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  • *This is Safiya's new intro song*

  • Hello

  • Friends and welcome to another video. Today I'm gonna be buying a week's worth of clothing from Fashion Nova

  • Now Fashion Nova is a trendy online clothing retailer that I see freaking

  • everywhere and I guess that makes sense because they really go ham with the marketing.

  • You may recognize their name from the hashtag #Novababes,

  • Which surprised me by not being a hashtag about ladies who attend Villanova

  • University. Unlike other online retailers like wish and romwe, Fashion Nova's prices are not

  • Suspiciously low but, like those other online retailers, a lot of the mystique around fashion Nova

  • exists because it's not clear if the clothes are as good in real life as they are in the photos. And a lot of the

  • Posts about fashion Nova seem to be sponsored or partnered content. So it's hard to find an unbiased review.

  • So today I'm gonna be diving headfirst into the fashion Nova

  • cove, cave, grotto? And buying a week's worth of outfits in my quest to become a Villanova babe.

  • All right. Let's start shopping

  • Okay, so I'm gonna open up Fashionnova.com and I'm also gonna open up a fashion Nova's Instagram.

  • What fashion Nova does on their Instagram is that they have like their own posts that are like their sort of online catalogue models

  • But they will also repost their Nova babes wearing their Fashion Nova clothing.

  • So I basically wanno go through and like find Nova-babe

  • Posts and then try and recreate their outfits and see how they look on me, a not Nova- babe.

  • All right, yes. Here are some dresses, some body suits. Oh, look! There's a Nova babe with her Nova-Bae. Oh, you know what?

  • I said Nova-Bae as a joke, but actually that is a hashtag in this caption. Oh wow!

  • This looks like a very distressed pair of jeans that is specifically distressed on the butt cheek.

  • I've actually never seen that before but you know, I've worn my fair share of strange denim,

  • So I feel like you know, maybe we could go for this. I could wear some boy shorts.

  • Maybe borrow some briefs from Tyler and we could sort of do like a peekaboo situation.

  • So I'm gonna go to the fashion Nova site and then search this term 'the truth about it denim Bermudas'

  • All right. So, let's see what size I could be in these. Based on this size chart

  • I'm gonna guess I'm a size 9

  • All right. So let me add these to the cart and then let me see what she's wearing on her top again

  • uh

  • It's called the 'meshing u cami' like she's 'mishing' you but she's meshing you. It looks like a pretty

  • Standard gold tank top. So why don't we just get a medium on top and that will conclude this outfit. Oh look at this

  • It's a Nova babe with her Nova babies. Oh is this--

  • Adrienne Bailon of the Cheetah Girls? Why it is! And she is wearing the trench me up

  • Jacket as a dress. Well, I'm surprised that Adrienne's cheating on the Cheetah Girls with the Nova babes

  • Obviously Adrienne has done many things since being on the Cheetah Girls

  • including date Rob Kardashian, but to me

  • She will always be a cheetah sister. Adrien like has styled this with nothing underneath but on the website

  • They've styled it with a skirt underneath so we'll see when it gets here if we need to put something under this

  • alright

  • So I don't think I can find the exact over-the-knee boots that she has on in the photo on fashionnova.com,

  • But, I did find a couple of pairs that kind of have like some texture to them. That could be a good dupe

  • So I'm gonna go with these

  • Francine's satin over the knee boots and that is outfit number two. All right. So, let's see what's up next.

  • Oh, I like this. This is like a black jumpsuit with slits up the legs and like red and white piping

  • It looks like she's at a mall, too. And I love malls

  • I'm a big fan of like maxi dresses and jumpsuits and I like that this one it has kind of like baggy legs

  • So it's not like super clinging to the thighs

  • All right

  • So I'm gonna add this

  • Rooftop bar jumpsuit in medium to the bag and that is pretty much all we need for our third outfit

  • Let's see what we should get next

  • Ooh, this looks interesting. This to me is like definitely like a modern-day Bratz outfit

  • I think that the beret on top really seals its fate there. Alright, so here's the top on the website

  • It looks quite short. It seems to hit sort of like directly under the boob

  • So I guess you guys are all going to get view of my Taylor Swift midriff

  • And then uh, what were the pants called? the Carly Bella striped pants.

  • Well, at least these pants look like they're quite high-rise

  • I'm gonna get these in a size large and then add that to the bag. All right

  • So the last part of this outfit was the beret. Oh, well, I just searched for beret, and I got a butt lifter so

  • Tyler in the background: "Yeah, ya did."

  • I might have to get a beret somewhere else. All right, so with those added to the cart that is outfit number four

  • All right

  • So what's next?

  • You know what? This dress is really popular on their Instagram

  • Like I've seen a few different posts that feature this Mura mesh dress

  • So I feel like if they're continually marketing and showing people in this dress, we should try it out

  • This dress is definitely sort of that tight around the curves

  • Club dress that I think is like a signature of fashion Nova

  • It seems to be a ruched look so you can kind of like cup and skim. I'm doing this. I don't know what this is

  • I think we should get this in a medium. All right, so that is outfit number 5. 2 left!

  • Oh my word. What is that?

  • They say this is the Shaina houndstooth velvet lounge set and it seems to be sort of like

  • Halfway in between like a houndstooth suit and like a Juicy Couture sweat suit

  • So, I think we should do it. Online the sweat suit seems like much looser, but we'll see how it actually fits in person

  • I did also find a pair of sunglasses that look like the one she's wearing

  • So let's get those too. So that is outfit number 6. All right, so let's look for our last fashion Nova outfit

  • Oh, this is cute. This looks like it's like a mustard crop top that says 90s baby across the boobs

  • And you know what? I'm a 90s baby. So why not advertise that above my chesticles? All right

  • I feel like as always we should go for a medium with this and I'm gonna add that to the bag

  • So the next part of this outfit is the pencil skirt. So, let's see if they have a plaid pencil skirt

  • All right

  • So I feel like the closest dupe I could find on the site is this 'Couldn't be bothered' skirt

  • And it looks to be about the right length, but it's just plain black instead of having that like dark grey plaid pattern

  • She's also wearing these like silver these which, I believe are also fashion Nova

  • And they do have a size 10 available and I think that will complete our outfit number seven

  • All right, so that is a week's worth of outfits, hopefully

  • So I'm going to choose one business day shipping which has a pretty hefty price tag

  • But if it actually gets here in one day, I think it's worth it. Okay, so my order is confirmed

  • So hopefully they'll get here pretty soon

  • And once it does we'll start wearing it and see if I can ever truly become a Nova babe

  • Okay, so it's a few days later. And I think we have almost everything that we order from fashion Nova

  • Even though we paid for like overnight shipping, it came in like five days. In fact,

  • Fashion Nova sent me an email like when it should have been here being like Congrats we're still working on it

  • So as I said, we have almost everything.The sunglasses,

  • Unfortunately, never arrived. They were on like the packing list of the items

  • That should be here when we originally got the package, but they were nowhere to be found

  • But sunglasses aside, I have all of my things here and we'll start wearing them

  • Now!

  • So for my first outfit I went for Adrienne by Lon's trench me up jacket and B Francine

  • Satin over the knee boots the cheetah sisters

  • We stand together

  • To finish off the styling of this outfit

  • I put my hair up in a topknot and then I also added a little booty short

  • I think Adrienne might be a bit shorter than I am. So this fit her more like a dress and for me

  • Well, I guess it's still a dress but it's a dress that shows my underwear

  • So Adrienne instagrammed this outfit at some type of park in front of a fountain

  • So we went to a park and found a fountain

  • I wonder how Adrienne got on in her stiletto boots because mine are sinking into the ground

  • I'm just like

  • You know, sort of aerating the grass. The jacket does look reasonably like the photo but it is much less

  • Flattering on me than it is on Adrienne. It is a little smaller than I expected

  • I think I could have done with a large at least on bottom. But then who knows what would have happened up top?

  • And the shoes even though they were the right size

  • Quickly became pretty painful. I ended up having to walk in sort of like small waddling steps.

  • Tyler: Why is the resemblance uncanny?

  • I think my gaiter resembles his so closely. He thinks I'm just a giant goose

  • Tyler: Yeah, he's like you're a little awkward, but-- Safiya: I don't think I would wear this outfit again

  • Maybe I would try to wear this jacket over something but altogether this outfit made for a very precarious day

  • Tyler: It's surprisingly long. I think was the goose chase that really got you over the edge. Safiya: It was truly a wild goose chase

  • So for my second outfit I went for my early favorite from when we were shopping

  • Which was the rooftop bar jumpsuit. Sky's out thighs out, that's what I always say. In the instagram

  • This Nova babe is basically just posing at a mall

  • So we went to the mall and posed. It's kind of like as if each of my individual legs are superheroes

  • With capes!

  • to which I say: No capes!

  • I do think that this jumpsuit does look a lot like the photos online at least while you're stationary

  • But once you start walking you're confronted with the reality of the slits. The thing is I'm okay with my thighs being out

  • It's really just like right here

  • That kind of makes me nervous. 'Cause I just feel like it could just flap inwards and then you'd really just see my pubes

  • I do actually like the look of this jumpsuit when you're standing still but in motion things move around

  • Things ride up and it just feels kind of risky. It's basically a fancy loincloth.

  • Tyler: Yeah!

  • I would wear this again, but maybe like on vacation or to like a pool party?

  • I don't think I would wear it out in public again, just because of the pube anxiety. Tyler: It's not sky's out thighs out

  • Tyler: It's uh loins out groins out

  • Tyler: Is that-- That's the same thing

  • So one day three I went for the 'truth about it' denim Bermudez and the meshing you' Cami

  • Tyler: Whoever made these jeans are like "I want the whole ass out" Safiya: Each buttock must be exposed to its maximum capacity

  • I had already planned on wearing like little booty shorts underneath these jeans

  • But I wasn't expecting how see-through the top would be

  • So I also put on a little camisole underneath just to keep myself monetized

  • I've done enough under layers that I'm not nervous about being exposed personally

  • But like the amount of rips and dips is interesting. Tyler: It looks like a bear tried to grab your butt

  • Yeah, I got groped by Wolverine. Dammit, Hugh!

  • I think I've

  • experienced my fair share of strange denim at this point and this definitely

  • Isn't the weirdest pair of jeans I've ever worn but the behind is really confounding

  • Ohoh!

  • Tyler: What? Safiya: I can feel the hot chair through my path

  • There's something about these that are so absurd that I almost want to wear them again

  • But I don't know how or why. Besides of course the like extreme distressing on the buttock

  • They're also like a Capri or Bermuda short length, which is a length of pant that I have not worn since about

  • 2006 or 7. and to be honest Bermuda shorts are pretty much the last item of clothing I would expect to be sexy-fied

  • But maybe I just don't have that Nova babe vision. So for our fourth outfit, I went for the 'Maura mesh' dress

  • I just think this dress is kind of sexy

  • I do feel kind of like the inside of a nice casket. In this Instagram

  • This Nova babe is posing inside while holding a bouquet of roses

  • And I'm just going to pose in front of the thermostat

  • I'd say this dress does look like it did in the photos

  • But it fits much stranger than I thought it would. In particular

  • It was weirdly tight around the upper arms everything else about the dress has some give but right here

  • It's hurting already as a result. I had extremely limited range of motion

  • I do kind of feel like I could Hulk out of this dress

  • *Groaning Hulk-like noises*

  • I kind of heard little rip! And while we were eating dinner

  • I had to

  • Sneakily take my arms out of the sleeves in order to be able to like move my arms around the table

  • I wish I could say I liked this dress

  • I think that if you weren't planning on wearing it for a very long amount of time, you could definitely get away with it

  • But in terms of like an actual dress to wear, I don't like it.

  • So for my fifth outfit I went for the 'CarliBela' striped pants and the 'mixed business' tank top

  • Tyler: You look so much like a Bratz doll. It's crazy. Safiya: I am Sophie, the French exchange student.

  • The inspo-Nova babe was wearing like an acid-washed denim jacket, a beret and very pointy nude heels

  • Which we did add to the outfit but none of which are from Fashion Nova

  • My feet were just not made for heels in any way shape or form and I think that is gonna be one of my

  • Bigger barriers in my quest to become a Villanova babe. I liked the top

  • I thought it was totally fine. The pants however, are much more

  • Chiffony than I expected and they also have a weird pair of shorts inside of them. That makes them pretty uncomfortable

  • Besides that, I think that the styling of this outfit was fun

  • But it was sort of cumbersome. Tyler: you look at you're balancing a plate on your head. Safiya: How do I beret?

  • How does one beret? I like the idea of this outfit

  • But I think that I would have to find a different pair of

  • Burgundy colored pants because the current ones have just rode all the way up. Tyler: No Taylor Swift midriff to be found

  • Tyler: Where are you navel?

  • Safiya *singing*: Where are you now that I navel?

  • *Safyia making music noises*

  • That's Justin Bieber

  • So for my sixth outfit

  • I went for this 90s baby crop top, this couldn't be bothered skirt and these Olympic booties.

  • '92 is the best!

  • In general, I think that all of these items ended up looking like how I thought they would, so I'm impressed by the

  • internet too IRL translation, and I'm also impressed by like how

  • Comfortable I am. I do have like full range of motion of my arms. Tyler: Yeah! Safiya: And like a decent range of motion down here

  • And, surprisingly of all,

  • The fashion Nova shoes are actually pretty comfortable

  • The only thing I didn't like about the shoes is that it looks like after one wear, I have like a crease in the toe

  • But they're comfortable. It's just a shame that they look like this now. I would wear this outfit again

  • Maybe not all together, but I liked the skirt,

  • I liked the shoes and I liked the shirt. Something about this skirt reminds me of like Joan from Mad Men who is

  • arguably like a

  • 1965 Nova babe. Amongst all of my internet hauls. This is the rare outfit. That's three for three

  • You know, I'm saying to the world what my parents had sex 25 years ago

  • well more like

  • 26 and a half years. 26...

  • So for my last outfit I went for this Sheyna houndstooth velvet lounge set

  • I kind of feel like a villain from like American hustle or something. Tyler: Or like The Hangover. Safiya: I think in

  • Person the jumpsuit ended up fitting more like it did on the model on the website than it did on the Nova babe on

  • Instagram I will say that the jumpsuit is quite comfortable and the medium seems to be fitting me pretty well

  • But to wear it like the Instagram model

  • I really have to like open it up pretty far and like really make it kind of uncomfortable. In this Instagram

  • The Nova babe is posing on an ottoman and taking a photo of herself in the mirror

  • We don't have any mirrors like that in our house. So we went to Ikea. Can we get some meatballs? Tyler: Yes! Safiya: I'm down

  • I had a good time walking around IKEA and lounging in the pretend bedrooms

  • Tyler: You look like you could be sitting right next like DJ Khalid. Safiya: Another one, another one, another one. What else does he say?

  • And thankfully they did have a mirror we could use.

  • It was honestly sort of hard to replicate her pose. She kind of juts out her butt. In the immortal words of Tyra Banks

  • This jumpsuit is really far away from my own personal style

  • But I did kind of like it, honestly. If there were a particular occasion

  • or costume party of some kind that I could wear this to

  • I definitely would.

  • I can eat as much lingonberry as I want *Fake laughter*

  • All right, so that was my week wearing Fashion Nova outfits

  • I think that comfort wise my favorite outfit was the '90s baby' outfit

  • But aesthetically I also really liked the black jumpsuit that showed off my full thigh

  • Overall my biggest takeaway about fashion Nova in general is that most of the outfits do photograph well

  • But a lot of them run into problems when you start walking. whether they flap open or have strange linings on the inside or just

  • Restrict your arms within 30 degrees of motion for some reason

  • So although I do appreciate that the clothes look pretty similar to how they're pictured online. A lot of them don't feel so good

  • I guess that leaves us with one final question: Am I a Nova babe?

  • And I think the answer is that I'm lacking some posing skills and tolerance for foot pain

  • But if I could be carried to a location

  • Instagram and then carried out of that location

  • Maybe I could be. Thank you guys so much for watching

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  • I've sent dm's to all of the winners. I'm sorry, if you didn't win one. We only had 400 to give away and over

  • 400,000 submissions, but we're actually working on making the Franken flora lipstick into a real product

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  • Thanks for watching, Derp! And I will see you guys a next time

*This is Safiya's new intro song*

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