 Hey all, what's up? My name is Sonali, welcome to a new vlog and happy South by. Today is Friday, the first official day of South by Southwest. If you guys don't know what South by is, it's basically like a music tech film festival here in Austin, Texas. And honestly, there's so much more to it because brands just take the opportunity to have people in the same space. So really cool brands come and pop up here. I was lucky enough to get an invite to some really awesome events. So I'm definitely gonna take you guys along with me. Through tonight, which is Friday, I have three events. Then tomorrow I have a full day of events. And then on Sunday, I have a few. I'm currently trying on my outfits. I decided to do rent the runway again because I thought this was gonna be like the perfect chance to do it. I did it before COVID when they had the unlimited rentals, which was so nice, but they don't do that anymore, unfortunately. But I got this top from rent the runway. My first event is kind of, I don't even know what I would call it. They said dress party chic and I have no idea what that means. But the flower was black and red so I kind of just went with the black. So I'm doing all black for the first event. And then tonight I'm meeting Miranda Kerr. And if you guys don't know who that is, she's a former Victoria's Secret model and she owns Cora Organics, which is a skincare company. They're known for their turmeric products and I love their exfoliant masks. So I wanted to dress more golden for that one. So here are a couple of my options. This is definitely, ooh, this is definitely number one. I think I could slay this and I think that color would look so good on me. I got this pink dress. I don't know if it would like flatter my body as well, but just an option. And then this really cutesy top, but they said don't wear jeans. So I just don't know what bottoms I would wear with that. Actually I could wear that top for the first event. I might ask what my boyfriend thinks because he literally is my stylist sometimes. Like I just need help and I feel like he knows me better sometimes than I know myself. So and he knows what looks cool. So I got this watch on Amazon this week and it's perfect timing. It is so cute. I've been really wanting a rectangular watch and it's from the brand Bolova and I went to go get some links taken out of it yesterday so it can fit perfectly and look how stunning it looks. I need to put my ring on, but the whole thing together, it looks so cute. Okay, so I need to figure out the other outfits. I'm kind of running out of time. I already love this on me, which is so amazing. It's something why I'm drinking a Diet Coke to get more energy when I'm already jittery and anxious. But I'm getting excited. We don't know if we're gonna drive or just like Uber everywhere. It'd be ideal to drive because we have so many outfit changes. We can just change in the car and obviously have our stuff in the car, but obviously Uber would be faster and our events are so close together. Like they're pretty much overlapping each other. So we're gonna just try to like book it to every event just like show face, network a little bit. It's gonna be chaotic, but in the best way. My phone is dying. Gonna have to go charge that really quick, but this is going to be the second event. So three outfits in total. And the first one, the black one, I think I'm just gonna wear some kind of sneaker because we're probably gonna have to walk from where we're gonna park. And we just got changed in the car. We met zero from the holes. Yes, and then we met Michael from Jane the Virgin. And they got a good picture. Yes. We need to do like a tech talk of like how many famous people we can meet. Because we also, we saw so many people that look familiar, but we like couldn't put a finger on it. David Dobrik's best friend, you said, or was? Yes, like pre-cancelation. And then so many tech talkers like Zoe Fish or something like that. She's a dance, dance tech talker. And then the girl that like sings like R&B songs and then mixes it to be like a white people remixes at the club. She was there and she looked super cool. It's wild out here. She did look really cool. The dance floor was popping. I know it really was. I was sad to leave, but like, oh, it's 5.21. We gotta get going. Okay, well, I'm trying to vlog as much as I can on my phone and the little camera. So, it's a, it comes to our Olympics out. It really is. We just changed in the car. It really is. All right, let's go to the next event. We're going to the Disney parks event at the Commodore, which is super cool. Yes, let's go. All right, we're in downtown Austin at Commodore. Home of the best bone marrow tacos ever. I'm really hoping they're there. We should take these off. Oh yeah, maybe we should. But we should keep them for scrapbooks or something. That'd be cute. Not the one and only. Commodore Perry, where the bougie people hang out. We're into our last event. This is with poor organics. We're going to meet up victorious in your model. No big deal. No big deal. She's hot. I bought this in New York when I went and it's the coolest little phone tripod, magnet, mag-safe. We're going to do an outfit of the day. Woohoo. I'm going to pop it up right here. Behind the scenes. Yes. We're at our third and final event for Sapphire or Friday, because tomorrow is going to be crazy. But here is our outfit of the day. You want to go first? Yeah. This shirt is from the brand forward. Another one is rented off. Rent the runway. I'm not sure the brand, but how stunning is this? Got to take some good pics. Jewelry is all the same. Oriana pretty much. And then same heels. Princess Polly. Go. Our light interview with the girls over there. Love that. They look very nice. Yes, yes, yes. I promised a picture with Miranda for my light. So love that. We do a little haul. Yeah, yeah. Oh, she texted. She called me. Oh. Hello? Oh, OK, OK. OK, we'll be in there in like one minute. OK, bye. We have one minute to do a haul. We'll do a clip haul. Let's go. All right, this is the party favorite bag for core organics event. All right, so we got this organic inside and out hat. Love this, the boat. Cute. Here's what it looks like on. Case you need to know. Courtney Kardashian, Lemi Macho. So excited for that. The human being journal. This is so cute. Dude, this is like a nice thick. She's thick. This is girthy. She's thick, she's thick. All right, we got the Anastasia Brow and Rag duo. Cute. Get the fuck out of the sun by Lauren Bostick. I actually, this is like, Megan and I went to this event when she launched this book. Yeah. This book is so good. Full circle. Now we have two. Not that I listen to anything she said in it because I still call it the sun, but like, you know. Exactly, we fry our skin. We've got the Paul Mitchell Clean Beauty hair stuff. Love. OK, hair. I'm like, what have you not done? The Cora. This is what the event was for, right? This is the, yes. This is the plant stem cell retinol. Alternative. So it's not retinol, but it's a retinol alternative. It does all the same things that retinol does, but it's not retinol. So it's not as harsh. The one thing I took from her is that pregnant people can use it. Yeah. And also she looks like she's 25 and she's 40. So I'll buy anything that she puts out because if I can look like that at 40 years old. Yeah, I'm sold. Sold, sold, sold. Credit card. Is it really one of her things? Is that it? Oh, this is, I did that one. She did that. That's it? That's it. That's all. Okay. We're going to eat at Salty South. What? You didn't get this. Oh. The slip. This is a silk pillowcase. This bitch is like $100. No, it's a sleep mask. Good night's rest. Okay. We tried to get in the Louties like at Comanore Berry. Obviously they were booked, but we were trying to like do the Lucky Girl syndrome thing. Didn't work, but we got into Salty South. So let's go eat because we're fucking hungry. This event food is like small as shit. I didn't need anything from it, but I didn't eat anything either. There's like cucumber roll. There was nothing. It looks like it was. I was memory knocking on our door. They were like, get out. Probably watching this vlog. Okay. I know. I know. All right. Let's go. So jiggly. Is it supposed to like... Oops. This is... Good morning, y'all. It is day two of South by Southwest. It is Saturday and yesterday I actually had the best day ever. Basically, we went to three events. You guys saw. I feel like I was pretty good at vlogging. So proud of myself for that. And on the way to the first event when I was like going to pick up Amelia, I got the craziest email. Like I was like shaking when I read it. Something on my list of manifestations is finally happening. And I cannot wait to share more. It's going to happen like later this month. So that was freaking crazy. And then I was just seeing all my friends the whole day. So like, how can that not be like the best day? But it was just a really long day and it only started at like three. We went to eat dinner because like, honestly the event food is just so not sustainable. And we need some fuel in us. So we got dinner at Salty So and then I went home and got home at 11.30. And then it stayed up to like one, I think. So it was like uploading photos and stuff. But now I'm overwhelmed with the content. I still haven't really posted yesterday's stories. So I'm going to create and cultivate. We're going to stand in line for like an hour, I think. So I'm hoping that I can, you know, post some stuff there. Like I said, I have the best day ever. But I also was just so like mentally drained and socially drained. And hopefully a night of sleep is enough to recharge me for today because it's even like crazier today. So first we have create and cultivate. Like I said, tanks is having a panel there this morning. So that'll be exciting to see her. We have a shop style gifting suite, which is so cool. So like LA and then I'm trying to think maybe I should just like pull up my calendar. OK, we have a K18 hair event at Allen's Boots. And then we have a TikTok party. I tried to smuggle my way in and then we have a group love concert for today. So very exciting, very exciting stuff. Hopefully I'll have like pockets that I can like just chill and like be in silence, maybe come home and do like an outfit change for sure for tonight. Because I feel like that concert, it's also going to be hot today, but that concert is not a blazer bag. I'm carpooling with my friend Shereen to the event. I always get super self-conscious because honestly, my car is not clean at all. I told myself at the beginning of the year I need to keep it clean. But you know what, guys, just really hasn't happened. I just took all my bags of clothes that was in my car literally since the beginning of the year to uptown cheapskate, got a little bit of money. But there's just still so much shit in the trunk. I don't know how it happens. Good morning. Good morning. Happy South by. Happy South by. We're at Launada. Met up with Kiana and of course Shereen. And I was also thinking like you wouldn't have enough hands for all our drinks. Oh yeah, they're still there. Imagine like being in Halfway, in Halfway, in like a half way. But we saw the line and it wasn't like horrible outside of critical today. So hopefully we'll get those good bags. The first one's in. What the heck? We got, look at how many goodie bags there are. There's a cute trucker hat. It's a big bag. Oh my gosh, shouldn't we have? We had different jobs in my 20s and I was really searching for that. Thanks everyone. And then we have an artist that'll do some custom artwork kind of based on what you said you were in. Suburbs from Atlanta, I went to college in Florida and came here. What part of Florida? I went to school in Orlando but I was born in Jacksonville. Oh cool, I'm from Orlando. So you went to UCF? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. That's awesome. You know, you think you're gonna go this way and life takes you this way. What keeps you going? What keeps you on life? That's straight in there like no matter what, I'm gonna keep going. I think my community, because I've been building it for so long, I mean since 2013. And yeah, I feel like I don't have like, it's not like I'm a big creator by any means, but those loyal people that watch my weekly blogs mean the world to me. And I don't want to let them down on this, you know? And I also love putting my life on the internet because low key I have short term memory loss self-diagnosed. And if I don't video or take photos of anything, I will remember to have it. So I love to share it online also because I can look back on it as home videos. And like I vlogged like pretty much all of college and I could just look back on my like, yeah, that's where I used my life so. And then last thing, what would you title this next chapter of your life? Like if you had to put it as a name of the book of you, what are we titling this chapter? Uh, let's see how good I can get. Ooh! Or something like that. That is my favorite phrase. Show me how good I can get. Let's get that. It was, I parked at this Cuff Congress hotel and it was gonna be like $43. And my credit card like wasn't swiping, it was like a bad credit card. And the guy came and he was like, I'll just let you out for free. And I was like, hallelujah. You're the best in good luck. Yes. Okay. We're walking into the next event with shop style, but it's not shop style anymore. It's collective voice. They literally just rebranded. And I think it's a gifting suite. We'll find out. The giftings. Yes, come upstairs. I'm so excited. Because of my face, I think I literally sweated off all my makeup. So fun stuff. But I mean both of those events that I just went to were so fun. So first off, we went to Create and Cultivate. And then second, we went to the shop style giftings suite kind of thing. It was not shop style anymore because they rebranded to collective voice. So I thought it would be fun to show you guys what they gave us in both of the bags from both of the events. This one's fucking heavy. If you were like the first 200 people in line for Create and Cultivate, you got a little goodie bag. They marked me 177. We were like just there. But they emailed me beforehand and said that like I was able to go in a separate line for like media coverage. And then we ended up just like waiting in the line and I tried calling my contact and I was like, Hey, is there a separate line? Like I don't see it. The bouncer said he didn't know about it. And so it was kind of like a last minute thing, I think. I mean, honestly, the whole South by Southwest, like everything about South by is last minute, it seems, because I feel like I was invited to events. What, two days before they were supposed to happen, which is insane. Obviously the brands know they're throwing the event. So like I just don't understand why it's like so last minute. Actually, the shop style thing was not last minute, but Create and Cultivate, I was gonna go anyways, but they were just like, I'll just get you in fast tracked. So that's why we were able to cut the line. And it was so, so clutch, like very nice that they let my friends in too. So we'll do the Create and Cultivate bag first. This hat is so freaking cute. You guys know I'm a sucker for a trucker hat. And the smiley, it's adorable. So very excited to wear that. I had like a navy blue option, I think. I thought it was black, but I think I saw it in the sun. It was kind of blue. So glad I got the tan, even though I have like literally so many tan hats. Okay, hydrating cream from Community 66 of my seltzer. Some goodies from the Magic. I'm gonna wash out. We have some Sheddies. They like stocked this up so well. We have little wipes. I guess this is just some more lotion. Sunscreen. I feel like it's just like a lot of skincare products, brightening serum. All these brands are like very new to me. I don't think I've seen these brands before. Didn't realize you couldn't see. It's way too bright. Sorry. Okay, it's inside. Oh, okay. Tampons. Oh my gosh. Also, I saw Jonathan Van Ness at last night's event. I don't think I told you guys. Very cool because I went to his event last year. Toothpaste. Design Me Gloss Me Hair Serum. This looks very nice. They said it was like $400 worth of products in here. Two-minute conditioning glaze from DPQ. Literally going to put this in some water right now. It's electrolytes. I am about to explode. My mind is about to explode. This is an essential oil. All right, let's do this big thing. I have no idea. Ooh, a floaty. That's so cute. I wish I had... Oh wait. Well, I guess I have a pool in my apartment complex. But like honestly, we used to live at a more family complex. Not even family, but just like older people. And now we definitely live at more of a younger crowd complex. So I used to be able to play mermaids in swimming pool. And now I have to like look cool while drinking a white cauldron. It kind of sucks. So I don't know if a tube would like be weird. I know exactly what this is. A packed party. I'm going to see it from a damn mile away. Ooh, detoxifying oxygen facial mask. That is interesting. What? Shut up. We got Tink's... We got Tink's collab. That is really cool. Because apparently this was like limited, I think. Avocado, jalapeno, hot sauce. Ryan's going to love that. That is really cool. That might be my favorite thing in the bag. Ooh, okay. We got some wine. Love that. Ooh, I see something. Yellow super goop hell yeah. We have an everyday lotion. I love super goop. Biosauce, squalene, vitamin C, rose oil. Yes, I love face oils and all of that kind of stuff. How cute. It's funny because some of these events that I'm going to wait are tonight. I wasn't originally invited, but then I like reshaged the brand and was like, hey, I'm an Austin base blogger and was wondering if you have any event. They were pretty quick to respond and they were able to get me on the list, which is so exciting. And honestly, that is where my favorite quote comes in. The worst answer you can get is no. You should always like try and ask because you never know. I mean, you literally never know. These people want free promo anyways. And when I was at Korea Incultivate, I overheard people saying, oh, she's a paid media influencer. I was like, maybe I should be charging for this, but honestly, I'm just so happy to go to the events and just experience it. So like, I'm fine for now. I think definitely the people that have gone to so many south buys is like probably just like so, you know, old at this point that they're like, okay, I'm just going to do it if I'm getting paid, which totally makes sense. But I just think it's so fun to go to all these events and I'm actually meeting a couple of you guys. So shout out to you guys. If you say hi, I appreciate it. And if you do see me out and have like a resting bitch face, that is just how I look on a daily basis, unfortunately. So don't be scared to come up to me and say hi like ever. Seriously, I don't mind it. And I would love you guys to say hi. I feel like I get messages sometimes and they'll be like, oh, I saw you in Austin like last weekend. I didn't want to say hi. I'm like, literally why? I'm so sorry if I scared you with my resting bitch face. I really don't want to redo my makeup, but it just looks so gross like under my eyes. It looks like so splotchy because I was like sweating. But later tonight, it's going to be dark anyway. So I'm like, is it even worth it? Like I feel like from far away in camera, you can't really tell unless you can. I'm sorry that you have to witness this, but I just really don't want to have to do anything else. I just want to sit right here, drink my electrolytes. I'm going to drink a lot of water because I need to hydrate and chill and like post some stories. I need to like catch up with that. And I'm going to do Day in My Life on TikTok. So if you guys are not already following me on TikTok, go ahead and do so and check out all my South by Southwest content over there. We have changed for our evening events. And I think, well, the first one's at Ellen's Boots. So I got my cowboy boots on to go with us, but oh well. And then we have a TikTok party, which I feel like we'll probably end on that just cause it's kind of closer to us. So we can like go back home and then stop there on the way. And we also have like a group love concert hosted by Amazon Prime and Essie, both brands invited me and I said yes to both brands. I don't really know how that worked. We are about to head out to go to South Congress. Here's my evening outfit. The dress is from Z Supply. And I feel like it's perfect cause it's so freaking hot outside. And then Boots, I told you guys, they're from Tacobos. They aren't definitely coming to Nashville with me. I can't believe it. We're leaving on Thursday. Ryan just went shopping today, apparently. You went to Nordstrom Rack, huh? Is it contemplating his hat for the last 15 minutes? I'm being dramatic. Yeah. Okay. Where's your fit from? This is Aloe. Yes, cute. These are, I think, good fellow from Target. Cute. And then Tom's. Should we wear my rain bag or something? No. No flip-flops. Happy Sunday. It is South by Southwest Day 3. And I'm actually starting off the morning really, really early. It is 8.16. Technically, it's 7.16 because today daylight savings happened. So that's exciting. We'll have a lot more sun and the sun will set at 7.30 or 7.40 today. So that'll be really nice. But I feel like every time this happens, like every year, I'm like, what do I do with this extra hour of light? Like, I'm just like, wait, I want it to be dark now because I'm so used to it. For me, I feel like if the sun is out, I should be filming and like taking advantage, doing TikToks, like filming anything I can. But full-time is actually better for just like balancing everything because I know when the sun sets, I'm turning off things. And like maybe just like posting, not filming, but we'll work on it. This morning, I have a engagement session. If you guys don't know, I'm a photographer here in Austin. And we are doing it in front of the gorgeous, Austin skyline. Literally, we can all have asked for a better sunrise. It is so pretty out. It is also 64 degrees. I think the humidity is like a little bit high, but not nearly as bad as what I have been dealing with with my grads because I don't know. It's just been so humid and hazy in the mornings. Not ideal for hair, especially if they have frizzy hair. But I just parked at the Bat Observation Park and Lot. Or like that statesman journal place. And I'm waiting on my clients. Here is our next location. Look at this freaking view. Holy crap. So good. It's when I did a really quick outfit change and did my hair in a slip-back because it's just one of those days. She went so well. I'm already like uploading photos and everything. Multitasking. But this is the outfit. This shirt is from Evolve. Jeans or Zara. New balances. Let's go to our first event of South by Southwest Day 3. So we are going to an HBO Max white lotus panel kind of thing. And I think that they have free food. I haven't eaten yet, so I'm very hungry. We just left HBO Max coffee house. They started their panel pretty late. So we were waiting for a while, but brunch was good. And I met a new friend because Ryan was in the bathroom. This girl was like, is anyone sitting here? And I was like, no. And then I started making conversation. And she is so sweet. Her name's Asia. And I also saw my friend Kayla, which was nice. She sat next to us for a little bit. My new friend Asia lives in LA. And I'm planning to go to California soon. I was like, let me know. What are all the fun, cool things to do? Because I feel like I'm out of the loop. I'm still like, Alpente is cool. I feel like it's so cool. The food was really good. Yeah. We're going to have to go back to Alpente for sure. But I think I'm going to take a little break. Ryan has to go to the airport, unfortunately. True. I took a little bit of a breather when I came home and got a five minute nap. And I think it barely felt like even five minutes, but it's okay. It's something. And then I had to drive Ryan to the airport because he's actually going to a work conference this week. So he left today. And now I'm going to meet up with the people from TikTok. So I'm really excited about that. I'm wearing Abercrombie jeans. Aber... No, wait, is this meshki? I feel like this is meshki. But I feel like Abercrombie probably has something similar. Same old new balances. These are really getting me through this weekend. Just trying to be as comfortable as I can. I about to call my Uber to go meet with the girls. And then after that, we're going to do like a happy hour event and hopefully meet some of my friends there. I decided to switch the jeans for some light blue jeans and some mules or clogs. Whatever you want to call them. Here at the TikTok house with TikTok girls. Hi! We're so excited for TikTok shop to launch soon. And definitely a very exciting opportunity for three years to earn extra money on TikTok. Yeah. So definitely. We are at the Sheen Media event. Here with my friend Mackenzie. Hello. And Kiona and Hannah. Say hi. Switch to white wine because they ran out of prosecco. We're going to go take a photo on this cute wall over here. We are getting ice cream. This is the world. We're raising awareness for companies that don't follow through. This is a nice little pregame with ice cream. Just got a free ice cream. Men and juries. I'm going to get the boo-boo-bee-bee-bee-bee-bee. I didn't know that's how BBGB is spelled. I didn't think it was only... Oh, that is interesting. I definitely didn't. I've never seen it written out. I was thinking E's, not I's. I think it is E's and not I's. Oh, maybe they got it wrong. But I am like going to throw a bit that they don't have the number five. It goes from four to six. Like already now they fucked up. That's so weird. I realized I didn't end this vlog and wanted to do a quick outro. I hope you guys enjoyed this South by Southwest vlog and it does not end here because it goes through this coming week and then the next weekend, but I'll be in Nashville next weekend. So get pumped for that vlog. You guys want to see real-time content, you can go on my Instagram or my TikTok at so underscore gnarly without the G. I post a lot of Austin content over there. So if you guys are new to Austin or if you're visiting Austin, I have a lot of Instagram highlights for food, drinks, sweet treats, like anything you can imagine. I also have a TikTok playlist and a YouTube playlist with all my Austin blogs. If you're not subscribed, make sure you do so and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.