Church bothering: Normandy edition

Joining in on unhinged brand stuff and getting paid for it

That would be impressive if he could, have to admit

I’m so sorry dude. Call or text if you need.

Another day of what the fresh hell for America.

About 40% through Dopplegånger by Naomi Klein and the way she lays out how bannon and his ilk slid upwards in popularity and the shocking ease of jumping to the right is as spot in 2023 as it is now.

Things England can thanks Vikings for - towns breaking into North so and so, and south so and so because they realize sometimes were too big for one administration. I also like to think they introduced better grooming habits too!

The Perfume Diaries: Hermès Barénia My first chypre fragrance

In which I yap about how good Barenia smells

I’m so behind on seeing Nosferatu it’s ridiculous, but I could be so down for this

Faces Of Music Paid content by Sephora. Faces of Music is a documentary series that examines the most exciting musicians today through the lens of beauty and makeup. In each 25-30 minute episode, a featured musician...

Blatant Sephora work plug, didn’t work on this, but one of my favorite team members did

Lauren Gallo | Substack MFA haver and independent medieval scholar (and a coffee addict) who is also a beauty marketing manager and continues attempts at writing things. And who is also running out of both bookshelf space an...

Btw I’m also on substack

substack.com/@visavisage

Yup, and it was a really bad day to have to do normal adulting

Why do people never post the full gifs or videos when they share these that show that these are actually taken out of context, but we actually have a video of musky boy doing this twice with intent?

Also, there’s the fact that the so-called Roman salute was in fact an invention of fascists and actually is never mentioned as a thing that happened in Roman text and even in art the salute is different. But I also can’t expect so-called sudden Roman experts to bother googling.

Yesterday morning, I woke up with a mounjaro syringe tucked under my boob because I forgot I put it under there to warm it up to room temperature and then fell asleep

In beauty, nothing exemplifies this more than Rhode packaging

A popular case of discourse around this recently was the Jaguar logo rebrand, a totally identifiable logo now enshittened

Millennial Rebrand Syndrome Who's still buying stuff that looks this torched?

The curse of the boring rebrand, discussed here by Blackbird Spyplane on substack, drives me nuts. I miss distinct branding and something interesting looking vs the sleek, monotone, minimal branding we see now occasionally punctuated with pastel and bubble font. open.substack.com/pub/blackbir...

Adding to my queue to listen at work 🫶

Hi all, I’m Lauren. I am social marketing expert working at Sephora, also an independent scholar of medieval history (currently writing papers on Viking cultural legacy in England and also beguine schools of the Low Countries), absolutely movie nerd, and I love to travel.