How to Boil a rhode iPhone Case

Ingredients 

• rhode dupe iPhone 16 case 

• Boiled water in a pot 

• Ice water 

• rhode lip glosses if you want to boil those too

She’s runny, the lip balm. It will come pouring out as soon as you twist the lid off because the balm expands from the heat of your phone, which now in retrospect sounds cancer-inducing for my lips. The average lip gloss connoisseur consumes 24 milligrams of lip product a day and I am yet another Tiktok shop victim. 

I bought two of them. I was obsessed with having a Hailey Bieber rhode lip case where I can put my lipgloss in the uncomfortable sensory hold of a silicone hole, so bendable like rubber. The convenient aspect of the silicone case is the space for different products to fit in. To my surprise this includes NYX butter gloss, Glossier, ozempic, Charlotte Tilbury, a knife, and Summer Fridays. 

The lip gloss is missing because it began to smell like my rotting eggs.

She has a mirror-picture hating, diseased-brown bump, the case. It’s not coated with the color, so it never fades. It was to my reassurance that I could throw my case into a pot of boiling hot water to create a taste so fitting. The material met with a firm metal iPhone led to its expansion past its capacity. Some even cook their rhode lip glosses for an affirming non-overflowing ice cold sensation. 

Most people spend over $40 on the real case (which still stretches with time), but I got a dupe off TikTok shop for $10 because Bieber didn’t make any for iPhone 16s. iPhone 13s were available, so I was enraged that after having an 11 for years I upgraded to the one phone she didn’t have cases for. I’ve read Ella Ferrero’s “The Insecurity Economy & The Tiktok Shop” and the next year I bought a rhode case dupe after she wrote that femininity is being personally challenged through algorithms meant to gauge my cleanly aesthetic girlhood desires. I apologize, I won’t do it again. I am now being punished with a case that no longer fits. 

How an iPhone case should fit vs. how it does:

I heard people are also boiling the rhode peptide due to its grainy texture of little beads. Every product of hers seems to need boiling and our complacency to aesthetics over practical quality is growing through the digital age. This is a million dollar brand and I actually find myself thinking “no big deal, I just have to boil it everyday.” And so I begin my journey to fixing my rhodent beauty case of consumerism: 

1. I had to move this unnecessary pot of cabbage already being cooked, so I could start the main important dish of the Bieber. 

2. I got a pot, filled it with hot water and began boiling it on my stove at mild heat. 

3. Once the water was boiling I threw the case in and set a timer for 5 minutes, which I later changed to 10 for extra probability of triumph. 

4. After 15 minutes of boiling I took it out and placed it in a pot of ice water (apparently the most important step for unknown reasons). 

5. Dry it off and you should have successfully shrunk your rhode case! 

It didn’t actually work.

Sarina Greene