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after school weekend edition

Welcome back to After School Weekend Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. Your support keeps this newsletter going!

In today’s letter:

• My thoughts on NikeSkims!

• The alleged “it” dress of the spring

• The divisive shoe loved by TikTok girlies

• Another day, another Rhode line around the block

• How hair tinsel became 2025’s first big beauty trend

• Eyeshadow is so back

• Everyone on TikTok is talking about their innies and outies

• This “laugh with every stranger” meme

• The new “did we change at all since 2020?” trend

Plus everything else that happened in style, beauty, and culture and what I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week: