Every single page of @arabellesicardi.bsky.social’s House of Beauty so far has contained a horrifying interesting fact I did not know about the beauty industry and also now I can’t stop thinking about how evil the term “beauty” “industry” is.

I need a sixty minutes episode on why toothpaste is eleven dollars

Ok fine don’t wring my arm just subscribe to my substack lol

I do find it hilarious that the person sitting next to me on the flight asked if I knew why there are so many Vietnamese nail techs and I was like… funny you should ask… I wrote a book about this exact subject that just came out 😆

Coco Chanel. And I wrote a pilot and a book chapter to prepare for this exact opportunity. Hahahahaha

Yo! If you missed the first two printings, tonight I cranked out 100 more copies of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Still just $6.00 from the Half Letter Press webstore. Give the gift of FUCK ICE to someone you love. halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...

Finished reading this book by @arabellesicardi.bsky.social today. Everything about it is wonderful, but these lines (from the chapter on Coco Chanel) will haunt me forever: “The most disturbing thing about evil isn’t how cruel it can be. It is that it makes being good seem impossibly radical.”

The house of beauty audiobook is out today! I read it for you and I thrillingly only teared up TWICE (it’s a wild ride) but I bet you’ll cry listening 😅 rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

😅❤️❤️❤️

Almost every writer I hung out with for a decade in nyc was also a shop girl, donated blood, sugar babied or were unspeakable amount of debt also. Or like: bought Facebook stock real early. No in between

I do miss twitter because the vibes in Bluesky vs threads vs substack notes are all so different and I want all the media gossip and memes neatly consolidated for my giggles :(

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

spoke to NPR (Here & Now) about the house of beauty - www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image Industry by @arabellesicardi.bsky.social is the best book I’ve read in a long time.

The condescending anti-union reporting on conde coming from a man who, when at conde, actively discouraged the class action lawsuit against unpaid internships from happening is not surprising and totally undisclosed lol

real psycho shit

my book is out today and I am spending the day at the vet hahaha. please come to the book event nearest you this week or next to celebrate with me properly <3 wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Doing nationwide perfume swaps and book talks to celebrate my nonfiction book on the beauty industry- please join me!

In the latest of many gorgeous newsletter essays from @arabellesicardi.bsky.social (one of two substacks I remain subscribed to, and for good reason), the latest—on beauty, queerness, and the beauty industry as a marker for cultural shifts—is an absolute banger open.substack.com/pub/arabelle...

Soon as I walked in for a blowout and I realized she was Brazilian I knew I was gonna get the best blowout of my life and I was RIGHT

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

yes!! just did this to preorder SPREAD ME by @sarahgailey.bsky.social and HOUSE OF BEAUTY by @arabellesicardi.bsky.social 🕺🕺🕺

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... while people rage over AI meme art… did you know most of your fragrances and scented goods have already been touched by AI?

I definitely saw this episode of 9-1-1 before

I have seen the MOST UNHINGED conspiracy theories about the Rhode acquisition since the news broke and this is coming from someone who FLEW TO EUROPE to read undigitized surveillance dossiers on coco chanel because I was nosy

I wrote The House of Beauty because the beauty industry has always been a mirror, a mask, and a weapon. This book is about who profits from our insecurities—and how we reclaim our power. Pre-orders have begun. <3

I have rarely preordered a book as fast as I bought @arabellesicardi.bsky.social's upcoming House of Beauty.

Really good time schooling @arabellesicardi.bsky.social’s Perfumed Pages squad on the dangers and delights of Jeremy Fragrance tonight. Crumpled test strips to indicate fun was had. #perfumesky

Becoming the joker doesn't cut it anymore. I need something worse to become

The audacity of getting a Tesla truck and putting that”I got this before he went crazy” sticker on it like it wasn’t exhibit 405048 that man was already bonkers. PLEASE

Absolutely riveted by the gossip mill surrounding the Pilates/hot yoga crime ring happening in LA right now. If I would not get banned from classes for bad PR I would write about it in .00005 seconds

Nothing like hearing the bros next to me in the airport lounge cheerfully discuss mortgage fraud and deciding to leave messages to the attorney general for my 5calls morning ritual and see them twitch 😌

There’s a Project 2025 tracker to follow their progress and to see what’s ahead. The project Trump and the GOP disavowed because it was so unpopular and then began immediately to put in place. www.project2025.observer

Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

happy valentine’s day thanks to those sharing this poem again ❤️

Please get your vaccines done asap (super easy to schedule through cvs if they take your insurance) bc I fully expect them to be replaced with apple cider vinegar or RFK’s piss at some point

Allegory alert!

Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood. grist.org/accountabili... #Climate #Data #GreenSky #IRA #BIL

"Coup Klux Klan" feels like a keeper

It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate

When the nazis invaded Paris they looted all the good wine to Germany first thing. Little drunken losers

Having to make sure my will is notarized and updated before a flight in America because they have dismantled all safety guardrails feels absolutely insane

My meditative mantra is just various ways of vengeance on the nerds at this point. May they never find peace and may they never get laid and all their plans turn to dust in front of them

I think that a driving factor behind some "redpilled" tech elites is that they actually yearn for feudalism rather than capitalism.

Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

So much of this could have been prevented had we all agreed we had to bully nerds way more and punched people who suggested conspiracies at the dinner table