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guys i'm in new york right now i literally just landed

it's currently saturday july 11th currently 2 46 p .m right now we flew out this morning

and we landed at like one then we had an uber

it was like a 45 minute uber let me tell you

that was some crazy traffic i've literally been in my room for about 0 .5 seconds

and i've already heard so many sirens it's crazy

but like i said it is 2 p .m

and i haven't eaten lunch yet

and i'm starving i ate breakfast at literally like six this morning

when we left my house i'm actually here with my dad in new york we're here for three days

and we are on a little trip i'm actually here for a little brand deal situation

that i'm filming on monday but today's currently saturday

so i have all the rest of the day

and all of sunday to just do whatever i want in new york

and then monday we're filming and we have the shoot

so i thought i would vlog this trip because i'm

so excited i'm gonna start getting ready really quickly

because we're going to lunch and i just want to touch up like my makeup

because i didn't have any makeup on watching i put on blush this morning

but that's it

and i want to look kind of cute to go out in new york we are really lucky though

because the hotel luckily let us check in early

because check -in wasn't actually supposed to start till 4

but we were able to check in at like 2 30

which is so nice we were driving here we saw a whole like group of pigeons

and i thought that the whole pigeon thing with new york was like a myth

but no it genuinely is real okay i just want to

start touching up my makeup i feel like it looks a

little bit better this lighting's kind of crazy i'll make sure my favorite today

because i feel like it's super cute

and then we need to pack my bag

and then we'll head out here's my first day of new

york fit i've got this cute little baby tea on from

brandy i've got this little linen like score from three people

and then i've got on my classic little new balance 550

i think i'm gonna bring this bag with me i've got my goods now i'm gonna go text my dad

because he's staying in a different room and we're gonna meet up together

and go out but this is a bit let's go head out i'm so excited it was somewhere it's like

hello new york i'm not gonna try that

but like that's how i feel right now hi guys we

just got out oh it's actually really loud i'm not realizing

the streets were this loud my door lock was broken well it was messed up it was like

so that took a second but now we're going to curavita which is It's like a little cafe.

We're going to get lunch.

A really late lunch.

And coffee, hopefully, because I need some caffeine.

Maggie's got my food.

It looks really good.

It's like a bowl.

I'm going to try my coffee.

I got almond milk and agave, which sounds quite interesting.

Let's see how this goes.

That's really good.

We've never had agave before.

We've had such an interesting trip today.

When we flew here, there was a cat in the bathroom.

And then we just watched a dog poop in the middle of the street.

And then the owner just left it.

So that's how it stays going.

Yeah, but this coffee's so good.

They love them some more.

But anyways, my coffee's super good.

I think we're gonna go hit up some Soho shopping.

So the first stop I think is gonna be Brandy

because it's literally right there I looked at the map and it's like 500 feet away.

This has like revived me I feel so much better now that I have food and coffee in my system.

We are walking to Brandy and we just found Glossier I'm so excited to go on here.

You're joking.

Look at that Here I just placed my order in Glossier.

Just pick it up over here.

Now I'm waiting Okay, we just finished at Glossier and I got my bag.

We're going to Brandy.

What should I make a call?

It's gonna be a lot.

This is so busy.

Oh my god.

We're walking up on Brandy right now, and there's literally a line.

It's so big I'm confused to where this line starts, though.

Can't even lie.

It's crazy.

That's like so beautiful.

What the heck?

Oh my gosh, you guys, I just got a Brandy.

That was actually the most crazy experience my entire life.

We didn't need to get a full bag though.

I'm sweating everywhere.

Oh my god.

Now we're gonna go into Mad Happy.

I've never been here before.

I'm so excited.

We were gonna go to New York or nowhere, but the line was okay long, and I really went to Mad Happy instead, so.

And then they have a coffee shop, too, which is super cool.

i just secured the bag and um i'm happy i got a sweatshirt

but now we're gonna go to the last stop of the day

and go to free people

because i need to find a top for my shoe on monday i have yet to find a blue

or white top that i've liked i got strawberry lychee with rainbow sprinkles

we just finished getting our ice cream we got it from

this random like little like asian style ice cream place it was

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so good i got strawberry lychee

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and it was really good it's like soft serve ice cream

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now the sun's kind of starting to set a little bit it's really pretty

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but we're heading back and i'm tired so i'm gonna get a good shower

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and sleep tonight

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and then tomorrow we got a long day oh my gosh

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okay hi guys i'm back long time to talk basically we had a whole fun excursion

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because my door like i told you before it was messed up again

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so we had to go get someone to look at my door

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and we had literally an hour for someone to like come

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and work on my door and try to like engineer it

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and fix it because the lock was broken and then

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that switched me to a new room

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so i'm in a new room it's like the same layout

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but reversed okay guys good morning it's actually currently the next

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day right now it is sunday woke up it is 8 11 a .m right now

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but last night and yesterday we did have a lot of fun it was

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so much fun you work it's just like a lot if

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that makes sense like it was a lot going on this morning i was actually planning on getting up

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and going into like the gym and my like wherever i'm staying and like getting a little

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workout in but i feel like we're gonna be walking

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so much today we walked a ton yesterday

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and i honestly just don't feel like working out today

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so i'm not going to sue me the plan is for

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today we want to go to times square central park

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and the central liberty and i want to walk around central park before i like get up

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and do anything today i want to give you guys a haul of what i got yesterday

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because the stuff i got was

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so good the shopping was i've been caltering you know what i think i like this lighting

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so we're into the hall right here i went to three different stores

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and as you can see i did pretty good all of them i've never been to glossier before

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and this bag is so cute it has my name on it she's adorable

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but i'll show you guys what i got first off we

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got the iconic glossier bag fun fact glossier was the first makeup brand i purchased back in sixth grade

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when i first like had money i asked my dad to like buy me glossier

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and i paid him back where i got the iheartnew .com

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which is something i just saw by launch so it's

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so cute like look at

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that it's like new york themed statue of liberty that's just

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his i heard on it it's supposed to be like universal

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which is like unscented but it kind of smells a little floral

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but i like it and then also i bought this little sticker pack

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because i thought it was really cute that'll be cute

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if i want to like scrapbook

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or put somewhere i don't know actually it's really cute

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and i wanted to get them and lastly i saw

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that they launched their new like new york merch collection

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so i saw this little t -shirt i thought it was super cute

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and on the back has like an apple on

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and it says glossy

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and this has our new york location i'm gonna show you mad happy neck i actually went to brandy necks

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but that's like the biggest bag of most of my bought i've never owned anything from mad happy

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and i've always wanted something from them

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because they have the cutest sweatshirts as soon as i saw this

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when i walked in i knew like i wanted the sweatshirt

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because i've actually been eyeing the sweatshirt in the past like on pinterest

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and stuff i like looked at this

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and i really wanted it look how cute it is mad

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happy sweatshirts i always have these like fun little suchy details it's like the mlb one

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so i made a fake fan with this i don't watch the steam

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but i thought the sweatshirt was cute

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so i'm just a girl i don't watch baseball it's the one sport i like cannot

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and then the back has this on it i love this this is

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so cool i'm definitely going to test me to college

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because this would be a perfect piece for college so

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and lastly i of course got a black bag

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which means i did some damage at brandy so everything

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that i picked up and liked i ended up buying

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because i couldn't try it even on i need to just see what about

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that brandy experience

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that was the most packed brandy i've ever been into i've only been into like one

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or two i think it was

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so hot in there they had a bouncer like letting people

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in you they like you'd wait in line to get into

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brandy it was the most overstimulating experience of my entire life

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i heard people say on tiktok like oh it's super overstimulating

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no it was genuinely hotter inside than it was outside

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and let me tell you it was like 85 outside

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but you feel like it was like 90 degrees in there it was probably close to like 100 people inside

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that brandy you like literally could not move because there's people around you

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and nonetheless i found some cute things first i just got

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this teal brandy tank super amazing i'm listening in a million colors then next i wanted some basics

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so i got the scoop neck white basic

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and the shocker i got another little basic pink i'm on

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this tank before i'm gray i just got it white to throw on i couldn't try this on

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so i like i wasn't sure about this

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but it's this little like gray it looks kind of big kind of tank top

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but i got this little tank top that'll be super cute

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again hopefully this fits me we got some more color up

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in here we got some coral i love brandy's coral it's

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just a little like off the shoulder tee i've actually like wanted this top for forever

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but i love these t -shirts i thought this is kind

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of fun like it's like off the shoulder kind of it's

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probably cute to throw on with like some jeans i'm also

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pretty skeptical about this top i don't know how it's gonna

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fit on me i'll speak here with like some jeans

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or something it's kind of long with the brand yellow

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and i love brandy's yellow

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so this is like not a color i've ever seen from brandy either it's like a peachy kind of pink

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and i thought this was adorable i love this color

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so much let me keep throwing like some white shorts i always take up on pink

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because i have the matching shorts to it i thought it'd be cute to be like a little set

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and this is super fun i got a little t it

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says new york on it i thought it'd be really really cute to throw on

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because it's really like oh yeah it's like new york brandy

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but i bought it in new york i've seen this top

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before it's really cute it's a little v -neck top

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but it has this little stitching right here i love the pink

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because you can't tell pink is like our color so lastly

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because i spent i think i spent 200 like it was just over 200

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which isn't that bad for the amount of clothes i bought they gave me a free tote bag

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which i didn't even have the thing gigantic they gave me

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this cute little heart tote bag um that's kind of cool i know brandy did promotions

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or deals or anything this is like the size of me

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that was my brandy haul and that was my haul of everything

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that i bought here guys i'm back good morning it's time

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to get ready i just finished getting dressed i'm actually showing you my fit for the day

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because i feel like it's super cute i'm not wearing shoes yet though

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so you have to see the vision without shoes on

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but it's still cute i have this little gray skirt on

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from free people i don't actually know what the brand is

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but it's something free people have this little brandy like cross v -neck white top

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and i have this little white bra underneath and i'm wearing my classic just like normal jewelry It's very basic, but I feel like that's like what I was seeing yesterday

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when I was in the streets in new york Everything is okay.

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Just like black and white and basic outfits So this matches the vibe now.

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It's time to get ready I just took a shower because I actually want to wash my hair.

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I thought I could start it on my makeup I actually blow dry my hair first Okay, I just blow dry my hair to about 75 % of the way dry It looks so much better.

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There's gonna be like maybe five minutes if

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that this morning I think we're planning on going

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and getting bagels I think we're gonna go to leon's bagels

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because it's really close to us

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And i've heard great things about it like on tiktok

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and stuff and then i also want to try blank street today like matcha

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and coffee we had our like late dinner slash like lunch

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yesterday we just kind of loosely planned what we wanted to

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do for today we knew we wanted to like see like the iconic spots in the city

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because we're literally only new work for like less than 72

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hours okay i just finished doing my makeup here she is already

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and complete my dad just texted me asking me for the toothpaste

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because he's already a nice little toothpaste so we're gonna go get myself together

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and bring this toothpaste to him right now we're at leon's bagels

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and we're getting bagels i just got a bagel with egg cream cheese

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and cucumber on it it's a really random combination

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but that's how they get to me right now so i don't know

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okay we just finished eating our bagels they're really good

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and now we're going to this little like place

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that i saw on the side of the road we're also really really close to a little ugly, which is kind of crazy.

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Look at that.

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and it's good flavor just needs more coffee okay now we're in line for new york

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or nowhere we got our coffee it's actually getting better as

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i drink it low -key also look how cute this is

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this line is incredibly long it better be worth the wait i'm kind of skeptical but we shall see

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we just kept on addicted look how cute i've never been addicted before

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okay i got my duck now i'm currently heading to time

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square right now we have been walking for like literally an hour it feels like forever

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but we're almost there really good

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we just finished eating lunch

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and now we're walking through time square again to get back Central Park because we're gonna go to Central Park.

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We have a tour tonight at like 7.

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So we have plenty of time now We're just like trying to kill time.

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Okay.

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Hi guys.

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We're currently in Central Park right now.

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My hair looks crazy That's the product of having super thin hair and being in heat all day long.

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It's actually really pretty I've never obviously I've never seen this dog.

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I've never been here before

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But Central Park is a lot different than what I thought

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it was gonna be like anything was gonna be like this

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It's like actually low -key a park just a lot of people in it and a lot of rocks, which is kind of weird It's very pretty.

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She's cute.

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We're just walking around Okay guys,

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I just got my coffee.

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We went to, what was it, like Rise and Grind Coffee.

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It's actually really good.

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It was a random place we found.

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And I was looking up coffee near me and it was really good.

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And it was actually really good.

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I got lavender latte with milk.

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Fire.

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My dad got nitro cold brew with milk.

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And that is the strongest coffee I've ever tasted in my entire life.

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But this is really good.

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I gave it like a 4 out of 5.

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It's currently 6 .16 and we have an hour

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and 14 minutes until our tour

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because we have a ferry tour of the statue of liberty bridge

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and some other things and up like at 7 30

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so i just want to walk there in a minute we're kind of chilling

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and drinking our coffee before we go head to the pier

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guys are walking around enjoying the essence of new york this

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is such an interesting place i'm staying in the corner of

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like the street right now outside the coffee shop there's a little table

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and i'm just going to sit here and watch low key

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because it's interesting okay i didn't mention this we also walked

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an incredible amount of stuff today holy crap it's 6 p .m

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and i have 19 300 sets and we've walked 8 .8 miles so we're gonna bet at 10 miles before the day, and I guarantee you.

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Okay, hi guys, we just made it to the pier.

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We have a tour at 7 .30 and it's currently 6 .58, so we're a little early.

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I love the skyline, there's so many buses here, what the heck.

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Hopefully, the Eiffel, not Eiffel, I was about to say Eiffel Tower, wrong city.

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Hopefully the Statue of Liberty lives its expectations.

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We shall see what we end up with.

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okay hi guys we just got back from our little trip

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we did our little fairy taking a bracelet off now as

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much as i love it this blue bracelet does not match my vibe we have a long day

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and it was tomorrow i have my shoot

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which is a whole other ordeal but i thought you guys what i got today

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when i went shopping as you guys saw i hit some

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shopping places up i only bought a little bit of stuff today

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because it isn't damaged yesterday i didn't want to do more damage today

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and honestly i was tired of shopping after the couple of

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stores i hit today here's my cute little addicted bag my

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garage bag did indeed not make it we ripped a hole

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in it about midway through the day today starting off the first place i went to was new york

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or nowhere i wanted to pick something up from them

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because we waited in line for literally 30 minutes

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so i just got this cute little postcard it's like the guest check ones it'll always be new york

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or nowhere i thought it was super cute to like hang

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up somewhere i saw it was a really cute like little poster kind of vibe then next addicted

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which is where the bag is actually from and i found this top

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because tomorrow for my shoe i need to wear like a

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neutral top i have this little white top i'm gonna wear

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this tomorrow for my shoe i don't need to steam it though i need to remember to do

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that tomorrow morning it's like a v -neck sort of top it's lacy

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and adorable and i hope i keep my little denim skirt tomorrow

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because i brought one top

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but i think it's better to match the vibe of the shoot tomorrow next up i went to garage

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and i found this little matching set from garage i love

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garage i did stumble across this little basic gray tank i

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love a good garage basic tank i own a handful of them

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and they're all so good and then i also got the little matching skort with it

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so it's like a little set i love little like lounge

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skorts i don't own one this color i don't have like

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a gray one like this a super cute little matching set

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i thought it was super cute just to travel in

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or like wear to college this is the perfect little college set the last thing that i bought today

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i have been on a hunt for when i went to hawaii

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if you watch my hawaii vlogs which you totally should

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if you haven't i just went to hawaii this past week i know i'm a little trapped busy gal

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but i went to hawaii

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and i was looking for a hawaii duck the entire time i was there for my jeep

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because if you don't know i drive a jeep

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and you put ducks in jeeps

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when i was walking on the streets of new york i saw

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that they had a little new york duck

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so of course i picked one up for my jeep i'm excited to put this back in here

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when i get back it's a little such a little duck

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which i thought was so cute green so cute and perfect

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that was everything i bought today nothing too crazy now i'm back i'm

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so excited to take a shower i'm

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so tired i love new york like it was fun for a day

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and now i just like okay i want to go back

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home like i want to be back in my bed here

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it's just not for me it's too much for me like i like a little city vibe

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but like this is too much city vibe for me it's also currently 9 50

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so i'm tired i am

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so tired okay hi guys welcome to day three of the new york vlog i just finished getting dressed

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and ready for today i'm gonna show you guys my fit

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for the shoot i'm really excited about it i bought this

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top yesterday i used to do a little fit check

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because why not this top is i wanted to bought from

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addicted obviously i have a salt airy lace bralette underneath i'm

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wearing this little chunky gold it coin necklace from amazon i've got on this little holo surgeon of score

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and my classic new balance

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550s but i don't really want to vlog today

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because it's shoot day like i said i'm gonna be filming most of the day

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which is crazy to say

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that i'm doing a shoot like hello basically the plan is for today

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but this morning we're gonna go get breakfast

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and then we're gonna come back here grab my bag

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and we have an uber from our hotel the shoot location

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and we're gonna check out before we uber away

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because we won't come back tonight

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and right after our shoot we're gonna uber from the shoot to jfk

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which is the airport and fly back home

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and i think we're just a land like 11 ish

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and then we have a two hour drive back from the

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airport to my house i'm not gonna go home till like 1 am today basically i'm really excited about that

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when i was looking yesterday at the set information for the

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shoot they said there was a period of time for hair

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and makeup this morning i just went and showered

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and blow dried my hair so it's like nice and clean

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and then i don't have any makeup on

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so i can do my makeup

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when i get there let's go get my dad he's like two rooms over

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and we're gonna go get some breakfast i've got a cute little breakfast and coffee place to go to

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okay we just got back from breakfast

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and i got my coffee i went to elk it was really good

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but now it's currently 9 5 and we need to go check out

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and get our uber let's go

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and then we're gonna go head to the shoot hey guys

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we're currently at the shoot right now i just found out i could vlog here

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but i got my hair and makeup professionally done it looks

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so good it's like a blowout kind of vibe my makeup

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looks crazy looks crazy good by the way now we're waiting

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i just finished taking a ton of pictures it's currently 12

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.59 it's almost one day we're gonna be another coffee

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and i'm doing great i'm gonna go behind the scenes

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and show you some more we're shooting till six so we have like five hours of shooting

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we're just finishing a bunch of shooting now i'm eating lunch

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