We didn’t start Hot Tea because the internet needed another magazine. God knows there’s enough content out there. It started because we kept sending each other the same kind of stuff all day: something we wanted to buy, an article that stuck with us, a brand we just found, a very unnecessary opinion about someone’s relationship. And at some point we were like, why don’t we just put all of this in one place?

We’ve both wanted to work in fashion forever, even though for years we had no idea what that actually meant. We just knew we wanted in. Blame Sex and the City, probably. It made being a grown-up look messy and glamorous and like everything happened at once: work, friends, men, clothes, terrible decisions. We wanted that.

Our version has smaller apartments, but the messy part was accurate. We’ve changed jobs, moved countries, fallen in love and out of it, bought things we couldn’t justify. Our group chat goes from “would you wear this?” to “do you think he likes me?” in about four minutes.

And we couldn’t find that anywhere. We love TikTok. We love Instagram. We could lose an embarrassing amount of time on Pinterest. And no, we’re not about to tell you to delete everything and go touch some grass. Please. We’ll probably be back on TikTok five minutes after writing this. But we’re consuming SO much, all the time. Someone’s always telling us what to buy, what’s in, what’s out, what every cool girl apparently owns now. We just missed reading something that felt a little less “you need this” and a little more “wait, I’ve been thinking about this too.”

So we made it.

And we want you in it too. Tell us what you’re obsessed with, what you can’t stop thinking about, what you completely disagree with us on. It’s way more fun when everyone has something to say.

Welcome to Hot Tea. We have a lot to talk about.