- Bam-Bam, sit.
Sit.
Good boy.
You ready?
[intense music]
Hi GQ, I am FKA Twigs and these are my 10 essentials.
Bam Bam.
Well, I've had Bam Bam for about three months
and he's just so sweet.
You know, he's like so cuddly.
He just makes my life 10 times better.
And every morning when I wake up,
he like sleeps under my armpit and it's just heaven.
I'd say he is less of like a dog
and more of a, sort of like a floor monkey.
Everyone deserves a little snug in their life
and this is where I'm getting mine.
All right, Bam Bam.
Sit.
Oh, good boy.
Bam Bam, lie down.
Lie down.
Stage fright.
Bam Bam, what's this? Lie down.
We're working on it.
My next essential item are my key rings.
I never thought that your key ring could say
a lot about you.
But when I looked at mine the other day,
I was like, wow, that is actually me.
So first of all, there's a picture of my mom and I,
when I was a baby.
And then there's this gadget.
I love it all year round
but I particularly loved during the pandemic.
So it's like pushing and pulling things.
Not like a full germophobe, but like a tiny bit maybe.
You just like press things with it,
open car doors, or I don't know,
for two years I feel like I've just been like going around
like trying to pick things up with this.
And then the other one is just really fun,
Vivian Westwood key ring
that's got like a tiny little cock on the end of it.
Cute, isn't it?
[giggles]
Anyone else? Cute?
No?
Yeah, everyone thinks it's cute.
Everyone thinks it's cute.
My next item is this Egyptian Musk body butter.
I'm just one of those people that look so rashy.
Like I just, everything makes me, gives me a rash
like fabrics or like if I'm too hot or too cold.
And I feel like shea butter's changed my life
in terms of managing my skin.
It's vegan, no added color, no sulfates, no parabens.
You could eat this.
You could actually, I mean, it's not like FDA approved.
Yeah, I cover myself in it.
It's disgusting.
So what I basically do,
my ritual is I come out the shower,
I put as much as this on as possible.
And then what I do,
if I can bring in another item...
This is the oil I've bought today.
It's a Liha Idan oil.
This is like a multipurpose oil.
And this is like cold press coconut oil with tuberose.
And so I put this shea butter on first
and then I like pour this all over my body.
And then I stand like this for like four minutes.
And then I put like a really big cotton t-shirt on,
and then I go to bed.
But I also really loved this product
because small black owned business,
these like two amazing women.
And one is from Chatham, which is where I was born.
The other one is from Hackney, which is where I live now.
And those are two very far apart places.
Organic, small business, sustainable glass bottle.
Just all of the things that I look for in products,
this lives up to.
- This is a new thing that I've added
to my sort of daily routine: these sea moss gummies.
And these are pineapple flavored with real fruits.
And sea moss is really good for anti-inflammatory,
like getting rid of phlem and mucus that I'm quite into,
cause I'm a singer.
It's hard because in this day and age
a lot of the vegetables and things that we're eating,
they don't have as much vitamins in as they used to,
because of the way that we produce food.
I'll take any vitamin, even if it's like fat.
Even if you get like the really big fat orange ones.
I'll just swallow it whole, I don't care.
[giggles]
So this is the Amala rejuvenating, illuminating,
pro-rentinol treatment oil.
It's just incredible for my skin.
I've really never had a product that's changed my life
so much for my face.
I'm very natural on my body and this is very natural.
But for my face, I also like will put anything
on my face if it works.
My body and my hair, I like to be a hundred percent organic.
In my face, I'm just like shove it on if it pulls it up.
There's like little bits of gold.
Little bits of gold in the piper
and you kind of drop it out like this.
Can you see the bits of gold?
It's lovely, isn't it?
My next essential item is this little tiger's eye ball.
But this for me like represents a lot of essential items
that I really love.
It's actually less about it being like a beautiful stone
and it's more about it feels really good if you massage it.
So sometimes I like to take it like on planes
or if I'm traveling or if I'm anxious about something
and I just massage it in between my hands.
- [Camera Man] Can you speak to Camera A?
Oh, sorry. Hi.
This camera. [digital beep]
I've got loads of different size
that I like rub into my hips or like on my shoulders.
And I lie on them.
I'm a big, stretchy, massage-y, rolly type person.
My next essential item is this Sacred Woman book
by Queen Afua.
I would honestly recommend for anyone to read this book.
It's kind of everything.
It's kind of like get your mind right,
get your body right.
And there's a really big emphasis
on just eating a lot of greens
and there's different prayers.
This is just a little one.
So it says healing with water:
healing with water is one
of the most powerful transformational methods.
It puts us in a flow of the spirit
and energy of the earth
whose surface is two thirds water.
Doing meditations and self-healing in the shower,
baths, pools, ponds, rivers, and the ocean.
All of it is restoring, cleansing, and purifying.
We ourselves are 60% water and being in the flow
renews us inside and out.
Just little things like that, you know, for your day?
My next essential item is this Katya hair clip.
So kind of a bit naff for like a few years,
but I feel like now, as we're getting quite into 90s
and naughties kind of fashion, they're coming back.
This brand, Katya made this really cute one
and it's got these little diamantes on it.
I actually feel since I've just dyed my hair back dark,
I feel grounded and back to myself.
I feel like I've gone on this massive journey.
The last few years I've been like orange, peach,
blonde, mullet.
Not that it's not fab to have like bright orange hair
because it's iconic.
So my next essential item is a stimulating scalp beverage
by OrganiGrow Co.
Again, just love my organic products.
Keeping my scalp really healthy.
It's kind of like the ultimate self-care.
It helps my hair grow back from all of the bleaching
and dying, and cutting, and tugging, and hair spray.
I feel lucky that my body allows me to tug
at it so much, but then I need to replenish it
and make sure that it's happy
and that whatever I'm taking out, I'm putting back in.
Again, independently owned business,
nice glass bottle, sustainable, organic product.
It's going on my head.
So I don't want any like nasties going
right next to my brain
My next essential item are my eyelash curlers.
If you said to me, you can only like have
one like beauty product for the rest of your life,
I'd probably pick eyelash curlers
because it's like instantly, like you're awake.
Like you just do it.
And then your eyes are like ting.
And like, I don't sleep,
so this is like my hack for not sleeping, basically.
Also it reminds me of my mom.
I remember when I was a kid like
watched my mom curl her eyelashes
and thinking that's really weird and scary.
But as I've got older now, I love it
and I can't live without it.
But sometimes if I'm in a car or something,
if I have a meeting,
I'll just sit like that for like 30 seconds.
I'm not even joking.
I just sit like that for 30 seconds.
And then like when I open my eyes
I feel like they're just saying more open.
[laughs]
Do they look more open?
Thanks for watching
and I hope you have a good day.