Well, 51% of you loved TS12 and 14% of you requested we talk about anything else besides Taylor. The rest of you fell somewhere around ambivalent. So basically, no matter what you feel about Taylor Swift or The Life of a Showgirl, you’re not alone.

Skylar: Unequivocally, Love is Blind is the thing I am most interested in discussing this week. Mostly because I feel like my own worst enemy when it comes to the reality TV I love to loathe.

I’m holding off on a full season breakdown until it’s all out, but this week had me watching, jaw on the floor, mostly horrified and totally hooked. Insert the full on train-wreck metaphor. I couldn’t look away but I did not like what I was seeing.

This isn’t news to anyone, but we’ve fully crossed into the era of contestants chasing followers, not fiancés. And it’s just a bummer. What made those early seasons work was that the people actually seemed emotionally unhinged in a relatable way. Now it’s all social media circuit press and thirst traps.

And yet. I can’t stop watching. I’m still binging every episode like it’s my civic duty, which might be the actual problem. The show isn’t a social experiment anymore. It’s a content farm, and I am still feeding it. The algorithm wins either way.

So how do I break the cycle? How do we get back to messy-because-you’re-in-love, not messy-because-you-want-a-podcast-deal? Do we all just agree to stop saying “I’m not even rooting for any of these couples”? Or do we finally admit that they know exactly what they’re doing, and we’re still giving them the fifteen minutes they came for anyway?

Carol: TLOAS left little room for anything else in my life this week. But I did carve out time to finish The Black Rabbit on Netflix. I recommend.

A question for the girlies: do you ever convince yourself that getting in the shower to wash your face feels less daunting than just washing it at the sink?

I’m not talking about nights when a full shower is warranted. I mean the ones when only your face technically needs washing, but the task feels like climbing Everest, so you convince yourself a shower is the easier option. Objectively, it makes no sense. Now my entire body is wet, my hair is precariously piled on top of my head, exposed to unnecessary humidity, and yet, it’s almost always the choice I make.

Maybe it’s the choreography of the sink that makes it feel like the hardest task known to (wo)man: the leaning over, the splashing, the water trickling down your forearms, the somehow unavoidable cold spot on your shirt, the one-eye-open-search for the towel you should have placed within arm’s reach but never do. Then, after all that, you look up at your reflection and realize your suffering was for nothing. Your mascara, the same one that can’t survive a summer day, stares back at you, mocking you, asking “oh, was that all for me?” Then you’re left with the question of repeating the torture or going after it with a Q-tip. I almost always select Q-tip.

You’ll never find me skipping a face wash, but you will find me screaming into the null void, “HAVEN’T WE SUFFERED ENOUGH?” before I turn on the shower.

💔 Diane Keaton has passed away at 79. A bonus mom for all millennials. From Father of the Bride to Something’s Gotta Give, she taught us that aging, humor, and high-waisted trousers can all coexist beautifully. A true icon of wit, warmth, and womanhood. She’ll be deeply missed. And for the First Wives Club girlies, may we forever remember this scene.

💉 Fresh faces and a new fear unlocked? A lot of chatter recently about the facelifts and plastics work on Kris Jenner and Mandy Moore. This X user has presented a new monster hiding under the aging bed: mortality psychosis?! Expect a burning question at a future live show about this….

⚕️ Godspeed, Greys. 22 seasons in, and they’ve yet again killed off a major character. It’s wild to think that when this show premiered, we were still burning mix CDs, and now we’re watching interns get paged via smartwatch. Spoiler Warning.

👠 Paris Fashion Week marked a bold return to elegance, theatricality, and self-assured creativity. Across the runways, designers embraced sharp tailoring, rich textures, radical sensuality, and fantastical escapism, signaling the end of “quiet luxury” in favor of expressive sophistication. Here’s your lookbook for Spring / Summer 2026.

🎤 Drake’s defamation case has been dismissed. Kendrick wins again, both in court and in verse. Toronto, our thoughts are with you.

💄 “I ain’t dead yet.” – Dolly Parton, after the internet lost its mind over her sister’s Facebook post asking for prayers. Dolly shut it down with a video looking flawless at 79. The world could not handle that loss right now, we need Dolly more than ever.

The final four faced off, and we’d like to say it was closer than it was, but there was no nail biting here.

Cue Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” because Knee High Boots (16%) took a beating when facing off against Crisp Weather (84%).

Hocus Pocus (43%), the surprise underdog of the bracket finally took an L when paired up with all time heavy hitter Soup Season (57%).

🍂 So here we are: Soup Season vs. Crisp Weather, the ultimate showdown for the Basic Witch Crown.

10/16: Last Call for tickets (seriously, there’s only 4 left) to our show this Thursday at Nina’s Boutique in Lake Norman.

10/22: We are teaming up with Inner Circle CLT for a hauntingly hilarious and spooky themed girls night at Heist Barrel Arts. Dress code: Black. What else would you wear to hex your ex?

If you’re not familiar with ICC, check out our Substack interview with their founder, The Breakup That Built A Sisterhood.

Thank you to the girlies who read all the way through last week and found the easter egg bonus question to send in what their AIM away message today would be. A personal fave?

"Walk the dogs, do my NYT puzzles, workout, get ready then have a client at 11, make/eat lunch and do a training then see a client in person then come back and see one more client before I can eat dinner and sleep 😴 ~ you don't know the life of a showgirl, babe. And you're never gonna wanna ~”

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