HeyJaredGodfrey's Guide
A weekly column on beauty and adjacent topics (many of them) by Jean Godfrey-June
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- Sep 22, 2026
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The Invisible Fix (opens the original)
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Fall is arriving, and along with new socks or a chic, sexy-cozy, 1st-Amendment-affirming new sweater, I want a healthy glow, vitality, confidence, energy—a quality of aliveness. This sort of aliveness is not attractiveness itself, but it is very attractive.Of course, we’re all alive. But certain people appear more alive (to me, anyway). A big part of it involves the way they carry their body, something electric; you kno
Nights in White Cotton (opens the original)
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I am always searching for Marie Antoinette. I of course cannot get enough of the movie, with the desserts and the dresses and the having to give birth in front of a court full of people. And of course, the having to take the fall for the billionaire-bro/one-percenters of the day. I was just i
Oil Everything (opens the original)
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In the marginally-watchable Silo series on Apple TV, the people of the future are stuck in giant silos—art-directed relentlessly in the dullest browns and grays—that protect them from the toxic outside world. The silo’s lone window gets clouded over time. Whenever a person is sentenced to die and expelled into the toxic landscape, their invariable final act is to helpfully clean the window from the outside for their former compatriots, after which they stagger dramatically to their death.Each da
Summer Trouble (Hair and Otherwise) (opens the original)
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Summer is sort of the Instagram of the seasons. It purports to be only fun and relaxation, 24/7; its whole reason for being is effortlessness. Even the phrase “summer trouble” sounds fun, more like thrilling mischief than a problem. I realize there are real problems in this world, even real summer problems, like hurricanes; I might better have titled this column Summer Irritants, or Summer Inconveniences. I’m talking about sand-in-your-sandwich problems. I have to swim through the lily pads to g
You’re Soaking In It (opens the original)
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First-day jet lag is tough, especially on a hot Rome afternoon: I treated myself to a delicious salad under a wide umbrella, ordering several espressos to go with, and discovering much too late that I’d left my wallet at the hotel. Stumbling over the cobblestones on my way back to and back from the hotel, I sweated off and reapplied sunscreen, Sisyphus-like, as the sun blazed like a bed of hot coals. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qHu7!,f_auto,q_auto:g
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