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P girl is out, mob wife is in. Here's what this means: you know how hard they are to find? Some online resale sites are offering them for up to $350 a piece. It is now all about having a... you're going to hear this right... tomato girl summer. The brand has been everywhere in 2023; it's led to talk of something Mattel have called Barbie.
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Hello, hello, hello babes! Welcome back to the channel. If you are new, welcome, welcome, welcome! So in today's video, I wanted to discuss the obsession with aesthetics and the new trends and aesthetics we see every other week. So let's get into it.
I want to talk about this obsession I've been seeing with aesthetics, overconsumption, and wanting to belong to groups and cliques. I feel like a lot of us love fashion. I mean, that was why I created my channel—because of my love for fashion and expressing yourself through different looks to discover your personal style, learn what fits for you, what's best for you, and how what works for you may not work for the next person, and vice versa, as well as getting tips and inspiration from others. But I think people have gone to the extreme, and there seems to be a new aesthetic style every week. If you're a young girl who is influenced by fashion, it can be slippery when every time you turn around, someone online is telling you what's on and off trend, especially if you don't have the amount of funds your favorite creator has.
And it's not only fashion; it's beauty, body, home decor, and everything in between. In the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, and you get the drift, trends changed about every 5 to 10 years. When you reflect back on all of the movies, TV shows, and music artists from those time periods, such as the '50s, you'll notice they almost always wore the same style of clothing but in different ways. Sure, there'd be some people who liked to take risks, and maybe a few would follow suit, but for the most part, they stayed within the realm of that style of dressing.
The '70s and '80s is when we got people who wanted to express themselves freely and experiment with style and figure out who they were when it came to fashion, like Diana Ross, Grace Jones, and many more women who pioneered so many of the trends we see today. The '90s and 2000s was the grunge, hyper-feminine, and laid-back era, and no one looked one way. Did we follow trends? Absolutely! But we put our own spin on it and didn't have social media pushing things to us 24/7. We had so many artists and actresses that helped to push certain trends forward, like Aaliyah, TLC, Destiny's Child, Brandy, and movies like Clueless, Jawbreaker, shows like The Nanny, Living Single, Fresh Prince, and many others.
But today, we see trends every week. If that, it seems as though people have lost their sense of identity and only follow trends. These companies are raking in billions of dollars from consumers every year, persuading consumers to purchase things they don't really need. It's like back in the day when your grandparents would watch the Home Shopping Network channel and purchase things they didn't need or would use once, then it would just collect dust afterward.
Now, companies have been advertising for decades; it's not new, and it's how they're able to sell their products. I'm not mad because if you create something, you want to sell it and for that thing to bring money, but it's just completely different now. There is an emptiness behind the companies; it's just about money and money only. The creativity is lacking. Big companies will take the ideas of a small business owner or a saying that is often used in the Black community and overuse it and run it into the ground. It's like some people have become robots and outright clones. So many people have lost what it means to be an individual. Everyone wants the same wig, same hairstyle, same outfits, same shape, same nails, same skincare—it's basically copy-paste, and you'll see the same thing just on a different person.
So before the pandemic—we can't say certain words on here, but you guys know what I'm talking about—there were haul videos, and people would watch their favorite content creators shop and purchase some of the items they were interested in, which was normal, especially if it came from online stores that didn't have storefronts or weren't based in your country. You could get a glimpse at the fabric and quality, the fit, and how the colors looked in real life, even though it was online. For the most part, creators would tell you if it was worth the purchase, even if it was a PR package.
And makeup as well, with content creators like Jackie Aina, Alyssa Ashley, and others who will tell you the truth about makeup products, even if they've been sent PR packages and met the owner of the brands. While there were many others who weren't so honest because they wanted fame, money, and to be as close to Hollywood as possible by any means necessary.
Fast forward to the pandemic, and TikTok was on the rise and had become extremely popular and brought everyone together virtually, which mainly started off with dancing videos. During that time, people picked up a lot of bad habits, like excessive shopping from watching content creators and influencers. TikTok has now become a cesspool of marketing clothing, makeup, home decor, Amazon hauls, and just pure overconsumption just to say you have something. A lot of them aren't paying for these products; they're getting PR and paid to promote them to their audience.
I think there have been about 200 different aesthetics within the past two years alone. Making someone's genuine lifestyle a trend is just weird to me. Yes, we love tapping into new things, and you may discover you have a lot in common with that person, and you weren't really dressing for yourself but for others. But wanting to try every single trend that comes out is kind of absurd. Purchasing from fast fashion places like Shein, which I despise for ethical reasons and the mass production and labor they force onto their workers, Fashion Nova, and others is ridiculous. The amount of money wasted on these trends is asinine. What happens to the clothes after you no longer want to follow that trend? The endless accessories? You're either stuck with a bunch of clothes you no longer want or disposed of, which is a problem within itself.
Now, like I said, I love fashion, and when I was younger, I spent a lot of money on fast fashion pieces. I still shop at stores like H&M and Zara from time to time, depending on the quality and if it's something I know I won't regret purchasing. If I have to think about something twice, then I know it's not worth spending money on. I think people don't realize the amount of money you spend constantly shopping and buying fast fashion every month or every other week, and it's definitely a deeper discussion that needs to be had because I feel like it's trying to fill a void in some way for people who overly consume.
The next thing is the obsession with making bodies an aesthetic. It's like we've learned nothing from the '90s and 2000s and the constant ridicule women were under when it came to their bodies and the unhealthy obsession to be skinny, with women constantly being called out of their names and the way the media would tear down celebrities every other week. People are taking Ozempic weight loss tools during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live.
Okay, so like a year ago, I tried it. You know, it's like you try it, and I was one of the people that felt so sick and like couldn't play with my son. I was so skinny, and I was just like... he was throwing a ball at me, and I was like, okay, this isn't livable for me. But I immediately invested because the reality TV star who recently appeared on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast shared that she wants to try Ozempic after giving birth.
Oh my God, we too! Like, I really want to try it when I give birth. You're like, I want to go on it now, but I am pregnant. So, the amount of times I've researched this, being like, I mean, I think it's safe and healthy; like, I think it's good for you. It's like taking vitamins. However, the reality TV star admitted that she was taking Ozempic to lose weight prior to filming the season 13 reunion. During an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, she confirmed she had been taking the medication because she didn't want to be "looking any bigger than anyone else" at the taping.
So, Dolores, how long have you been on the Ozempic? Uh, six weeks. Six weeks? It's actually Vuro; it's another part of... that's the amped-up version. Oh, is it? Oh yeah, yeah, that's the fast forward to skinny. You're kidding, right?
Getting fatal BBLs, and a lot of it is vanity. While some are insecure and just want to fix those things that one time, a lot of it is simply vanity and vapidness. Plastic surgery is a major surgery. Even with the top doctors and top dollar, medical practices are also different in other countries, and what is legal in other countries is illegal in the United States. A surgery is a surgery, and a lot of women don't tell these women the horrible experiences they've had and the medical complications. They also don't tell you about the health issues that occur afterward.
I always say do what makes you happy, and if you want to improve something that's an insecurity of yours, that's fine. But also be smart and really think about the decisions that you're going to make and how it's going to affect you in the long run. Don't do something just because you saw your favorite celebrity or influencer do it, and now you want to look like them.
Basically, I had a fat transfer, so I took fat from my stomach, my arms, my thighs, and I kind of moved it into like a... my bum bum. Where did you go to get that done? I went to Dr. [name] to get a BBL. Okay, first of all, why Dr. [name]? And what is a BBL? A BBL is a Brazilian butt lift, in other words, fat transfer. I put it in my butt. Yeah, I went to Dr. [name] because, yeah, they'll perform the surgery; they'll get you nice and snatched with a flat stomach. But CD and Colombia, they'll give you that nice Coke bottle look, like you know? Yeah, and then it's a little bit cheaper out there when you travel outside the country than it is in the United States.
How much are we talking about? I think they quoted me like $12,000 out here in Manhattan, and then in DR, you can get it done from anywhere between like $4,000 and $7,000. Also, out here, they're only allowed to take a certain amount of fat compared to the countries where they could take more fat. It may sound simple to take fat from here and here and move it to there, but the BBL is undoubtedly the most dangerous cosmetic surgery in the world. One out of every 3,000 BBLs ends in death. Yet in 2020, in the middle of a damn pandemic, more than 20,000 women here in the US got one, and thousands more went overseas to get a BBL for cheap.
The line to get to Atlanta? 95% of the passengers just got a BBL. I would give birth 80 more times before I had another BBL. The snatching part is burning, but I mean, hey, people have babies, so do it. Do you feel that people have to take this risk to make it to the top of your line of work? Is that just a necessary requirement?
I feel like people take the risk just because they want to look like that fantasy that they've been dreaming of or that dream body, that dream job. So once you see what you gain from it, then you got to keep going. I feel like it changed my life because I started getting a lot more work like that, and it boosted everything to another level.
Which are some of the most high-profile videos you talk about? The most high one is the Drake "Highline Bling" video. I just want people to be safe in their decisions on their bodies. If a doctor tells you no, it's no.
While Winnie and Marie had their BBLs done by real doctors, lots of women are going to the black market where silicone butt injections are even more deadly. I went into getting the shots knowing that it was risky. It was wrong. It was just being married in an unhappy marriage. I had a girlfriend who actually had it done, and then she was boasting about it. I had silicone injections, obviously not by a professional doctor. It was $1,000, and we met the lady who would then inject us. As you're getting injected, it's feeling like fire being pushed into your body. It's very bad; it's excruciating pain.
She's putting Crazy Glue—the regular Crazy Glue you get from the dollar store—on the incision so that it doesn't seep out with cotton balls that then close it up. This woman put Crazy Glue on an open part of your body? Yes. Brenda tried to pump up her butt with that cheap silicone injection, but that back-alley shortcut put her in the hospital. This is her third surgery just to cut out the infected fat.
When somebody has breast implants, they get silicone implants; it's encapsulated. That's legit; that's allowed to be put in the body. What we're talking about here is liquid silicone, non-medical grade. So when you put something in the human body that doesn't belong there, the body fights it.
In the last 5 or 10 years, with social media, people want to look like the Kardashians. The trend has been to have a smaller waist and a bigger butt, like a Brazilian butt lift, where you do liposuction from your stomach, usually, or your flanks, your love handles, and you're transferring to the butt. That's the way to do this correctly. That comes at a cost of general anesthesia of more than $10,000. A couple of weeks are not laying on your butt, so they go and take the easy way out.
The legitimate way to inject your butt with a product that's legal and FDA approved is by using real hyaluronic acid. The body makes this; this is like a synthesized version. People do this in the face all the time—in the cheeks, in the lip, and the chin. The body makes this. So one cc, we sell it for $800, and that's an average price. So when women go and get these injections, they're getting 700 cc's, 1,000 cc's, 2,000 cc's. So if they get 1,000 cc's, and if they were going to do it the legitimate way, that would be $800,000 as side, which is prohibitive and ridiculous.
So that's what drives people to the illegal stuff because it's $11,000, and you can get it all in one day, and it's like relatively painless. I just can't believe that you could do something like this to somebody and did not even show any type of remorse.
For the past 10 months, Periel Wallace has been living her own personal nightmare. A trip to the Dominican Republic for liposuction and breast augmentation not only left her disfigured, and when they unbandaged me, I just screamed. I just started screaming. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It literally looked like a child took a scalpel and just cut me up. It nearly left her dead. I felt extra weak; I just did not feel right. Something just felt wrong. By the time she arrived home to Columbus, Periel was in agonizing pain. She shared her medical records with us; they show she was admitted with what doctors described as a raging infection. She says doctors told her it was most likely caused by unsterile medical equipment.
I was so angry at myself that I allowed this to happen. That's how I felt. I felt like it was my own fault because if I would have done more research, you know, this wouldn't happen. Periel knew women who had procedures done by the same doctor in the Dominican Republic and had great results. She expected the same outcome.
In my opinion, she's a monster; that's how I look at it because not once has she even just acknowledged me to say, "I messed up." And here we have to provide that, which Dr. Bivik Shaw is a board-certified plastic surgeon here in central Ohio. He says what happened to Periel is heartbreaking, but sadly, he says it's more prevalent than you might think.
So I have had five people that I have taken care of, and we routinely get phone calls. I'd say at least one or two a month of somebody that has gone somewhere else outside the country and had a major problem. I just think body types becoming an aesthetic or trend is just ignorant and repulsive. It also seems like grown adults have aged but are still stuck mentally in their teen years, wanting to be a part of the cool and in crowd to get adoration and attention, then shame others who don't have what they have, like a bunch of high schoolers.
The obsession with clout and fame is so heavy with some people that they will abandon all morals and integrity just to say they're a part of this crew or put up a facade, calling people broke when a lot of the time, some of them are fake flexing, scamming, and doing all kinds of things behind the scenes to remain relevant and appear rich. Just like the whole veneer tech thing, people are playing in their mouths to place fake teeth on top of the real ones, shaving down your teeth to the size of sucked-on Tic Tacs just to put white gates on them is ridiculous, and it takes away from your natural look and natural beauty a lot of the times when done incorrectly.
Now, when they're done correctly, they look great. I understand wanting to fix your teeth and how costly the dentist can be, especially when it comes to something as crucial as your teeth, which I think needs to change. But to shave down your perfectly good teeth by going to a quote-unquote veneer tech, which isn't even a thing, is crazy to me. Why are you trusting a person who earned a certificate in two days to perform this procedure on you for aesthetic purposes?
It's causing them issues that they'll be paying thousands and thousands of dollars to fix the mistakes the veneer tech made, which end up costing more than what they paid for the veneers, both financially and physically. But I look crazy, and it's so embarrassing to come crying on the internet. The stuff that I have been dealing with for two years because of my freaking teeth is like, I don't even know what to do anymore. The only place I can really go to is my platforms, as everybody pretty much knows.
Two years ago, I had dental work done at Smile Dental Center 32 in Miami, and it ruined my life—like literally ruined my life. I'm still dealing with it to this day, and I just left another doctor, another TMJ doctor. This is the third or fourth one that I've gone to, and I'm just very overwhelmed. The medical industry, the dental industry in America, is like they literally do not care about what you are going through. Everything is about money for them. I understand people have to get paid, but it's like the fact that I can't do anything. I can't use insurance; I can't do anything. I've already spent $80,000 pretty much on this whole situation in two years, and I go to another TMJ doctor because I have severe TMJ now because of the veneers that Smile Dental Center did. They lost my bite; I have severe TMJ. I got my T3 done; it didn't fix it. That was another $30,000.
It's just like I just had an appointment, and they're telling me, okay, we could do this, we could do this, and it could be a big money pit. It could be another $8,000, and it might not work. I've spent so much money with so many doctors just praying that something works for me, and nothing works. Nothing ever works. I don't know what to do anymore. I can't even sue the freaking dentist. Every time I come on here telling my story about what happened, which is a crazy story, people say, "Just sue."
If I could sue, that would be the first thing I'm doing, but I can't do that. I can't do that; it's not possible. You can't sue for my sensory issues. My sensory issues are unknown. Every time I go to a doctor, they've never heard of it, and you can't prove that they gave you these issues because there's no way to diagnose it specifically. It's just a whole thing. They offered to give me my money back within the first year, and I told them no so that I could bring awareness because people are just out there getting veneers and whatever the case may be. My life is literally ruined because I got my T3 done. I'm not even joking; I'm constantly in pain.
I can't even close my mouth properly after a retainer, every single day, 24/7, pretty much, to even close my mouth comfortably. No bite adjustments can fix it; nothing I've done—100 bite adjustments. I've gone to 10 different dentists, four different TMJ doctors. I've done integrative medicine; I've done acupuncture. I've done everything you could possibly do to try to fix these issues. I've been called crazy by my primary care doctor at Kaiser. They told me to see a therapist because of what I'm going through. At this point, I just don't know what to do. I'm in severe pain.
I've gotten freaking masseter Botox twice; my face is slimmed the heck out. I look crazy as heck because I'm in pain 24/7. I guess my only thing is just don't get veneers and know that something like this can ruin your life—literally. Quite frankly, I'm not giving nobody else any bands; I'm not doing it. The fact that these people are so money-driven... I understand, but it's like this is really medical for me. Why does nobody care about people in chronic pain without you having to spend $80,000 twice? That's crazy to me.
Going on in Atlanta, but y'all really need help, and this is coming from someone who literally has all their teeth done. I definitely do, but to go to a veneer tech is insane. You might as well travel to Mexico for that. What is going on? And to all you veneer techs or anyone thinking to be a veneer tech, please understand that there was a doctor named Dr. Love and some other guy who just recently got arrested for doing some illegal stuff like this. So y'all please be careful out here in these streets because I don't know why you guys are letting people play in your mouth like that, especially when oral health is directly linked to a lot of other health issues, including your heart.
So if, let's say, for example, they put the veneers on wrong or something goes wrong, and now you have infections and you have decaying teeth, etc., that then leads to other health issues like diseases, cysts, abscesses, so on and so forth. What are you going to do, especially when the price is like $110,000? Like, what the hell?
This is 100% illegal, and we need to talk about it before you fall victim to spending $2,000 for a bright white smile. The only people that are licensed in the United States to perform veneers are dentists, and in order to become a dentist, you have to go to school for eight years. There are a couple of different types of dentists: there's your DDS, which is a Doctor of Dental Surgery, a DMD, which is a Doctor of Medical Dentistry, which are kind of the same thing; it just kind of depends on what state you go to.
Then there are people like an endodontist or orthodontist, and those are kind of extensions of already being a DDS or a DMD. They just take extra schooling to become specialized in those fields. Regardless, they have eight years of school under their belt, and they are doctors of dentistry. In order to become a doctor, you go to school for a very long time. There is not a single person other than a doctor of dentistry who can perform veneers legally.
I know that you're thinking, "Why are you so serious about this?" This is so dangerous. When you start chipping away the enamel and filing down the tooth structure, you are seriously risking tooth damage and nerve damage in your mouth. This isn't like a fingernail or a lash or an eyebrow—something that goes back. These are your teeth, and you can expose nerves and other things when you're filing incorrectly because you do not have the schooling to do this. Not even registered dental hygienists, who go to school for three or four years, or dental assistants can do this. Only a doctor can perform this.
The reason this is so crazy to me is because people are spending thousands to become veneer technicians, and that's not even legal. I don't understand how this became a thing. I think it's because people are like, "Oh, I can do my own nails at home. I can do my own lashes at home. I can do my own eyebrows at home." But people are forgetting that your teeth structure and the structure of your teeth cannot be compromised. If it is, it needs to be done by a professional who has studied medicine.
There is not a single course in this world that you could take for six weeks that would license you to become a veneer specialist. So please do not fall for this; it is 100% illegal and so dangerous for your natural teeth. If you want the bright, beautiful smile, get Crest White Strips, go to your dentist, and get custom bleaching trays.
I get it; dentistry is expensive. I work in a dental office; I know it's so expensive. I get free dental care; it's amazing. But not everybody has that luxury. Do not fall for this; it will compromise your tooth structure and leave you with way more problems than you started with.
Do not fall for this. I don't know how they are in business; this is illegal.
'Cause I'm on a hair page, right? I moved to a new area, so I joined this Facebook group for hair pages. If I need to get a sew-in or a quick weave or whatever, people will post like, "Hey, I'm doing a special," or whatever. One of the girls is like, "Now featuring braces! Get them while you can!" And then people were like, "Oh, those are cute! How much you charge?"
And I may do it. The whole purpose of braces is that you're putting force on your teeth to align them, right? To close spaces and close gaps. So if you're putting these arch wires and bands and rubber bands and all these things on your teeth, the force is to move your physical teeth in the bone that they're housed in. And you mean to tell me you want somebody to move your teeth in that kitchen with a grass wall and put you on Instagram for a couple hundred?
So you come and see me, and I can take your teeth out? Y'all are going to keep me employed forever.
The next thing I want to talk about a little bit is how these trends affect the youth and how young kids don't even want to be kids anymore. You have young girls asking for Lululemon, Stanley Cups, and Drunk Elephant for Christmas gifts, and it's not normal.
I look like daycare kids, and I experienced that for the first time yesterday. So I made it a goal to go around and look at what they had in their hands, and I feel like you could even guess. There was this one; she probably looked seven. She was wearing Lululemon leggings too, so I was like, okay, here we go. Let me see what she got in her hands, and it was this big thing of Drunk Elephant—something like it had the white bottle with the pink lid.
So I was like, okay, I'm going to go over to the Drunk Elephant section, look at what this is, see how much it is. It was like 80 bucks for a face wash that had all these different acids in it. Drunk Elephant's target market right now is young children, I swear.
Then I see another girl; she's probably like 10 or 11, maybe 12, that kind of age range, and it was the Polish Choice exfoliating stuff. And that's what really got me; that's what really made me shook, 'cause I'm like, how and why are you letting your little kid put this on their face?
One thing that I really went in there for was the Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip things or the Summer Fridays lip balm because I have one, and I've had it for a few months, and it's slowly running out, so I need some more. I go over to the Summer Fridays section; all of the lip balms are gone. That was my next goal, and it was to look and see if any of these kids had them in their hands.
When I tell you, I look over to my right, and there was this girl with six of these lip balms. Six! Why do you need six? It took everything in me not to walk up to her and be like, "Hey, can I have one of those? I just ran out of the one that I've had for like four months."
Much beef with a 10-year-old at Sephora today. I thought it was people were just lying on the internet. Okay, maybe not lying, but like I went to Sephora today so I could use my $25 gift card, and there was a really long line. By the time I got in line, this girl gets behind me, and she ends up walking in front of me, and she's like, "Oh, are you in line?" And I'm like, "Yeah."
And she's like, "Well, can I get in front of you?" And I'm like, "No! The line is long back here!" And she rolls her eyes at me and gets behind me. By the time we get closer to the cashier registers, you can lick all the little stands with all the mini stuff, and I'm just looking. I'm not really grabbing anything, and this girl, she has this big-ass bag, by the way. She's like maybe 10 or 11 at most.
She walks past me and hits me with her bag, and I turned around like, "What the heck?" And she's like, "Oh, I'm so sorry." I was like, "You can at least say excuse me." She's like, "Well, I tried to, but apparently, you're deaf."
I tried to brush it off, and she gets back in line behind me after whatever she gets, and I start feeling like this box rubbing on my back, and I start moving around so it could stop. I obviously know it's the girl behind me, and it keeps rubbing on my back. I turned around, and I'm like, "Can I get some personal space?"
And then she was like, "Oh, you're just in my way; we're in line." I turned back around, trying not to punch this 10-year-old, but I kept my cool. I got in line, paid for my stuff, and I left.
Girls at TikTok are crazy, but what's crazier are other parents that aren't parenting. So the other day when I was working, we were kind of busy, so the line was kind of long, and this little girl walks up to me, and her basket is literally overflowing. The amount of products that were in there, she had to have been maybe 9, 10, maybe 11 years old, but regardless, definitely way too young to be shopping at Sephora.
I started grabbing the items out so I could scan them, and before I can start, she goes, "Wait! I have two perfumes on hold; can you get those two?" And I'm like, "Yeah, of course! What's your name?" So I go grab her perfumes, and then she goes, "Can you scan those first so I can see how much they are?"
So I proceed to scan the two perfumes, and the two perfumes alone came out to $300. $300! So after she saw the price of the two perfumes, I guess that wasn't enough, so she was like, "Okay, yeah, you can scan the rest of the items in the basket." She's by herself, so I'm kind of just like, "Who's with her? Did she come with a sister, a friend, her mom? Who is this little girl with?"
So I finished scanning all her products, and her total came out to almost $900. After I told her her total, she looks at me, and she kind of gives me a nervous look. She's like, "Uh..." In my head, I'm like, "Girl, yeah, what did you think the total was going to come out to?"
I see her look to her left, and I see that there's an older lady who is her mom and a younger girl, which is her sister, and they're checking out at the register like two down from me. The little girl calls the sister over, and the sister's like, "What? How much is it?" And she's like, "Well, how much was yours?" And the sister goes, "500." She said that so normally.
She literally looked at her and said, "Yeah, $500." So the one that I'm helping out goes, "Well, mine is almost $900." So then her sister is like, "Well, do you have enough?" And she was like, "No, but I'm probably just going to use mom's money."
So I'm kind of just watching this all go down, and in my head, I'm like, "So what are we doing here? Are you going to get it or not?" Our line is long; it was literally right after the holidays. You know the line wasn't going to get any shorter.
So then I tell the girl, "Are you going to be paying cash or card?" And she goes, "Sorry, can you give me one second?" And I'm like, "Yeah, sure." So she calls her mom over, and the mom looks at me and smiles, and then she looks down and goes, "Wait, how much is it?"
And the little girl tells her. The mom literally freaked out. She was like, "What? No way! You're about to spend $900!" Which in my head, I'm like, "Period! Thank you for putting her in place!"
Anyways, the mom is furious, and the little girl is just looking at her like, "What? Yeah, I'm going to spend $900!" I don't know what you're looking at. So I'm kind of just looking at them like, "What do I do?"
And then the mom goes, "Take something out!" The little girl lost her mind. She's like, "No, I'm not taking anything out!" And the mom was like, "No, you're going to take something out because what even is in there?"
So she's like, "What even is that?" And the little girl's like, "It's a Flower Bomb." I don't even know what a Flower Bomb is, but apparently, it was a perfume. And the mom's like, "You literally already have two other perfumes! Why do you need another one?"
And the little girl is just like, "Because I want it!" If I, growing up, if I ever said anything like that to my mom, it's a wrap! It's a wrap because we're not getting anything at Sephora anymore, and I'm going home to get my ass beat!
So time goes on; they're arguing back and forth, and the little girl kind of is just... she's not having it. She's like, "I'm not putting anything back!"
So finally, the little girl is like, "Okay, fine! I'll take it out!" And she goes, "But that's the last thing I'm taking out! I'm not taking anything else out!" Like, I'm sorry, who's the mom here? Because this is the problem. The problem isn't the kids; it's the parents.
Why aren't you guys sitting there saying, you know, holding your ground? These iPad kids, these little girls have never heard the word "no," and they kind of just get what they want so they can shut up, and the parents can move on with their day.
Okay, so then once she removes the perfume, the total was still at like $700, and the mom's like, "Take something else out!" And the little girl's like, "No! I already told you I'm not taking anything else out!"
And then, you know, me trying to be nice and also get this line moving, I'm just like, "Hey, I see that you have three Glossier lip products, and they're all the same flavor. Did you want all three?"
And the mom looks at me, kind of like saying thank you, and then looks at the little girl and she's like, "Yeah, I know that there's three. I didn't know what to do."
I said, "You're right, you're right! There's three! I'm sorry! Stupid, stupid thing of me to say! Like, there's three, and there's a reason there's three!"
So I'm so sorry; you're right, you're right, you're right! So then I just shut the heck up. Long story short, after minutes and minutes of arguing, the little girl ended up spending $500 at Sephora instead of almost $900, and the mom was okay with that.
I've seen a lot of people talking about the ways we avoid having these little girls come to Sephora, but there's literally no way that it's going to happen without the action of the parents. Moral of the story is we can make all the story times in the world about how these little girls behave, but nothing is going to change until the parents change.
This has happened at least 10 times. Some families will get makeup appointments for all of their little girls. One day, I walked into an appointment, and there were six little girls in high chairs, and my client was eight.
So if you're wondering where the parents are, the parents don't care. The parents are funding the appointments; the parents are funding Drunk Elephant. It's insane! But I will say that whenever I walked in and a child was my client, I felt instant relief. I love kids, and what do they even need? All they want is highlight everywhere!
It is the easiest way to spend your time as a makeup artist—maybe also the strangest. And I did have one little girl cry in my chair, drawing screams and sobs of joy. She wanted to stand, and all this hysteria over a cup!
I got a Stanley—the Stanley Quencher cup that is sold in over a hundred different colors. The $45 reusable bottles are flying off shelves. The #StanleyCup racking up 6.7 billion views on TikTok with videos of fans collecting them, decorating them, naming them, even camping out for them.
So it's almost 3:00 in the morning, people lining up overnight at Starbucks and Target stores to snag a limited edition version. I got blue! Aaliyah and Sarai's cups runneth over after unwrapping theirs on Christmas morning.
Why are you so obsessed with these cups? So everyone in school basically has them. Usually, I don't drink a lot of water, but like when I have this cup, I drink more water, believe it or not!
The Stanley brand has been around for more than a century. These cups used to be favored among construction workers, but in 2017, after a popular mommy blog posted about them, the company introduced new pastel colors, and sales skyrocketed from $73 million in 2019 to $750 million last year.
Granted, we all wanted something we saw our older sister, mother, or aunts wear or have, but we still had spaces for us as children, pre-teens, and teens. Now there are no spaces for pre-teens and teens anymore. There are no TV shows or teen actresses and singers. They want to look and act like adults rather than their age, and they're even made fun of for acting their age by their peers.
You have these kids wrecking Ulta and Sephora, and their parents just let them run amok. Now, I'm a millennial, and I don't have children yet, but I believe a lot of this gentle parenting is not even gentle parenting; it's just letting your kids take advantage of you and not wanting to parent.
Because as millennials, we were raised with a bit more strict rules and had a lot of responsibility on us, and you know, wanting to be a bit less strict and letting the reins loose a little bit and being a bit less strict than our parents were with us, or maybe a bit more relaxed with our children and getting the things that we wanted or desired as children.
Giving your child whatever they want only creates a monster, but there definitely needs to be a balance. I just think fashion is great and love seeing people express themselves, but the problem comes in when greedy corporations mass-produce products every week. Influencers are hired by these companies to push out these aesthetics and convince consumers they need something that they don't really need just to line their pockets.
Police in Roseville arrested a woman after she was caught with a trunk full of Stanley Cups. According to the police, the 23-year-old woman stole 65 Stanley Cups from a store just off Highway 65 this past Wednesday. The cups were valued at nearly $2,500. In their Facebook post, the Roseville Police said that they "strongly advise against turning to crime to fulfill your hydration habits."
Target shoppers fighting to get their hands on the limited edition Valentine's Day Stanley Cup. It is called the Quencher H2.0 Flow State Tumbler. These Target exclusive tumblers come in Cosmo Pink and Target Red. It is part of the store's Galentine collection. They cost about $45 and are sold out online and across Target stores nationwide since their initial launch on December 31st.
Do they do anything special? They light up? What do they do? It's a coffee holder; they look cute!
So Trader Joe's is facing a case of deja vu. So you remember those viral mini tote bags that had people storming the stores? If you were lucky enough to cop one of those, well, it's happening again, but this time in the form of a mini insulated cooler bag.
So take a look! Instated to release... [Applause]
So these limited edition pink and blue bad boys are just flying off the shelves, but they're selling for four bucks each. And even though they're called totes, they're really just one and a half-gallon bags insulated with a zipper top. Trader Joe's fans say it's perfect for a lunch box, a picnic, or even a trip to the beach.
I'm sure it's cute and all, but is it really worth the resale prices on eBay? A set of two is currently being listed for $100. So stupid, really, right? Like, why? Why are some things and not other things?
I guess first it was mini tote bags; well, now people are lining up for mini cooler bags. In New Jersey, they lined up for an hour before opening today. The staff said today supply was gone within minutes. I went to a different location yesterday and got there like 12 minutes past the time they opened, but they're gone—poof! Just like that!
Back in March, Trader Joe's released limited edition mini tote bags. Those cost $2.99; they were being listed on eBay for hundreds of dollars. The new cooler bags are already being resold online. We have seen some listed at $60. Capitalism alive and well!
Is there such a thing as too many bags? I don't think so! And with that being said, this video has come to an end. Don't forget to comment, like, share, and subscribe. Make sure your notification bells are turned on so that you always, always know when I upload, and I will catch you guys in the next one!
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