What Jaedyn Shaw Can’t Live Without

It’s actually so fire. It’s my go-to, especially when I have braids. It holds my hair down even with all the training, the sweating — like, playing games, in the sun, it literally does not move. I’ve probably gone through six of those little containers.

It’s very similar to soy sauce; it’s just a slightly different taste. I put it on everything; it’s like the only thing in my cabinet that gets used frequently. I’m not a huge cooker, but it makes everything taste good. I put it over rice, I put it on my eggs — I don’t even really salt my eggs, I just put the Maggi on there — I put it in sauces. It makes everything better. They need to make little minis that I can put in my purse. My aunt always had the big bottle, and my cousins and I would throw down on the Maggi.

I never take it off except for during games and training. Jade is good luck in Asian culture. My mom gave it to me — she got one from her mom, so she wanted to make sure that I had one too. It’s jade and gold, and I’m also a gold girlie, so it fits with everything I wear. It’s something our family really likes and it’s comforting to have, the mixture of my family and my faith and the jade.

[Editor’s note: Jaedyn’s exact necklace is a one-off custom item, but we’ve included a similar one here.]

She’s all scratched up, but I love her. I’ve been wearing the Oura for a couple years now. I like how it tracks my menstrual cycle, how it tells me what days I’m in, and how it helps me with on-the-field stuff like knowing how hard to push myself, or what to eat and how to fuel myself — whether that’s anti-inflammatories or more protein depending on what phase I’m in. And then it shows my readiness, my heart-rate variability, and how I rested and recovered during my sleep, which helps me know how much I can push myself the next day.

I was really into the flip-flops this summer. Normally I’m like, toes are covered, socks on, I’m in sneakers, but I feel like this year was really a flip-flop summer, it was really trendy this year. And I had the worst mini sock-tan line, so I was trying to get rid of that. I also feel like the physios tell us it’s good to walk barefoot, but I don’t want to walk barefoot! So I’ll wear flat flip-flops, and maybe that helps. Apparently, walking barefoot helps your foot muscles.

I have three different pairs. One that’s very Brazil colors; I got those from a former teammate, Gabby Portillo. She brought them back from Brazil when she went to camp once. Then my other two pairs, I have a beige pair and a navy pair that I actually got in Brazil this summer, and they have a bunch of charms on them. When you buy them, you pick your charms and they punch a hole in the strap and press them in there — it’s like getting your ears pierced. And they’re so cheap over there.

I have them in beige. I feel like the noise canceling is so perfect, especially on planes. With traveling so much — there’s babies crying, the airplane is loud, like, sometimes I turn them on and don’t even play anything and just chill. It sounds kind of psychotic to say that, but it’s kind of nice. And then on game day, I listen to a lot of GloRilla and BossMan Dlow, very ratchet.

I red-light all the time to make sure this skin don’t crack. Obviously I’m young, but I feel like I have to start early. Dark spots, I had pretty bad acne — that’s a time in my life that we’re just going to leave — but especially with how much we sweat, and how much we’re in the sun, the red light helps soothe my skin, and I want the anti-aging properties happening. I use the TheraFace mask every night, in the bed, after my shower when I’m on my doomscroll. Sometimes I read, but most of the time it’s a doomscroll. I like that I can actually see with the mask on — it’s not super uncomfortable to have my eyes open. I go through the preset cycles.

I feel like I’ve been using it for a couple years now, even before partnering with e.l.f. Obviously the name — it grips — but even during games, my makeup literally sticks to it. I’m giving it a hard task with playing, I sweat a lot, but my makeup still stays. It’s at a nice price point, too, for how well it works. I do my skin care, then put the primer over that, let it sit for a minute or so, then I put on foundation or whatever other makeup I’m gonna wear.