Addison Rae joins GQ to reveal her 10 Essentials. The American singer breaks down her daily essentials: from her tanning lotion (“I like a little bit of a burn, I think that’s when you know it’s working”) to her lymphatic kit (“that’s a little weird and TMI”). Watch the full episode of GQ’s 10 Essentials, as Addison Rae reveals 10 things she can’t live without.Addison Rae’s highly anticipated debut album, Addison, will be released on Friday, June 6th via Columbia Records. Pre-save it here:https://addisonrae.lnk.to/album----------Director: Sam DennisDirector of Photography: AJ YoungEditor: Louville MooreTalent: Addison RaeCreative Producer: Kristen DeVoreLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Paige GarbariniCamera Operator: Oliver LukacsSound Mixer: Glo HernandezProduction Assistant: Lily StarckPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnPost Production Coordinator: Stella ShortinoSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAdditional Editor: Jason Malizia
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00:00Why is it so hot in here?
00:01Am I crazy?
00:03Hollywood is a lot.
00:06Hi GQ, it's Addison Rae,
00:08and these are all of the things I can't live without.
00:23My Jacque-Marie Maje sunglasses.
00:26This sunglass brand is my favorite.
00:29I think every style is so unique
00:32and so perfectly suited for a really fun vibe.
00:37I think they're really dirty right now,
00:39and I don't have my cloth in my case.
00:42But I did just wear these in a music video.
00:45The video for Fame is a Gun,
00:46and my super intense, sexy, alter ego, adult version,
00:53wears these and dances in them.
00:55And they actually stayed put on my face
00:57for the entirety of the dance sequence,
00:59which was really surprising for sunglasses,
01:01because it feels like most times when you're wearing sunglasses
01:04and whipping your head around really aggressively
01:06and getting thrown upside down,
01:07your sunglasses would fall off.
01:09But they didn't, and that's why I love them.
01:11My next essential item is...
01:14I really, really love this product.
01:18Whenever I think about using Maui Babe,
01:20I actually imagine myself in Hawaii.
01:22Not Maui, because I've never been.
01:24Maybe like on Kauai.
01:26Laying out, covered in this browning lotion.
01:30Also covered in sand, because it's really sticky.
01:34I like a little bit of a burn.
01:36I think that's when you know it's working.
01:37And then I like to go for a nice dip in the ocean,
01:40immediately following the burning sensation
01:44that comes from the sun.
01:45And that's heaven on earth.
01:48Heaven on earth.
01:52My next essential is my shoes.
01:55Always a Haviana, because it's kind of like
01:59an emergency shoe to me.
02:00If I am in my car, these are always readily available.
02:03Usually I drive with them like by my feet.
02:06Wait, that's really dangerous.
02:07I probably shouldn't say that.
02:09But I do drive with them by my feet
02:10just in case I'm barefoot.
02:12That's also illegal.
02:13You're not supposed to drive barefoot,
02:14but I do like to drive barefoot,
02:16especially when I have my hot.
02:18Next is my Hoka's.
02:22They're really cute and they remind me of Aquamarine.
02:25They're blue and so pretty.
02:27But I run in these a lot actually.
02:29Although I did get them not that long ago.
02:31So it kind of looks like I'm a fraud
02:32and I don't run that much.
02:34But I actually do run a lot and I love to run.
02:36Then these are kind of the main essentials.
02:39These are my Louboutins.
02:42I actually bought these pretty recently.
02:44I had another pair that I wore to the grave.
02:48And they got really destroyed in New York
02:50because I love to walk ridiculous amounts of miles in them,
02:54which I actually did recently.
02:56And I destroyed my feet.
02:58I have crazy blisters on my toes right now.
03:00But it was worth it because I had my Louboutins on.
03:03I mean, you can really tell I wear these.
03:05I have a few pairs that are secondhand that I got really good deals on.
03:10Because you can find them on eBay.
03:12These are my first purchase from the store.
03:16I actually walked out of the store wearing them when I bought them.
03:19And that was a pretty magical experience for me.
03:21This is an essential essential.
03:24And this is my car.
03:26I pretty much live in my car.
03:29I love my car so much.
03:31It's a very freeing thing to me to be able to drive.
03:34I really want to live in New York,
03:35but I'm going to have to sacrifice my car,
03:37which is a really sad thing to imagine thinking about,
03:39because I am so attached to driving and being able to kind of,
03:43like, escape a scenario as fast as you want to.
03:45I like being the designated driver as well,
03:47because I just love to be able to drive and also leave any party as fast as I can,
03:52as soon as I can.
03:53Honestly, all of these essentials that I've been showing are definitely in my car every single day.
03:58So this is an essential essential.
04:01My Land Rover.
04:02I love her.
04:03My next essential is the CoStar app.
04:06I love this app, and I know that it's people argue about the accuracy of this app,
04:12which I totally understand.
04:13But I really like to read it in the morning.
04:16I'm a Libra, Libra Sun, Aquarius Moon, and a Gemini Rising.
04:20And I actually feel like that makes so much sense for me.
04:23It's all air, and I feel like I'm very airy, very in the clouds.
04:28My Venus is in Scorpio, so I feel like I also really resonate with that too,
04:33because I'm a really intense person when it comes to love.
04:39And that's another part of my chart that I feel like is really accurate to me.
04:43So today, my CoStar is Get It All Off Your Chest.
04:46Interesting.
04:47I think this is good advice just in general, you know?
04:49Just get it all out, because YOLO.
04:51I like to read the do's and don'ts.
04:53So my do's are do pearls, which I don't have any pearls on,
04:58so maybe I should get some pearls.
05:00Do poetry.
05:01Maybe I can read a poem from my diary.
05:04Just kidding.
05:07Oh my god.
05:08Wait, this is exposing.
05:10Okay.
05:11I feel like a shell, a beautiful shell that is completely empty,
05:14waiting for something that can fill me up.
05:16For now, I've got my lipstick.
05:18She'll never leave me.
05:20That was just a little sad moment in my life when I was feeling really empty.
05:25But now I'm feeling pretty fulfilled, so I feel like I don't resonate with that right now.
05:29Although, it is nice to look back on it and realize how far you've come.
05:32It's actually a smaller version of my other diary.
05:36It's not the same design, but I have two diaries, and one is a little bit bigger.
05:40Harder to, you know, travel around with it,
05:42because it just doesn't fit in my purse that I normally use.
05:44But I do love this one.
05:45It's Alice in Wonderland.
05:46This diary holds my confessions.
05:52Next up, lingerie.
05:55I think it's always really important to wear really beautiful lingerie,
05:58just in case anything happens, you know, that you are not expecting to happen.
06:01I always like to choose lingerie that looks really good on,
06:05and then, you know, even better when it's on the floor.
06:07I think lingerie is something that you can wear a really casual outfit with and have it underneath,
06:14and that kind of carry the essence of this very feminine, beautiful, sexy energy.
06:19I always think when you have a good lingerie on,
06:21it kind of translates into the way that you move in your day.
06:24AP. It's a great lingerie brand.
06:26I just got this one from Only Hearts, which is really cute.
06:29I kind of just buy lingerie anytime that I see a pair that I like, you know?
06:34Always nice to have a matching bra and panty on you.
06:37Initially, at Arca's show, I was going to slingshot the panties off.
06:40I had, like, a double panty situation on, and one said June 6th,
06:44and the other one said, put your headphones on.
06:46And this was before headphones came out, so it was kind of going to be that scenario.
06:49And then, as it approached, I was just like,
06:51maybe that's not the best idea. Like, who's going to get my panties? I don't know.
06:55It was just kind of weird.
06:56And so I was like, well, the dress was see-through enough to be able to kind of expose it in a way
07:00that wasn't too revealing.
07:03I didn't know that you could see it as much as you did,
07:05but it ended up turning out really sweet.
07:07And they were Victoria's Secret panties, and I love Victoria's Secret panties.
07:12My headphones.
07:13These are obviously an essential for really anybody, I think, in life.
07:18It's nice to be able to tune out the world whenever you want to,
07:21and listen to what you want in private.
07:25Right now, I've been listening to a lot of George Strait.
07:27That's been on my playlist.
07:28I love You Look So Good in Love by George Strait.
07:31I love Write This Down by George Strait.
07:33What can I say? I'm a country girl at heart, you know?
07:35I love a good country song.
07:37And also my music.
07:38My music's in my headphones.
07:40Headphones on.
07:44Another essential that is the most essential, really, are my managers, Justin and Joe.
07:53I love them so much, and they have been with me for a really long time.
07:57When I first moved to LA in the end of 2019, I was really scared and alone,
08:04and like a lost puppy.
08:07And then in the beginning of the year of 2021, 2020, 2020,
08:11I met them, and they just have made all my dreams come true.
08:15So I love them so much.
08:17I feel like they both just do everything.
08:18They have a really great system going on.
08:21Joe usually gives me the good news, and Justin usually gives me the bad news.
08:25That is what happens.
08:26Okay.
08:27Yeah, right?
08:28Good cop, bad cop.
08:29Yeah.
08:30It's like Joe will tell me the really nice stuff, and then I get yelled at.
08:33And then Justin gets the heat.
08:34Yeah.
08:35It's a great balance.
08:36Good balance.
08:37Yeah.
08:40Blue bottle.
08:42This specifically is an ice nola with almond milk.
08:45The almond milk that they use in LA is this brand called Good Milk.
08:48So it's very specific, and I just love my nola.
08:51It's kind of a ritual for me.
08:52I drink it every single day without fail.
08:54Even when I don't want it, I have it.
08:57But sometimes I get the matcha.
08:58They actually had a cherry blossom matcha for the spring season, and it was really,
09:03really good, but still that with the Good Milk almond milk.
09:05That's kind of the main essential component, but always blue bottle and the Good Milk almond
09:10milk.
09:11I don't know.
09:11I'm really picky about almond milks.
09:14I think sometimes they taste too vanilla-y, even when they don't have vanilla in them,
09:19and they taste like too sweet and nutty.
09:22But this almond milk, you have to make it fresh, and so the baristas make it, and they're really
09:27good at making it because it always enhances the flavor of the nola and the matcha.
09:32I'm actually really passionate about this, and I tell everybody in my life that I love to try it.
09:37Another essential of mine is my Dior Lip Tent.
09:43I love this product so much.
09:46I wear it all the time.
09:48Every single day, wake up, lip tint, go to sleep, lip tint.
09:54I put it on when I go to bed sometimes because I just want to feel pretty when I go to sleep.
09:57And I think when you go to sleep feeling really pretty and beautiful, you wake up and you feel
10:02really beautiful.
10:02And so I always keep one by my bed, whether that's in my purse or just on the counter.
10:07I usually have every single person in my life carry one of these for me as like an emergency
10:13lip tint situation because I wear this even when I don't wear makeup.
10:17And I put this on my cheeks, my nose, and my lips.
10:22And I really, really love it.
10:23I think it's the perfect color for me.
10:27I'll put some on now.
10:30Except for I've kind of been putting on a lot today, so maybe it's getting really dark.
10:34But I do love to wear it and layer it and just keep on putting it on.
10:40Never fails me.
10:43Next up is my lymphatic kit.
10:46Your lymphatic system doesn't drain itself or like cleanse itself naturally.
10:51You kind of have to prompt it to flush itself out.
10:54And so lymphatic massage and the techniques that are in the lymphatic massage are kind of like moving
10:59everything around for you and like, you know, prompting it to come out when you pee.
11:06Which is a little weird in TMI.
11:08This is from my friend Rebecca who does my lymphatic massage.
11:12So incredible and so amazing and somebody in my life that is really close to me in so many ways.
11:18Not only because she gives me lymphatic massages but because she's an amazing friend.
11:21This is a lymphatic lotion.
11:25It's just this amazing, amazing lotion that you can really use anywhere.
11:30I use it on my face sometimes.
11:32And then give myself lymphatic massages when I'm on the road and need a little pick-me-up.
11:38And I also love to use her lymphatic tea.
11:44Love you Rebecca.
11:47I love these jeans so much.
11:50I always loved Lucky growing up.
11:52There's this detail in them that makes me love them even more.
11:56And it says lucky you when you unbutton them, which I think is so sweet.
12:00I actually tied these little ribbon strings onto them the other day when I was wearing them.
12:04And I love them so much.
12:05I like to wear jeans a lot in the summer randomly, even though it's really hot.
12:10Just because I always feel like it's such an easy thing to take off and on.
12:13And yeah, so I always have my jeans on me.
12:15These are really special to me for a number of reasons.
12:22Extra Polar Ice gum.
12:24This is the best flavor to me of Extra.
12:27This is kind of the only gum that I really chew.
12:29Randomly, I'll crave like a cinnamon.
12:31But for the most part, Polar Ice.
12:35It's so good.
12:37And it's not too pepperminty.
12:40And sometimes when I'm, I know I'm going to be eating food like soon after or before.
12:45And I just don't like the way that that tastes with like a super pepperminty gum.
12:49This is kind of the best version of minty, but still refreshing and not too overpowering.
13:03Thank you, GQ, for listening to me share all of my essentials.
13:07And don't forget to listen to my album, Addison, that comes out June 6th.