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We are super excited to announce our first collaboration with a local brand, Field Day Oakland! About Field Day Field Day is a small boutique making ethical, sustainable, + local goods accessible in Oakland. They've been around since 2013 and everything they carry is made in the USA, mostly in the Bay Area where both our brands are. Field Day didn't start as a store though. They started with the Oakland-made brand Field Day Apparel, and though the apparel brand and boutique are now run separately, you can find their full line in the store. Aside from clothing, Field Day...

Many of you ask where the brand name "You Are Hot Stuff" comes from. Here's the story. First off, You Are Hot Stuff is currently a 1-human show, created by Drusilla (Dru) Cowan. I make earrings, accessories, and other artwork centered around themes of bodily autonomy, sex positivity, and healing—drawing from personal experiences around sexual violence, a lost ancestry, and navigating Queerness/gender norms. 🌶  The name You Are Hot Stuff is mostly a callback to my upbringing in Kentucky and South Louisiana: 1) I love spicy food and can handle more heat than most people you know2) Southern politics kept me...

Sometimes when creating earrings designs, we leave with weird scraps of clay, too small to do much with. Or, when coating clay pieces, there's leftover resin from the mix that isn't needed. Rather than let these materials go to waste, You Are Hot Stuff uses them to create a low-cost line of earrings! Introducing The Lab Collection Pulling from Dru's past life as a scientist, we call all these experimental, waste-reducing designs The Lab Collection. While sometimes imperfect, all designs are simple, bold, chunky, and guaranteed to grab peoples attention. Every pair of earrings in this collection is  1-of-a-kind. Our goal with...

A few weeks ago, I told myself that I wasn't going to do another product launch until March. I'm not a huge fan of holiday-themed collection and who cares about Valentine's Day anyway? I thought I would use these first 2 months of the year to focus on other facets of my brand.  Literally HOURS after telling my housemate that I didn't want to do a Valentine's Day line though, it hit me. I had to do something. As I was talking it out, 3 design ideas and a whole ass creative vision for the branding and photoshoot just came to me. Immediately,...