Substackers going *in* on spon-con & podcasts, the beauty brand that has me in a chokehold, & a Friday treat. 🌀

"It’s got a stale grapefruit-crayon vibe. I just put on the tinted one in ‘Fawn’ and it’s giving notes of crayon.”

Happy Friday!! I hope you have lovely weekend plans ahead, I am so excited for JUNE.

Today and tomorrow we officially move to the beach for the summer, my life right now is a mess of duffle bags and boxes and chaos. I am also having a small mental breakdown, both unrelated and completely related to moving. It’s not even 11:00 AM and I have burst into tears three times today. 🫠 It will be ok, right? 🫠 It will be ok, right? 🫠 It will be ok, right? 🫠

Thank you for the love on my last letter about resilience— your responses made me realize that the “standard” or idea of resilience that we think people should have is usually kind of bullshit, and toughness and tenaciousness shows up in lots of different ways. I don’t think this will magically make a lifetime of issues or ideas about what I “should” be like go away, but it’s meaningful to me nonetheless.

Pray for me, I am at that part of the packing journey where it’s not clear how we will get it all done…

I’m noticing so many Substacks go…