Vic Styles of Black Girl Smoke: 3 Things She Can't Smoke Without

Vic Styles is the founder of Black Girls Smoke, the New York-based platform and community built to make space for Black women in cannabis culture. Through events, content, and a curated point of view on the products worth owning, she's helped reframe what a smoker's lifestyle looks like — pulling the conversation away from the default boys-club aesthetic and toward something more personal, design-led, and welcoming. Her work has been profiled by Rolling Stone, which spotlighted Black Girls Smoke as a leading voice for Black women in cannabis (see "Vic Styles and Black Girls Smoke," Rolling Stone, rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/vic-styles-black-girls-smoke-cannabis-weed-1379204). Her stop at Good Grades is exactly on-brand: smart picks, clear reasons, and a real eye for the details most people skip.

Vic Styles doesn't ease into her interview. The first line out of her mouth is a thesis statement: "This is a boys club." Then she introduces herself — Vic Styles, founder of Black Girl Smoke — and gets right into the three things she can't smoke without.

It's a quietly pointed framing. Cannabis culture, especially on the accessory side, has been built around a fairly narrow aesthetic for decades. Black Girl Smoke is one of the brands actively widening that lane, and Vic's three picks read like a small manifesto for what that looks like in practice.

"This is a boys club."

The first essential is a grinder from Her Highness — and Vic spends as much time on how it looks as how it works.

"I'm a girl's girl, and I'm also queen of aesthetics," she explains. "If it doesn't look good, I really don't want anything to do with it. So that translates also into the way that I consume."

Then comes the functional case. "This grinder is very heavy duty. It's heavy when you pick it up. It's beautiful. I literally just leave it on my coffee table, and it works really well. Like the functionality, A1."

It's a small but important reframing. A grinder you leave on the coffee table isn't being hidden — it's part of the decor. The session becomes something you don't need to apologize for or tuck away.

"If it doesn't look good, I really don't want anything to do with it."

Her second pick is one that experienced smokers tend to swear by once they try it: a hemp wick.

"It just makes the smoking experience so much better," she says, and then lists the three reasons in order. "One, you don't taste the butane when you light the joint. Two, it's better for you because you're also not inhaling the butane. And three, again, I'm an aesthetic girl. I think it looks really cool to just light the joint with the wick."

Flavor, health, and aesthetics — all three boxes checked. The wick keeps the first draw clean, removes butane from the equation, and replaces the click of a Bic with a slow, intentional flame. It's a small upgrade that quietly transforms the ritual.

"I'm an aesthetic girl — I think it looks really cool to just light the joint with the wick."

The third pick is the one she gives away the most. "It is one of my favorite smoking accessories ever," she says. "I even give this to like all of my friends. It is also from Her Highness. It is this lips ashtray."

Then she ties the bow. "Aesthetics rule. This is a boys club. And whenever I find cute little girl accessories like this, I have to have them. I love them. Also, Her Highness donates a percentage of some of their proceeds to breast cancer awareness. And I really love the fact that they support a cause."

That's the whole Black Girl Smoke point of view in one accessory: it's pretty, it works, and the brand behind it stands for something. Buying it is a small vote for the kind of cannabis market Vic is building toward.

"Aesthetics rule. Whenever I find cute little girl accessories like this, I have to have them."

Vic's three things share a quiet theme: every pick is designed to make the session feel like hers. The grinder lives in the open. The wick replaces a disposable lighter with something more deliberate. The ashtray turns the catch-all into a statement piece.

Read together, they're an argument that accessories aren't a side note in cannabis — they're the part of the ritual you interact with most often. Choose them like you mean it, and the whole session levels up.

If you want more of Vic's point of view, she points viewers to @BlackGirlSmoke on Instagram and Threads, and to blackgirlsmoke.com.

Vic Styles' three essentials — a heavy Her Highness grinder, a hemp wick, and the Her Highness lips ashtray — make a clean case for treating accessories as the heart of a session, not the afterthought. Each pick does the job, looks the part, and quietly pushes back on the default boys-club aesthetic she calls out in her very first line.

It's a smart blueprint for anyone building their own kit: pick a grinder you'd display, a flame you'd choose on purpose, and a finishing piece you actually want to look at.

Watch the full interview below and find more artist and tastemaker conversations in our Cannabis Culture hub.

"Aesthetics rule."