November 29, 2024 • 38 mins
This week, Rachel Zoe is back to answer all of your gifting questions! From what to buy your tween or teen to how to gift the ultimate fashion lover... the queen of gifting is breaking it all down. Happy Black Friday and Happy Shopping listeners!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi everyone, I'm Rachel Zoe and you're listening to Climbing
in Heels for your weekly dose of glamour, inspiration and fun.
A very Happy Black Friday to you all. Yes, I
cannot believe it's that time of year where inboxes are
flooded with promotional emails and every commercial is about the
same major Cell. We did a gifting episode on the
(00:30):
pod last year and everyone was so obsessed with it
that I'm back again this year to answer all of
your gifting questions, or at least some of you, as
many as I can. Thank you to everyone who submitted
questions on Instagram. We got a lot, so I wanted
to jump right in and back of course this week
to help my producer, Mary Elizabeth. So let's get started.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Here we are with the Wizard of Gifting herself God
back again.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Happy Black Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Happy Black Friday tis the season.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's It's that time of year where Rachel's DMS and
everyone she talks to asks her.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A million questions about what to.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Get who, and by the Wizard, do you mean obsessive?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Obsessive?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Rachel's love language is gifting, not that she doesn't have others.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is, though it really is your your I would
say your.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Number one Yeah, yeah, is gift giving.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I think for people that like know virgos, sometimes we
don't necessarily verbalize our feelings. So I think like sometimes
it's through food, it's through care, caretaking, and it's definitely
for me through gift giving. And I won't just give
a random gift. I won't do it. And I've never
regifted and I've never Yeah, I obsessed, probably to a fault, honestly.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, it's part of your virgo.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, Okay, we a lot of DMS, So I want
to jump right and so we can answer as many
listener and follow up questions as we can.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I want to kick you off with a question that
literally came in more than any other question, and it's
your own personal God. I hope I can answer that
your own personal hell. When you're a gift giving and
the question is what do I get my tween or
teen boy or girl?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh my god, what do we gift? Honestly, it's awful,
It's truly awful. Okay, So I'm going to first do
the cop out easy gift. Okay, we love that, though
a cop out no brainer, if you really don't know
something they want, or you're not totally convinced it's something
they would love. Gift cards are paramount. They are fail safe.
(02:50):
They make them so happy because they can. If they
only get one, they'll use it to buy something. If
they get ten, they'll save up to buy the thing
they're dreaming of. Trust me, four teens, there is something
they are dreaming of every day. The problem is the
dreaming is so expensive. It's insane. Gotcha. So where as
we come off of legos and magnetiles and dinosaurs or
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like hair braiding kits and jewelry making, the tween teen
thing is like they want blow drys manicures, but they
don't want regular manicures. They want painted manicures. They want
cchrume manicures. They want manicures that are ten x the
price of just a Mani petty. Right, So even for
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girls or for boys, I think like a many petty
gift card is great. Right. A facial well, you know,
a treatment because for teens now, it's a lot about
the skin, right.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Skin care, I mean for the girls and the boys.
But like's so obsessed.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, so let's talk about that beauty I am going
to say that if you ever want to know where
tweens and teens hang out in their free time, go
to a Sephora or go to an Alta. And the
funny part is is now I'm seeing so many boys there.
Oh totally, and they I will say, for one, and
(04:15):
he's going to kill me. But like my son has
taken my like crazy luxury, super expensive skincare. He comes in,
he goes, Mom, do you have nice cinamide? Huh huh? Mom?
Do you have vitamins sea seerum? Mom?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Do you have hair thickening spray?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Wow. So he's gonna kill me for saying that, but
I would say that rightfully. I have a boy mom chat, yes,
and it is like a comedy sketch because of the
amount of products and the amount of hair dryers and
the amount of dysons that have gone missing, the amount
of hair tools.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And those are expensive.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Those are like all all of my tom Ford cologne
is missing.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I want you to talk about this because I was.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Shook to my core to learn again Sky might kill us.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But he thankfully he doesn't listen to my podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
There's no way year old he's obsessed with fragrance, obsessed,
and I I'm so shook by that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I think I funny. Okay, So I blame the TikTokers
and the YouTubers.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
They're They're always to blame.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The number one thing that I am going to blame
them for is the worst hair trend to ever come
through boys since the bowl cut of beetle era. I
cannot wrap my head around why these broccoli mop heads exist.
It is the it doesn't look good. It is the
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alpaca hair, and I I can't. Okay, So anyone who
has a teen boy who has the alpaca hair, give
them hair products, luxury or whatever is in your budget.
Give them cologne, give them skincare because some of them
are too embarrassed to buy what they think is for girls.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
You know, do you get them a skincare like a
system too?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh yeah. Remember they're in acne era, so they can't
use a lot of the things that we're pounding our
faces with, like oils and things like that. They really
cannot use that stuff. And like obviously they shouldn't necessarily
have anti aging things. And some of these things may
be too heavy or too strong or whatever. But I
do think there are things that you know that are
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very clean, that are like, you know, lighter, that are
maybe oil free, that don't have mineral base. You know,
certain things that are definitely more teen focused. You can
ask your dirm if they're too embarrassed about it. But
I think those are amazing gifts, and I think if
you don't know what, give them again.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The gift cards key.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
With teens, right, So I think that sneakers, that's such
a sneakers is also your boy default adida, sambas to
faults are everywhere. They'll never no I know you.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Saying cash is king for teens is so funny and
so true because there's innately something that happens. I feel
like when you're gifting your teen tween child, no.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Matter what it is, they're like embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
They're like, mom, like, oh yeah, I don't need to
switch your I don't need that whatever. I think the
gift card is genius because it gives them the freedom
to select.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
One thousand person.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Even though like you would have gotten it for the
missing all.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Of my children, that freedom all of my boys friends
now and Caius is turning eleven and Sky will be
fourteen in March. Every one of their friends gets gift
cards now unless there's something specific, like one of his
friends wanted like a like a supreme hoodie. Right, so
a couple of kids went in on it, and you know, yes,
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so I think things like that if you know that one.
I also think that group gifts are great. Yes, you know,
group gifts are great.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You also quit caveat and we'll move on. You also
are great.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
At gifting your kids things activities that keep them outside, Yes,
and not so much on the screen. Yes, on the idea, Yes,
you're good with like the scooters, yep, the new basketball.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yes, outdoor stuff, which I think is a good pro
and a lot now because it gets dark so early,
a lot of a lot of guys will be like
or girls too. They're like, I can't go outside and
exercise it's dark. Well get outdoor lights. Just you can
get the cheapy ones on Amazon, stick them outside and
they light up your driveway. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So I think that's super important.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I know that you know default is screens, right, So
I think anything to get our kids off the phones, honestly,
but again contradicting that, like a dope phone case or
a new upgrade if you know, yeah, new headphones. I
don't love the in the ear.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So you can give that as a suggestion to people
that want to buy your child a gift and then
you make them go outside.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, no, it's it's true.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, Well, moving to our second most asked question. And
we got this last year too, because I remember it
and I'm in this boat.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I too need this direction.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What do I get either my mother in law or
my boyfriend's mom. Oh God, one listener put a caveat
on it because she had gifted two of these things
to her mother in law before. So I'm going to
put those parameters around you. What do we give our
mother in law or our boyfriend's mom? No cashmere and
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no rope because we're assuming we've already gifted them that
or they.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Have that or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So here's the thing. There's such a spectrum of mother
in law's.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
A men's sister.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
There's your mother and my mother. And your mother who
would love and appreciate everything and anything, and my mother
who would say she loves and appreciates anything, but then
she returns it and you.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Know, faster than yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, So my mother only gets gifts of things we
know she actually wants, not something we think she might
actually want. So I do think and also my father,
you know what, it loves everything, right, And but so
you have the mother in laws that the best gift
you could ever give them is a digital frame with
endless pictures in it. Right, that's a great So that pick.
(10:33):
That gift is something that my niece and nephew got
for my parents, and they live for it, and my
dad lives for it. And they're so techy now that
you can upload, you can add them daily and it's brilliant, right,
so you can keep them updated, and you know, so
I think that's great. I default for mother in laws
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to jewelry. Now that can be fine jewelry, it can
be costume jewelry. At this point there isn't much of
a price discrepancy these days depending on what you're getting,
you know, And I think that it's but for me,
I love people through jewelry. And I think if you
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know your mother in law, which I'm quite certain you do,
you know what she likes and doesn't like. She might
just like like a silver cuff. She might like a
gold like band with a few little you know, srowsky
crystals in it or CZ's or whatever, or she get
her one with one single little baby diamond in it.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The price sometimes is not that different.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You know. I would say one of my favorite affordable,
like reasonable beautiful jewelry resources that I gift so much from.
It's insane as Melinda Maria jewelry. I mean, her prices
are beyond I actually have eight earrings of hers in
my ears right now. I do no actually I four
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on each ear and honestly gifting huggies of all different sizes.
She does like tennis necklaces, and it's all costume jewelry,
but it looks real and people are obsessed with it.
I love for fine jewelry. I love ring concierge. I
find to be very reasonable Bond jewelry collection there if
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you have the budget. Jen Meyer jewelry is a forever favorite.
Jennifer Fisher jewelry, who does costume and fine. You know,
the list goes on. I mean, I could talk about
jewelry for days and years, but but I really think
Milina Maria jewelry, especially for holiday gifting, is great and
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also fine jewelry obviously of budget, is a great one.
Please go to Anita co or Jenmeyer jewelry, because you
know you'll always always make someone happy there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You'll wear that forever, forever and ever. This is a
less romantic gift idea. Rachel is an advisor for a
steam iron company, cled nor Grory.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
God, it's such a good gift that I want to
telling you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It is a okay, so picture a flat iron for
your hair. It's larger, made for clothing, and it has
a steaming functionality. And if you press the clothing or
the cloth between two hot.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Plans and you can travel with it like an iron.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It is the best clothes accessor.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It is so good. If you guys have not heard
of it. It's called Nori yes n o r I
and it's actually iron spelled backwards. And I am an investor,
I am a believer, and people are obsessed with it.
When my sister found out that I was investing in Norrie,
she was like, I couldn't be more obsessed with anything.
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She didn't even know that I knew the founders. And
people are obsessed and it's reasonable and it's definitely and
it's good and it's unexpected.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's unexpected good for guys or girls and it's good
for like, you know, if you're dating somebody and yes,
it's been like six months and you know the mother
in law, it's your boyfriend's mom. You kind of like
you've been to a couple of dinners, you've been to
a couple of things, but you don't, like, no know her.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So I think it's good for us.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So good for your sister, your sister in law. I mean,
it's honestly, it's a great gat for anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Truthfully, but I think it is that good like bridge
the gap of like.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I also really know her. I also want to note
that it's great to travel with it is it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Okay, Next up, we got this question also a couple
of times. What would you suggest as gifts for people
who are trying to achieve healthier hair?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh okay, I'm an answer that with the best thing
that's helped my hair, K eighteen K eighteen okay, So
internally you do the neutralfile right, so you can dike
neutral falls and the supplements and now they have serum right,
so they's topical. I have used over the last year
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a product that is now literally like a cult following
called K eighteen, and it started with one product that
was a little like pump you put like a dime
size after you you wash your hair and you just
leave it in. Okay, and I have used it at
the crown of my hair for the last year and
my hair has grown so much. But what it does
is actually molecular lur lily uh huh. Heals and repairs
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your hair. And it really does, like all the broken
hair at the top where you like burn it and brush.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It so much heat abuse.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It rebuilds and strengthens the hair and it is so effective.
And now they've come out with a handful of other products,
so it's a little bit more like a system. But
if you only can get one product, I would say
that the pump, the original hair mass that you leave in.
It's really unbelievable and I know like hundreds of people
that swear by it. I mean, and it's called K eighteen,
the letter K and eighteen, so that's great. And then
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obviously there's like incredible hair brands that I'm obsessed with,
like low Levi, which you know is Jennifer Aniston's hair,
hair hair brand, we all want jen Aniston's hair. I Mean,
there's so many incredible hair products out there that is
absolutely one of them.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yes, yes, okay, we love that.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I loved this question so much I plucked this out immediately.
This listener said, I work as a nanny. What is
a good gift for the mom that I work for
she's a single mom.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Ooh, A spa treatment, spa treatment, a super cozy robe
and eyemask and slipper set kind of thing like a
massage or anything like that. Any wellness like that. Also,
like maybe like a nice like meal, you know, like
a like a meal, or like even like, uh, you know,
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obviously flowers are always great, but like, honestly something for her, Yeah,
because I think the things that single moms don't do
is look after themselves. They don't do anything for themselves.
So I think anything that puts them at ease makes
them comfortable. I always thought, well, I mean, now it's different,
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I guess because now you can you know, buy like
DVDs anymore. But I remember years ago being gifted like
the entire Friends trilogy. Wow, and it was like the
best gift ever, you know, and the Twilight trilogy. By
the way, I was going to say, do you know
what makes me the happiest when when artists do renderings
of me and me with my kids and they take
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it off a picture and you can do that. Now,
there's so many options to do that online. There's so
many different companies that do that. I actually had an assistant,
one of my very favorite assistants many years ago, would
always gift me a vintage like Pouci, MASONI or mez like,
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even if it was the absolute tiniest little trinket, Yes,
but it was so special. Yeah, it was so special
because what that said to me is she wants to
get me something from one of the things she knows
I love. She can't spend a gajillion dollars, but she
went an eBay and spent the time to track down
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a collectible piece from one of my favorite designers, you know,
And no matter how small it is, it was so
special and it all it sits on my nightstand and
I look at it every day. And those gifts are
those gifts are amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You'll have it forever. Okay. Next question, want to give
a perfect gold chain? Do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Are we talking real gold?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I think you are.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The costumes okay, because there's obviously solid gold and then
there's gold plates there's you know, there's a million different
price variations depending on your budget.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
And I feel like gold is expensive right now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Gold is like is as expensive as diamonds. Yeah, yeah,
So I would say a gold chain. I mean, you
really have to know the person obviously that you're buying for,
because the widths and the links, there are so many
there are I'm in a venture to see that. There's thousands,
not nundreds of different links. Yea. You know, there's snake links,
there's curb links, there's book chains, there's you know, there's
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snake chains, there's the pin link, the god what's it called,
the like box chains. I mean it goes on for
Daser's ball chains, which is like what's on dog tags,
you know. So I always obviously prefer a thicker chain
because if you're just gonna wear a chain like around
your neck, I prefer it to sit sort of just
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either just above your clabical so it sits like in
that little like you know, that little divot between your
neck and your clabical or just below, because otherwise it
won't sit properly right. You need it to lay flat.
So I think that I like a weightier chain because
if you're just gonna wear that chain. I like it
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to count.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, make it count.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm not a dainty person, as you know. I'm a
dainty person who wears not dainty things.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But I would say as resources, I mean, there's so
many that all depends on your price point. Vintage. I
love going on eBay for things like this. I love
a vintage chain because sometimes the best chains are vintage,
and you know, try to remember that almost every single
designer takes inspiration from vintage links. So you know, I
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love a good vintage Gucci link necklace. You know, I
love a vintage Chanel link. I love I love a
big interlocking link with a You.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Could do a whole episode on you talking about gold chains.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I could. Actually that was a very dangerous question for me.
I also very you know. I also like the idea
of gifting someone one that either has one pendant on
it or one where it has something where they can
put pendance on it. Sure, you know, because that's fun
to build on, especially moms.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's really cute. Okay, good tips. What's the best beauty
stocking stuff?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, So I have a new obsession with minis. I
have an obsession with mini makeup, mini everything for a
couple reasons. One is I'm always on the go and
I want it in my bag. I want it in
my evening bag. And I don't travel light. As you know,
I have a full face everywhere I go because you
never know. I won't use it. I'll probably just use
my lip. But I need it all because you never
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know when you're going to get stuck, never know. So
I have all my minis in a bag, and so
stocking stuffers to me is a kit of minis, or
just even one mini or two minis, And especially for
the holidays, all the great brands have sets, right. I
love Lawless makeup. I love Lawless. I love her lip
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products and I buy them in sets and I buy them,
you know, separately, and I love and everyone wants it.
Everyone wants the lip filler gloss, everyone loves it. I
love her lipliners, they really stay on. I love rare beauty,
Selena Gomez's brand. So I love minis. I think those
are the best stockings. I love fragrances. If you can
get a little like sample Tree, not a simple trio,
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but a little like trio of mini fragrances, that's such
a cute stocking stuff for so. I love Fragrance little
candle sets. Yeah, Rachel's a Fragrance. If you haven't got
my Fragrance guys, Empowered, Warrior, instinct, Invincible and fearless. H
(22:25):
I think I got them all. They're so good. They're
so good. And yeah, so I think things like that.
I think, you know skincare travel sets, Yes, you know,
I love that. You Beauty has all these minis she
sells as a set, the lip compounds, like, you know,
I have so many favorites I'd be so happy to get.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh, you know who does a great set is Charlotte Tilbury. Yes,
the mini pillow talk.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh my god, it's so good. Huh with a little
gloss over it. It's so good. Yeah, Charlotte Tilbury does
some incredible ones. Victoria Beckham is doing some great sets
that she does a little Fragrance trio that I just
got for someone. I'm loving her new fragrances so and
the oh my.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Gosh, why am I blinking linee.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yes, Lenese, I mean I am such a junkie right now,
Like I am so obsessed with so me. There's so
much good products out there. If you have a great budget.
I mean, get the trouble uh set for Barbara Sturm.
I mean, anyone would just attack you if they got
that and they're stalking, attack you good, like a big
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hug attack, like a love attack.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That's great. Okay, I love this question.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I thought it was very interesting because I find myself
in this listener's situation a lot. What is a host
gift that you can pack into a carry on suitcase?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
A host Oh god, that's so hard travel. Okay, I'm
going to tell you A dip tea candle, or a
Lei labo candle. I think candles are great. You obviously
you have to wrap it like crazy, but a beautiful
candle Hudson and great Jenny Caine, a Jenny Cane candle
with like a room fragrance. I mean, I love the
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aspen one is so good.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Will TSA unwrap it?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Probably it has to be under the the ounces. But
in a carry on I think you could do that.
But I think you could do or.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Just don't actually gift traffic keep it in its box
right just in case.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But a hostess gift also serving such charcuterie board, you know,
kind of like a mini cheese board that's like monogrammed
is such a great holiday gift, and you could fit
that in a carry on, not a massive one, but
like a little one. You totally could. I mean I
love that. I mean those are like the best gifts
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that I give. A picture frame a room fragrance, but
you don't want it to spill, and it has to
be under the reounces.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, so good call. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Our next listener question is one that I found really
touching and very beautiful.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Her question is what should I.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Gift my sister who is the full caretaker for our dad?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean, I've never been asked that one, And that's
a really good one and a hard one to be honest,
because obviously, like my immediate fallback is like a spa day, right,
Like you take care of dad, let us take care
of you, right, So I would say that, And the
other thing I would say is she's probably waiting hand
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and foot and doing a lot of kitchen prep and
stuff like that. So I think anything that makes that easier.
So depending on your budget, but there are so many
now affordable like food prep delivery systems. Oh so like
even like a week or a month of like depending
on your budget, of like a food delivery so you
don't have to cook, you know, and you could do
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like even grocery delivery or like, you know, anything like that.
I think is you know, if she's a book reader,
a book club delivery. Things like that I think are
so nice because it's not something people typically do for themselves,
but when you get it as a gift, it's like
it keeps on giving. Yes, and every time you do it,
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they'll think of you and they'll be so thankful because
it's not something they would have done for themselves. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
No, I think that's a great idea. I love the
book club idea.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
If they're a reader.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yea, every year, my dad gives me and my sisters
a subscription to a magazine.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So we get it everything. Yes, my dad used to
do that too.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I think it's just so sweet and fun to like
look forward to it every month. I love that idea. Okay,
our next question I also loved.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I thought, I think it's such a great idea and
be a wonderful question to ask you. Her question is
I'm gifting homemade baked goods this year. Okay, how can
I make them look special?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay? So well, to me, you have to have the
best recipe. Okay, so let's just say, like you want
to start with you you need to start and make
sure it's the yummiest it can be. Don't overcomplicate it,
add something a little special, right. So I love the idea,
especially on the holidays. It's all about decorating it, right,
It's all in the art of it. So when you
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start with an amazing product, then I think you get
creative with the design, right, Like, so there's so many
different cool like on Williams Sonoma or any of these
great like online on Amazon, you can buy like all
the different shapes for the holidays, right, So you do that,
but then I think you like personalize it and then
you challenge yourself, right with like color schemes and decorative things.
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I love. I love when I get baked goods in
a cool like box that I can reuse. So you
line it with like parchment or whatever or tissue or whatever,
and you put your bake goods in there, you wrap them,
and then you put it in a beautiful trinket box
or something like something cool box that you can reuse
for makeup or jewelry or whatever, and then you put
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like little notes. I like affirmation notes for me. Everything
in the holidays, from literally November fifteenth to New Year's
I want everything to be sparkling. I want my tallic sparkles, glitter,
all the things. So I just think the more the better.
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Watch out with the glitter, because it gets on everything
and never comes out.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I have seen so glitter in like sweaters. I heard.
I think it was a comedian.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It was. It had to be a comedian said that
glitter is the herpes of arts and crafts.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You can't get rid of it. It's true, It's so true.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It is really true. Actually, it actually is.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It never goes away.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Like I've had glitter stuck to like my eyes after
three showers.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Oh for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
So easy on the glitter, Easy on the glitter.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
We want it to be fun.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Just decorate. I love ribbons. I love mixing and matching
different shapes of ribbons. You can go, of course on
like YouTube or TikTok and look at like. One of
the greatest gift ropping things my mother ever taught me
was like how to curl a ribbon with a scissor,
And it's so therape beauty.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
It is it's so instant gratification.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And I also, I really mean it when I say
like affirmation cards, because I think we're like living in
a time now where people like really forget to stop
and think and even read or look at anything. So
when they see a little affirmation on a gift and
even like a box of cookies or treats or whatever,
it is like it's a nice thing to just read
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and stop for like half of a second.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Sure you know I have an idea, And I mean,
the freaking velvet bow is here to stay.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I love a velvet like in everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's everywhere I feel like all else fails a beautiful
velvet booth.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yes, okay, this question made me laugh out loud because
I'm dying for your answer. It's it's it's two things
that you're not necessarily the biggest fan.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Of a vibrator.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
What no, god, no, oh my god. No, not that
this mom asked you.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
How would you style your kids for a holiday trip
to Disney?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Because did you.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Say you how would you style your kids for holidays
Disney in Orlando or Disney in LA I.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Think either or just said Disney, didn't say World or
Land but it's it's same, same, right kind of. So
I think other than a climate is even similar.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
To but oh no, girl, it's a swamp in Orlando,
but maybe not in December, right, Oh yeah, that's fair.
I think what this mom might be referencing is is
there is these like moms, TikTokers, mom influencers, whatever you
want to say, that dressed their kids as Mickey and minnions.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
They go all in so they do like custom shirts
and the custom Mickey ears stop and the light stop, the.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Characters like they go full on for like a day
at Disney or a vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Is actually yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a thing. So I
think this moment is just saying, like, what's your version
of that?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
My version is not that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Your version is not stepping foot in Disney, which is
the funniest part.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
But I love Disney. I do love Disneyland. I don't
love rides, but I do love the experience.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
You love the magic.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I love it for two hours, right, which is guys,
it's like a fourteen hour day. It is like it
is hard. And I went. I took my parents and
my kids. I took Kaya's for his sixth birthday. I
had a nephew, I need a fever. Oh that's right,
that said. I really love It's a Small World. Sure,
(31:50):
like I could. I could do It's a Small World,
like over and over and over. That was. I have
fond memories of that. I have PTSD from Magic Mountain
or whatever that was that I was in the dark
on the roller coaster. Yeah, whatever that was. I've been
on a roller coaster since then, and I think I
think I was nine. Honestly, is your vocation for.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Sky and Caius going to a day at Disney?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
A day at Disney would mean that I have them
in matching outfits. Sure, And I'm going to say that
for a reason. Every time I travel, I put them
in matching, matching outfits because if God forbid I can't
find one, then I can show anybody my other child
and say he's wearing this. Are you serious? That's why
you do that? Yeah, of course that's my logic on
a travel day.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
That the most.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That is the most psychotic, absolutelyshit, absolutely heard, absolutely, Because
Caius is a runner officer.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Look at what he says, Yeskius is a runner. Well,
I my second child is a runner. So you be
damn sure that when he was born. I lost him.
I lost him in Hawaii, him at the farmer's market,
I've lost him in the Hampton's. He is a runner.
So at least if Skyler was wearing the same thing,
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then I could be like, have you seen a little
curly headed boy in this outfit and it worked? I'm
sure we had swat teaste.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I've never heard you say that before.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I can't believe you didn't know that that was the logic.
I can't believe it shocks you.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
So they're matching.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Okay, so they're matching, and I would say I understand
getting a little in the theme, like I would do
a little like black and white, maybe right, Like, sure,
I can do that. They obviously need to be in
sneakers as much as I'd probably want them in black eggs.
But for walking, I would say, you have to be
in sneaks, but not in character. Not in character. I
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think they should look cute. And you have to know
that those pictures you will look at for the rest
of your life and your children will look at for
the rest of their lives. So you have to know
that whatever you put them in, you don't want to
regret it. So classic yeah, I'm going to go classic. Okay,
the black and white vibe. Yeah, black and white, I
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mean accent of red, accent of red. It feels very
micim ani.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Do the boys to let you dress them alike? Do
they disguise? They will?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
When we travel they will, Yeah, when we travel they will. Okay,
But but as a rule they have such different Kius
will still put on whatever I give him. Yea, and
Skyler you know, yeah he's a teen off the rails,
but he still Skyler still wants me to pick his close.
Oh because the girls like when I pick his close. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
See it's a talking point. He's smart, such a bright boy.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, okay, love this question for you. What do you
get a fashion lover that has everything?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Oh my god? Honestly, I will say, in truth a
coffee table book. But know that if they are a
diehard collector and they are real, real fashion person, they
may have it. But if there's a brand new one out,
you can never. I am here to say, you can
never have too many fashion books, and no one will
(35:12):
ever get mad at a Chanel book, you know, and
they're not expensive, honestly, like like you can, coffee table
books range and sometimes used like vintage ones are way cooler,
you know, so I think a vintage fashion book is
even better.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's cool, I think too. It's like, don't get them
anything fashion, but get them like art.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's fashion. But it depends on your budget. Sketches are great,
even vintage, like Vogue magazine cover prints. I have tons
of them. They're amazing, I mean, and no one's ever
gonna not want that.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, that's a good that's a good take.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Okay, Last, but never least, what are you treating yourself
to this year?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Oh? My god, you know what? It's free? What sleep?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
I'm going to buy you a sleep chamber that I'm
going to lock you in it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Oh my god, I'm gonna I'm gonna lock you in it.
It'll be very cozy, it'll have friends playing on a loop.
You'll have an endless drip of tea if you want it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
But you have to sleep.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I desperitely need some sleep, so I would say that.
And I just to get myself a new Skims bathroom
because it looked so comfortable and it is so that
and what else. Let's see how the year rounds out,
and maybe I'll buy myself something on holiday because I
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have my eye on some things.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Oh what do you have your eye on?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Mass obviously, so let's see how the year rounds out.
Let's let's see how the year rounds out. But honestly,
being with my kids, being with my sister, being in
like my favorite place to travel too, will be just enough.
I also need to start manifesting. I need to take
this seriously. Yeah, I need to talk to myself.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Oh that's a great takeaway for today. Talk nicer to yourself.
Get a little sleep.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I keep hearing that, be nicer to yourself, wonders. I
thank everyone for to close my gifting pod today. I
want everyone to give themselves because it's something that people
keep telling me to do, so I want to share
it with you. I think we all need to gift ourselves.
Being nicer to ourselves. Yes, you know, and talking nicely beautiful.
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Well set on that note. Every shopping I'll be shopping
while you're being nicer to yourself. Go to yourself to
that diamond necklace.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh yeah, a little retail therapy never hurt anybody.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Thank you so much for listening to Climbing and Heels.
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Hi everyone, I'm Rachel Zoe and you're listening to Climbing
in Heels for your weekly dose of glamour, inspiration and fun.
A very Happy Black Friday to you all. Yes, I
cannot believe it's that time of year where inboxes are
flooded with promotional emails and every commercial is about the
same major Cell. We did a gifting episode on the
(00:30):
pod last year and everyone was so obsessed with it
that I'm back again this year to answer all of
your gifting questions, or at least some of you, as
many as I can. Thank you to everyone who submitted
questions on Instagram. We got a lot, so I wanted
to jump right in and back of course this week
to help my producer, Mary Elizabeth. So let's get started.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Here we are with the Wizard of Gifting herself God
back again.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Happy Black Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Happy Black Friday tis the season.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's It's that time of year where Rachel's DMS and
everyone she talks to asks her.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A million questions about what to.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Get who, and by the Wizard, do you mean obsessive?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Obsessive?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Rachel's love language is gifting, not that she doesn't have others.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is, though it really is your your I would
say your.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Number one Yeah, yeah, is gift giving.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I think for people that like know virgos, sometimes we
don't necessarily verbalize our feelings. So I think like sometimes
it's through food, it's through care, caretaking, and it's definitely
for me through gift giving. And I won't just give
a random gift. I won't do it. And I've never
regifted and I've never Yeah, I obsessed, probably to a fault, honestly.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, it's part of your virgo.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, Okay, we a lot of DMS, So I want
to jump right and so we can answer as many
listener and follow up questions as we can.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I want to kick you off with a question that
literally came in more than any other question, and it's
your own personal God. I hope I can answer that
your own personal hell. When you're a gift giving and
the question is what do I get my tween or
teen boy or girl?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh my god, what do we gift? Honestly, it's awful,
It's truly awful. Okay, So I'm going to first do
the cop out easy gift. Okay, we love that, though
a cop out no brainer, if you really don't know
something they want, or you're not totally convinced it's something
they would love. Gift cards are paramount. They are fail safe.
(02:50):
They make them so happy because they can. If they
only get one, they'll use it to buy something. If
they get ten, they'll save up to buy the thing
they're dreaming of. Trust me, four teens, there is something
they are dreaming of every day. The problem is the
dreaming is so expensive. It's insane. Gotcha. So where as
we come off of legos and magnetiles and dinosaurs or
(03:15):
like hair braiding kits and jewelry making, the tween teen
thing is like they want blow drys manicures, but they
don't want regular manicures. They want painted manicures. They want
cchrume manicures. They want manicures that are ten x the
price of just a Mani petty. Right, So even for
(03:36):
girls or for boys, I think like a many petty
gift card is great. Right. A facial well, you know,
a treatment because for teens now, it's a lot about
the skin, right.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Skin care, I mean for the girls and the boys.
But like's so obsessed.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, so let's talk about that beauty I am going
to say that if you ever want to know where
tweens and teens hang out in their free time, go
to a Sephora or go to an Alta. And the
funny part is is now I'm seeing so many boys there.
Oh totally, and they I will say, for one, and
(04:15):
he's going to kill me. But like my son has
taken my like crazy luxury, super expensive skincare. He comes in,
he goes, Mom, do you have nice cinamide? Huh huh? Mom?
Do you have vitamins sea seerum? Mom?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Do you have hair thickening spray?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Wow. So he's gonna kill me for saying that, but
I would say that rightfully. I have a boy mom chat, yes,
and it is like a comedy sketch because of the
amount of products and the amount of hair dryers and
the amount of dysons that have gone missing, the amount
of hair tools.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And those are expensive.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Those are like all all of my tom Ford cologne
is missing.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I want you to talk about this because I was.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Shook to my core to learn again Sky might kill us.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But he thankfully he doesn't listen to my podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
There's no way year old he's obsessed with fragrance, obsessed,
and I I'm so shook by that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I think I funny. Okay, So I blame the TikTokers
and the YouTubers.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
They're They're always to blame.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The number one thing that I am going to blame
them for is the worst hair trend to ever come
through boys since the bowl cut of beetle era. I
cannot wrap my head around why these broccoli mop heads exist.
It is the it doesn't look good. It is the
(05:55):
alpaca hair, and I I can't. Okay, So anyone who
has a teen boy who has the alpaca hair, give
them hair products, luxury or whatever is in your budget.
Give them cologne, give them skincare because some of them
are too embarrassed to buy what they think is for girls.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
You know, do you get them a skincare like a
system too?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh yeah. Remember they're in acne era, so they can't
use a lot of the things that we're pounding our
faces with, like oils and things like that. They really
cannot use that stuff. And like obviously they shouldn't necessarily
have anti aging things. And some of these things may
be too heavy or too strong or whatever. But I
do think there are things that you know that are
(06:41):
very clean, that are like, you know, lighter, that are
maybe oil free, that don't have mineral base. You know,
certain things that are definitely more teen focused. You can
ask your dirm if they're too embarrassed about it. But
I think those are amazing gifts, and I think if
you don't know what, give them again.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The gift cards key.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
With teens, right, So I think that sneakers, that's such
a sneakers is also your boy default adida, sambas to
faults are everywhere. They'll never no I know you.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Saying cash is king for teens is so funny and
so true because there's innately something that happens. I feel
like when you're gifting your teen tween child, no.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Matter what it is, they're like embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
They're like, mom, like, oh yeah, I don't need to
switch your I don't need that whatever. I think the
gift card is genius because it gives them the freedom
to select.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
One thousand person.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Even though like you would have gotten it for the
missing all.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Of my children, that freedom all of my boys friends
now and Caius is turning eleven and Sky will be
fourteen in March. Every one of their friends gets gift
cards now unless there's something specific, like one of his
friends wanted like a like a supreme hoodie. Right, so
a couple of kids went in on it, and you know, yes,
(07:59):
so I think things like that if you know that one.
I also think that group gifts are great. Yes, you know,
group gifts are great.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You also quit caveat and we'll move on. You also
are great.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
At gifting your kids things activities that keep them outside, Yes,
and not so much on the screen. Yes, on the idea, Yes,
you're good with like the scooters, yep, the new basketball.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yes, outdoor stuff, which I think is a good pro
and a lot now because it gets dark so early,
a lot of a lot of guys will be like
or girls too. They're like, I can't go outside and
exercise it's dark. Well get outdoor lights. Just you can
get the cheapy ones on Amazon, stick them outside and
they light up your driveway. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So I think that's super important.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I know that you know default is screens, right, So
I think anything to get our kids off the phones, honestly,
but again contradicting that, like a dope phone case or
a new upgrade if you know, yeah, new headphones. I
don't love the in the ear.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So you can give that as a suggestion to people
that want to buy your child a gift and then
you make them go outside.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, no, it's it's true.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, Well, moving to our second most asked question. And
we got this last year too, because I remember it
and I'm in this boat.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I too need this direction.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What do I get either my mother in law or
my boyfriend's mom. Oh God, one listener put a caveat
on it because she had gifted two of these things
to her mother in law before. So I'm going to
put those parameters around you. What do we give our
mother in law or our boyfriend's mom? No cashmere and
(09:44):
no rope because we're assuming we've already gifted them that
or they.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Have that or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So here's the thing. There's such a spectrum of mother
in law's.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
A men's sister.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
There's your mother and my mother. And your mother who
would love and appreciate everything and anything, and my mother
who would say she loves and appreciates anything, but then
she returns it and you.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Know, faster than yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, So my mother only gets gifts of things we
know she actually wants, not something we think she might
actually want. So I do think and also my father,
you know what, it loves everything, right, And but so
you have the mother in laws that the best gift
you could ever give them is a digital frame with
endless pictures in it. Right, that's a great So that pick.
(10:33):
That gift is something that my niece and nephew got
for my parents, and they live for it, and my
dad lives for it. And they're so techy now that
you can upload, you can add them daily and it's brilliant, right,
so you can keep them updated, and you know, so
I think that's great. I default for mother in laws
(10:53):
to jewelry. Now that can be fine jewelry, it can
be costume jewelry. At this point there isn't much of
a price discrepancy these days depending on what you're getting,
you know, And I think that it's but for me,
I love people through jewelry. And I think if you
(11:15):
know your mother in law, which I'm quite certain you do,
you know what she likes and doesn't like. She might
just like like a silver cuff. She might like a
gold like band with a few little you know, srowsky
crystals in it or CZ's or whatever, or she get
her one with one single little baby diamond in it.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The price sometimes is not that different.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You know. I would say one of my favorite affordable,
like reasonable beautiful jewelry resources that I gift so much from.
It's insane as Melinda Maria jewelry. I mean, her prices
are beyond I actually have eight earrings of hers in
my ears right now. I do no actually I four
(11:57):
on each ear and honestly gifting huggies of all different sizes.
She does like tennis necklaces, and it's all costume jewelry,
but it looks real and people are obsessed with it.
I love for fine jewelry. I love ring concierge. I
find to be very reasonable Bond jewelry collection there if
(12:17):
you have the budget. Jen Meyer jewelry is a forever favorite.
Jennifer Fisher jewelry, who does costume and fine. You know,
the list goes on. I mean, I could talk about
jewelry for days and years, but but I really think
Milina Maria jewelry, especially for holiday gifting, is great and
(12:37):
also fine jewelry obviously of budget, is a great one.
Please go to Anita co or Jenmeyer jewelry, because you
know you'll always always make someone happy there.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You'll wear that forever, forever and ever. This is a
less romantic gift idea. Rachel is an advisor for a
steam iron company, cled nor Grory.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
God, it's such a good gift that I want to
telling you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It is a okay, so picture a flat iron for
your hair. It's larger, made for clothing, and it has
a steaming functionality. And if you press the clothing or
the cloth between two hot.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Plans and you can travel with it like an iron.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It is the best clothes accessor.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It is so good. If you guys have not heard
of it. It's called Nori yes n o r I
and it's actually iron spelled backwards. And I am an investor,
I am a believer, and people are obsessed with it.
When my sister found out that I was investing in Norrie,
she was like, I couldn't be more obsessed with anything.
(13:42):
She didn't even know that I knew the founders. And
people are obsessed and it's reasonable and it's definitely and
it's good and it's unexpected.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's unexpected good for guys or girls and it's good
for like, you know, if you're dating somebody and yes,
it's been like six months and you know the mother
in law, it's your boyfriend's mom. You kind of like
you've been to a couple of dinners, you've been to
a couple of things, but you don't, like, no know her.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So I think it's good for us.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So good for your sister, your sister in law. I mean,
it's honestly, it's a great gat for anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Truthfully, but I think it is that good like bridge
the gap of like.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I also really know her. I also want to note
that it's great to travel with it is it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Okay, Next up, we got this question also a couple
of times. What would you suggest as gifts for people
who are trying to achieve healthier hair?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh okay, I'm an answer that with the best thing
that's helped my hair, K eighteen K eighteen okay, So
internally you do the neutralfile right, so you can dike
neutral falls and the supplements and now they have serum right,
so they's topical. I have used over the last year
(14:50):
a product that is now literally like a cult following
called K eighteen, and it started with one product that
was a little like pump you put like a dime
size after you you wash your hair and you just
leave it in. Okay, and I have used it at
the crown of my hair for the last year and
my hair has grown so much. But what it does
is actually molecular lur lily uh huh. Heals and repairs
(15:15):
your hair. And it really does, like all the broken
hair at the top where you like burn it and brush.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It so much heat abuse.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It rebuilds and strengthens the hair and it is so effective.
And now they've come out with a handful of other products,
so it's a little bit more like a system. But
if you only can get one product, I would say
that the pump, the original hair mass that you leave in.
It's really unbelievable and I know like hundreds of people
that swear by it. I mean, and it's called K eighteen,
the letter K and eighteen, so that's great. And then
(15:47):
obviously there's like incredible hair brands that I'm obsessed with,
like low Levi, which you know is Jennifer Aniston's hair,
hair hair brand, we all want jen Aniston's hair. I Mean,
there's so many incredible hair products out there that is
absolutely one of them.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yes, yes, okay, we love that.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I loved this question so much I plucked this out immediately.
This listener said, I work as a nanny. What is
a good gift for the mom that I work for
she's a single mom.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Ooh, A spa treatment, spa treatment, a super cozy robe
and eyemask and slipper set kind of thing like a
massage or anything like that. Any wellness like that. Also,
like maybe like a nice like meal, you know, like
a like a meal, or like even like, uh, you know,
(16:44):
obviously flowers are always great, but like, honestly something for her, Yeah,
because I think the things that single moms don't do
is look after themselves. They don't do anything for themselves.
So I think anything that puts them at ease makes
them comfortable. I always thought, well, I mean, now it's different,
(17:05):
I guess because now you can you know, buy like
DVDs anymore. But I remember years ago being gifted like
the entire Friends trilogy. Wow, and it was like the
best gift ever, you know, and the Twilight trilogy. By
the way, I was going to say, do you know
what makes me the happiest when when artists do renderings
of me and me with my kids and they take
(17:26):
it off a picture and you can do that. Now,
there's so many options to do that online. There's so
many different companies that do that. I actually had an assistant,
one of my very favorite assistants many years ago, would
always gift me a vintage like Pouci, MASONI or mez like,
(17:49):
even if it was the absolute tiniest little trinket, Yes,
but it was so special. Yeah, it was so special
because what that said to me is she wants to
get me something from one of the things she knows
I love. She can't spend a gajillion dollars, but she
went an eBay and spent the time to track down
(18:09):
a collectible piece from one of my favorite designers, you know,
And no matter how small it is, it was so
special and it all it sits on my nightstand and
I look at it every day. And those gifts are
those gifts are amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You'll have it forever. Okay. Next question, want to give
a perfect gold chain? Do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Are we talking real gold?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I think you are.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The costumes okay, because there's obviously solid gold and then
there's gold plates there's you know, there's a million different
price variations depending on your budget.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
And I feel like gold is expensive right now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Gold is like is as expensive as diamonds. Yeah, yeah,
So I would say a gold chain. I mean, you
really have to know the person obviously that you're buying for,
because the widths and the links, there are so many
there are I'm in a venture to see that. There's thousands,
not nundreds of different links. Yea. You know, there's snake links,
there's curb links, there's book chains, there's you know, there's
(19:07):
snake chains, there's the pin link, the god what's it called,
the like box chains. I mean it goes on for
Daser's ball chains, which is like what's on dog tags,
you know. So I always obviously prefer a thicker chain
because if you're just gonna wear a chain like around
your neck, I prefer it to sit sort of just
(19:31):
either just above your clabical so it sits like in
that little like you know, that little divot between your
neck and your clabical or just below, because otherwise it
won't sit properly right. You need it to lay flat.
So I think that I like a weightier chain because
if you're just gonna wear that chain. I like it
(19:53):
to count.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, make it count.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm not a dainty person, as you know. I'm a
dainty person who wears not dainty things.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But I would say as resources, I mean, there's so
many that all depends on your price point. Vintage. I
love going on eBay for things like this. I love
a vintage chain because sometimes the best chains are vintage,
and you know, try to remember that almost every single
designer takes inspiration from vintage links. So you know, I
(20:24):
love a good vintage Gucci link necklace. You know, I
love a vintage Chanel link. I love I love a
big interlocking link with a You.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Could do a whole episode on you talking about gold chains.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I could. Actually that was a very dangerous question for me.
I also very you know. I also like the idea
of gifting someone one that either has one pendant on
it or one where it has something where they can
put pendance on it. Sure, you know, because that's fun
to build on, especially moms.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's really cute. Okay, good tips. What's the best beauty
stocking stuff?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, So I have a new obsession with minis. I
have an obsession with mini makeup, mini everything for a
couple reasons. One is I'm always on the go and
I want it in my bag. I want it in
my evening bag. And I don't travel light. As you know,
I have a full face everywhere I go because you
never know. I won't use it. I'll probably just use
my lip. But I need it all because you never
(21:20):
know when you're going to get stuck, never know. So
I have all my minis in a bag, and so
stocking stuffers to me is a kit of minis, or
just even one mini or two minis, And especially for
the holidays, all the great brands have sets, right. I
love Lawless makeup. I love Lawless. I love her lip
(21:42):
products and I buy them in sets and I buy them,
you know, separately, and I love and everyone wants it.
Everyone wants the lip filler gloss, everyone loves it. I
love her lipliners, they really stay on. I love rare beauty,
Selena Gomez's brand. So I love minis. I think those
are the best stockings. I love fragrances. If you can
get a little like sample Tree, not a simple trio,
(22:04):
but a little like trio of mini fragrances, that's such
a cute stocking stuff for so. I love Fragrance little
candle sets. Yeah, Rachel's a Fragrance. If you haven't got
my Fragrance guys, Empowered, Warrior, instinct, Invincible and fearless. H
(22:25):
I think I got them all. They're so good. They're
so good. And yeah, so I think things like that.
I think, you know skincare travel sets, Yes, you know,
I love that. You Beauty has all these minis she
sells as a set, the lip compounds, like, you know,
I have so many favorites I'd be so happy to get.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh, you know who does a great set is Charlotte Tilbury. Yes,
the mini pillow talk.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh my god, it's so good. Huh with a little
gloss over it. It's so good. Yeah, Charlotte Tilbury does
some incredible ones. Victoria Beckham is doing some great sets
that she does a little Fragrance trio that I just
got for someone. I'm loving her new fragrances so and
the oh my.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Gosh, why am I blinking linee.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yes, Lenese, I mean I am such a junkie right now,
Like I am so obsessed with so me. There's so
much good products out there. If you have a great budget.
I mean, get the trouble uh set for Barbara Sturm.
I mean, anyone would just attack you if they got
that and they're stalking, attack you good, like a big
(23:32):
hug attack, like a love attack.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That's great. Okay, I love this question.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I thought it was very interesting because I find myself
in this listener's situation a lot. What is a host
gift that you can pack into a carry on suitcase?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
A host Oh god, that's so hard travel. Okay, I'm
going to tell you A dip tea candle, or a
Lei labo candle. I think candles are great. You obviously
you have to wrap it like crazy, but a beautiful
candle Hudson and great Jenny Caine, a Jenny Cane candle
with like a room fragrance. I mean, I love the
(24:10):
aspen one is so good.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Will TSA unwrap it?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Probably it has to be under the the ounces. But
in a carry on I think you could do that.
But I think you could do or.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Just don't actually gift traffic keep it in its box
right just in case.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But a hostess gift also serving such charcuterie board, you know,
kind of like a mini cheese board that's like monogrammed
is such a great holiday gift, and you could fit
that in a carry on, not a massive one, but
like a little one. You totally could. I mean I
love that. I mean those are like the best gifts
(24:47):
that I give. A picture frame a room fragrance, but
you don't want it to spill, and it has to
be under the reounces.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, so good call. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Our next listener question is one that I found really
touching and very beautiful.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Her question is what should I.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Gift my sister who is the full caretaker for our dad?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean, I've never been asked that one, And that's
a really good one and a hard one to be honest,
because obviously, like my immediate fallback is like a spa day, right,
Like you take care of dad, let us take care
of you, right, So I would say that, And the
other thing I would say is she's probably waiting hand
(25:34):
and foot and doing a lot of kitchen prep and
stuff like that. So I think anything that makes that easier.
So depending on your budget, but there are so many
now affordable like food prep delivery systems. Oh so like
even like a week or a month of like depending
on your budget, of like a food delivery so you
don't have to cook, you know, and you could do
(25:57):
like even grocery delivery or like, you know, anything like that.
I think is you know, if she's a book reader,
a book club delivery. Things like that I think are
so nice because it's not something people typically do for themselves,
but when you get it as a gift, it's like
it keeps on giving. Yes, and every time you do it,
(26:18):
they'll think of you and they'll be so thankful because
it's not something they would have done for themselves. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
No, I think that's a great idea. I love the
book club idea.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
If they're a reader.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yea, every year, my dad gives me and my sisters
a subscription to a magazine.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So we get it everything. Yes, my dad used to
do that too.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I think it's just so sweet and fun to like
look forward to it every month. I love that idea. Okay,
our next question I also loved.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I thought, I think it's such a great idea and
be a wonderful question to ask you. Her question is
I'm gifting homemade baked goods this year. Okay, how can
I make them look special?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay? So well, to me, you have to have the
best recipe. Okay, so let's just say, like you want
to start with you you need to start and make
sure it's the yummiest it can be. Don't overcomplicate it,
add something a little special, right. So I love the idea,
especially on the holidays. It's all about decorating it, right,
It's all in the art of it. So when you
(27:19):
start with an amazing product, then I think you get
creative with the design, right, Like, so there's so many
different cool like on Williams Sonoma or any of these
great like online on Amazon, you can buy like all
the different shapes for the holidays, right, So you do that,
but then I think you like personalize it and then
you challenge yourself, right with like color schemes and decorative things.
(27:43):
I love. I love when I get baked goods in
a cool like box that I can reuse. So you
line it with like parchment or whatever or tissue or whatever,
and you put your bake goods in there, you wrap them,
and then you put it in a beautiful trinket box
or something like something cool box that you can reuse
for makeup or jewelry or whatever, and then you put
(28:05):
like little notes. I like affirmation notes for me. Everything
in the holidays, from literally November fifteenth to New Year's
I want everything to be sparkling. I want my tallic sparkles, glitter,
all the things. So I just think the more the better.
(28:25):
Watch out with the glitter, because it gets on everything
and never comes out.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I have seen so glitter in like sweaters. I heard.
I think it was a comedian.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It was. It had to be a comedian said that
glitter is the herpes of arts and crafts.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You can't get rid of it. It's true, It's so true.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It is really true. Actually, it actually is.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It never goes away.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Like I've had glitter stuck to like my eyes after
three showers.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Oh for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
So easy on the glitter, Easy on the glitter.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
We want it to be fun.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Just decorate. I love ribbons. I love mixing and matching
different shapes of ribbons. You can go, of course on
like YouTube or TikTok and look at like. One of
the greatest gift ropping things my mother ever taught me
was like how to curl a ribbon with a scissor,
And it's so therape beauty.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
It is it's so instant gratification.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And I also, I really mean it when I say
like affirmation cards, because I think we're like living in
a time now where people like really forget to stop
and think and even read or look at anything. So
when they see a little affirmation on a gift and
even like a box of cookies or treats or whatever,
it is like it's a nice thing to just read
(29:37):
and stop for like half of a second.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Sure you know I have an idea, And I mean,
the freaking velvet bow is here to stay.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I love a velvet like in everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's everywhere I feel like all else fails a beautiful
velvet booth.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yes, okay, this question made me laugh out loud because
I'm dying for your answer. It's it's it's two things
that you're not necessarily the biggest fan.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Of a vibrator.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
What no, god, no, oh my god. No, not that
this mom asked you.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
How would you style your kids for a holiday trip
to Disney?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Because did you.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Say you how would you style your kids for holidays
Disney in Orlando or Disney in LA I.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Think either or just said Disney, didn't say World or
Land but it's it's same, same, right kind of. So
I think other than a climate is even similar.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
To but oh no, girl, it's a swamp in Orlando,
but maybe not in December, right, Oh yeah, that's fair.
I think what this mom might be referencing is is
there is these like moms, TikTokers, mom influencers, whatever you
want to say, that dressed their kids as Mickey and minnions.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
They go all in so they do like custom shirts
and the custom Mickey ears stop and the light stop, the.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Characters like they go full on for like a day
at Disney or a vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Is actually yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a thing. So I
think this moment is just saying, like, what's your version
of that?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
My version is not that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Your version is not stepping foot in Disney, which is
the funniest part.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
But I love Disney. I do love Disneyland. I don't
love rides, but I do love the experience.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
You love the magic.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I love it for two hours, right, which is guys,
it's like a fourteen hour day. It is like it
is hard. And I went. I took my parents and
my kids. I took Kaya's for his sixth birthday. I
had a nephew, I need a fever. Oh that's right,
that said. I really love It's a Small World. Sure,
(31:50):
like I could. I could do It's a Small World,
like over and over and over. That was. I have
fond memories of that. I have PTSD from Magic Mountain
or whatever that was that I was in the dark
on the roller coaster. Yeah, whatever that was. I've been
on a roller coaster since then, and I think I
think I was nine. Honestly, is your vocation for.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Sky and Caius going to a day at Disney?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
A day at Disney would mean that I have them
in matching outfits. Sure, And I'm going to say that
for a reason. Every time I travel, I put them
in matching, matching outfits because if God forbid I can't
find one, then I can show anybody my other child
and say he's wearing this. Are you serious? That's why
you do that? Yeah, of course that's my logic on
a travel day.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
That the most.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That is the most psychotic, absolutelyshit, absolutely heard, absolutely, Because
Caius is a runner officer.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Look at what he says, Yeskius is a runner. Well,
I my second child is a runner. So you be
damn sure that when he was born. I lost him.
I lost him in Hawaii, him at the farmer's market,
I've lost him in the Hampton's. He is a runner.
So at least if Skyler was wearing the same thing,
(33:08):
then I could be like, have you seen a little
curly headed boy in this outfit and it worked? I'm
sure we had swat teaste.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I've never heard you say that before.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I can't believe you didn't know that that was the logic.
I can't believe it shocks you.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
So they're matching.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Okay, so they're matching, and I would say I understand
getting a little in the theme, like I would do
a little like black and white, maybe right, Like, sure,
I can do that. They obviously need to be in
sneakers as much as I'd probably want them in black eggs.
But for walking, I would say, you have to be
in sneaks, but not in character. Not in character. I
(33:47):
think they should look cute. And you have to know
that those pictures you will look at for the rest
of your life and your children will look at for
the rest of their lives. So you have to know
that whatever you put them in, you don't want to
regret it. So classic yeah, I'm going to go classic. Okay,
the black and white vibe. Yeah, black and white, I
(34:10):
mean accent of red, accent of red. It feels very
micim ani.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Do the boys to let you dress them alike? Do
they disguise? They will?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
When we travel they will, Yeah, when we travel they will. Okay,
But but as a rule they have such different Kius
will still put on whatever I give him. Yea, and
Skyler you know, yeah he's a teen off the rails,
but he still Skyler still wants me to pick his close.
Oh because the girls like when I pick his close. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
See it's a talking point. He's smart, such a bright boy.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, okay, love this question for you. What do you
get a fashion lover that has everything?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Oh my god? Honestly, I will say, in truth a
coffee table book. But know that if they are a
diehard collector and they are real, real fashion person, they
may have it. But if there's a brand new one out,
you can never. I am here to say, you can
never have too many fashion books, and no one will
(35:12):
ever get mad at a Chanel book, you know, and
they're not expensive, honestly, like like you can, coffee table
books range and sometimes used like vintage ones are way cooler,
you know, so I think a vintage fashion book is
even better.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's cool, I think too. It's like, don't get them
anything fashion, but get them like art.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's fashion. But it depends on your budget. Sketches are great,
even vintage, like Vogue magazine cover prints. I have tons
of them. They're amazing, I mean, and no one's ever
gonna not want that.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, that's a good that's a good take.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Okay, Last, but never least, what are you treating yourself
to this year?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Oh? My god, you know what? It's free? What sleep?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
I'm going to buy you a sleep chamber that I'm
going to lock you in it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Oh my god, I'm gonna I'm gonna lock you in it.
It'll be very cozy, it'll have friends playing on a loop.
You'll have an endless drip of tea if you want it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
But you have to sleep.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I desperitely need some sleep, so I would say that.
And I just to get myself a new Skims bathroom
because it looked so comfortable and it is so that
and what else. Let's see how the year rounds out,
and maybe I'll buy myself something on holiday because I
(36:36):
have my eye on some things.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Oh what do you have your eye on?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Mass obviously, so let's see how the year rounds out.
Let's let's see how the year rounds out. But honestly,
being with my kids, being with my sister, being in
like my favorite place to travel too, will be just enough.
I also need to start manifesting. I need to take
this seriously. Yeah, I need to talk to myself.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Oh that's a great takeaway for today. Talk nicer to yourself.
Get a little sleep.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I keep hearing that, be nicer to yourself, wonders. I
thank everyone for to close my gifting pod today. I
want everyone to give themselves because it's something that people
keep telling me to do, so I want to share
it with you. I think we all need to gift ourselves.
Being nicer to ourselves. Yes, you know, and talking nicely beautiful.
(37:28):
Well set on that note. Every shopping I'll be shopping
while you're being nicer to yourself. Go to yourself to
that diamond necklace.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh yeah, a little retail therapy never hurt anybody.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Thank you so much for listening to Climbing and Heels.
If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show on
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the iHeart app, or wherever you get
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(38:03):
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