Speaker 1: Olian Benigles to your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling really excited today because we're only a few days
Speaker 1: away from the first day of the Month Is Tour.
Speaker 1: What and talking about my tour. I did an entire
Speaker 1: episode on it, so if you haven't heard it, go
Speaker 1: listen to it because I talked about the meaning behind it.
Speaker 1: So the A Month Is Tour, here we come. And
Speaker 1: before we get into today's episode, I want to start
Speaker 1: off by saying, women of all shapes and sizes are beautiful,
Speaker 1: but regardless of what size we are, sometimes we want
Speaker 1: a little extra support to help us feel our best.
Speaker 1: And that's why i want to talk about something that
Speaker 1: I think can really make a difference in a woman's
Speaker 1: confidence because I've experienced it firsthand. So today I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about shapewear. When you think of shapewear, you
Speaker 1: might think of brands like Spains or Skims, or even
Speaker 1: my own brand, Shapewear and Co. I started this and
Speaker 1: a couple of years back because I wanted to find
Speaker 1: something that made me feel good in my own skin,
Speaker 1: but that it was also affordable. I'm not gonna name
Speaker 1: any other brands but some are super super super expensive.
Speaker 1: I've worn facascolombianez, which work beautifully, you guys, they're great,
Speaker 1: but they're very freaking expensive and very uncomfortable. In my opinion.
Speaker 1: I wanted something breatheable. I wanted something that was going
Speaker 1: to make me feel sexy, comfortable, and tighten me up,
Speaker 1: you know, put everything in its place and smooth things out,
Speaker 1: but not to the point where I can't breathe and
Speaker 1: I can't eat. I still want to live, you know,
Speaker 1: I still I need to breathe. So that's why I
Speaker 1: came up with shape or and Code. Of course, I
Speaker 1: have a business partner. Her name is Alex, and she's wonderful,
Speaker 1: and I love shapewear, and I always wanted because I
Speaker 1: know the importance of being nice and tight, you know,
Speaker 1: because of gravity, because we're women, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And gravity's going to do its thing regardless. Especially after
Speaker 1: the pandemic, a lot of us started wearing sweats and
Speaker 1: baggy clothes and like baggy jeans. All of that baggy
Speaker 1: is super in right now. But what I think this
Speaker 1: new generation doesn't quite get yet is that if you
Speaker 1: want to keep that nice, cute load tight, body. Well,
Speaker 1: you need to wear something you know that's going to
Speaker 1: tighten your skin and keep your skin close to your
Speaker 1: muscles when you're wearing baggy clothes because gravity's going to
Speaker 1: do its thing regardless, like I said, but it'll happen
Speaker 1: faster if we don't drink collagen, if we don't wear shapewear.
Speaker 1: And I don't wear shape whar every day, but I wear.
Speaker 1: I like to wear my shapewear when I'm wearing sweats
Speaker 1: when I go to the airport because when I'm flying,
Speaker 1: like you know, it's important to compress your legs and
Speaker 1: also for me compress my body because I don't want
Speaker 1: to get bloated, especially if I'm wearing sweats, because I
Speaker 1: always wear something super comfy or leggings. So I like
Speaker 1: to wear my shapewear on stage. If my outfits also
Speaker 1: like permit it, I'll wear my shape were under it.
Speaker 1: If not, then I wear nylons, and that that's the
Speaker 1: kind of material that I wanted for my shape. Where
Speaker 1: is like that nylon material just a little thicker because
Speaker 1: I don't want to feel hot and I don't want
Speaker 1: it to like add an extra layer and make me
Speaker 1: look or make my clothes look different because it's so thick.
Speaker 1: And that's the experience I had in the past with
Speaker 1: facas colombianas that we've talked about, which are great, especially
Speaker 1: after you've had surgery or libl section and stuff, because
Speaker 1: you need to be nice and tight and again, your
Speaker 1: skin needs to like attach back to its muscle, so
Speaker 1: it is important. But I just couldn't with those facas
Speaker 1: that have like the body yeah, the boning in them,
Speaker 1: or like the waist trainers, because all that stuff does work.
Speaker 1: It will help mold your body, but you need to
Speaker 1: wear those things like at least twenty two hours in
Speaker 1: the day, you know what I mean, or take it
Speaker 1: off when you sleep. Some people wear it when they sleep.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. They're like, oh, wear it and then your
Speaker 1: waist is gonna get smaller, and I'm just like shit,
Speaker 1: Like it was so uncomfortable, you guys, Like I felt
Speaker 1: like my head was gonna explode. I couldn't eat, Like
Speaker 1: it was just too much. It was like too much
Speaker 1: for me. I commend the women that do it, honestly,
Speaker 1: a round of applause to you guys, because I couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. But they do work and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: down on them at all, because they absolutely make a difference.
Speaker 1: But in my personal day to day in order for
Speaker 1: me to realistically wear it every day and to get
Speaker 1: the benefits that I want, I needed something of that material,
Speaker 1: like I'm saying, that nylon material that's a little thicker
Speaker 1: and breathable. And now that we're on this, you know
Speaker 1: subject about fajas and shapewear, because there is a difference.
Speaker 1: Shape wear is more of, like I feel like, an
Speaker 1: everyday wear that's kind of just like another layer of
Speaker 1: your skin and it just warms up and moves with
Speaker 1: your body. And a fah is thicker, way thicker, and
Speaker 1: it's going to mold your body a lot quicker than
Speaker 1: a shapewear will. But if you want to mold your
Speaker 1: body and have a smaller waiste and for your ass
Speaker 1: to look huge in the whole thing, I would recommend
Speaker 1: getting a Paja colomb. If you're looking for something more
Speaker 1: just to smooth things out in that little black dress
Speaker 1: or even in leggings during your jeans, then shapewear is
Speaker 1: is the way to go. And that's what I was
Speaker 1: looking for where I still look snatched and I still
Speaker 1: look like my body still looks like my body because
Speaker 1: fa haas will literally mold your body and make your
Speaker 1: waist look really small and sometimes your boob's really big,
Speaker 1: and that's all good, but I didn't like it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So if that's the look you're
Speaker 1: going for, that's the way to go. And with shapewear,
Speaker 1: you will just get everything nice and smooth, and everything
Speaker 1: will be sitting. The boobies will be sitting, the booty
Speaker 1: will be sitting, the waste will look snatched, but it's
Speaker 1: not going to necessarily do what a faja will do,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Again, the way I like to
Speaker 1: explain it, especially when I post, is it's just like
Speaker 1: another layer of my skin, you know, and it feels
Speaker 1: nice and I can still dance it and I can
Speaker 1: sit and I can still have fun and I can
Speaker 1: eat and I still look snatched. So I hope that
Speaker 1: made sense. And a question that I get a lot
Speaker 1: is is it safe for pregnant women to wear shapewear. Yes,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. If your tummy is growing, I would
Speaker 1: say size up. We also have in shapewar and co
Speaker 1: we have a maternity shapewear. It's recommended to wear it
Speaker 1: actually because it helps with keeping the tummy nice and
Speaker 1: high and you know, in its place. So for sure,
Speaker 1: we have one, and we did a collab with a
Speaker 1: beautiful young lady. Her name is Laura, and she's pregnant.
Speaker 1: So we brought that one out and people really really
Speaker 1: love it. And it's cool because it clips from like
Speaker 1: the breast area for you to also be able to breastfeed.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to talk more than I should,
Speaker 1: but and you guys look this up. Feel free to
Speaker 1: look it up to make sure. But I know, a faha,
Speaker 1: a faja or anything that has boning anything like that
Speaker 1: is absolutely not recommended at all because it's too tight.
Speaker 1: It's too too much compression in the abdomen in the
Speaker 1: mid area that it will actually be bad for your baby.
Speaker 1: But shape where like I said, it's flexible. It's a
Speaker 1: lot easier, you know. And again, if you're usually wear
Speaker 1: a medium, I would go up to a large so
Speaker 1: you still feel nice and snatched and everything is nice
Speaker 1: and smooth, but it's not compressing too much on your abdomen,
Speaker 1: you know, until you grow or your tummy grows enough
Speaker 1: in order for you to start wearing a maternity one.
Speaker 1: But I did want to clear that up because a
Speaker 1: lot of people have asked me that, and also they've
Speaker 1: asked me about shape where for men, And we've been
Speaker 1: working on something. It hasn't come out yet, but we
Speaker 1: definitely do want to do something for men, say material,
Speaker 1: but where a man can just feel like his midsection
Speaker 1: is nice and tight. You know. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: that to come out, but we've been working on it
Speaker 1: for about a year now. I just haven't gotten a
Speaker 1: sample that I absolutely love yet. So I'll keep you
Speaker 1: guys updated on that for all my guys out there
Speaker 1: or all my girls that want to buy their man one,
Speaker 1: because there's nothing wrong with a man wearing shape where
Speaker 1: you guys, it's just another little thin layer of their
Speaker 1: skin that makes them look snatched. And a guy can
Speaker 1: look snatch too, And now that we're talking about men,
Speaker 1: I want to bring this up. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a funny story a medio. My partner, my fiance, he
Speaker 1: saw me wearing a faja once because I had just
Speaker 1: gotten surgery, and at first he was fine, but then
Speaker 1: he's said, when are you going to stop wearing that thing?
Speaker 1: I'm like why, He's like it's just like I'm over it,
Speaker 1: like it's just not sexy. And I was like ah,
Speaker 1: and I kind of felt offended. I was like, what,
Speaker 1: I have to wear it, like it says I have
Speaker 1: to wear it at least three months to six months,
Speaker 1: you know, to keep everything in place. And he was
Speaker 1: just like damn, he just couldn't wait. And I felt like,
Speaker 1: what the heck? And it was the kind of fat
Speaker 1: how that's a little thicker. It's the kind you need
Speaker 1: to wear after you've had a light bul st, Shane,
Speaker 1: or a boob job, the whole thing. So anyways, and
Speaker 1: then when I came out with my shapewear, I asked him,
Speaker 1: I said, do you think this is sexy? And he's like, actually,
Speaker 1: I think it's really sexy. He's like, I think it
Speaker 1: looks good because it's kind of transparent a little bit,
Speaker 1: like in the booty area and the boobies, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of like mysterious. So he really likes it. It
Speaker 1: doesn't bother him. And we have shorts, and we have
Speaker 1: panty ones, and we have thong ones, and we have
Speaker 1: just like shorts that come up without like the boob area.
Speaker 1: We have so many different kinds and types and styles
Speaker 1: of shapewear, so I wanted to also keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I still want it to be sexy,
Speaker 1: you know, because there are also women out there that
Speaker 1: think that you're kind of like catfishing a man if
Speaker 1: you wear shapewear or a fahaw or if you're wearing
Speaker 1: a push up bral because it's like, oh, that's not
Speaker 1: really how your tits look or you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what your body looks like. That's the beautiful thing
Speaker 1: about shapewear is that it's still your body. It just
Speaker 1: everything just looks smoother and in place. It's not really changing.
Speaker 1: But even if it was, who cares, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like, I'm just like, whatever tickles your pickle,
Speaker 1: whatever filter your boat, like do you you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? But I definitely think that that's kind of
Speaker 1: like a dumb statement, like, oh, I don't wear it
Speaker 1: because I'm kind of like faking it like a filter.
Speaker 1: And one thing about that i'd rather you know, this
Speaker 1: is a whole other topic, but in regards to filters
Speaker 1: on Instagram, I like using them sometimes. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say I don't, I don't mind, but I do feel
Speaker 1: like that's a little bit more of catfishing a filter
Speaker 1: versus the shapewear personally. But it's actually very healthy for
Speaker 1: your skin to wear shapewear as much as you possibly can.
Speaker 1: That's one thing that I even read in an interview
Speaker 1: that Beyonce did. I don't remember with what magazine it was,
Speaker 1: but anyways, she said and she stated that she wears
Speaker 1: nylons underneath her jeans, and she wears nylons with her dresses,
Speaker 1: and if you guys see her pictures, it's a true statement.
Speaker 1: And she says because it helps her with Verico's veins,
Speaker 1: with cellulite, with just keeping her legs nice and smooth,
Speaker 1: and that's the same concept with the rest of your body.
Speaker 1: And because of that, I started wearing nylons. And then
Speaker 1: that's when the whole thing. I was like, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: like this is a perfect way. This is a type
Speaker 1: of material that I want for my shapewear. And some
Speaker 1: people have told me, oh my god, cheeky's what size
Speaker 1: should I wear? And I tell them, well, what size
Speaker 1: are you? What's your blah blah blah, give them this
Speaker 1: whole thing, and then I tell them right away just
Speaker 1: know when you see it and you receive it, you're
Speaker 1: going to think, how in the heck am I going
Speaker 1: to fit into this? But I promise you your body
Speaker 1: will warm up to it and it'll be a little
Speaker 1: tough to put on. But then after that, the own
Speaker 1: heat of your body will make it stretch out a
Speaker 1: little bit and you're going to feel fine. But some
Speaker 1: people are like, how in the heck is this going
Speaker 1: to fit me? Don't trip. It's great material and it's
Speaker 1: going to just mold to your body. Okay. I did
Speaker 1: want to say that as well, because some people don't
Speaker 1: know what size to get and they're pretty true to size.
Speaker 1: If you don't like to be too compressed and get
Speaker 1: you know, a little bigger, it's still going to compress you.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I wear a bigger size I size up because
Speaker 1: I don't want to feel too uncomfortable, like if I'm
Speaker 1: out or whatever. It all depends the situation, but I
Speaker 1: would recommend you getting your size and then a bigger
Speaker 1: size size up if you want to breathe a little more.
Speaker 1: You know, on a certain occasion, if you happen to
Speaker 1: be on my website shapewearincode dot com and you don't
Speaker 1: know which one to purchase. If you've never wore shapewear before,
Speaker 1: I would highly suggest to get my Invisible. That's my
Speaker 1: absolute favorite one. I love them all. We just came
Speaker 1: out with this seamless short, which is awesome. It makes
Speaker 1: the booty look really nice. I mean know it loves
Speaker 1: that one anyways, But my absolute favorite is the Invisible.
Speaker 1: We have it in shorts and we also have it
Speaker 1: in a panny and a thong. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: the most comfortable. It's the one. It's my go to.
Speaker 1: So it's called Invisible shaper and it has a built
Speaker 1: in brawl. But what I love about this particular shaper
Speaker 1: is that you can wear it with no pasties or
Speaker 1: pasties or as a shirt because it looks really nice
Speaker 1: to colors. They come in four different colors, and then
Speaker 1: just wear your jeans or a skirt or whatever you
Speaker 1: want to wear. You can wear it under or as
Speaker 1: an outfit and it's super comfortable. And it has the
Speaker 1: shorts one, which is the one that I wear the
Speaker 1: most because I like to, like, you know, smooth out
Speaker 1: my thigh area and lift the booty. That's my favorite one,
Speaker 1: the shorts one, and it also has I can never
Speaker 1: say this word correctly, a cassette. I believe it is
Speaker 1: a gassette. Anyways, it's the little freaking hole for you
Speaker 1: to pee and you know, take care of business. And
Speaker 1: also the panty one has like a little clip, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about, you know, having to
Speaker 1: take off the whole thing if you're out partying or whatnot.
Speaker 1: But I absolutely love the Invisible. That's the one I
Speaker 1: highly recommend, and I do recommend for you to get
Speaker 1: that one in your size. It's true to size, and again,
Speaker 1: you can even wear it under leggings if you want
Speaker 1: to wear it to the gym. It just makes everything
Speaker 1: look so nice and you won't be able to tell
Speaker 1: that you have it on. And what I like to
Speaker 1: do is once I have it on, like the first time,
Speaker 1: the brand new one that I wear, I like to
Speaker 1: stretch the legs a little bit because I have thick legs,
Speaker 1: so I don't want it to create a line, So
Speaker 1: I just stretch it a little bit more and then
Speaker 1: it's fine. You don't have to do it ever again.
Speaker 1: And to wash them. You guys, if you have my
Speaker 1: shapers already or you're gonna buy one, please make sure
Speaker 1: you wash it in cold water, okay, in the wash
Speaker 1: in the machine with the rest of your panties and socks,
Speaker 1: all the delicates, and then hang dry it. Don't put
Speaker 1: it in the dryer, okay. Or if you want to
Speaker 1: wash it on mano by hand, then that's great. That's
Speaker 1: actually even better, and then just hang dry it. I
Speaker 1: did want to tell you guys that because it's delicate,
Speaker 1: the materials delicate. It's great. It's strong fabric, but it's
Speaker 1: also very delicate at the same time. But that's my suggestion.
Speaker 1: That's the one that I like on the website the most.
Speaker 1: I love them all because again, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: sell you guys anything that I haven't tried or that
Speaker 1: I don't love myself. The only one I haven't tried
Speaker 1: is the maternity one because I'm not pregnant yet but
Speaker 1: eventually I will. But other than that, all of them,
Speaker 1: everything's great. We're coming out with some braw lets, you guys,
Speaker 1: because I hate bras, especially push it bras. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: have to wear them, but I don't like bras and panties.
Speaker 1: They're so uncomfortable, you guys. Oh, and I know, ladies,
Speaker 1: you can like understand me, especially the wired ones. I
Speaker 1: just I can't. So we're coming out with some really
Speaker 1: nice ones that still lift your boobies and you can
Speaker 1: clip and don't make like the backfat come out. So
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to bring those out and some panties.
Speaker 1: I haven't tried to the panties yet. I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: the sample, so as soon as I get it, I
Speaker 1: will let you guys know. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: great things coming with shape wear because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's something that we can all wear. Doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: size you are. We have sizes from small to like
Speaker 1: five X you guys, in some of the styles, not
Speaker 1: all styles, but for sure we have three X in
Speaker 1: all styles, and in some of the styles we have
Speaker 1: up to five X you guys. So I am all
Speaker 1: about catering to all women because we're all beautiful. Doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what shape you are. I really really mean it
Speaker 1: from the bottom of my heart. It's all about more
Speaker 1: how you feel. And this is why I feel like
Speaker 1: shape wear is so important, because it helps you feel
Speaker 1: more confident in that dress in something more snug like
Speaker 1: it just I don't know, it makes you feel just different,
Speaker 1: which is why I'm so passionate about my shapewear, not
Speaker 1: just because it's mine, but because I truly believe in it,
Speaker 1: because I know it works and I know how it
Speaker 1: makes me feel, you know, and I want you to
Speaker 1: feel the same way. And alrighty guys, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I said everything I wanted to say in regards
Speaker 1: to shapewear and how it's changed my life and how
Speaker 1: much I love it, and I hope that you give
Speaker 1: it a chance. It doesn't have to be my line,
Speaker 1: but I highly recommend it again Shape or and Co.
Speaker 1: But you guys, it's something that has really just helped me,
Speaker 1: and there are so many benefits to it, and especially
Speaker 1: for someone like myself who has struggled with their weight
Speaker 1: their entire life. And I've gone up and down and
Speaker 1: yo yo, dietd the whole thing. I get it. I understand.
Speaker 1: I have cellulite, I have stretch marks. There are things
Speaker 1: that I have that just come with going up and
Speaker 1: down in wait, you know, and things that were inherited
Speaker 1: like cellulite. And that's why I love the shapewear because
Speaker 1: it helps smooth everything out. So anyways, enough about it,
Speaker 1: I hope you see Shape we're in a different way
Speaker 1: and not in something that something like in a negative
Speaker 1: light because I have heard certain people say it, but
Speaker 1: I think if you give it a try, you'll definitely
Speaker 1: love it. So you, guys, thank you, Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: As always, I'm grateful for you, and enjoy this amazing week.
Speaker 1: It'll be an amazing week. Keep saying it and be positive. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's be positive. I know it might sound a low cliche,
Speaker 1: but it's better to be positive than negative. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that much. Okay, Guys, I love you and I
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