What To Buy Your Favorite Raver For the Holidays
Exron’s Ultimate Raver Holidays Gift List and Essentials guide.
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Tis the season, ravers! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, or simply the Winter Solstice, your raver friend group deserves a white elephant exchange. There is so much to be grateful for during the holidays: this overall year, this post-Covid era. Give love and become love with this thoughtful, curated list perfect for the holidays – rave edition.
A portable charger
Your phone will die. You will not be able to call an Uber. You will lose your friends, only to find them at the end of the night at the Airbnb. Don’t be this raver! Buy a portable charger, bring a chord or multiple, and relieve yourself of the imminent, intense hangxiety that ensues post a night without a phone.
A caveat: be mindful of varying power capacities, especially when sharing the charger with a group. Click here for affordable options.
Rave gag gifts
Deep in the crowd, ravers hand out little rubber duckies, tiny hands, mini dinosaurs, handmade kandi, glowsticks, etc. Although this might seem strange, this is the ultimate sign of a solid PLUR community. To contribute to the fun, buy gag gifts to hand out to new friends and make someone’s night!
Click here and here and here for some ideas.
Pashminas and/or a mask to protect yourself from dust
Inhaling particulate at dirt stages – otherwise known as turfless venues destroyed by foot traffic, reduced to sandpits and clouds of kicked-up dust – is no bueno. To combat the inhalation of dirt, buy N95s to wear under cute rave masks or sport pashminas, providing an adjustable wrap should the dirt insidiously rise.
Click here for affordable pashmina options and here for traditional rave mask picks.
General care packages: a pouch filled with rave beauty products, skincare, and Other must-haves
There are so many little things that just elevate the rave – from mini tubs of Vaseline to deeply moisturized chapped lips, to individual makeup wipes, to band-aids in case of blisters, to mini eyelash glue to lock them puppies in place, to a gumbo size pack of gum (or chicle for Miami ravers), to manuka honey lollipops for a sweet treat that also soothes the throat. Little care packages, thoughtfully curated, go a long way at the rave!
Click here here and here for ideas!
Dr. Scholl’s because standing for ten hours will bamboozle even the most senior of ravers
This needs no introduction nor conclusion. Don’t regret your existence. Dr. Scholl’s inserts as stocking stuffers will safe a life!
Rave booty shorts in every single color, a staple to go with any outfit.
Ever buy a cute top or a see-through dress/skirt only to realize the day of the festival that it’s missing suitable bottoms? Buy affordable rave shorts in every color to avoid last-minute fashion faux pas.
Click here for versatile low-rise dance shorts and here for more traditional rave shorts. All shorts come in a wide variety of colors to match any outfit!
Spicy lingerie or nipple pasties.
The rave is probably the only place that encourages females to wear bejeweled nipple pasties and/or full-blown lingerie in broad daylight… which is magical. For those hesitant to sport something so spicy, perhaps give it a go with tasteful nipple pasties underneath a mesh top, testing the waters before adorning intrepid skivvies.
Click here for a spicy lingerie recommendation and here and here for nipple pasties.
Rave boots. Period.
Rave boots are a national treasure – change my mind. It’s raining and you’ve been traipsing through puddle after puddle? No problem. Rave boots become rainboots and the mission continues. A mosh pit incepts and a six-foot, 250-pound burly dude accidentally stomps on your feet? Couldn’t even feel it. If you’re trying to slay and look like a model – staying comfortable while elongating the legs – rave boots are a no-brainer. And since these are a staple piece, the rave boot is perennial – get a black pair and they will last you eons, regardless of trend.
For our team favorites, check out this pair on Dollskill and this one on Amazon.
Saracha
Heralding from sunny South Florida, I am a proud Florida Woman. In my free time, I surf the swamp, wrangle gators, open fan mail, and tend to my pets. In the wild, I'm most often spotted at immersive art spaces, step tappin' in a shadowed corner of the club, hater blockerz on, totally incognito as your resident EDM spice girl. Although I generally tout my spicy side, if there's one thing I'd love to impress upon the world, it would be this: it's not a waste to give love to those who do not deserve it – it's a gift. The world would be a better place if we gave, in kindness and in mercy, to those who need it most with no expectation in return.
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