BLACKPINK’s Jennie Kim joins GQ to reveal her 10 Essentials. The South Korean singer breaks down her daily essentials: from her journal (“I look back at it to get inspired”) to her bruise cream (“I’m bruised up basically everywhere on my body”). Watch the full episode of GQ’s 10 Essentials, as Jennie Kim reveals 10 things she can’t live without.
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00:00Mmm! So good! I'm actually going to finish this but I'll stop. My last one.
00:16Hi GQ, this is Jenny and these are my essentials.
00:24These are my vocal essentials.
00:26Garethis pastilles for throat and voice. Hydrates your throat. So I like to just have this instead
00:34of gum so much when I'm in my recording season. This tastes like blackberry. It's not too sweet
00:40and it's a good replacement of candy. And this little guy here is my steam inhaler. Oh I love
00:50this device by the way. When I'm feeling super tired after my sessions you rip this little guy
00:58and then you fill it up at the back. You turn it on and you put it in your mouth like this
01:05and you just breathe. I think the key is to do it constantly. There's no immediate feeling better
01:12afterwards. For this album I wanted to make sure that my throat was in a good condition. You know
01:19like I said I like to be cautious about my body. We get like special effect around my diary.
01:32This is my journal that I carry with me. I bought this in Paris at a museum I was in I think.
01:42I basically like to write down everything that's going on in my head. Working on my album I could
01:48not go anywhere without it because it had all my ideas and thoughts and all the secrets. I look back
01:55at it to get inspired sometimes. I clear my mind by writing them down but the problem is I sometimes
02:04don't know what I'm trying to say because I'm trying to write down so many things at once
02:09and then I look back and I try to organize something that I made comment about my music
02:15and I'm like what what did I want to change? It helps sometimes but sometimes it makes it
02:19even harder because I have to figure out my own code. Oh my goodness no
02:28I cannot have anyone read this but me. This is a newer camera of mine. I'm trying to be more active
02:37with this one. I was just in Paris and London before I came here so I had this guy around me
02:44all the time so I'm sort of just documenting my way to my album and if possible in the future
02:52I want to share it with my fans. I definitely like to photograph a little bit of everything.
02:56I have my team take photos of me while I'm working or if I have the time I would go on a walk or I
03:04like taking photos of the landscape, skies and trees and just capture whichever city that I'm in.
03:13I actually haven't had the time to look back at all the photos just because I was traveling so
03:18much but I'm excited to check the ones from Paris because there was a moment where I was walking
03:25out from the Chanel show and a lot of fans were waiting for me outside so I wanted to
03:31kind of capture that moment and I did so I'm excited to check on that one.
03:37This is so important to me. This little pouch that I carry
03:44is my collection of my Chanel jewelry and my Coco Crushes. You see I have different sizes
03:53and different rings and watches here but I like to style myself with different items depending on
04:01what I'm wearing that day and then I bought this cute little bag to go with it.
04:08Now I look for my pouch everywhere I go. I'm wearing some from the bag today. I create different
04:16combinations. These two are my favorite ones right now. I got this for my birthday last year.
04:21I like how this ring sparkles up my whole outfit every time I put it on. It just gives that extra
04:28shine. This has become an important essential of mine now that I'm working towards my album
04:37and my shows. This is a bruise cream. I'm bruised up basically everywhere on my body,
04:44especially my legs, my knees. Not only from the rehearsals though, I tend to walk into things a
04:52lot. Someone from my team got it for me when they saw my legs after a brutal shoot that we had.
05:00They were like, here's a little something to help you with that.
05:07This also is such an important travel essential. This is a shower filter. I just want to be
05:14careful especially if you're traveling around different cities at once. Just make sure my skin
05:21isn't getting any irritation from just, you know, anything. So I like to use a filtered shower head.
05:27It helps. This is the current one that I have. I think this is a Korean brand,
05:32Atojet. There are some hotels that don't fit this filter but 95% of the time it fits so I'm good.
05:41This essential is a sleeping eye mask. This is a Japanese brand and when you open
05:50this up, it starts heating up and it gives you this nice warm feeling in your eyes. I always
05:57like to use it on the plane and then I would actually have an earplug and a mask too. So if you
06:05see me on a plane, I look crazy but it helps to go to bed. But the thing is, this is a very
06:11important tip for you guys. If you open it, I don't know what the system is and how it works
06:17but it starts heating up so you can't reuse it. So make sure to open this right before you want to
06:23put it on your eyes. And then you just rip this out and voila. These are a super important essential
06:40of mine. I do not like to travel without them. This one is obviously a massage ball that I
06:46pretty much use it for everywhere on my body. I like to step on them when I'm brushing my teeth
06:52and just roll it around until it doesn't hurt. So I usually carry two of these and then I would
06:59put them in my calves and I walk around in my house and it helps to kind of just loosen up
07:06the muscles and de-puff your calves. Yeah, I cannot travel without them especially on the plane.
07:12You get sore backs and sore shoulders and everything so I kind of just like roll around
07:17with my ball in the seat. These are my traveling essentials. I would not travel without my glasses,
07:27my sunglasses, and some sort of a hat because my hair gets really messy after a flight. I have
07:35really bad eyesight so I need my reading glasses everywhere I go. This one I bought in London,
07:42I remember. Oh and this one is a collection from the collaboration that I did with Gentle Monster.
07:49It's called Chevre de Mimi. It's French and I cannot pronounce it but I wanted to name it that way.
07:56My next essentials are my snacks.
08:05I think it's very self-explanatory what they are so I'm such a big fan of salt and vinegar. I don't
08:14know if everyone is but me growing up in New Zealand this was my favorite thing to eat so
08:20it still is. There are different category snacks. For me this one if I want to keep things light
08:27or in the morning just I think I should eat one. Yeah, people think it's crazy of me to eat this
08:36so much. It tastes like baby food but the thing is like no added sugar, no artificial preservatives,
08:45nothing you know. It's healthy so I like to eat like a baby I guess.
08:56So good. I'm actually gonna finish this but I'll stop. My last one.
09:04Thanks GQ, bye!