Are we doing sheet masks anymore?
As I write this intro I have a Sephora-brand coconut sheet mask on. The mask is supposed to calm my skin. It’s been maybe a year since the last time I did a sheet mask - they seem like such a flash in the pan trend to me now. But maybe I’ve just traded my single-use products for a more expensive routine while collecting them in gifts, as add on to orders, one by one for a few years.
I kind of forget I could re-gift a sheet mask, easy. If there was a way to incorporate live-polling on Substack, I would be asking: are we doing sheet masks anymore?
Anyway.
Next week we have a guest writer that I am pleased as punch about. I am confident it will be good. I’m always confident, so far no one has been a bad guest writer. But this is a like a good guest writer.
This sentence now has links to the my instagram, and old issues of the newsletter. Also my Nuuly referral link. I hope today is beautiful for you. Don’t forget to have fun this week.
Number One: Big Bootie 21
I think that the Big Bootie mixes are the WOW! CDs of our times. Little time capsules that we’ll one day cringe at. But for now, they make the perfect gym soundtrack.
21 is good. It takes a couple listens, at first I thought the middle was weak, now I like the middle.
Number Two: Top Gun: Maverick // Hold My Hand
I saw Top Gun: Maverick last weekend and have spent every day since telling anyone who will listen how much I enjoyed the movie. It was exactly what it needed to be - and even in the ways it wasn’t it sort of made sense. Go bring a sweatshirt to the movie theater, buy a bucket of popcorn, get a small Diet Coke, have a good time.
Plus Lady Gaga’s Hold My Hand is an absolute jam. As I told Makenzie, I’m ready to admit I like Lady Gaga’s music. She has good songs.
Number Three: An interesting piece on influencers
At this present moment I am a leetle annoyed with the Harper’s Bazaar paywall because I can quote tweet the part of this article that I found so interesting. The skinny is that this college professor goes to live in a content house, and write about his observations of young people.
There’s more than a few “I’m an adult and I went to go hang out with a bunch on young people that live in a mansion and all have abs and the same haircut,” articles, but this particular one has a very striking observation about how if everyone has the power to have a platform, everyone is also cancellable. It’s haunted me. Get past the paywall and read it.
Number Four: Hampton Watts
Hampton and I were in the same RUF intern class, and it’s been so fun to watch him flourish as an artist. His paintings are incredible. You know how drawing hands is like impossible? He is so good at hands! Right now, on Instagram, Hampton is doing a “day x of me trying to become a full time artist,” reels series. I hate reels as a rule, but I love this series. It’s so soothing. Go Hampton!
Number Five: Zac and Ali’s wedding // help clean up eight minutes
Yesterday I got the honor of coordinating Ali and Zac’s wedding. When someone in line for tacos asked how I knew the couple, I was like, “So Ali and I maybe knew each other in college, but then became friends post-grad in Waco. Anyway, I have this newsletter, and Ali subscribes and it seems like we’ve become even better friends. She asked if I would come to Texas to coordinate, and I was like, ‘sure!’”
The guy just looked at me like, “you could have just said ‘college.’”
Absolutely stunning wedding. Beautiful all the way around. The whole day was hosted in the backyard of Zac’s family lake house. Just stunning and perfect.
After the send off, I turned around and looked at the tables littered with bottles, cups, napkins, all the wedding trash there normally is, and got a sudden sense of “oh boy.”
But let me tell you what: despite there being no “staff” to clean up, it was a total breeze because like 40 guests stepped in and just started cleaning up. It’s zero percent shocking that Ali and Zac’s people did this, because of course Ali and Zac attract quality people that stay after the wedding to help with clean up.
This is my suggestion to you: (and hear me say, Katherine Corliss loves to leave a function early, I’m known for it, when it’s time to go, I want to go) if you stay until the send off, AND ESPECIALLY if you know that the couple didn’t pay the caterer/venue extra for clean up, but even if they did, set an 8 minute timer, go back inside and make it your personal problem to help clear trash. Or empty vases. Or collect candles. It is safe to assume that the FujiFilm InstaMax film wrappers are trash. If you don’t know where things go, just start collecting things that look alike and put them together. And then go home. You don’t have to be the last to leave.
It as just an absolute cherry on top of an already awesome day. I got this photo with the couple, and my eyes are closed, but I don’t care!!