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I'm On Smell Ya Later & Giving You My Freelance Expense Workbook
Two treats for your post-tax filing mourning period.
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Beauty News: Climate Crisis & Braids, Blackstone Buying MLM Companies
Greetings friends and enemies and welcome to another round of beauty links for the weekend. Here are my selections: Danié Gómez-Ortigoza: Hair Braiding…
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How to Do Taxes as a Freelance Creator/Substacker/Influencer
Do beauty influencers write off filler?
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Soul Loss and Eyeshadow Palettes
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Do The Things You Love Make You Feel Free?
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A Fact-Checked List of Pro-Palestinian Beauty Brands
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"Makeup You Can Sleep In" is Keeping Me Up At Night
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What if Triple Cleansing is My Sacred Space? Who's Going to Stop Me, Huh?
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The History of Gauze is Haunting Me
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Beauty News: Climate Crisis & Braids, Blackstone Buying MLM Companies
Greetings friends and enemies and welcome to another round of beauty links for the weekend. Here are my selections: Danié Gómez-Ortigoza: Hair Braiding…
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Arabelle Sicardi
Beauty's DEI Backlash is Already Here
In all honesty, it has never left - it's just gotten more confident in its own success.
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The Beauty News That's Freaking Me Out
Quick roundup around the virtual water cooler, hmm?
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A Fact-Checked List of Pro-Palestinian Beauty Brands
If beauty brands claim to "empower" consumers, then their silence is powerful, too.
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"Makeup You Can Sleep In" is Keeping Me Up At Night
Youthforia - you've entered a new shark tank.
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Dupe Culture in Beauty is Ruining Everything
Gatekeeping is fine, actually.
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Trees Were The First Perfumers
Some notes on smell, starting in the forests of my childhood
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How To Judge A Smell
My experience as a judge for Art & Olfaction Awards - the "Oscars of Independent Perfumery"
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A Website, a Scent-Scape, and a Trip You're Invited To
Not one but THREE things to share.
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Introducing Book Bundles, a Concierge Book Club - & Some More Announcements
Arabelle's Book Club in IRL Form
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The Master of Gesture
Another week in beauty school, in which blindness for beauty is a risk calmly ventured.
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Beauty's DEI Backlash is Already Here
In all honesty, it has never left - it's just gotten more confident in its own success.
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Hong Kong Beauty Tips, In Case You Ever Go
Beauty tourism is my favorite assignment I give myself
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The Next Writing Salon is Tomorrow, Noon EST
You are invited!
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Soul Loss and Eyeshadow Palettes
When the things we love are used against us, we are taught that nothing and no one is safe from harm.
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A Beauty Salon Writing Series: Beginning Saturday, March 2
Free drop-in writing hours for paid subscribers, for the next 3 weeks.
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