- What I look for in a piece of jewelry,
is has it been cursed by a Hungarian witch?
If yes.
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Hi, this is Katya and welcome to Precious Metals
with Marie Claire.
- Hi, it's me, Trixie Mattel.
And I'm here to talk to you about earrings.
- I'm gonna give you an exclusive tour
of my jewelry collection,
and let you know some of the personal history.
- I just like functional earrings.
It needs to be lightweight,
it needs to be cool to look at, and comfortable to wear.
That is like the other main thing.
Because on my shows, when I tour with Grown Up and stuff,
I'm usually doing so many hair changes
that big earrings are just extra drama.
So honestly, on stage I'm usually wearing
like a teeny little, like crystal dance button,
just 'cause I don't want it to get caught on anything.
But like YouTube, red carpets, television,
that's where my earring game gets to really shine.
- When you go to the doctor, you have an operation,
they give you stitches.
So you don't, you know, bleed out afterwards.
That's what jewelry is.
It's like the perfect punctuation.
It doesn't have to be expensive.
I'm not a label whore or, I'm just a regular whore.
I started building my jewelry collection
when I worked at a costume shop.
I would steal.
Stealing is great, because you don't have to pay for things.
And so you can accumulate quite a bit pretty quickly.
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- A couple pairs here are my favorites,
and they're made by this girl.
On Instagram, she goes by
@thegirlnamedkyle, and she makes earrings
that are really, really, really beautiful.
These ones are little seashells.
And all the earrings she makes are plastic.
And so they're very lightweight.
They're little shells.
They're nice, they're simple, they're lightweight.
They're easy to put on.
I love these earrings.
- This was a themed gift, an enamel earring
that's modeled after Carol Channing.
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- These earrings are plastic,
and they have little female symbols on 'em.
Them look how cute that is!
I like to do, like kinda weird, deranged,
like '60s office looks like this.
And a weird little statement earring like that.
Lookit, oh!
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- Jewelry doesn't have to be just rings and necklaces.
It can also just be jewels.
If you notice here, taking this humdrum pair
of Christian Louboutin fishnet,
waist-high (speaks in French),
and embellish them with a wonderful array
of multicolor Swarovski crystals, also known as jewels.
These I'm gonna pass down to my granddaughter.
She's gonna to be a Rockette.
I just hope she's a size 10.
- Most the time, handmade earrings are my favorite.
Something you really can't buy.
These are a little crazy.
So I don't get that much use out of them, admittedly,
because they're very specific.
But look how cute these little cowboy boots are!
I love an earring that makes you want to build
a whole outfit around that earring.
Do you know what I mean?
And fun fact about me,
I'm extremely allergic to, like any metals.
So all of my earrings get wrapped in medical tape.
I can't have any metal touching my skin,
Or I get rashes on my ears, which is very unattractive.
- I never wear a brooch unless it has a story.
And all brooches have stories.
So this owl was given to me by Linda Hamilton
on the set of Terminator 3.
Multicolor flower was given to me
by Rene Russo on the set of the Thomas Crown Affair,
right before she tried to kill Pierce Brosnan.
That was stolen from Penn Station bathroom.
- These are vintage, little pearl,
these go with everything,
'cause I wear so much white and pink.
This makes me feel like I'm in a Lancome ad.
Do you know what I mean, like?
You could be a teen girl,
you could be a professional working mom.
You could be an old lady.
And like, you could like these earrings.
And this kinda earring is fun.
I probably have like four or five different pairs
that are a lot like this.
Whenever I'm at, like a vintage store,
and I find, like a pair like this,
this is a really common style.
I always just pick 'em up.
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- Oh!
Do you suffer from an extremely large goiter?
Do you have thyroid problems?
Do you have a lousy neck?
An unsightly goiter that bulges right under your chin?
Well, I've got the news for you.
Necklaces.
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- So, being a skinny legend,
I get a lot of like really cute, bizarre,
like, weight control-themed gifts.
And these ones are no exception.
They're little scales.
It's the kind of earring where people lean in and go,
what is that?
And they get in and they see the scale
and they're like, you're an idiot.
But (laughs) I like that!
There was this Barbie that famously in the '60s,
she came with a little scale permanently fixed at 110,
and she came with a book that said how to lose weight.
And in the book, it said, don't eat.
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When it comes to cleaning your jewelry,
I do not believe in any fancy sprays,
lubricants or ointments.
I use a good old-fashioned eyeball knife.
I just scrape off the dirt, like so.
There's a wonderful story behind this knife,
but I'm not gonna tell it.
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- Next time you wanna leave the house,
and not have earrings on, just know
that I honestly think all of the world's problems
could be changed if you put foundation on your ears
and put some earrings on.
- Well, thank you guys so much for watching Precious Metals.
I'm Katya, don't forget to check out my book!
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