, because I whenever
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  Speaker 4: I'm reading a book or whenever I'm like watching a movie,
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  Speaker 4: I am there being like with the red thread on
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  Speaker 4: the wall, being like.
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  Speaker 2: Stories, what the is?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like literally trying to that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't end up like enjoying the book or like
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  Speaker 4: enjoying the movie because I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, I mean yeah, like literally taking notes.
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  Speaker 4: And then anyway, I was reading this book and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, this is an enemy to lovers.
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  Speaker 2: I see it? Ye see it now?
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  Speaker 4: I love like fantasy smart just to give you a
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  Speaker 4: y yeah, yeah, very very intense stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: My life lesson of the week is another gem from
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  Speaker 1: the Instagram pages that we love data but making Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: I know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Alex is going to run away and you might have
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  Speaker 3: seen this, I mean was my favorite account.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll love this. Apparently the Gucci belt is back.
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  Speaker 1: I have not seen this, so okay, she did a
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  Speaker 1: study on Twitter and apparently the Gucci belt has had
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  Speaker 1: eighteen percent plus increase in mentions on x formerly known
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  Speaker 1: to Twitter per day for the last week and has
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  Speaker 1: been seen worn by the likes of Belahadide and Marley Cyrus.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, she's back.
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  Speaker 1: She's back. I've seen it in like a little micro
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  Speaker 1: version though, which wasn't as popular.
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  Speaker 2: Because we have we have ragged on this belt twice.
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  Speaker 2: I don't own ones, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care, but it's the It was the whole
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  Speaker 4: thing about how it had such a like a peak,
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  Speaker 4: a peak, and then within a matter of months it
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  Speaker 4: was like, cringe, I don't have any feelings towards this belt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about the Gucci Marmont belt specifically, we always
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  Speaker 1: use that as an example of why you shouldn't follow
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  Speaker 1: trends just because they're trending, especially if it's a designer
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  Speaker 1: item that costs a fuck load. But if you love
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  Speaker 1: that belt and you've always loved it, then you go
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  Speaker 1: go exactly and you wear the shit out of that belt.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just but if you're just buying it
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  Speaker 1: for the trend, it's like it doesn't matter if trade
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  Speaker 1: is Yeah, every thing that you love and hold deer
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  Speaker 1: at some point will be considered cringe exactly. So you
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  Speaker 1: just have to know whether or not you're willing to
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  Speaker 1: like stand by it and put your money towards it,
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  Speaker 1: get your money's worth.
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  Speaker 2: Put your shit on the shirt, sow. But she's back, baby,
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  Speaker 2: It's a wild start. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm excited to see because she's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the eye.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to get one? Two broke chicks?
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  Speaker 1: I can afford it, maybe a vintage one if I
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  Speaker 1: could find one, but jump even on deepop or something,
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  Speaker 1: they're probably popping off. Now everybody's seen that stat and
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  Speaker 1: they're like.
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  Speaker 2: Raise the prices. But yeah, there we go. Love it
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now that we've got our life lessons out of
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  Speaker 1: the way, should we get.
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  Speaker 2: Into the episode. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: So on your TikTok, you've called yourself a minimalist dresser.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk us through what that means?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I how this kind of came to be,
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  Speaker 3: like in terms of my style It's sort of evolved
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  Speaker 3: from necessity because I've worked pretty much exclusively in beauty
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  Speaker 3: for the last decade ish, But before that, I worked
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  Speaker 3: in fashion, and I was a tiny, little baby university
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  Speaker 3: student working in retail, and I would go to all
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  Speaker 3: of these events and everyone was wearing designer and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I want in, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Gucci belt was a really nice served me
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful segue, because I'm like, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: spend all of this money on something that I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to wear for a season, So I would just save
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  Speaker 3: my pennies and buy something super super classic, so smart,
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  Speaker 3: black white, beij denim. And then from that I realized,
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  Speaker 3: because prior to that, I feel like everyone goes through
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  Speaker 3: it at some stage, I was just buying whatever I
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  Speaker 3: thought was cool, could not, for the life of me,
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  Speaker 3: work out what felt like me and felt like my style.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I started buying these more timeless, if
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  Speaker 3: you will items, I realized, Okay, actually this is what
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  Speaker 3: I like. I like my neutrals, I like clean lines,
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  Speaker 3: I like things that aren't going to date, and that's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of where I feel most comfortable. And then
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  Speaker 3: the older I'm getting the more I'm like, no, no, just
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  Speaker 3: bring it back to what you know. And that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the space I'm playing in now.
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  Speaker 2: It takes the stress out of it. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: a Yeah, who were some of your style likeons, Rosie
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  Speaker 2: Huntington Whitely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if we go way way back, Jane Burkin,
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  Speaker 3: everything Mary Kate can actually do. And it is so
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  Speaker 3: upsetting that they're never papped anymore because I just want
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  Speaker 3: to know what they're wearing day to day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I follow a few fan accounts that will occasionally get
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  Speaker 1: like the paparazzi picks and it would be.
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  Speaker 2: So burns teeth.
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  Speaker 1: I save everyone though.
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  Speaker 3: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: When Mary Kate was wearing that like long leopard coat
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year, yeah, yeah, made my day.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I love that huge.
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  Speaker 1: I know you were Vogue for your wedding. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: was big for you. Mary Kate in the leopard coat
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  Speaker 1: was a big date.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be right in that way.
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  Speaker 3: That link is still I do, ye, but yeah, No,
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  Speaker 3: those are the kind of the people that are Victoria Beckham, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Simple chic forever. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: So what would you say to people who think that
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  Speaker 1: minimalist style is boring.
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  Speaker 3: I probably correct, but I just I don't care. Not
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  Speaker 3: caring is the greatest feeling in the world. But there's like, sure,
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  Speaker 3: it might be boring, but there's clearly it's a more
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  Speaker 3: economical way to shop. Firstly, because you're wearing things over
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  Speaker 3: and over and over again. I actually, I'm not bragging
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  Speaker 3: about this on Instagram. I haven't shopped this year, which
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  Speaker 3: probably says more about the like gifting and influencer economy
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  Speaker 3: than it does anything else. But I haven't bought a
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  Speaker 3: single thing. Wow, obviously groceries, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of fact, was this a conscious band that
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  Speaker 4: you were like, I'm not going to buy anything new
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  Speaker 4: this year?
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  Speaker 2: Or has it just.
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  Speaker 3: When we were we honeymooned and we were in LA
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  Speaker 3: and I went into the row. I was to try
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  Speaker 3: explaining that to a straight mail. I'm like, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to go into this shop. They're going to be mean
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  Speaker 3: to us, and I'm not going to buy anything and
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  Speaker 3: I'm too scared to try anything on, but we need
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  Speaker 3: to go in. And he's like, oh, what, you want
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  Speaker 3: to take photos of the store, and like that's also banned.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I don't understand what we're doing in here.
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  Speaker 3: But then we went in and I'm looking at everything,
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  Speaker 3: and then he goes, this just looks like everything that
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  Speaker 3: you already own, but it probably wouldn't get it, like
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  Speaker 3: we wouldn't have had to take out a second mortgage.
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  Speaker 3: Normally I would have been like, you know nothing, you're
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  Speaker 3: an idiot, but I was.
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  Speaker 2: He got into my I.
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  Speaker 3: Guess I've probably had a couple of margaritas at lunch,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, he's actually right. And then when we
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  Speaker 3: got home, i just kind of looked at my wardrobe
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, no, no, I'm working with too much already.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need more stuff any good realization.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very much experience truly love it.
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  Speaker 3: So it probably is boring, but it's saving me coin
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  Speaker 3: in the long run. Gifting aside, which is like a
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  Speaker 3: perpose privilege, I'm sure, but then there's clearly an appetite
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  Speaker 3: for it as well, because like, I love that you
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  Speaker 3: guys wanted to talk to me about fashion because my
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  Speaker 3: background was fashion. Didn't love it for years and years
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  Speaker 3: and years, just preferred I felt like safer in the
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  Speaker 3: beauty space. Got TikTok two years ago and just started
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  Speaker 3: posting my outfits and people were like, no, no, no, more
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  Speaker 3: and more.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we want. So there's an appetite for boring.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think it's boring?
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  Speaker 1: But it's just a common Yeah, I think it's classic
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  Speaker 1: when you're.
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  Speaker 4: Not well on an unofficial shopping band, Let's say, what
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  Speaker 4: are the green flags that has to be ticked for
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  Speaker 4: you to purchase a product?
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like the obvious not obvious one is
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  Speaker 3: can I like wear this in multiple different ways? I
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  Speaker 3: feel like even with if I need something for an event,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, will I wear this again?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a person that will.
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  Speaker 3: If I have a wedding that I'm a guest at,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to go out and buy a dress
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  Speaker 3: specifically for that because I know I've got dozens of
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  Speaker 3: dresses that will work. The other thing, this is a
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  Speaker 3: tip that I pinched from Alison Bornstein, who's my favorite
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  Speaker 3: person on the internet, genius stylist.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting right my third favorite person.
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  Speaker 3: She was saying, it's less about like do I have
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  Speaker 3: something in my wardrobe that is similar to this, and
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  Speaker 3: more do I have something in my wardrobe that serves
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  Speaker 3: the same purpose as this? I love that, so there
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  Speaker 3: can be I I talked about it with slip dresses,
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  Speaker 3: like I have many black slip dresses, but something as
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  Speaker 3: simple as the neckline is going to make it serve
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  Speaker 3: a different purpose. So I'm like, Okay, that I understand.
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  Speaker 3: But then there are things that are totally different. Does
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  Speaker 3: that make sense to me?
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  Speaker 4: Language I have seventy two pairs of blue jeans, don't quote.
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Montana jeans and she.
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  Speaker 4: Still has but it's like, oh, but you know, this
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  Speaker 4: one's got like a raw ham, or this one's a
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  Speaker 4: different shade, or this one's like highways, and it's like.
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  Speaker 1: They're all jeans.
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  Speaker 2: Like at the end of the day, they're all jeans.
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  Speaker 4: And I like think about it in terms of would
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  Speaker 4: anyone else notice the difference? Probably not, like, and that's
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  Speaker 4: where I will kind of be in my head.
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  Speaker 2: And stop the purchase.
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  Speaker 4: But I get what you're saying as well, that there
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  Speaker 4: are different things that serve different purposes.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's my big one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, do I have something in my wardrobe that like,
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  Speaker 3: is this a gap that I need to fill? Not necessarily,
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes it's about the styling too, about the specific piece,
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  Speaker 3: Like I have so many things that I'm like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: but I really need this to tick this box. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, or I could just pair it with this
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  Speaker 3: jacket and that will dress it up. I don't actually
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  Speaker 3: need to buy something completely new or pair it with
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  Speaker 3: this jewelry and that'll make it a bit more elevated.
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  Speaker 2: Spot on.
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  Speaker 3: So with footwear, like there will be a dress that
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, Okay, this is strictly daytime. Chuck on a heel, baby,
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  Speaker 3: you've got an evening dress.
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  Speaker 2: Day to night. We love it. Accessories.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's like the big easiest way to
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  Speaker 4: style something, to like level it up, especially when you're
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  Speaker 4: working with a minimalist wardrobe, right yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean my husband would be like, you have more
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  Speaker 3: clothes than anyone. This is not minimalism, but I do
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  Speaker 3: think like the style in terms of the way that
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  Speaker 3: I will put an outfit together.
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  Speaker 2: It's all just like pretty.
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  Speaker 1: It would make it easier to mix and match though.
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  Speaker 2: It's the easiest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, packing for a trip is the best thing ever
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  Speaker 3: because every single thing in my wardrobe matches something else.
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  Speaker 1: So do you use like the three three three method
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  Speaker 1: or a strategy when you're packing?
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  Speaker 3: I definitely plan what I can mix around, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't do the three three three thing, because the more
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  Speaker 3: I think about it, the more I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair, And if you kind of know what you're doing, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need like that strategy.
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  Speaker 1: I can kind of just like picture it in my head,
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  Speaker 1: like share from Clueless exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I've got an app that does that, but it all
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  Speaker 3: wearing because it's I think it's free.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great. So that's a good tip. What's the app?
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  Speaker 2: W H E R I N G.
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  Speaker 3: And when you just catalog your wardrobe and then you
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  Speaker 3: can put in what you've worn and then it'll keep
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  Speaker 3: it there for you so you can go back and refer.
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  Speaker 3: Or you can do the share from Clueless thing and
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  Speaker 3: hit a shuffle button and then it just goes.
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  Speaker 2: And it's free.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think so I got it so long ago
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  Speaker 3: that I'm Apple pay is probably like we've just taken
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  Speaker 3: another eight out of your account.
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  Speaker 4: That's like that mean, it's like, where are you from?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: You guys from? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But as a fashion lover, surely there must be times
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  Speaker 1: when something is on trend and you're like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: like that. So how do you know when you're purchasing
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  Speaker 1: something if you really like it, or if it's just
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  Speaker 1: a trend.
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  Speaker 3: I think for me it's just got instinct, Like if
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  Speaker 3: I like something, I'm going to buy it. But I
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  Speaker 3: do think I could totally wrong, but I think we're
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  Speaker 3: at a time now where every trend that we see
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  Speaker 3: has already existed in some iteration. So if I didn't
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  Speaker 3: like at the first, like the jelly sandals, I was
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  Speaker 3: about five the first time that rolled around, do I
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  Speaker 3: love it now?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: But a ballet flat? Yeah? Absolutely? But then I.
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  Speaker 3: Also think for me, the way I kind of look
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  Speaker 3: at a trend is more on a macro level. So
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  Speaker 3: a specific belt, I would say, is a micro trend
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  Speaker 3: like a specific item of clothing, Whereas for me, I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at a trend like are we doing a pointed
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  Speaker 3: toe or are we doing a round toe? Are we
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  Speaker 3: doing a longer line blazer or are we doing a
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  Speaker 3: crop Like That's kind of the scale that I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: at trends at, which again makes it easier to shop.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. I think it stops you from impulse purchases totally.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like the anti impulse shopper. Do you have any hacks?
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  Speaker 3: I got that app carted very good because I just
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: put everything in there and then it tells you when
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: it goes on sale, so you can just that was.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: My app ID and know we want to do a
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: browser plug in for that as well.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, damn, first we don't know. It's fine, you're never
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: going to do it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that's good because just in there and then
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: let it similar.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: You'll like be surprised as well how many times you
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: sit on a purchase and forget about it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: If you're thinking about it every day and you're like
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: and there's so many occurrences where you're like, shit, I
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: really need X, like an oversized blazer, and you're like,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: I'd wear that today, and that's happening multiple times, then
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: that's a purchase you may whereas if you're like two
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: minutes lad, you're like, shit, I really remember that I
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: wanted those like green and pink sneaker is and yeah,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: and I don't really want the.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Means my life worse off for not having them, not necessarily,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: although I will say my toxic trait is that I
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: will see something haven't bought it, and then as I'm
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: getting dressed, I'm like, you know, what would be perfect today?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: That thing I didn't buy, yeah. Yeah, that's the worse
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: with into shopping. Oh the ones that get away.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: So how do I saw you did a post on
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: elevated basics, which is like, I think everyone's favorite topic.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get questions about it, so yeah.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: And I think basics is something that everyone struggles to
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: find a little bit. So how do you find your
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: elevated basics and what are they?
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, I just like to have a variety of tanks.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I wear so many blazers regardless of the weather. I
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: love great tanks, well cut t shirts. That's going to
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: be different for everyone. It just totally depends on what
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: shapes you feel comfortable with. And slips. I think a
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: slip dress is the most versatile thing ever. My tip
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: though with elevated basics is if you can go in
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: store and touch stuff, because most of the time, what's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: setting one singlet apart from something that you actually love
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to wear and reach for all the time and aren't
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: just using it as like an essential layering piece is
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: the texture. So if you can go in and touch
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: and feel something and it feels like a bit luxurious
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: to you, it doesn't have to cost the earth. That
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: for me is what's going to kind of lift things,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: just a bit of texture.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: We've consistently said that we think, well, I guess it depends.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: But where do you think basics sit in a save
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: or a splurge?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Save for sure.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I mean particularly because particularly for me wearing white, I'm
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: not going to spend a fortune on white because I
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: wear so much bronzer. It's just a disaster way need
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: to happen. Those under arms are never going to survive
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: my fake tan necklines are never going to survive the bronzer.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: And that's fine.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: So I'm not going to spend a fortune on a
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: white T shirt when I know I'm going to stain
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: it immediately.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Literally, and I feel like I stain everything in one way.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's gone, yeah, especially white.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And for so long I was of the school of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: thought that for a basic something that you're going to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: be wearing over and over again, well then you splurg
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: But I think that's the thing. It depends on the itel.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I think there's save, spend, splurge, and basic sit in
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: to spend. Yeah, so it's like you don't need to
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: splurge on seventy dollars for a white T shirt but
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: also I wouldn't necessarily go for like something that's always
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: cheap material because it's going to make you sweat. Yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, maybe going to shrink when you
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: wash it. Get pilly, Yeah, get pilly. Whereas you want
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: to kind of go in the middle range that is
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: like I love like Uniclo for a basic that's very amazing.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Well on that though, that kind of brings it back
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to the the purpose that something serves in your wardrobe.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to spend a fortune on a T
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: shirt that I know is going to be going under
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: a coat or under a blaser. I would be more
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: likely to spend on a T shirt that I know
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I'm going to wear in the summer and have nothing
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: over it, And that'll be the one that I'm like
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: very careful with.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: That's like the statement piece. Yeah, that's the Gharney T shirt.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Even like I draw the line, but that's where I'm Yeah,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: there are T shirts that I'm like, this is a
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: layering T shirt and this one is the outfith that's smart.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Well, we are two bro chicks, so we love a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: budget tip. Do you have any other tips on how
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to build a minimalist wardrobe on a budget.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I mean for me, it is just looking at what
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I've already got, working out how many outfits that I
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: can build from that, and then identifying the gaps. It's
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: one thing to see a photo of an outfit that
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: you love. I think that's a fun way to shop,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: But if you're trying to save money, why would you
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: go out and buy a whole new headgete outfit. Look
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: at what you've already got in your wardrobe, play around
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: set aside a day, which I know is so annoying,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: but try all you can do it with a friend.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, like the Sex and the City movie when
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: she's doing like the inn or out in the.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Wardrobe and everyone was always like, keep.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's me. I love that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: But just try stuff on, work out what you can
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: mix and match, how many different purposes is this serving?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And then there'll be maybe a couple of gaps and
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: then fill those.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: But don't go out and do like an overhaul.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: I think the thing that people struggle with a lot
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: as well is getting a bit bored of their wardrobe,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: like you know, and it is because you're seeing it's
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: the consumption on social media and seeing so many different
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: styles and trends.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: It is really easy to get a little bit bored.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: So do you have any tips on how to get
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: out of a fashion rut?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I think again, it's the same thing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, find whatever item you're feeling a little bit tired
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: and bored of, and then think about, Okay, what a
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: different ways that I can style this. If you've then
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: styled it in a bunch of different ways that you
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: hadn't thought of before, and you're still like, eh, I'm
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: on the fence about this, get rid of it. Don't
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: keep stuff in your wardrobe that is uninspiring to you
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: because it's just going to gather dust. And like, clothes
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: exist to be worn. It's not helping anyone if it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: just hanging there in your wardrobe. But just try different
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: ways to style it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I also think that about clothes that make you feel
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: bad about yourself.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I refuse.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Like Salem, I've spoken about this before as well. And
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: it's like having the bag of clothes that you're like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: oh like when I look a certain way, I can
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: and you hold onto it and it just is sitting
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: there making you feel bad about yourself, and it's like,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: get rid of it friendship.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You guys should write a book about Actually, that's crazy
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: that you brought that up.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Many best friend my friends and if you get it,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: if you know, you know.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So we actually get this question all the time from
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the chicks because we do a series called Online Shot
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: with Us where we ask people to send in like
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: what they're looking for, what's on their wish list, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: we either find a good deal, sale, or just a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: really good pick.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And it's tips for the.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Tall girlies, especially jeans. So what are your what are
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: your tall girl approved brands?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is the most annoying recommendation because this
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: is like second mortgage stuff. But silver, like denim is
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: so good. But I have two pairs of silver Lake
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: jeans and both of them I bought because I had vouchers.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: So you have a voucher for a store that's you cheated, cheated.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Fashion Jail Penny's great and also Sammy Robinson's one Mile.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: They do so tall, they do everything in two different lengths.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: And she's just brought out denim and it's like it's
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: long on me and I am five nine and a
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: little Wow, that's so cool.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that and I think it can
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: be a bit frustrating because I know it's like two
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: short girls as well. For denim specifically, there aren't that
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: many brands that have petee.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: For you know, I say there's more than tall, but
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: there's more and you can take away. Yeah, you can
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: take it, but you can't give it exactly, you know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: But I've noticed that with a lot of the.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Like Tall Girl brands, they sometimes do seem to be
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive. But I think if you
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: can find a pair of jeans which, like we've said,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: is such a classic piece that will fit you perfectly,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that is worth the investment rather than buying like an
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: ill fitting pair of jeans time and time again.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did see another Alison Bornstein tip. I feel
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: like finding I hadn't really thought about it like this.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: You're always going to be looking for better denim. You
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: can have the most amazing pair of jeans you've ever worn,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: and you're still going to be out and about, like,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: but you know what would make them better?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: That is me. Yeah, that's why I have seventy two pairs.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I feel like I have kicked the habit
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: of it because I did find like perfect pairs of
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: jeans and I'm like, Okay.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: You know what, what's your perfect pair? So fate the
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: label nice. I love them amazing.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: And then the Rider's curve jeans as well, those are
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: really good for girlies and therefore like bigger hips to
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: a smaller waist ratio. But what I will say with
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that is it goes up to an eighteen that I
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: don't really know if you can call it up to
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: an eighteen a curve range, but I would love to
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: see more sizes in that episode of Yeah, honestly, that's
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: like my critique of that. But I do really love them,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: and yeah, I think those are the two that I'm like, smash.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Those are my smash special buffs like gvercial crush jans.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: No, seriously, with the trauma of trying on jeans in
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: a store, let me just bite online try it on
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: at home so I can cry in private line. Because
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: as well, you go into a store and you get
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: three different styles and you've got three different sizes.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I don't remember the last time I tried denim on
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: exiting r. You know that worse is swimwear or don't.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Even start as f cups.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: That's my my issue is because I'm told I'm also
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: long in the body. So like Cameltoe City, if I
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: get the wrong what's the bit from the.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the same, Yeah, that's the one.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was the technical term what you had. Yeah,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: see like where the opposite?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Whereas like my jeans if they're too high waist, I'm like,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: why are you one of my tits? It's like a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: body suit.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I feel like those two twins from Alice in Wonderland
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Tradle Day.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So one final question, which so I really
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: wanted to ask.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go. I have to come back
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: on regular guests regular. I love this, I can do anytime.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I did have a burning question because I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: saw an article that you wrote and you were talking
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: about like your top three favorite products. Yep is the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: six hundred and ten dollars Lamaire moisturizer.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Worth it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: It's a nuanced answer, I'm afraid, but I will say
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I will never, with any any beauty product except sunscreen,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: say that something is I must have never, ever, ever,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: ever ever in my life.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: That cream.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I love it because I have a working relationship with
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: the brand.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I went on a Singapore trip with them last year,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: and I have even more respect for the humble brag,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: even more respect for the brand now that I know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: like the every tub of it is hand poured they did.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: I could go on, we might do a bonus episode
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: just on this. It's kind of like a sour dough
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: starter because there's this miracle broth from decades ago, and
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: every pot of the moisturizer, like the last there's a
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: drop of the previous batch of the miracle broth, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: then that it's crazy.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: It's giving fountain of youth. I'm actually my late seventies.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: This is what people do. But is it going to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: like totally change your skin? No?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I think for six hundred dollars there are plenty of
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: other things that you can do. If you are a
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: person who has six hundred dollars of disposable income and
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: is obsessed with beauty, go for it. I think the
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: best products are the ones that you want to use,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: and if that's going to get you to put a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: moisturizer on, awesome. If you don't have six hundred dollars,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: by no means, In fact, even if you do, by
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: no means, is that I must have nothing is.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Did you hate it when you liked it? Yeah? Literally?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Ever, I know there isn't a direct dupe, but what
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: would be a go to moisturizer on a budget that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you would suggest?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, budget is such a difficult one. It is,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I sort of mid way down the line. Obviously. I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: don't let Chris use the lamaire if he don't even
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: like Chris in the bathroom in the rain.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's and that's what I've sure his kin
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: looks great unfortunately. Yeah, anyway, Chris uses the Keels the
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: that just got obsessed with it and then probably cheaper
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: than that. Sarah V is great and that's got a
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: similar kind of creamy consistency as well. Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I love that heavyweight moisturize.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: That's what I need.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Dry drag, early exclusive, that's the word we used to
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: lock it all in.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: I like that it's not using that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, I actually lied before We have one more final,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: but what's been your biggest life lesson on your fashion
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: journey so far?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I think just where what you feel comfortable in. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: was talking about this at fashion Week and actually to
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Tender was saying it as well, and I resonated, Oh, God.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: She could say literally anything to her voice for like
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: the obsessed with her, but she exactly what she was saying.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I have done the same thing in that. Like I
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: been rolling around fashion week for six hundred and four years.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: There was a time when I was like rend cocktail dresses.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I'm in color and lace and body con, which and I.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Look at these photos. I can't like I had a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: bandage dress.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You can see how I'm comfortable in the Yeah, in
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the photos, I'm like, that girl is miserable.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: And then and I would be like just hankering for
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: someone to take my photo. I'm pretending to make a
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: phone call out the front so that I haven't read Yeah, like, girlfriend,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: go inside, you've arrived to see your show, Sit the
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: fuck down. But I'm standing out the front, going, oh
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: is my friend over there? I better walk in front
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: of this photographer And then don't want to take my
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: picture because I looked shit like that's that's not even
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: me fishing.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: But I did not look good.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Now, I just wear whatever's in my wardrobe that I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: feel great in. I just dress how I would day
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: to day. I have the best time. I'm having a
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: good time all the time because I'm not adjusting myself
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: and trying to like tuck my body spanks back in Bodyicondre.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: This is like the cheesiest thing ever.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: But confidence is the best accessory.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: It is, but that don't share it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I've got that under the other lower back tattoo.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that one's got a butterfly on either side
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: of it. That yeah, sigh. I love that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: So much more.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: No one's got plans after this, right, come on, no.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: No, we love it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: But for any of the chicks who don't already follow you,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: where can they find you?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: They can find me on Instagram and TikTok at gem
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Diamond Diamond without the A, which is probably for the
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: best because otherwise people would be like, bitch, you made
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: this up, not your surname Gem Diamond, and also on
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: the Glow Journal podcast, which is interviews with founders of
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: beauty rants.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Love incredible so much, Thanks so much for coming on,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and thanks to you chicks for having us in your earhells,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: we love to be here. And thank you to am
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I made and producer for making today's episode happened like
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: bye check bye