HeyJaredGood For Your Age
Reporting on the beauty industry, aging, and wellness BS through a Gen X lens
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Midlife Reinvention: Traps, Tropes, and Truths (opens the original)
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Hello!I’m back from vacation, where I spent two weeks hiking, biking, sightseeing, and eating my way through Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. It was a truly magical trip, and for half of it I was with a group of friends in their 50s through 70s. We were all in different stages of work and health and parenthood and child-freedom and transition, and I had some great conversations.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zLVp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr
The Sneaky Ubiquity of Affiliate Links (opens the original)
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Hello!I just published a story at Bloomberg Businessweek [gift link] about regular people/non-influencers dropping affiliate links — which pay a commission when
The Ageless Pursuit of Figuring Out What the Heck ‘Ageless’ Means (opens the original)
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Hello!I hope everyone is having a good summer. I always want August to be slow and lazy but it inevitably ends up being chaotic and stressful. Today, however, I am stopping time to write about the word “ageless.” Plus, I’ve got a few weeks’ worth of news links to discuss: a saggy knee treatment, bread products for menopause (?), a new round of famous-person facelift discourse, and much more.Also! I’m working on a future newsletter about eyebrows, so if you have a question for a makeup artist and
A Midsummer Catch-Up (opens the original)
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Hello!I’m back after a week away in Maine, where I did a lot of hiking, birding (puffins!), lighthousing (tracked down 24 of them — it is an illness), eating, and seeing good friends. I’m on deadlines this week for an outlet that pays me good money and lets me write fun and challenging pieces, so there’s no main story here today as I catch up on everything. But I did the customary link roundup and added my usual thoughtful (ha) and well-articulated (heh) commentary, because I didn’t want to skip
Lazy, Cheesy, Futile...CoverGirl (opens the original)
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Hello! Mere minutes after sending out last week’s foot newsletter (BTW, thank you for the incredible response to that one; I feel very seen!), a story dropped about how CoverGirl was going to give up trying to go after young consumers in order to chase Gen X’s cash instead. Never has a more Good For Your Age story crossed my threshold. So, this week, you’re getting my thoughts on that, with a teeny bit of nostalgia just for fun.Quick note: There will be no newsletter next week because I’ll be on
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