Glow Up Week: Let Yourself Have Desires Welcome back to your weekly reset inside of Hot Literati <3 Glow Up Week One question I've asked myself obsessively over the past few years is "why am I who I am"? I find It's the swirly sort of question that can leave you looking at blank space for a bit. I've liked the idea of "glowing up" ever since I found a beauty blog at 12 years old and visited the same site every single day. Especially during the summer. I like the idea of "glow

An English and Econ major who doesn't run (nor particularly enjoy it) walks into a running book club. Except I'm the one who started it. I'm Julie, a senior at the University of Oregon, graduating this spring, with an enormously complicated relationship with running that angles itself, at its most generous, toward mild unwillingness. Four years in Eugene will do imperceptible things to you. You'll acquire Carhartt jackets in nut brown. Buy astronomically priced hiking boots t

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Or, How to Clean Up Your Life Every since I was a little girl, I have been a hoarder of memories. I've always treated my life like a really good meal that you want to savor. Saving the best part for last and being upset when it's all gone. Actually, always isn't a fair word. It's beautiful, but it's never true. Last Friday, I had the honor of giving a talk at Sarah Lawrence. We sat in the Graduate building as I read them a letter a boy wrote to me at seventeen that I read whe

Get out of your head to be Hotter Good morning cuties, angels, and lovers. I hope that you all had a wonderful valentines day! I myself had a great one, I feel happy, well-fed, and relaxed. There's something in the "How to be Hotter Guide" that I've been thinking about a lot about self-censoring. There's a part of your brain that will self-monitor you and can lead to overthinking instead of just being present and acting. I think practicing the art of presence and embodiment i

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