ShopTalk: 25 Little Luxuries

Misery Loves Luxury

The boss wants to speak with you offline. You may or may not have swine. And to top it off, someone stole the wreath off your door.

Not exactly in the holiday spirit? Let us recommend buying some indulgent little gifts — for yourself.

In this ShopTalk video, we’ll show you what we’re drooling over this year, from super deluxe bedding and organic beauty products to DIY perfume sets and mail-order stone crabs (yep, we want crabs).

Sure, you can buy these items for other people, too.

But we all know who’s the most deserving.

Want your own Farmaesthetics mask? The first five people to e-mail us the correct answer to the following question get one: What other DailyCandy video did Mark (the crab delivery guy) appear in?

For a complete list of everything mentioned in the video — plus patent leather slippers, chandelier umbrellas, and more — check out today’s ShopTalk gallery.

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Introducing the New DailyCandy

Our favorite style makers dish on our new look

Who doesn’t love a makeover? We have a fresh look, and we hope you’re as jazzed about it as we are.

Join chief correspondent SuChin Pak and style makers such as Alison Pincus of One Kings Lane, Christian Leone of Vaunte, and NBC’s 1st Look’s Ali Fedotowsky for a tour of the new features that make DailyCandy sweeter than ever.

We think you’ll love ’em.

Next Video: An Interview with Our Street Style Idol

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Some nights you just want to stay inside, watch Clueless, and stuff your face. In this video, SuChin has a few items to make your evening that much sweeter.

This week’s picks are available at samorenyc.com, alderandcoshop.com, and dailycandy.com (we’ll show you how to make the DIY face scrub).

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An Interview with Our Street Style Idol

Lina Plioplyte shows us her three favorite outfits

Most people reserve head-to-toe leopard print (socks included) for Halloween.

Lina Plioplyte is an exception.

When the Lithuania-born filmmaker dresses in full-body spots, she gets photographed by The Sartorialist.

In today’s video, we head to the street style superstar’s Brooklyn neighborhood to get the lowdown on her three favorite outfits — and attempt to uncover how she makes her Clarissa Explains It All-meets-Iris Apfel look work.

We’ve watched Plioplyte turn heads while behind the camera at multiple DailyCandy videos in the past, so when a group of high school boys asked for her digits during this shoot, we were hardly fazed.

She’s the cat’s meow.

To see Plioplyte’s work, go to teenagepeanut.com. Want more street style? Cast your vote in our contest to find the most stylish city in the country.

Photo: Stephania Stanley / DailyCandy

Next Video: SuChin Pak's 5 Questions: Face Hunter's Yvan Rodic

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Wedding season is in full force (we’re sure your wallet is aware). In today’s video, SuChin has a dress, hair accessory, and nail polish that you can wear to all of them.

This week’s picks are available at pritinyc.com, bhldn.com, and jenniferbehr.com. For more of SuChin’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel.

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SuChin Pak's 5 Questions: Face Hunter's Yvan Rodic

The street style photographer tells all

Travel the world. Photograph well-heeled, beautiful people. Chronicle adventures. It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it.

That someone is Yvan Rodic, the brains behind go-to street style blog Face Hunter. In this 5 Questions with SuChin Pak video, we go behind the lens, learning everything from how Rodic chooses his subjects to his opinion on the most stylish city in the world (you’ll be surprised).

Rodic also fills us in on his latest book, Travels with Face Hunter, a picture diary of a year in his fabulous, jet-setting life.

He really took one for the team.

Travels with Face Hunter is available at amazon.com, $17. To read his blog, go to facehunter.blogspot.com. Want to keep watching? Check out our interviews with actress Anna Chlumsky, nutritionist Kimberly Snyder, singer/songwriter Emeli Sandé, and supermodel Coco Rocha.

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Don’t dread swimsuit season. Embrace it with two new suits and a cover-up (that also works as a dress), picked by our woman about town.

This week’s finds are available at marahoffman.com, geronimocollection.com, and opheliaswimwear.com.

Next Video: SuChin Pak's 5 Questions: Anna Chlumsky

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What’s the new little black dress? The little black bag that goes with everything. In this video, SuChin shares three that you’ll want to buy right now.

This week’s picks are available at cloudcloudny.com, gargyle.com, and nastygal.com. (The Nasty Gal bag is restocking in July; sadly, it was so popular it sold out right before this video went up.) For more of SuChin’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel.

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SuChin Pak's 5 Questions: Anna Chlumsky

On her first baby, high school prom, and "Veep"

Here’s a (laughable) piece of trivia: One of the most recognizable kid actors of our generation later became a fact checker at Zagat.

Actress Anna Chlumsky originally invaded our hearts playing Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl. These days she works alongside a motley White House crew as Veep’s Amy Brookheimer.

In today’s 5 Questions with SuChin Pak, Chlumsky fills in the gap between now and then, from what it was like to be a kid actor to who makes her laugh the hardest on the Veep set. She even tells us what it was like to prom-hop in high school.

You’ll probably notice she’s got a bun in the oven (a little lady due this summer).

A.k.a. her girl.

To watch full episodes of Veep, go to hbo.com. For more interviews, check out our videos with model Coco Rocha, actress/writer Mindy Kaling, nutritionist Kimberly Snyder, and singer Emeli Sandé.

Photo: Niki Dankner / DailyCandy

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Summer is almost here, which means a host of fun new beauty issues (sweat and sun, hooray). Sarcasm aside, in today’s video, SuChin has three recommendations for keeping your skin soft and healthy all year long.

This week’s picks are available at australianscent.com and drugstore.com. For more of SuChin’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel.

Next Video: Behind the Scenes with Warby Parker

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SuChin isn’t joking when she says she loves shoes: Her nickname is sometimes “ShoeChin.” In this video, our correspondent shows off her three favorites for the season.

For more great kicks, check out our editors’ 31 picks. To get your hands on the featured products, go to gucci.com, stevenalan.com, and zara.com.

Next Video: Behind the Scenes with Jaclyn Mayer

Behind the Scenes with Warby Parker

Co-founder Neil Blumenthal shows off our collaboration

Warby Parker is the Cara Delevingne of eyewear brands. In this video, co-founder Neil Blumenthal shows our editor Lauren Lumsden the new sunglasses created just for DailyCandy Collaborations.

To buy the sunglasses, go to dailycandy.com/collaborations.

Photo: Stephania Stanley / DailyCandy

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Behind the Scenes with Jaclyn Mayer

The jewelry designer tells the story behind our collaboration

Jaclyn Mayer’s been doing rope-inspired pieces for her line, Orly Genger by Jaclyn Mayer, for years. Our collaboration marks her first foray into leather (exciting). In this video, she explains the new look and shows off our made-for-stacking bracelet.

To buy the bracelet, go to dailycandy.com/collaborations.

Photo: Stephania Stanley / DailyCandy

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Introducing DailyCandy Collaborations: Phase Two

Get a look at our new products

We couldn’t be more excited about our second round of DailyCandy Designer Collaborations. Why? See for yourself in this video, in which chief correspondent SuChin Pak gives a sneak peek at the goods.

For more information or to buy any of the products, go to dailycandy.com/collaborations.

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SuChin Pak's 5 Questions: Emeli Sandé

The Scottish songstress tells us what we want to know

It takes balls to cover Queen Bey.

Singer/songwriter Emeli Sandé, who sings “Crazy in Love” on the Jay-Z produced Great Gatsby sound track, doesn’t need ’em: Her voice is unreal (and her hair is pretty slick, too).

In today’s 5 Questions with SuChin Pak video, Sandé tells us what’s changed since she’s become a star (her song “Next to Me” is everywhere), what she sings in the shower, and the best advice she’s ever gotten. She even sings the first lyric she ever wrote, at age 7, about aliens.

In case you’re wondering, the interview takes place at JFK, as Sandé joins the ranks of Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, and Robyn for JetBlue’s Live from T5 concert series.

These girls run the world.

Sandé’s album, Our Version of Events, is available at itunes.com, $8. Want more 5 Questions? Check out our interviews with supermodel Coco Rocha and nutritionist-to-the-stars Kimberly Snyder.

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In today’s installment, SuChin has three recommendations for what you should get your mama this Mother’s Day. Just a warning: You’ll want to buy all three things for yourself, too.

For more Mother’s Day gifts, check out our editors’ 25 favorites. To get your hands on the featured products, go to ahalife.com, rachelcraven.com, and etsy.com.

Next Video: In the Kitchen: Oyster Tutorial with Maison Premiere

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Sometimes all your outfit needs is a little silk flower, an intellectual-looking pair of glasses, or a sophisticated bow necklace to make it sing. In this installment of our weekly series, SuChin has recommendations for all of the above.

For more of Pak’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel. To get your hands on the featured products, go to goodshipstore.com, threadbaresupply.com, shopbando.com, and warbyparker.com.

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In the Kitchen: Oyster Tutorial with Maison Premiere

How to shuck and eat 'em

We’re not sure if oysters are aphrodisiacs, but (in the name of science) we’re willing to eat hundreds to find out.

The fruits of our labor: an In the Kitchen video with Lisa Giffen, executive chef at Maison Premiere in Williamsburg, who shows us how to choose, shuck, and eat (slurp or fork?) an oyster.

The restaurant is our favorite place in the city for bivalves, especially once its paradise of an outdoor space opens (which will be in two to three weeks or “as soon as everything’s in bloom”).

Even our editor who swore off oysters fifteen years ago came away wanting more.

That’s what he said.

Maison Premiere, 298 Bedford Avenue, between Grand and South 1st Streets (347-335-0446 or maisonpremiere.com). Hungry for more? Check out our videos on drinking Scotch, making fish tacos, and cooking a juicy burger. And, by all means, vote for us to win a Webby.

Photo: Stephania Stanley / DailyCandy

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In this week’s video, SuChin shares a DIY face toner made from stuff at Whole Foods, a use for Baggu totes you probably hadn’t thought of, and an ecofriendly top coat that gives nail polish new life.

For more of Pak’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel. To try any of the products, go to baggu.com, butterlondon.com, and our Facebook page (for the toner recipe).

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In this week’s video, SuChin has three items that are as much for kids as for parents. If that’s not incentive enough, she’s got a co-star — her 10-month-old son.

For more of Pak’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel. To purchase any of this week’s picks, go to amazon.com, hasbrotoyshop.com, and wuhaonyc.com.

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In this week’s installment, SuChin shares three ways to usher in the new season: bright pink lipstick, a dress that transitions from spring to summer, and a new L.A.-based spa experience.

For more of Pak’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel. To purchase and/or find out more about the picks this week, go to maccosmetics.com, stevenalan.com, and shapehousela.com.