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Alysa Liu reveals her "first" everything! From the first time she collaborated on a skating costume to the first time she dyed her halo hair, Alysa spills all her firsts. What is the first song on her hype playlist? What's the story behind her first tattoo? When did she get her first piercing?
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00:00The Blues Clues guy followed me back.
00:02I think his name is Steven.
00:03He followed me back on Instagram.
00:05So sick.
00:06Anyways, hi, Teen Vogue.
00:08I'm Alyssa Liu, and these are some of my firsts.
00:15The first time I collaborated was in 2024.
00:19It was to make my Promise by Levee program dress.
00:24I had the idea of it being white,
00:27having the dress be super flowy and very piecey.
00:30And I kind of wanted to be wrapped up,
00:33kind of in like a bandage.
00:34And Lisa kind of brought it to life.
00:36She picked the top design, like the shape of it.
00:39And yeah, that was the first one.
00:41I really, really liked the Stateside program dress.
00:45I love like J-pop idols.
00:47They have that certain style in their dress.
00:50I've seen it before.
00:51Wherever I saw that, I was like,
00:52I need something like that.
00:54Like the puff shoulders and like a tutu skirt.
00:56So someone suggested that song to me.
00:58And so I took a listen and I was like,
01:00yeah, this is definitely better
01:02than all of the other options I have.
01:04And then we start making a program to it.
01:06But then I found the 16 minute suite version
01:08and I was like, this is it.
01:10And so we added a ton of parts of that song into the program.
01:14We changed up the music a bit, edited it around.
01:17And then I had a Gaga program last season for one competition.
01:21But what's most comfortable for me was MacArthur Park.
01:24And I had a new dress idea for it.
01:26And I was like, that'll keep it fresh.
01:27And I think it'll be great at Olympics.
01:30I dyed it three years ago
01:32because I originally wanted raccoon stripes.
01:34But I thought that would be too hard to maintain.
01:36I would have to, it would look really weird growing out.
01:38And so I was like, oh, I'll just do one giant line up here.
01:41And then I did my tips too.
01:42I bleached my tips.
01:43And then a year rolls around and this grew out to here.
01:46And I was like, oh, I want to add another one.
01:48And then it grew out again.
01:49And I was like, I need to add another.
01:51So it's kind of like tradition.
01:53End of the year, I had another one.
01:54I've had red hair before.
01:56It was a dark red.
01:57I've had maroon.
01:58I've had orange.
01:59I wouldn't mind orange again.
02:01Oh my God.
02:01I don't think I even said anything.
02:03I think I was just screaming.
02:05Yeah.
02:05Because there's like a language barrier.
02:07So we communicate through high fives, hugs, smiles, and giggles.
02:11Right now, I would say Body by Don Tolliver.
02:15His new album is, I was listening to it a lot during the Olympics.
02:19I like the vibe of it and his voice is really good.
02:22My personal anthem, definitely passion by Pink Panthers.
02:26I think growing up in the Bay Area just influenced me.
02:30I'd say my friends and just what I saw around me.
02:35And honestly, like art too.
02:36I really love murals and there's a lot of that in Oakland.
02:40Even the graffiti, it's super inspiring.
02:42And I don't know, I feel like it's, yeah, the Bay.
02:44If you were to describe your personal sound, like two to three words, what would it be?
02:48Oh, I think comfortable, mobile, and cute.
02:58My first tattoo is a matching one with my best friend.
03:01It's my only tattoo.
03:02I actually don't have the rings on me.
03:04I want to so bad, but I'm like, I can't think of a placement.
03:07Because I have this weird thing, like I can't get it on one side.
03:10Otherwise, I have to get it on the other side.
03:12Like I have to be symmetrical in that way.
03:15But yeah, my first tattoo, it's like on my back and it's pretty symmetrical.
03:19It's in the middle.
03:21Yeah, but I'm matching with my best friend.
03:22Got it at 18.
03:23Our friend drew it up.
03:24So it's like extra special because of that.
03:27And there's like little bits here and there.
03:29Like if you asked me to draw, I probably couldn't draw it.
03:31I never see it.
03:32I wanted to do a drawing competition with my best friend.
03:35Like who can remember what our tattoo looks like the best?
03:38So it's cybersidualism.
03:41There's bat wings because I really love bats.
03:44I think they're really cool.
03:45And then there's a rose because my best friend, Juju, loves roses.
03:49Super symbolic for them.
03:51And then we have like infinity signs in there.
03:54We're both born in August and like they're eights.
03:57But if you turn around, it's like infinity signs.
03:59So that's like meaningful to us.
04:01And then like those are part of the bat wings.
04:04The rose is like in the middle.
04:06And yeah, and there's, yeah, yeah.
04:08My first lobes were my first piercing.
04:11I got it when I was really young.
04:12I don't even remember how old I was.
04:14I was a baby.
04:15After my first two lobe piercings, I started doing my own.
04:18I did my fenulum.
04:19It's around 10 pain because it's so thin there.
04:22The skin there is thin.
04:23I don't even know if it's skin, I would call it.
04:26But yeah, it's really thin, so it doesn't hurt.
04:29And I got it December of 2022.
04:33So I've had it for a long time.
04:34But you have to be very cautious with this piercing.
04:37You have to take a photo of it like every couple weeks just to keep track of your gums and
04:41stuff
04:41like that and how your teeth are doing.
04:42So far, so good for me.
04:45But gum recession could happen with this piercing.
04:49So you got to just be careful and take it out if your gums are receding.
04:53Obviously, you want to keep your teeth.
04:54I mean, I've always thought about getting my eyebrows pierced, but I have bangs.
04:58So you wouldn't see it anyways.
04:59That's my dilemma.
05:01But yeah, I would love to have my eyebrows pierced.
05:04I don't know.
05:05I haven't really checked my following.
05:08I have no idea.
05:09I just remembered something.
05:10The blues clues guy followed me back.
05:13I think his name is Steven.
05:14He followed me back on Instagram.
05:16So sick.
05:17I was like, what?
05:19Like he was my childhood.
05:22Like two years ago, like when I first came back, it was like a group hangout at her place
05:26in Colorado and we played cards and we ate food together.
05:31It was really fun.
05:32Amber introduced me to Magic the Gathering.
05:35I still don't get it.
05:36That's the thing.
05:37I don't understand it, but I've opened so many packs with her at this point.
05:40And there's always like one really rare card I get.
05:43And she's always like freaking out.
05:45And I'm like, I don't understand this at all.
05:47I still have all of them.
05:49I just don't, I don't know what to do with them.
05:50Like they're just sitting there.
05:53So yeah, I don't know.
05:55Just got to explain it to me more.
05:57You haven't played yet?
05:58No, there's a way to play.
06:00Okay.
06:00Yeah.
06:01See, clearly I'm not in the know.
06:03Probably Flora from Winx Club.
06:06Yeah.
06:07I like her color scheme a lot.
06:09Like the pink and the green.
06:11She's super nice.
06:12And like, I liked her powers and whatnot.
06:15Rot with them.
06:17And also like take them out to eat.
06:21Just go outside with them.
06:23I love going on hikes with my siblings.
06:26Long time ago.
06:27Probably when I was 13.
06:28Yeah.
06:29I think I was like in front of the Oakland city center.
06:31And someone like,
06:33yeah, someone knew me.
06:34I was like, what the heck?
06:35Yeah.
06:36I was like someone outside of the rink.
06:37Well, now it's a lot more.
06:39And it's, it kind of freaks me out.
06:42So I try to take my privacy super seriously.
06:46But yeah, it's a little freaky.
06:48Kim Yoo Na and Michelle Kwon.
06:50I looked up to them because I thought their jumps were very pretty and satisfying.
06:54And I loved Kim Yoo Na's dresses.
06:56And I loved her demeanor.
06:58It's just like, I imagine just them out on the ice.
07:01And especially like, because I really find their jumps so satisfying.
07:04It's mostly about that.
07:09Wakaba Higuchi's Skyfall program.
07:11I love that one.
07:12And Hana Yoshida's Kill Bill program.
07:15Hana Yoshida's Kill Bill program is my favorite right now.
07:18Like with Hana's, her outfit is so cute.
07:20It's like the tracksuit, but in a dress.
07:23And it's adorable.
07:23I've seen it in person a couple of times.
07:25And I love to watch it on YouTube as well.
07:27I've shown a couple of my friends who don't know a thing about skating.
07:29I'm like, watch this program.
07:31When I came back from retirement,
07:32I got my driver's license.
07:34Yeah, I got right on it.
07:36Yeah, they don't make you parallel park,
07:37but I'm great at parallel parking.
07:39So I wanted them to.
07:42Dim Sum.
07:44Xiao Long Bao.
07:46And like, green beans.
07:48I love to get like,
07:49Tsong Yeo Bing.
07:50Tsong Yeo Bing is like, what's it?
07:53It's like a, I don't remember what it's called in English.
07:55It's like a pancake.
07:56Green onion pancake.
07:57I kind of knew after, well,
07:59it took a little bit to really know for sure if I want to return to return.
08:03But I wanted to step onto the ice for the first time after I went skiing.
08:07Because I had a lot of fun skiing.
08:08It's like, if you've ever gone, it's super fun.
08:11The feeling you get is unlike anything else.
08:13But figure skating.
08:14That's the only thing that's similar to.
08:16So I thought, oh, maybe I'll step out on the ice again, try it out.
08:19And yeah, it was really similar to skiing.
08:22Believe it or not.
08:23You're gliding, you're cold, your legs hurt.
08:26It's great.
08:26I mean, it was really easy to assert that because I was confident in myself.
08:30I knew what I wanted.
08:31And the team that I picked also knew me very well, knew what I wanted.
08:35And they're very respectful and they trust me.
08:39So it was not hard to get used to.
08:43Thanks, Teen Vogue, for having me.
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