😭 We Messed Up a Design

& our mom got her FIRST tattoo!

Weekly hot takes, trend banter, and tee drops — from your new favorite sister duo
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Welcome to issue #19 of the Tee Sisters Newsletter!

A LITTLE TEE SISTERS STORY

Our Parents Got Matching Tattoos


Let’s take you back to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 

If you haven’t read the Puerto Rican editions yet, you can read one here and another one here.

That was when we got our matching tattoos.

Our parents wanted to make sure we thought it out - and we DID.

Our dad has only one tattoo, the meaning of which he stands for.

And our mom never had any.

The second tattoo Leeza got was quite literally a day after. It was something she was thinking 🤔 of getting for a while and when the opportunity arose during our walk through San Juan, she got it.

What we didn’t realize, is that months and months later, our OWN parents would want to get tattoos to match it. 

Isn’t that crazy? 

Your parent getting a tattoo to match yours? 

Here’s the reveal 🤩

Why familia specifically? Well that’s our secret ❤️

HOT TOPIC

AI is making things that are more authentic go up in value


Before - small businesses, handmade high-end products, honest and genuine video reviews were overlooked.

But as AI has rolled around, progressed into making things that would normally take hours…heck…DAYS to do, people have started to crave things that are more authentic.

Things that are REAL.

I mean look at some of these videos created by Google’s tool Gemeni with SOUND!

For some of them, if no one told you, you probably wouldn’t even know.

And the more AI clips we see, the more we want just something that’s human.

So, here’s what’s on the rise:

  • Creative UGC Content

  • Family-Owned & Small Businesses

  • High-end Products That are Made in A Thoughtful Way (like this bedding brand)

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  • Small Films

  • Theater/Musicals

  • Outdoor Activities

  • Phone-Free Fun

PICK OUR NEW TEE (HAT)

So turns out HATS are performing better for us??

Well we don’t complain. And will make more of what our customers prefer 🙌

Here’s 2 hat designs for ya to pick from

Which hat would you wear?

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A TEE SISTER LESSON

We Messed Up a Design 😭


So we had a design win in our last newsletter.

We love it. It’s rugged. It’s creative. It’s out there.

But…


When it came to us trying to remove the background so we can have it printed on a black shirt, a bunch of the elements started getting ERASED.

So we have to manually trace EVERY element so we can have it printed right.

Otherwise, here’s what it looks like on a black shirt:

Definitely a no go right.

Lesson learned, make designs that can 1) can easily have a background removed 2) aren’t created in a way that relies on 1 background color


So we’re gonna work on it so ya’ll can have the shirt you loved! ❤️

SHARE THE TEE


Share the tee with your friends, acquire a free Trendy Tees tee, and then acquire more friends as a result of your Trendy Tees tee!

We’re saying we’ll give you free stuff and more friends if you share a link. One link.


See you in the next issue!
The Tee Sisters