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Everything I am Putting On (In) My Face Right Now. (opens the original)
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First of all, it’s not you, it’s me. I dropped the Substack ball for a few weeks between what is known as “high summer” and back-to-school season. We can blame it on the burnout of working while school was still out and camp was over, aka getting distracted by a “bored” teenager who would inevitably spring requests for a ride to the park on me at random (and peak busy-for-me) times every afternoon. A more regular commute to the LA Times offices in El Segundo to record the Live + Well podcast. Th
The Drop By Dispatch (opens the original)
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We Should All Be Backcombing Our Eyebrows (opens the original)
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Back in 2011, I met Kristie Streicher who at that time was seeing clients out of the Warren Tricomi salon in West Hollywood. I plunked down in her chair and was absolutely floored at the specificity with which she approached every single hair, its placement and condition and how she completely nerded out at growth patterns and achieving volume. In an article for the LA Times that soon followed our meeting, I called her “the brow whisperer” for the patience and knowledge sh
6 Pairs of Sandals That Go The Distance This Summer (opens the original)
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Listen, it’s all fun and games until your jelly sandals start emanating an odor indicating they might be melting onto the sidewalk. Or your heel bone begins shooting pain up to your lower back because the soles of your sandals are too flat (and so is your foot). Both of these things happened to me over the last couple of weeks and it turns out that painful/problematic sandals (and shoes in general) are my biggest summer anxiety matched only by the immense frustration I feel every time my 13-year
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