The hair care tips accurately describe my beauty routine from last winter. Never let it be said that substance abuse and untreated mental health prevented me from anticipating beauty trends.

I don’t remember Baba Yaga having chicken legs. Her house had chicken legs, though.

She has regular legs. Only the house has chicken legs.

Inspo thread!
Louise Nevelson:

Seems like Joanna has her next “I did it to myself” post lined up.

*blushes* I’m flattered! Thank you, kindly denizens of Jezebel🤗

An indie makeup company just released a Baba Yaga blush this morning. The timing of the release on the same day as the results of the poll is actually complete synchronicity since it’s part of their Halloween collection that was developed and scheduled for today a while ago, but I feel like I should mention it anyway.

Finally, I’m in vogue!

I love Hellboy’s Mike Mignola’s take on Baba Yaga:

... I work nights....i did what i could, lol

If you’re so smart, can you name a single person who used the psychic vampire repellant who was attacked by a vampire? I don’t think so.

I grew up pretty poor. Free breakfast/lunch, one hair cut a year, one pair of shoes, no winter coat one year (we lived pretty close to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) poor. Yet my mother (we have not spoken since ‘97) would take some of what little we had to buy crystals and “healing” tea. “Why pay a doctor, who will…

Mmmm hmmm. I feel no primal instinct to nourish. I’ve had cacti die under my watch.

This is even more ridiculous coming on the precipice of ANOTHER repeal of Obamacare - where tens of millions of women will actually lose basic healthcare. The ability to even go to the hospital for childbirth, or an OB/GYN visit, or a mammograph, or obtain birth control.

This is a magazine largely for women who are so privileged that they have to invent problems in their heads, for which Goop conveniently provides both the inspiration and cure.

She’s not wrong. I’m always feeling a primal instinct to nourish— myself. With cake.

Hold up. I’m supposed to have a writing style, a personal style, a hair style, a work style, AND NOW ALSO A SCHOOL DROP OFF STYLE?

‘part of women’s “primal instinct to nourish,”’

Forget GOOP. What you need is my patented elixir, which will treat all manner of female maladies, from hysteria to disturbed uterus, melancholia to the vapors. A spoonful a day will keep your constitution stable and your bowels restive.

Yes, it’s true that women’s health and health care experiences have largely been ignored or belittled. Women have literally suffered because of it and still do.