Whimsigoths and Baby Alts

after school weekend edition

Hi friends! Welcome back to After School ✨weekend edition✨, an extra long and extra opinionated youth culture digest for paid subscribers.

Today, we’re going to talk about:

• How one of the fanciest skincare brands is making a play for Gen Z

• That whole “QVC for Gen Z” thing isn’t really taking off the way VCs expected it to

• What is taking off? Off-price retail

• The influencer-to-investor pipeline

• The $59 corset going viral

• Sun-In is back (my hair is not ready for this!)

• Gen X has arrived on TikTok

• How bad Google Search is (apologies in advance for the tangent, I had too much coffee this morning)

Plus lots of other things I read and bought this week. Hope you enjoy!

angel @angelmendoza___

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