00:00That's like hangover city. Put your blazer on. Put your blazer on. You get
00:04excited to go to Home Depot on the weekend. You're like girl I'm hanging these cartons.
00:08Hey Naturally Curly world I'm Nikki and I'm Grace and in celebration of Naturally
00:16Curly's 20th anniversary we're gonna tell you the 20 things we learned in our 20s.
00:22A lot of hard lessons let me tell you. Oh god. One thing we learned in our 20s is how to pay
00:29rent on time. Your rent's like not a priority. Until it is. The first and then you're like
00:36I'm saying what? Yeah. You have to have guts, have grit, and keep pushing. Keep believing
00:42in yourself. Keep going. Persevere no matter what the circumstances. If you're going for
00:46your goal don't give up. Just keep going. Thank you for coming to my TikTok. Another thing
00:53I learned in my 20s is quality over quantity. I'd way rather have you know a few good friends
00:59than a bunch of friends who don't give any cares about me. A bunch of raggedy, no good.
01:05You start buying you know one shirt a month from Madewell you know. Yes. Cause it's Madewell.
01:13And even though you might be in your 20s you won't forever be 21. The more you know.
01:18Sometimes happiness over a paycheck. But if you got a little cash in your account and you
01:24have to deal with people's bull crap all day and you're not happy. It's time to quit.
01:27Another thing you learn is to know your worth. Raise your hourly rates. Raise your day rate.
01:33Charge people. Put some respect on my check. You know what I'm saying? Give me my check.
01:38Put some respect on my check. So another thing you learn is to stop taking people's crap.
01:43I think one area where this really applies is if you're single in your 20s. Men you know
01:48they trying to be slimed in your DMs and taking you out on dates. I mean I like a nice Applebee's date
01:55but like. He's not going to take you on Applebee's food.
01:57Can we not? Like say that for like the fifth date. Can we go somewhere like local and cute?
02:03This is not a hot take. For you youngsters out there. Yes. You. Y'all need to sleep.
02:09Get you some rest girl. Just sleep. You look tired. I think when you become a salaried employee
02:15that's when your hangovers start going downhill. You know what I'm saying? Like it's like a
02:20direct correlation. But you put that money towards some better more quality alcohols. Ma'am.
02:26Sir. Whoever is watching this. Never order the house bourbon. I am learning even now but
02:34I definitely learned in my 20s how to save my money and invest in a financial planner.
02:39You cannot just be putting all these cute Instagram looks on your credit card and racking
02:44up debt. Your credit score is going to drop and when you want to buy a home your interest
02:49rates going to be like 50% man. 50%? Do you want that? Another thing I learned in my 20s
02:56was how to ask for a raise. I don't know. We're taught to be like docile and timid and
03:00Oh, I know. Money is a tough subject. Thank you so much for paying me. At the crumbs? I'll
03:05have the crumbs. No. No. No. Open your mouth and say give me my money. Give me my check.
03:12Put some respect on my check. Make your PowerPoint. Present it to your boss. Ask for the raise.
03:18The worst thing they can do is say no and then you're back where you started. Yeah. And then
03:23you put in your two weeks. Something I'm learning in my 20s is how to handle conflict. You have
03:29to learn how to deal with people who sometimes are not on the same page as you. And they're
03:35total idiots. Yeah. You know just idiots. Dumb. Rude. Ill-informed. Yeah. Another thing
03:41I learned in my 20s which were not too long ago. You gotta hustle. Always learning. Always
03:50like picking up new skills and seeing what you're interested in and what you could be interested
03:54in and how you can you know possibly build a career or make a living from that. I really
03:59learned how to do my makeup. And I learned like in the last few years how to like do that
04:06natural makeup. So it's like that like no makeup makeup look. You little hustler. You don't
04:11need nobody. You know. Been here by myself. Me, myself and I. You're wrong. Okay. What I learned
04:18in my 20s is how to appreciate my family because without them I wouldn't be the person I am.
04:24Honestly. Relationships are worth more than gold. You learned that self-care isn't just
04:29oh let me take a bath. It's really introspective. Yeah. Making sure you're good within you.
04:35You can be the best you can be. I can't afford to go to the spa every weekend. Yeah. So what
04:40you'll do is buy me a lush bath bomb. Cut off a little piece of that. Drop it in. A little
04:45fizzle. Not a big fizzle. Cause it's expensive. The best self-care I ever did was a few weeks
04:50ago. I deleted all of my social media media apps for a whole weekend. Yes. I felt so replenished
04:57after that weekend. Y'all should try it. Not saying that you shouldn't be woke or you shouldn't
05:00be active in your community but sometimes it just takes some time. You just need to laugh
05:05at cat videos or turn the internet off completely. I totaled my car when I was 22. So I learned
05:13how to buy a car. I learned how to negotiate my car price down. I learned how to get car
05:19insurance. I learned how to upkeep my car. I learned how to call AAA when my car died last
05:25week. Buy your car at the end of the month because that's when they're trying to get their numbers.
05:28Amen. So you go the week before the end of the month. You go in on that Saturday. You
05:33go in and you say I want this car. They're like oh well it's this price. And you go well I
05:38want it $3,000 less than that. And they're like oh we can't do that. And you're like okay
05:41bye. You know what they'll do? They'll call you on Monday. Okay we can do that. And then
05:44you have a car. I really learned like my signature drink because you're not in your late teens
05:51early 20s drinking whatever is handed to you anymore. Amaretto Sours. Cherry Macro Sours.
05:57Sours sour sour. Yeah it's not like a vehicle to get you to Z. It's not like all of you.
06:02You know you just like honestly you don't want to get to Z because then you spend the
06:06next two days in pain. I need to have a productive Sunday. I have a Home Depot run scheduled.
06:11So I can't be doing all of that. Taking a solo trip in your 20s is really cool too.
06:16You really get to figure out how you navigate the world. And you learn actually just how to
06:21travel like a grown up. You know you book a flight and whereas before you know when you
06:26were younger you'd show up in like you know your night clothes because you're just getting
06:29on the plane. Who cares? And your mom booked your flight. And your mom booked your flight.
06:33And you look lost. And do you check a bag? You don't know. You just look dumb in the airport.
06:38In your 20s you can't look dumb in the airport. No. Because anything could be a business opportunity.
06:42Look cute in the airport. You never know who you might meet there. Another thing that you learn in your 20s
06:47is the importance of eating right. Some of you may already have been there. You may have just been
06:51like one of those people who just ate healthy all through college. That's sick.
06:54Mid to late 20s you need to eat salads. You need to eat kale. You need to eat better. You need to cook
07:00your own food. I'm not going to tell you only eat kale. I'm just saying figure out what's important
07:04to you as far as health and eat appropriately. Chop up some mushrooms and some onions. Girl you're
07:10fine. Make a stir fry. Yeah make a stir fry. Migo said it best. You know what I mean? They're actually
07:15talking about vegetables. Don't say I never tell you that. So those are the 20 things we
07:20learned in our 20s. Some of us are still in our 20s. Some of us are just freshly out. Just
07:25freshly out of the 20s. Let us know in the comments below what you learned in your 20s. If
07:28you're still in them. What you're learning. And if you're outside of your 20s. What amazing
07:33things did you learn when you were 20. And if you like this video don't forget to like, share,
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