- There's something really nice about going back in time
and looking at what I wrote, how I was feeling.
Everything was such a huge deal
when I was in my early twenties.
I feel like I had no sense of self.
I was filled with fear
and it's kind of nice to see how much I've grown
and then in other ways
how much I've stayed exactly the same.
Hi everyone, I'm Antoni Porowski,
and these are my wellness essentials.
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So here are my morning essentials.
I love a bar soap.
MISTRAL have really nice scents.
Some of them are very oceanic,
some are like a little more woodsy and smoky,
and I even have a plastic container,
and I travel with these sometimes.
I'm somebody who's very nostalgic and scents
kind of like take me to a happy place.
It's just something that when I'm away from all of my stuff
if I smell something that feels like home,
it reminds me of home
and it makes me happy and it keeps me clean.
My good friend Suki got me hooked on this brush from Goop.
I use this every single morning
before I take a shower and I scrub my entire body.
I do my neck, my back, my arms, everywhere,
even the bottom of my feet.
This wakes me up more than like three cold brews.
So it's painful and energizing, but not too painful.
Like I don't end up scratching myself
but it just really, it's invigorating.
That's the word.
So with skincare during the day
I'm a minimalist if I'm perfectly honest.
Most days I don't even moisturize
but I do wash my face in the morning
with a nice gentle cleanser and this is my favorite.
It's from Tata Harper.
It comes in a beautiful glass bottle.
They also have a really good exfoliating one.
Supposedly all their products are edible.
Have I tried them?
No, but it's also kind of good to know
that they are in case I really get hungry
and I don't have any Simple Mills cookies
or Tach pistachio milk laying around,
or other snacks that I'm gonna talk about in a little bit
that I'm really excited about.
Mario Badescu.
This is the facial spray with aloe, herbs, and rose water.
Even though I'm not a fan of floral notes
and there is a bit of rose water in here
my best friend Rema is obsessed with anything that's rose.
And now that I'm thinking about it,
even though I don't really like it,
it makes me think of her.
It's such a strange thing to be like drawn
to a skincare product because the smell reminds you
of someone that you care about.
But that's me. That's who I am.
It makes me think of her when I spritz it
and run off to my meeting that I'm 15 minutes late for
and I forgot to take my dog out.
So I'm gonna be 30 minutes late.
I love a ritual.
Anything that I get to do every day
on a daily basis just makes me feel safe
and kind of comforted.
And here are my daytime essentials
that are part of my afternoon routine.
My dog is everything to me.
I love her so much.
She is obsessed with Yummers, which funny enough
is a company that I started with JVN.
We're both obsessed with our pets.
JVN has about 37,000 of them.
I have one pit rescue that I fostered during the pandemic
in Austin while we were filming Queer Eye.
And making her a good meal brings me so much joy
'cause her little bum shakes so much.
Like she can't contain her happiness.
When I feel like I'm the only one going through
whatever it is that I'm going through.
If I take her on a walk
for 10 minutes in between calls or like work stuff
it just brings me so much joy 'cause she's just
I mean she can't hide her joy.
She just wags her tail
and it's so easy to make her happy no matter what happens.
She always greets me with, you know, her smelly dog breath
and she's just so lovable and she's so weird.
And when she looks at me, she looks into my soul.
And to have that kind of a connection with an animal,
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I have this lull and it's between three and five.
So I stop drinking coffee usually at about 1:00 PM
but then I still wanna keep on munching on things
and I drink a lot of water, but I need to have a snack
in between lunch and before dinner.
I am, this is not an endorsement.
I'm obsessed with this brand.
Bear with me.
It's really weird.
These are chips made of chicken breast
and a bit of tapioca flour.
Not too high in sodium.
Packed with protein.
They have that satisfying crunch.
This is the buffalo. Yeah, the buffalo style.
Surprisingly spicy.
Continuing with snacks cause we're not done.
I love my Bjorn Corn.
I'm a big fan of the flavor profile
of really trashy nacho cheesy type flavor.
And nutritional yeast is a great hack
to get that umami saltiness and they put it in corn.
These are so good if we're on a road trip.
So on the weekends we try to take our dog out
whether it's out east or if we're in Canada
to the Eastern township.
I always have a bag of these in the glove compartment.
Popcorn just makes me happy,
from like watching TV or something.
And this is also part of my afternoon snack ritual as well.
We've covered my morning ritual.
We've gone over like the snack hacks in the afternoon.
I've brought back Neon from her afternoon walk.
She's had dinner, I've had dinner.
The sun is starting to set.
I light my candle, put on some New York Housewives
or Salt Lake City or Beverly Hills, Erica Jane,
what have you been up to?
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And it's time for my evening Mocktail.
This stuff is gold.
This really sweet girl Melanie
started this brand called Ghia.
And it's basically a concentrate that has
riesling white grape juice concentrated, yuzu,
so has a nice tartness, lemon balm, fig, elderflower,
acacia, orange peel extract.
It has a really nice bitterness.
I don't like things that are cloyingly sweet.
If you're somebody who drinks and you like to have a negroni
and you don't wanna have regrets or a hangover the next day
this is the route for you.
So it tells me that it's nighttime,
tells me that sleep is gonna be coming soon.
There's no caffeine in here, which is really great
and it just really makes me happy.
The last thing, and this is something sometimes I do
at night or in the mornings,
but I was just filming another season
of Queer Eye in New Orleans,
and my good friend Benj, has been doing this thing
called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron for years.
It got me back in touch
with my favorite journal of all time, a Moleskin.
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Moleskin and I have a very long relationship.
So when I was in college,
I was very emo and I was in a band,
really horrible band called The Silver Spoons.
I would write down my daily thoughts,
all of my existential angst.
I would listen to Richard Ashcroft songs
and write about how I internalized every single lyric
and every single one of his songs.
And Oasis, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Block Party.
Anyway, I love the little rubber band
and what's easy about it is it ties into my favorite pen.
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I was buying uniballs,
well my parents were buying me uni balls.
While it's a funny name, I just realized that.
I was asking my parents to get me these
when I was in elementary schools.
It's something that I used when I was younger.
In the artist's way, bringing it back full circle,
I always get there, I get lost, but I come back.
One of the exercises is every single morning
you write three pages of just free writing,
Jack Kerouac style.
Whatever is on your mind, you just unload it
onto the page whether you're happy, whether you're sad,
whether it's trivial stuff, whether it's important,
whether it's deep, it doesn't really matter.
And for me it's been
like meditation a little bit where I just write the pages.
And also what's really nice is
there's a nice little silky chord that you use as a
wait, what's it called?
That piece of paper that you put into your?
- [Cameraman] A bookmark? - A bookmark!
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Tache pistachio milk.
So I'm trying my best to be a good citizen
and trying to limit how much cow and animal dairy I consume.
My favorite nighttime ritual,
I'm always trying to figure out
how to hack something that I used to enjoy as a kid
but that's a little healthier.
Simple Mills, yes, I've worked with them,
but I've been a fan and I'm obsessed with this brand
since a very long time.
These almond flour double chocolate chip cookies
are so freaking good.
A cup of this really nice and cold,
and you dip the cookie, it softens up perfectly
and I can go through like a whole box of these.
I think with wellness, sometimes when I think
about just the word or the concept
I often get stuck in things that are just purely good for me
from a health or mental, physical or psychological,
or emotional standpoint.
But sometimes it's just about joy
and about feeling good and everyone loves milk and cookies.
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So those are my wellness essentials.
Thank you SELF, and thank you for watching.
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