- Y'all, it is a 100 degrees out right now,
too hot for long sleeves.
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Hi, I'm Jordan.
- Hi, I'm Toni, and for the next 5 days
I will be recreating Dua Lipa's Instagram.
- I really like her music and I like her style,
I think that her style is like pretty Gen Z.
She's a maximalist, which I too
am a maximalist, with my fashion.
- She truly is a disco pop icon.
She has a really fun, playful style,
She's likes to play around with color which I love.
A lot of her clothes though, do scream designer
and we aren't working with a designer budget.
We're gonna have to get creative.
- I look nothing like her, I'm nervous,
because I know that like when I'm trying to recreate outfits
a lot of times I run into the problem
of not being able to find stuff in my size.
- I'm gonna go ahead and look at
my closet and see if there's anything.
- Lets go shopping!
(happy techno music)
- We're gonna have to do some hardcore
dupe research, See if we can get lucky
here and find a crop top that is plaid.
Surprisingly I thought it would be a lot easier to find,
this is a lot harder than I thought it would be.
- I need this pink peasant top,
maybe... oh, oh! Got 'em.
- We have this moment, she looks so cool
that's all I can say about this photo.
I actually found like a Dua Lipa fan account,
that like, actually clocks all of her outfits
and tells you exactly where they're from.
This is the top that I think is going to be
one of the harder things to find.
- Then we have this 'lil cowboy outfit.
I'm dying that hers is Miu Miu
and I'm literally like Big and Tall red checkered shirt.
But we're gonna crop it or something,
we're gonna do a little finagling with this one. (laughter)
- Neon orange, obviously hers is probably
much more expensive and much more designer.
Okay so we have this shoulder padded
oversized double breasted blazer.
I think this one will work.
- I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do it,
but I'm going to try and find this jacket.
Wait is this Justin Bieber's jacket?
Oh my God I feel so special 'cause I love Justin Bieber.
Wooooow, (gasps) (record scratch) 900 dollars!
No, that's not right, we're gonna get this
and hope that it comes in time.
- I still have bits and pieces
and odds and ends to put together,
but I'm excited for these clothes to come in.
- I can't wait to start this challenge!
Dua peep, I hope I make you proud.
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- All right, so my challenge is not to recreate the entire
carousel of photos, but just the first photo here.
Here are the sunglasses, I'm hoping that they're, like,
somewhat similar, okay, not horrible for my first dupe,
also these are great, are these polarized?
And then for the top, it's mesh, it's playing around
with the same color palette, it just isn't the same shape or
obviously cut, I think we might be able to make this work.
- I'm going to be doing the one where she's on her back,
and she's in the pink shirt which I already have on.
Pink jeans, I don't have jeans but I do have sweatpants
that are the same-ish color, I think she's on like a chair?
Like outside furniture, I don't have access to that.
(gasp) I'm gonna do it on my couch.
(laughter)
(squeals)
(laughter)
Oh my God!
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Okay, think I got it to work, I hope the rest
of the ones this week are not this ridiculous.
- All right so I think that went pretty well,
I think that we have a lot to choose from,
I'm gonna go through my entire camera roll,
see what works best, I will say I did
feel super fierce posing like that.
Miss Dua knew what she was doin'.
- That's like not horrible, it's not a exactly right,
it's not the worst thing, what is wrong with me?
- This is a photo I was meant to recreate,
and so this was my first attempt.
The background is very similar,
my attempt to Photoshop, absolutely horrid.
I'm feeling a lot better now that I'm not thinking too much
about like looking exactly like her photo,
because I knew this was going to be hard,
but I think the essence is there.
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- Today I have to take a picture on the roof,
gonna go outside, so let's get dressed.
- So we're just going with an all white moment
since unfortunately I don't have a plaid crop top,
and I'm not gonna lie this challenge is really difficult,
I'm finding myself looking at the photos and being like,
there's an absolutely no way I'll be able to recreate
this photo and have it be convincing.
I literally don't take Instagram too seriously,
I'm just gonna have fun and try my best
not to get into my head too much.
Had a little check in moment with myself, feeling good.
- My whole chest is out, so that's
just like what we're going with.
So on, her bag is on this side, whoa.
(uplifting music)
Honestly the lighting is very accurate,
So I came up right at the correct time of day.
I'm kinda obsessed like it, it honestly looks really good.
I think my arms are just like so much shorter than hers,
but that's okay, I did it.
- The next photo I'm going to be uploading today,
is my recreation of this photo here,
I just took this really quickly on my balcony,
that's a lie, it was not very quickly,
it actually took me like 30 minutes.
This video's been a really great way for me
to like kind of revamp my personal Instagram
that I created not for work but just for myself,
so, its kinda been really nice.
- She has it cropped in a square.
There isn't any filter on hers
so that's literally all I need to do.
I feel like people are going to be like what is this outfit,
like obviously not my aesthetic at all,
but then my followers are really supportive
so people probably gonna be, like oh my God,
like yes, for me its really not giving.
I hope that its less hot later in this week
when I have to do more pictures outside.
(uplifting pop music)
- Today is the third day of posting like Dua Lipa.
For today's photo I'm going to be recreating this moment,
where Dua is in a matching orange blazer and pant
with this black strappy top underneath and a black purse.
I don't have a matching orange situation, but I do
have an orange blazer and the black bag
and a strappy black top that looks very similar to hers.
- For some reason I really thought
that people were going to notice, that I was
not posting like myself, nobody has said anything yet.
I'm really excited about the picture for today.
Its really hot out so I'm not gonna put
anything under the jacket, but she's wearing a puffer jacket
which I don't have the matched exact match,
but I do have one that is like a printed puffer jacket.
I'm gonna wait a little bit and then lets start my makeup,
and her makeup I'm really excited, its like, this like
milky like eyeshadow, cute, I think it looks really nice.
Oh that was darker than I thought it was gonna be.
- Look these pants, they're so big on me
like the waist is perfect, good thing in the photo
you can't even really look at the whole pant number,
but the blazer's not too bad,
so uh, now to take some photos.
- Okay, we have made it into my car, to take this picture.
We're setting up the tripod, I have a very small car,
it's a compact car, I feel like I'm in a clown car.
People are going to look at this picture and be like
why the frick are you wearing a winter coat,
like... (laughs) it's actually better.
Okay, like (laughs) I'm so confused.
I don't know what to do, (laughs)
this is a very stressful for me.
♪whoooooo-oooo yeah♪
- I will say these poses did feel a lot more
like what I would naturally post on my Instagram,
just like a cute showing off the outfit moment,
so I'm going to go through these photos,
I'm going to pick some selects, and we're gonna upload.
- I just need to blur the picture which should
be pretty easy, I'm interested to see
even if people comment at all, because the picture
from yesterday got a lot of engagement.
(uplifting pop music)
- Good morning and welcome to day four.
I'm really excited about this one, and I really like
this photo because it looks like
she's just enjoying her time as she should.
I think this is probably the best fit, because
its so simple, I already had these black flair pants
and I ordered this black tank top.
We have these black shoes kind of look similar,
these aren't very comfortable,
but I think for the photo they'll work.
- And today we're doing the cowboy look,
and I am so excited, I have the checkered
shirt and I need to crop it.
I'm gonna look like a farmer, it's gonna be
on an even line because there are lines
on the shirt, that's genius.
I also like, didn't have fabric scissors
so these are just like regular -- (record scratch)
I just made a horrible cut.
It's going to be in an even line
because they're lines on the shirt.
(bleep censor sound)
Okay, she's wearing sunglasses, she also
has like a necklace on, and some earring.
She has a black and white bag, and I have one
that matches the outfit, that's also black and white.
So in Dua's photo she's in a private jet and sitting
in like this off-white kind of cream chair,
and we don't have a private jet today unfortunately,
so we're just gonna use my cute little chair here,
and then I brought in some props for the photo,
that were kinda in her photo.
Ugh, that is a leg workout...
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- [Jordan] These pictures came out really good,
I feel like they're really not
the aesthetic of my Instagram.
I just realized that I put the bag on the wrong side.
It's hard when do it on selfie because it, like, reverses.
- All right so all that's left is just to go through
the photos, pick which one I want to post,
and we'll be good for today.
(pop techno music)
- We made it, last day! Last day!
I am very excited for this look because this is the
Justin Bieber jacket one, and you know that I love Justin.
- I'm feeling good and I'm excited to
finish out this challenge very strong.
This photo carousel is more of just like a photo dump,
so that's how I'm going to post it as well,
and I'm just looking and checking up
on my post from yesterday, and it was received
pretty decently, so that's good.
She's wearing this matching set, where ever she's at
is giving me very much so Teletubby vibes,
it's beautiful and looking at the comments
people are saying this is in Mexico.
I'm in LA, but we're just going
to have to go for a park moment instead.
- I don't know if this is going to fit me.
I'm scared, its a little tight.
Okay, it doesn't fit me but it's enough for the picture.
I like the yellow hat with the like orange,
and then we have the bag, this is great,
this is exactly what she looks like.
And then I think I'm just going to Photoshop the background.
Okay, I'm going to get out of this
jacket and edit these pictures now.
I feel very grateful that she like
doesn't edit her pictures at all.
I'm gonna edit her background onto my picture,
since I don't have a background
that's even a little bit similar to hers.
Okay, that looks pretty good, to me that looks kinda real.
- Feeling great, I'm a bit relieved that it's over,
but I'm also kinda sad because it's given me this motivation
to be active on my Instagram, in a way I really am not ever.
- The one that did the best was the cowboy outfit,
in close second was the like peasant shirt
with the snakeskin pants, that also did really well.
- I think I would do this again, but with a
celebrity that maybe has more accessible clothing,
by accessible I mean, not all designer.
- I would definitely do it again.
To have to work to get like the background similar,
and to edit the picture so that it's the same,
like that's really fun for me.
- I'm just going to, following this challenge
just be more open to posting, true and authentic content.
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