🗑️ Lil Treasures #124: Soft Summer and Some Trash

Plus airport security and the perfect margarita

Happy Friday, peeps! I write to you this morning from the great state of Texas, where I am with the PMG for our last stop of the live show tour. It’s been a wild ride, and I’m grateful we could close out the shenanigans in a place I love so much. Are you coming? Please make sure you tell me you’re a Lil Swipe if we see each other so I can freak the freak out and hug your neck if you’re cool with that in these semi-pandemi times.

Okay, now let’s get to this week’s treasures!

🍴Guys! I had the honor of being featured in this week’s episode of The Lazy Genius Kitchen with Kendra Adachi. Kendra came into my kitchen and helped me figure out how to meal prep, and also did not judge me for the exorbitant amount of cheeses in my refrigerator. For both of those things I am very grateful. If you have a few minutes to spare, you can watch it here!

👚 I finally got my colors done and y’all, when I say I am obsessed. When I see people walking around in MY colors (I am a soft summer) I always do a double-take. I used Lindsey at Created Colorful for this process and am so glad I did, she was so helpful and made me feel like a queen! (you can follow her on Instagram here) So many people had so many thoughts (love you E Holmes) about how to do this, if it was a worthwhile venture, etc. Some people swore by in-person vs virtual, some thought the whole thing was just another way to tell women what they can and can’t wear. And look, if that’s you, totally fine. But that was not my experience at all. As someone who was still trying to figure out her skin tone because I’d based it off of a quiz I took in Seventeen Magazine in 1999, this was beyond helpful. I definitely thought I had olive skin, and your girl is a cool neutral. Like, not even close. So it wasn’t just helpful for clothing. And listen, am I still gonna wear a couple of the colors in my no-no pile¹? Yep. But for someone who feels very Muppet Arms about how to dress, I really appreciated the whole process. It made me feel like I can get my arms around what I like and why I like it. Something that I did think was interesting: several people mentioned they were put off by the final email, which has your colors, a hype speech about how gorgeous you are that will make you feel like you’re in the last scene of Remember the Titans, but for your face, and some make-up and clothes suggestions, all affiliate-linked. These people did not like the affiliate links, and I gotta tell you, friends, I did not care. The amount of work that goes into a business like this is enormous, and I’m never going to care if a company adds affiliate links to their work. Plus, you just never have to click on them if you don’t want to? Normalize letting people get their coin! Anyway, all in all, I give this whole process a 10/10. I feel super empowered when I shop for clothes, and I kind of understand make-up colors now, which is saying something for a person whose make-up knowledge was the Cindy Crawford make-up book I got in the 7th grade. Y’all know me, I love letting the experts tell me what to do, so this was a huge win for me. I also love their mailing list, which gives a lot of great shopping suggestions for your color. If you’re interested in doing this yourself, Lindsey so kindly gave us a discount code just for Lil Swipes²! You can use the code SWIPEUP20 for $20 off from now to Sunday night at 11:59 PM PST. You can use it as your own consult, or even gift it to someone for Mother’s Day!

This week in the Swipe Up+, we answered Alyssa’s question about how to have hard faith conversations with kids, and THE COMMENTS. Really this thing is like a wisdom repository, and I learned so many things I’m going to tuck away for the future. If that sounds like it’s up your alley, come hang out with us!

🍹 Prepping for Cinco de Mayo coming up next week? You should try Bri McKoy's recipe for the best margarita!

🎨Scott Erickson created this beautiful series called Stations of the Resurrection for Easter. I know Lent and Holy Week are behind us, but the series is just so good and I would highly recommend clicking through each section for the full effect.

🦋 We live in an age of cancel culture, quick to write other people off for something they’ve said or done that we disagree with. We (I) forget that people have the ability to change, and this article in the New York Times highlights this unsympathetic hole that we’ve fallen into. This makes me think of the quote from Bryan Stevenson (author of Just Mercy and found of the Equal Justice Initiative) when he says “each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

Let’s do the Tweets, courtesy of Elon:

Tiffany Dorrin Olsen @TiffanyDOlsen

I know cults are bad, but one of the perks has to be not constantly meeting new people.

Adam Cerious @Browtweaten

me: what do you know about atoms? friend: very little me: besides that

Caper the Fox, Teamster @catclawrodeo

best friend Ben showed me this T-shirt he really wants

what’s yours? Mine is Adolphus Grapes.

kim @KimmyMonte

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Ottoman

caleb hearon @calebsaysthings

somebody told me recently that they sincerely believe social media is taking years off all of our lives and they wanted me to receive it as bad news. honey i'm counting on it. you should see my sleep schedule and some of the meals i put together. longevity is not a priority.

uncle baby billy @quintabrunson

44 billion for this

helena @freshhel

Im not trying to be mean but when u guys point out nepotism in hollywood it feels like when a toddler sees an airplane

The sheer amount of people who sent me this tweet is proof you are my village.

shelby wolstein @ShelbyWolstein

i dont simply go through airport security. i have a goal. i want everyone in line to be blown away by my efficiency. i want to be celebrated as i push my belongings across the table. i want TSA to offer me a job (i’ll decline). i want people talking about me at their gate. glory.

Yishan @yishan

You can say whatever idea you want to say, just use your indoor voice.

Isabel Hagen @isabelhagen_

It’s unforgivable when restaurants leave the tails on the shrimp in a pasta dish. Like what do you want me to do, touch my pasta??

pj @pjayevans

Firefighters probably love blowing out the candles on their birthday

Thanks for being here! Don’t forget to drop those treasures in the comments. Hope your weekend is a true delight! Texas Forever.

1. This is not what Lindsey calls it; this is what I call it.

2. I do not get a kickback on this, and I paid to have my colors done with my own money.