#thefrenemy

[the-bookplate]

This morning I had brunch with one of my best friends ellewcee as well as thefrenemy at Prune, restaurant of Blood, Bones and Butter author Gabrielle Hamilton. We talked about television (a lot about last week’s MasterChef finale), adult relationships, friends, books, and of course, how good our brunch was.

The Frenemy, also known as Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse author Alida Nugent, has a new book out this fall: You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism. She’s a stellar person as well as a rad writer, and you should read her first book and then preorder this one, out Oct. 20th from Plume.

Pictured above with her book is the classic eggs benedict from Prune and the Southwest bloody maria, with their standard Red Stripe chaser. I can’t resist a benny, and believe me, no one does eggs better than Prune at brunch.

[allratteduplikeateenagejezebel]

Remember a year ago when I met thefrenemy and she was awesome and I didn’t take any selfies with her to prove it happened?

I want to eat the nachos at Commodore with you, girl.

[allratteduplikeateenagejezebel]

thefrenemy replied to your post:Desperately Seeking

oh man there’s a girl at Foxy Salon in BK who I enjoy, but I can’t remember her name and I can only afford it once a year. NOBODY CAN CUT CURLY HAIR.

NOBODY CAN CUT CURLY HAIR. It's a TRAGEDY. I've been cutting my own hair for 2+ years but I can't do anything too drastic to it and I just want short fluffy liz taylor curls and I can't find anyone who can do that. I'm even willing to pay stupid amounts of money for it.

I'll look them up. I've also heard good things about some of the girls at Seagull Salon 

[jukeboxheart]

Things I Learned This Summer

After Alida Nugent

Yes, that lipstick looks okay with your skin tone. Every lipstick you try on will make you look like a goddess or a model or a normal girl who wears great lipstick. Except for maybe that shade of purple. Maybe throw that away. Or wear it. With something that clashes. It will make you look like a fashion student or a sorceress or a normal girl who wears purple lipstick.

Watching all five seasons of Pretty Little Liars and then reading all seventeen books in the space of a month is not inspiring you to write your novel. Writing every day is inspiring you to write your novel. It’s okay if you write “I’m bored” for twenty minutes and try out different ways of writing. Your penmanship will be excellent by the end of the summer.

Make more food with alcohol in it. Make more food with herbs you grow yourself. Make more food that makes enough for two or three or for. Make more friends. Do not make friends who make you feel inadequate. Do not keep friends who make you feel lonely. Do not lose friends who make you feel alive.

Make your bed in the morning instead of leaving it for night. Fold your laundry when it’s done instead of living out of the hamper. Go grocery shopping now instead of eating ramen for the fourth night in a row. Unpack all your boxes. Open the windows. Drink more water. Take your medicine.

You can catch the flu in the middle of the summer. It is awful. The heat will make it feel like the fever is cooking your brain. Keep the friends who will make you matzo ball soup and bring you saltines. Drink tea. Do not count the calories in the popsicles you need to consume to stave off your brain being cooked. Do not count the calories in matzo ball soup and saltines. Do not count calories.

Girl Scouts made you a better person. Your parents love you. You have really, really great hair. Resilience should not be your most important quality your whole life, but it is right now. Do not respond to inflammatory comments in comic book stores. Take out all your aggression playing by playing Mario Kart 7 and aiming green shells very, very carefully. Wear more lipstick. Write more poetry. Drink more water. Feel more alive.

[allratteduplikeateenagejezebel]

thefrenemy replied to your post:I just need a super dark black liquid liner that...

Yo girl just get the elf one for 1 buck (the non-marker one) and apply a good and black pencil eyeliner before putting the liquid on top. Then dust translucent powder all over cuz i super hate powders

Is the elf liquid good?? I feel like I have one somewhere in my house that I bought and never used. I am ride or die for wet n wild in every season but summer because my eyeliner wings just melt right off if it's humid. 

jaqln replied to your post:I just need a super dark black liquid liner that...

it helps to use a primer on your eyelids! :) elf’s primer is 1$ and is effective!

I've tried the elf eyelid primer and I'm not a fan (their face primer is good though). I use urban decay primer but only if I need to do like full drag eye makeup because I am too poor to buy it more than once every two years.

[allratteduplikeateenagejezebel]

thefrenemy replied to your post:My roommate is currently celebrating his birthday...

Can we call men pay pigs now though

thefrenemy replied to your post:My roommate is currently celebrating his birthday...

Oh sorry I just meant pigs

They are all pay pigs to me, tbh. Whether they are aware of it or not.

[velocipedestrienne]

thefrenemy said: I’m reading Wild now and I literally had to stop in the middle of the first chapter and just skip to the second chapter because I KNEW and I was on the subway and I was CRYING.

And, like, it's not even a quiet weeping on the train - it is CRYING. I also started it on the train and I just could not contain myself. Once I got home I was just, like, wailing.

Same for Tiny Beautiful Things. I feel like Cheryl Strayed is the master of pulling you in with normal writing and then all of a sudden it's raining on your face and how did you get there.

[allratteduplikeateenagejezebel]

thefrenemy replied to your quote:Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics’ Black Metal Dahlia...

I’ve wanted to wear OCC forever but am nervous about the bleed and the staying power. Is it thick and smudgy like I imagine it to be? I sort of imagine it as putting actual acrylic paint on my lips and therefore impossible for a boozy slobhound like me to wear.

I LOVE wearing OCC and I am a professional disaster. I have like seven of them and those and my $1.99 wetnwild matte lipsticks are all I ever use. I don't find them to be too thick, the metallics are thicker than the mattes and I've never tried the glosses because I don't believe in glossy lips. I can't really slap it on and go, I have a multi step process. I use it with clear liner around the outside of my lips and either liner or a matte lipstick underneath (also works for changing the color), blot, then a tiny bit of lip tar over that and blot again. But sometimes when I want to play lipstick princess I go in sephora and slap them on my bare lips and as long as I do it carefully that usually works fine too, so you can probably just ignore me.

I can usually have it last through a day of careful eating/drinking. They also work really well onstage. Just be careful making out with people because it literally will get all over everyone's faces.

That kat von D shit is much more like acrylic paint but the colors aren't as good and the packaging is awful and will just end up smearing lipstick all over your bag/hands.