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Friday night we hosted a show in collab with FPM’s Sports Romance Book Fair at OMB in CLT, and the book girlies showed up ready to chat about it all! Vibrating bookmarks, lady part piercings, side bangs, tax evasion, and of course yes, the TFP and SLOMW drama.

I can’t stop talking about it actually. And most of you agree.

Last week’s poll asked where you sat in the Bachelorette and SLOMW drama.

60% of you said you were bringing critical source material and offering hot takes. 16% said you were silently forming opinions, and we’re sorry to the 20% of you that wanted to mute the chat. AND few girlies had TEA. Letting us know that they know one of the contestants. 👀 We will be following up.

✂️ Beauty experts may say side bangs are making a comeback, but the girlies in the audience were a hard no on this potential Rachel reboot.

💄We asked about the “velvet skin” makeup trend (goodbye dewy finish?) and this seemed to be cause for chaos. The crowd said “dont you mean matte?” And so we’ll see if it’s a rebrand or new trend.

👁️ Allegedly, Korean Lash Lift is currently the top search for beauty online and while no one in the audience had tried it, one girlie said she can confirm she has seen it trending.

💉 Even though it’s trending, no one is doing at home injectables.

🏀 Dating games. Some girlies in the crowd suggested sporting events to spot a prospective hot guy (should we plan a girlies go sporting event?) and when asked where the hot athletes hang out, one girlie said Selwyn’s Pub 👀

⭕ You’re never too young to start kegels. Need inspo? There’s a woman on instagram that will lead you through guided exercises. The girlies said, you know what, “you don’t need to follow her, she finds you.”

💔 A girlie wanted to know if she should have breakup sex with an ex? The girlies said, “Thank you, Next.”

🧘‍♀️ The room got heated when someone wrote in this hot take. I (and most girlies) disagreed, but I do know that whoever wrote this was probably one of the best dressed in the room, so she can take a w.

🦪 When a girlie wrote in that the last thing she googled was a Fourchette piercing, I personally spiraled. I, a woman in her 30’s, had never heard of this female anatomy? How are people keeping it sanitary when wiping?! I want to hear from someone who has one so I can ask it all.

IYKYK: Who really knows the rules for tax evasion? Take the trip to Bali, and we can’t be trusted to name your dog, and we all agree the spines of a (book) series should match.

📺 The girlies are watching and excited about The Pitt (HBO), Shrinking (Apple), Age of Attraction (Netflix), SLOMW (Hulu), and of course Heated Rivalry (HBO).

🫤 No one had started HBO’s Rooster or The Comeback and we personally feel like Steve Carrel and Lisa Kudrow deserve better.

⁉️ A few girlies in the room stood behind Love Story (Hulu), The Madison (Paramount), Imperfect Woman (Apple), and DTF St. Louis (HBO).

🧑‍⚖️ The crowd pipped in to shout out High Potential (Hulu), 56 Days (Amazon), Landman (Paramount), The Burbs (Peacock), Company Retreat aka Season 2 of Jury Duty (Amazon).

📚 Book chat started when we sat down with sports romance authors Lauren Blakely and Mollie Goins. Later in the show a girlie mentioned Kiss of the Basilisk and the crowd cheered but also warned about the second book (and it’s cum fountain?!)

🎂Trader Joe’s Toasted Coconut Sheet Cake is a must try.

🍸 New South Park restaurant Laurel Park apparently “had a strong bartender”

Skylar: Men. Almost every live show has a burning question that deals with the difficulties of dating and men, this week it was “I don’t get why it’s so hard to find a good guy/guy in general.” Several ladies offered up solutions including going for the “nerd” or trying to find him at places like GameStop. I actually asked the room, “would you do that?” and honestly the answer was a resounding… no. The crowd seemed uninterested in this genuine solution to finding a nicer guy? I genuinely am not sure what to make of this, and want to talk a lot more about it.

Carol: PSA: please stop injecting yourselves with mystery neurotoxins off the internet. I am seeing entirely too many unqualified girlies (respectfully: accountants, marketing managers, brave soldiers of Excel) ordering off-brand versions of Botox / Dysport from very questionable websites and injecting themselves at home after watching a 90-second tutorial.

We polled the girlies in person on Friday and (thank God) everyone was appropriately horrified. Let’s keep it that way. This is not a “learn it on YouTube” skill. This is a license required situation. If you want tox (or lasers, or peels) go to trained and licensed providers. Need one? Got you covered. If you must be horizontal on your own couch in your own living room while doing it (again… I would like to know why?) there are legit concierge services who can help. Please do not inject black market botox in your head at home. Thankyousomuch.

📺 We got the best of both worlds in millennial nostalgia this week. The Hannah Montana anniversary special sent viewership of the original series soaring, while the Laguna Beach reunion red carpet forced all of us to confront a harsh reality: it may finally be time to retire our Team LC / Team Kristin Hollister tees.

🎤 If one more headline says Taylor Swift was on a “date night” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards while she was actually there winning 7 awards, I’m going to scream. Imagine someone saying Travis was on date night every time she comes to support him at a game. ✨ Screams. ✨

🎬 A 13 Going on 30 reboot is in the works and once again we ask: was everything good created in the early 2000s and now we just reboot it until morale improves?

We’re bringing the group chat to your city. Bring your group chat, or find your new one. Grab your tickets!

One of the prompts we asked girlies on Friday was the “wildest place they’ve read a sex scene” and we love that someone said the Waffle House. Another shout out to the girlie who said she had a “sexual awakening while high". Get it girlies.

The girlie behind Her Little Bookmark talked to the crowd on Friday night about her vibrating bookmark and shared the code for 20% off thevibrary.

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