(upbeat music)
- I am the self-proclaimed queen of competence.
And my number one tip to self love is self-pleasure.
So without further ado,
um if you could just--
That was a good one.
Hello, I'm Serena Kerrigan,
I am waking up with Elle.
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It is 7:30 in the morning
And I like to wake up early
because we only live once
and it's important that we maximize every single day,
every hour and minute of the day.
I'm so excited for you to come on this journey with me.
And if you're not a morning person, wake the (beep) up
because we're gonna have a great time.
I have a lot of work to catch up on.
I'm going to look at myself in the mirror a lot.
And by the way
we never speak badly about ourselves in this apartment ever.
So I don't wanna hear it from you.
Now that that's outta the way
let's (beep) go and have a great day.
So I've already shared with you my two tips to confidence,
self pleasure, never speaking badly about yourself.
The third one is a dialogue.
I talk to myself like I'm my best (beep) friend,
because I am.
There's only one person that is consistently in your life
through every experience, whether you're blacking out
or graduating college
or crushing at your job
and it's really important to cultivate a relationship
with that person.
So this morning, oh
Serena, I am so proud of you.
This has been on your bucket list forever.
Waking up with Elle,
having like cameras wake up with you.
And it's just a testament to how far you've come
and the work that you're doing
and I hope that you have an amazing day
and just just keep hustling hard
and I'm so proud of you.
I'm sorry, like that is so (beep) easy to do.
The more that you do this
and it's free by the way, and takes three seconds,
you will truly become confident.
And it's really helpful if you see this person
as someone else
like your best friend, not like yourself,
even though you look pretty good.
As you can see
I like everything personalized with my name on it.
If it's not personalized, I don't want it, okay.
As a public figure, content creator,
star, CEO, icon
I get sent a lot of products
and it's very overwhelming, although I'm extremely grateful.
So I've really narrowed it down
to what works for my skin.
And I've, I feel like a little chemist at this point.
I mean, look at this, ugh,
I'm not a hoarder.
I'm not gonna wash my face for you
because a it feels like I'm on splash (beep) mountain,
whenever I wash my face, I don't wanna get you wet.
After I wash my face,
then I go in with this vitamin C Ferulic Serum
by Lara Devgan.
I'm not really sure what it does
but I trust this bitch with my face.
So we're just gonna go off.
We're gonna sprinkle that on.
It feels like something good is happening.
It's really helped with my rosacea.
And rosacea means when your skin is like perpetually red,
like you are Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
except it's like all over your face.
So then I go in with the hyaluronic serum
and this is like one of my favorite products ever.
It feels like your skin is taking a bath.
It's great for hydration.
I literally just like throw it on like that.
And this serum has helped a lot with the rosacea as well.
Okay.
And I go in with this Sonya Dakar,
Organic Omega Booster Nourishing Serum.
It's a mouthful.
This shit smells so fire.
It just like, feel, feel so nice on your face.
Ugh,
it gives you that glow.
I would bathe in this, if I could.
I just like looking like a glazed donut, like all the time.
Like if I don't look like a glazed donut
then like I'm not leaving this apartment.
Then I finish with the Barbara Sturm moisturizer.
And usually like, I'd let to sit in during my walk,
during my workout.
So that way, by the time my glam comes
or if I do my own makeup,
it's all absorbent into the skin.
And then I finish with, see, this is the thing about me.
I don't leave my house without three forms of protection,
a mask, a condom and sunscreen.
Get that in there.
Protected.
Now I'm gonna go for a walk
and look for a hot guy on the West Side Highway.
But before I do that,
I'm gonna change into like a really cute outfit
because you never know when paparazzi
are just gonna show up,
even though that's never happened to be once,
but you never know.
Every morning, I like to walk to the West Side Highway
which I actually named Club West Side Highway
because it is the hottest club in New York City.
It's free to get in.
There's no line to get in.
You can drink whatever you want.
And there are hot guys running everywhere around you.
Okay, like they're running away from me.
But anyway, I typically like to go, clear my head,
flirt, look around a little bit.
Yeah, it's really fun.
So let's go.
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This is my mom
and I forced her to move two blocks away from me
in the West Village so we can hang out every single day.
And we're gonna go get coffee
at our favorite coffee spot called The Elk.
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So we just got our favorite coffee
called The Club Bus Highway,
which I created with the Elk.
I'm gonna go finish my day,
but I love you.
(speaking foreign language)
Okay guys it's time to go back to my apartment
where the fun happens.
Okay, it turns out
there are not that many hot guys running around
at this time of year,
but I did love seeing my mom.
I got some good coffee
and it's very cold.
So I think it's time to light a fire.
During the pandemic,
I found this apartment and it has a fireplace.
And I literally was like, oh,
like that's a nice artistic piece
contribution to this apartment
and they're like, no, it works.
And so it took me about six months
to have the courage to light this fire.
And then someone introduced me to Duraflame,
which like please sponsor me, Duraflame, I love you.
And honestly, I haven't used the heat all winter
because of Duraflame and my fireplace.
So I like to just light it.
It really gives a nice ambiance and vibe.
I think I'm obsessed with my fire
because I'm an Aries
and you know, I'm a fire sign.
But also I think
that it really creates this very like calm presence
and aesthetic in my apartment.
And New York city is very hustle and bustle
born and raised here.
I'm obsessed with the energy and the nonstop vibe of it.
But I really wanted to create a space in my apartment
where I just like I can go and,
and feel, you know, just sane and serene.
So yeah, it's really nice.
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I'm gonna check some emails
as I wait for my glam team to come.
If you don't know, I run a card game business
and it is actually pretty successful.
If you are looking to have the best sex of your life
look me know further, this feels like an infomercial,
it is not.
We have Let's (beep) Date,
Let's (beep)
and Let's (beep) Play.
And they really are to get people to open up
and be vulnerable
and intimate and have really incredible orgasms.
Like people have broken their beds from playing game.
Yeah.
Because of me the next generation gonna be called Jen
that's okay.
(upbeat music)
Glam's here.
Which means I need to go get changed immediately.
Be right back.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so it's time for glam
and I obviously slipped back into my party PJs
because they make me feel chic and comfy.
Sometimes I get glammed for absolutely no (beep) reason
other than wanting to feel beautiful
even though beauty does come from within
but it doesn't help to like glow and shine a little bit
you know,
or I have an event which like I do for today
and later tonight.
I've loved like getting dressed up since I was a little girl
and I find it to also be very artistic
and I love collaborating.
It's just so happen set my face as a canvas
and Taylor is Picasso,
so this is art in the making.
I find that there's something very meditative about,
Mitchell's here
just as I was about to say, I find makeup, very meditative
well hair it's crazy in town,
it's a party.
- We met at a set of Refinery29.
And I knew of Serena from seeing her on Instagram.
And we became friends.
I've really seen her evolve into where she's at now.
And it's been so exciting,
like to see the whole journey
and to be there with moments
where she's like really excited for something
she's really nervous or like she's eager.
- Have a lot of fun.
It's very therapeutic doing your makeup.
- I feel the same way.
I feel like I'm in therapy right now.
Like you can either go see a psychiatrist
or you can see Taylor and Mitchell.
(people laughing)
And you come out going on the outside, the inside,
I mean, you get your money's worth.
So I was a video producer
and I quit my job two weeks before the pandemic.
I was alone in my apartment in the Lower East Side,
in the middle of this quarantine, right at the beginning
and was single.
My roommate had left with her boyfriend.
Like what, what am I gonna do?
I don't have a job.
I don't have a boyfriend.
I don't have
my parents were, you know, in their apartment.
I didn't want to get them sick.
So, I really started just going live on Instagram
every day at 6:00 PM,
like and tossing back a bottle of wine.
And I made a series called Quarantine with SFK.
A reoccurring theme that kept coming up
was the fact that I was someone
who always knew that happiness comes from within
and that you don't need to be in a romantic relationship
to feel fulfilled.
But yet I was feeling so anxious about being single.
Why was that?
And I think it's pretty normal.
I think the pandemic obviously made us very anxious.
We didn't know what was going on.
And if you were alone at the time you felt so isolated.
I remember I would go outside
and there was no one on the streets.
It was kind of like, I am legend vibes, very scary.
And then at like 6:00 PM
we would all like clap for the, all the doctors.
And you know, the people in the hospitals
that were working tirelessly,
to help people with COVID.
So, it was very eerie time in New York.
And I really was like,
damn, what are single people supposed to do?
Like, how are we supposed to date?
We don't even know how long this is gonna be for.
And then one day
a friend of mine basically set up a live blind date
on Instagram Live.
She texted me his handle
and I let him into the live.
And we went on a full blown date for an hour.
And it was a Friday night in April.
And then it kind of just popped the (beep) off.
And my community picked the name for it
which is Let's (beep) Date.
I dated 50 guys in 2020, and I'm still single.
This show really took off
and I think it really spoke to
what is it like to be an empowered woman dating
and taking control of her future,
her career and her love life and her personal life.
It was definitely weird having like all my friends
and family and parents tune in
and like exes probably, we know they were watching
like tune in didn't watch me date.
Like that was such a weird concept
but I had so much fun doing it.
And from that we created the card game
because I think that there's so much anxiety about dating
about what do you say when you go on a date.
We build it so much in our head
but really dating is just a conversation between two people.
And when I did the show so many times
I had to come up with fun questions
to ask the guys
that wasn't like a little more
than just like the name game.
Like I had to like, be like, if you were soup
what kind of soup would you be?
You know?
And obviously I am French Onion
because I'm like gooey and decadent and delicious.
So I started writing down all of these questions
and I realized like,
what if we could put this into some kind of format
that any one of my followers
or anyone at all around the world could bring on a date
so they would feel more empowered.
It's like me being on the date
without me physically being there
because I know that would be like a distraction.
And yeah, it was a wild ride.
I look back to that time in my life
and like I can't (beep) believe
I dated 50 men on Instagram live
in front of thousands of people for a year.
But I think that's what really launched my career.
Having the confidence to do that.
I truly believe that the key to being confident
is deciding that you are the main character
of your (beep) life.
And the reason I love glam so much
is because it just reinforces the idea for myself
that I am the main character,
stepping into the role that you wish to become.
Because if you believe that you are destined for that
then you truly do become it.
And I know I sound like some like,
woo woo, Tony Robbins vibes,
but I swear it works.
It starts really by being like
I am Serena (beep) Kerrigan.
Like I changed my middle name when I was 18 into (beep)
not just because I love to (beep)
but because it was really like a way of empowering myself
and reminding myself of who I am.
Okay, I'm gonna let my incredible glam team
do what they do best.
So if you could just one second.
Tada!
This is my look.
Blood, sweat and tears were poured into the making of this.
Great job guys.
This look makes me feel iconic, powerful, confident
and fierce.
And it really lines up very well to the mantra of today
and every day, which is do it for the plot.
Everything in your life matters
because nothing (beep) matters.
Everything that you thought was embarrassing
or dumb or every rejection, every heartbreak
every milestone is just helping you
on the development of the journey
of the main character that you were born to be.
And that's why I wear my 'Do It For The Pot' necklace
because it just reminds me to live my life fully
and authentically,
because at the end of the day,
I'm the main (beep) character
and my life is a movie.
That being said I think we need an outfit
to match the motto and the glam right?
Come with me.
What up bitches, did you miss me?
I mean, how (beep) iconic is this look?
I actually don't even need your validation
because I give myself my own validation.
So come on over.
Let's talk to our best friend in the mirror.
Oh, sorry.
I can't stop like at myself.
But honestly beauty comes from within.
Yes, I love getting glammed up
and being in a fire (beep) outfit
but ultimately the way to truly love yourself
is by talking to yourself.
So I always constantly am just being like,
'Hey, I love you,
You're my best friend.'
And eye contact is very important, okay.
And this was really fun,
but like you have to get to work, okay?
Like keep you gotta keep going, keep working.
So on that note, I should probably get back to work.
You know, when we relaunch a game
it's really important to have a new marketing strategy
and I'm gonna let you in on my creative process
which isn't just getting glam and like looking hot.
It's actually to reread through the card
and just see like where it takes us, okay?
So I'm gonna read through a couple of my favorites.
Ooh, what about me turns you on?
You can leave it in the comments below.
Describe how I make you feel.
Okay, maybe this marketing campaign
can be about like feeling, touching.
How would you want me to make you?
I'm just getting a little hot and bothered right now.
So I think I'm gonna spend the rest of this morning
with myself.
I hope that you had a great time following me around
this morning.
I hope that you talked to yourselves in the mirror every day
and I hope that you remember
that you were the main character of your (beep) life.
Thank you so much Elle
and I'll see you soon.