Best Of 2023

Brayden Schenn

Golden Gems

Multiple locations including 3108 Locust Street, shopgoldengems.com

Where do you go when you need to get the point across to your bestie that they are, indeed, a fucking peach? In St. Louis, there’s only one answer: Golden Gems, the unapologetic lifestyle brand that sells a coffee mug printed with this exact sentiment. Sisters Amanda Helman and Susan Logsdon’s delightfully irreverent boutique, home goods and accessories store has everything you need to celebrate a life lived on your own terms and an assortment of gifts for the powerful witches surrounding you who are doing their thing, too. There’s nothing worthwhile that you can’t find at Golden Gems; the shop and online store has everything from hats, scarves, clothing and accessories to candles, crystals and sex toys, so you are sure to be the best gifter at the party when you come with a package from this sparkling diamond of a shop. Just don’t forget to grab a little something for yourself, too; you, goddess that you are, deserve it.