Ice Spice joins GQ to reveal her 10 Essentials. The American rapper breaks down her daily essentials: from her journal (“there’s so many secrets in here”) to her Goyard bag (“when I’m on stage, I literally can see it while I’m performing”). Watch the full episode of GQ’s 10 Essentials, as Ice Spice reveals 10 things she can’t live without.
* = probably not 10…
* = probably not 10…
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00:00You read a lot?
00:00I read a lot of tweets.
00:02I read a lot of comments.
00:03So I do read a lot because there'd be a lot of comments.
00:09Hey GQ, I'm Ice Ice and these are 10 things I can't live without.
00:19My first essential is of course a mirror.
00:22I like a sparkly one too.
00:23I've had this for a little minute now.
00:25Y'all probably seen this in like some music videos.
00:27It kind of feels like jewelry.
00:29It kind of like just matches and stuff.
00:32Would you ever buzz down a mirror?
00:34I think I'm satisfied with how this already just looks like jewelry.
00:38But if a jeweler wants to bust it down for me, I'll give you a shout out or something like that.
00:43My next item is a journal.
00:45This is actually an exclusive ass shot.
00:48So GQ, no one's ever seen this.
00:52Like there's so many secrets in here.
00:55You have no clue.
00:57I'm not going to like do this towards the camera.
00:59I know y'all will pause it on a frame and expose me.
01:03This is my journal for this year.
01:04It says all of my little nicknames and stuff.
01:07Because it usually, that's how my journals go.
01:09It'll be like 2018 to 2019, 2019, 2020.
01:13You get it.
01:14Each year the color is different.
01:15This time I wanted green because I love green.
01:17I feel like green looks really nice on my hair and also represents money.
01:21And it says Y2K on it because I started my album Y2K during this journal period.
01:27These little stickers are so cute.
01:29This baddie sent this to me.
01:30I write down ideas in here.
01:33I like brainstorm.
01:34I get things off my chest in here so that I don't go to you guys ranting.
01:38My earliest journal I think was in kindergarten.
01:42It was like a joint journal.
01:43It was me and my best friend at the time.
01:46Shout out to Amanda.
01:47This just really helps me with like my mental and just uplifting myself and all types of
01:52stuff like that.
01:53Oh and manifesting of course.
01:54That's really how this whole thing started.
01:56I would start as like manifesting journals like especially early on in life.
02:01And then like gradually it just became like everything I've ever thought journal.
02:06It's always in my carry-on bags.
02:08I don't trust putting it in a checked bag.
02:10My biggest fear is losing this shit, bro.
02:13Like this is actually more important to me than losing jewelry.
02:17There's no insurance on this journal.
02:19My next item is some shades.
02:22There's some Gucci shades.
02:24These are actually the first pair of shades that I bought when I got my first check.
02:29I went with my mom to the mall and I got these.
02:31I gotta tell you though.
02:33These are my faves.
02:34I'd be outside in these.
02:35For the most part when you guys see me, I'm usually not in shades.
02:39But if you see me in shades, I'm probably not really trying to be talked to.
02:42And if I'm on the plane, I like to sleep in them and they're just more comfortable.
02:46I think that's why they're so loose.
02:47I'll like lay down to take my nap and like put the shades on.
02:51They're like skinny on the side.
02:52I don't really like when shades have like a thick ass band on the side.
02:56I like when they're like thin.
02:57I usually like silver accents.
03:00This one is like a rose gold.
03:02I usually don't like when it's like a super yellow gold.
03:05These were like $400, I think.
03:08Pretty durable.
03:09I feel like I'm selling these to you guys.
03:11I feel like I should get a commission off the next couple pairs sold.
03:16My next essential is some tea.
03:18I usually drink caffeinated tea.
03:20That should be helping me get through my really busy days.
03:23If I know I have a busy ass day, which is like typical,
03:27I'll have a caffeinated cup of tea in the morning, which I had today.
03:31That's why I'm awake right now.
03:33I don't know if there's a difference between UK tea and US tea.
03:36I bring around my own tea bags.
03:39It's more comforting when I have like the tea bags on me that I have at home.
03:43I like having tea after a performance.
03:46I have a cup of tea in the morning when I wake up.
03:50A lot of the times I'm just so busy and in a rush
03:52that I'll just like have my tea when I'm sitting in the glam chair
03:56and that'll be the breakfast.
03:58And then after performing, I like to have a calming tea.
04:02So I'll probably do like a chamomile at the end of the day
04:05when I'm trying to like wind down.
04:09My next item is a Goyard bag.
04:13I love this bag.
04:14First of all, it like matches everything.
04:16I just feel so bougie and cute when I have this with me.
04:19And also this holds my jewelry, which we'll get into in a second.
04:23This is an expensive bag with expensive shiv in it.
04:25I always have it on my person.
04:27My guard is always watching this for me.
04:30When I'm on stage, I literally can see it while I'm performing
04:33because that's how important it is to me.
04:35I never let it out of my sight.
04:37I actually get super pissed when I'm somewhere and I'm like,
04:40oh guys, like where's my Goyard?
04:42And they're like, oh, it's in the car.
04:44And I'm like, somebody needs to get it immediately.
04:47Here is my other Goyard bag, which is basically the same print.
04:51And I bought them at the same time.
04:53One of the things I have is a kit with like a cleaning stick for your clothes
04:59and like a little Febreze.
05:01Here's my waist trainer, which I don't really use to be honest.
05:05I just have it for like vanity.
05:07And I'm always like, oh, I'm about to use it.
05:09And I never use it.
05:10And then I have these two books in here that I can show you guys.
05:13Shout out to Paris and shout out to RuPaul.
05:16They actually gifted me these, so shout out to them.
05:18You read a lot?
05:19I read a lot of tweets, read a lot of comments.
05:22So I do read a lot because there'd be a lot of comments.
05:28This is all jewelry cases and inside there's a bunch of jewelry,
05:32which you guys have probably seen most of.
05:35This is my most recent pendant, which I'm obsessed with.
05:38This was based after my tattoo, my butterfly tat that's right here on my arm.
05:42Benny made this.
05:43I'm so obsessed.
05:44Like the Cuban is everything.
05:47It's so cute.
05:48Quickly, I'm going to show you her.
05:51This pendant is very sentimental to me and it is one of my favorites.
05:56I think right now this butterfly is my favorite,
05:59but I really do love this one because this is like a trophy to me.
06:02This is the first pendant that I purchased when I first got lit.
06:08Very, very sentimental.
06:09It's like a time capsule for me.
06:11I wear it all the time.
06:12My munchkins love it.
06:13Shout out to you guys.
06:16And then I just have some other stuff in here,
06:18but I do believe that's another segment.
06:20So we could save that for on the rocks or something like that.
06:26My next item is a robe.
06:27Very, very important.
06:28I always have one.
06:30I be taking my robes from like the hotel rooms that I stay in.
06:33You guys know I be wearing these little cutesy outfits
06:36and I be needing a robe because everybody else be fully dressed
06:39and I just be in like 50% clothes.
06:42I use a robe for transport to and from places.
06:45Sometimes the seats be uncomfortable
06:46and I just don't want my bare ass sitting on things usually.
06:49I like being in a robe and having my teeth.
06:51So it's really important to me to have things that make me comfortable
06:56and make me feel like I'm still home.
06:58I be missing my room and my house and stuff like that.
07:03My next item is some body cream.
07:06This is my favorite right now.
07:07I love the way this smells.
07:09Oh my God.
07:10If you want to smell like me, get this
07:11because this is what I be smelling like.
07:14It's not very used up because I have so many.
07:18I brought like eight of these with me to Europe
07:20because I just run through these.
07:22I'm actually going to put some on now.
07:23I'm obsessed with these.
07:25Don't look at my chip nails.
07:27This is part of like my scent routine.
07:29I have a couple little things that I do.
07:31I have a perfume that I wear that I'll share with you guys later.
07:34And I have this cream and I just pair it all together.
07:37I smell like a cloud in the sky.
07:39I love the cute packaging, right?
07:41You know, it's pink.
07:42It's so cute.
07:43Since I travel so much, I really just like this
07:46because it won't spill in my bag
07:48since it's kind of like a screw on top.
07:50You know what I'm saying?
07:50It doesn't just like pop open and like fuck all your other shit up.
07:54So this is goated.
07:58I have this yoga mat.
08:00I like to stretch in the morning, in the night.
08:03I first got into stretching when I was like really young in my room.
08:08My mattress was literally on the floor.
08:11And so it was kind of like my yoga mat at the time.
08:14And I was just obsessed with like contortionist.
08:17I have no clue why.
08:18I just like loved watching those videos on YouTube
08:21and stuff like that of like girls bending in boxes.
08:23And I really wanted to learn how to do a split.
08:26I just like stretch all day in my room.
08:28And then I discovered yoga mats and it just changed everything.
08:32Because if you stretch on a mattress,
08:34you're like fooling yourself,
08:35thinking you're more flexible than you really are.
08:37Everybody should get a yoga mat if you're trying to like do more stretches
08:41and be bendier.
08:44Now we have my makeup bag.
08:45You guys know I love cheetah print.
08:48It's so Y2K.
08:49I started carrying a makeup bag in eighth grade
08:53when I would only wear a tinted moisturizer and some mascara
08:57because that's all I knew how to apply.
08:59The times were just different.
09:00I feel like if I was in eighth grade currently,
09:03I'd be applying like strip lashes and a bunch of other shit.
09:06And in my makeup bag,
09:07I have a bunch of stuff that I probably am not gonna show you in this video.
09:11I always have a brown lip liner though.
09:14And I always have clear lip gloss.
09:17That's just like what I need.
09:19Like if I have no makeup on,
09:21I'll put on like a brown lip liner with some lip gloss and feel fine.
09:26I be changing up my makeup bag every couple months
09:29because they just get so dingy.
09:32Like I don't know what it is.
09:33This one's like fairly new.
09:35And I get excited over like dumb stuff like this.
09:37Like packing and see my makeup bag and just like boost my mood.
09:42All of the products that I would use for makeup fits in this one bag,
09:46which isn't many.
09:47There's also a lot of multiples in here
09:49because I have just like my staple products.
09:51Doing my own makeup looks very different from when my makeup artist does it.
09:56She's also essential.
09:57Wish I could put her in this bag.
10:00My next item is pepper spray.
10:04Like I said, I travel so much.
10:05And you know what's so funny?
10:06Sometimes the hotel rooms don't be having proper locks.
10:11This just makes me feel a little safer.
10:13When I was testing it out before,
10:15like when I first got it,
10:16I was like spraying it outside and the wind blew it back and hit my face.
10:21And so I know how painful this can be.
10:23Yeah.
10:24I think all the girlies,
10:26all the baddies should have one when they're traveling.
10:29You'll just feel safer.
10:33Thank you for having me GQ.
10:35Go check out my album Y2K, available everywhere.
10:38See you later.