Nara Aziza Smith is the reigning lifestyle ‘IT’ girl on TikTok, simply because she chooses to cook all her meals from scratch. If you’re wondering why this is so, it’s because the world we live in right now is filled with instant gratification and results. Many things have been made easier for us, so why stress when you have effortless options available?
One of these options is the widespread availability of fast-food restaurants and snacks. Add a home delivery service to the equation and you get ready-made meals without even lighting a matchstick to your stove.
However, Nara Smith’s social media presence challenges this easy lifestyle that we’ve grown accustomed to. Even though she is married to Lucky Blue Smith, a well-known male model in the U.S., and lives a conceivably comfortable life, she regularly makes food posts on her TikTok and Instagram accounts, detailing how she cooks just about anything edible, from full-course meals to something as unusual as bubblegum. She has explained that she began cooking her meals from scratch after experiencing severe eczema.
While this Gen Z model and social media star has had her share of controversies, love her or hate her, no one can argue that she has come to represent a new trend in the lifestyle scene on social media.
Here are 3 ways she has proven to be the ultimate Gen Z lifestyle influencer:
1. She Influences People’s Choice of Kitchen Utensils
Nara’s specialty on social media, as I pointed out earlier, is cooking. While she does this, her followers can’t help but notice the kitchen gadgets and crockery she uses. One of her easily recognized tableware items is the cute/quirky mug she usually uses to drink her morning tea and the dishes she plates her food in.
A common trend for the mom of three is to use fun, unusually designed cup and plate sets for her social media. One notable chunky plate set she uses is from Gustaf Westman and it retails for €55 a piece.
2. She Wears Designers to Cook
I hardly know of other lifestyle influencers that do this. Designer dresses usually come in limited pieces and are generally known for being expensive, making it uncommon for Nara to don one while cooking from scratch. A recent video she posted on TikTok and Instagram sees her wearing a gorgeous Lirika Matoshi dress to cook a special pre-birthday dinner for her husband.
Prior to this, she wore a Chanel Pre-Fall ‘24 set to make homemade Nutella. Iconic? Yes, indeed.
3. She Has a Unique Influencing Style
If you’re an avid follower of Nara Smith, you’d know that she talks in a dulcet, calm tone that almost every influencer on TikTok has picked up on, and it has become something of a trend on the app.
You are guaranteed to stalk the model’s TikTok or Instagram account and get lost watching her aesthetically pleasing videos over and over again. This might be because she makes cooking from scratch seem effortless, plus her voice is an added bonus.
