2025 Hot and Not : Hot
Not List tomorrow Dec. 31
Hot:
Eyeshadow - why not? Blue?! Sparkly??? Please.
Dryish January - I am so tired of alcohol. Sick and tired. I feel like I was drunk majority of December and I cannot say I enjoyed that. I am looking forward to feeling lighter and brighter as sober me in January, however, we are headed to Disney. So, not too dry January because for some reason Disney is the one and only place I CRAVE a crispy beer.
Reading books I already have - I own so many books that are on my To Be Read list and I am vowing to complete those before I buy any new books (unless it is for book club). Book Club is also hot.
Wearing hair naturally - In an Olympia Gayot way. In an Annalynn Mccord way. Hot.
Consistency - I find I tend to be mood based in a lot of endeavors but especially exercise. I love to run but I have found it really difficult to keep my routine since moving to a new neighborhood. I used to run in a park everyday that had massive main character energy. I need to reinvent the main character route in this neighborhood.
Continue my no buy for beauty products - Started out of necessity and now I think this is actually one of the hottest things I have ever done. Throwing away a completely empty bottle of something is sewwww haute (re: so hot). I never repurchase a product unless I have completely gone through every single vessel of that specific product. It has made me pay attention so much more to what products I actually love and would buy again rather than just buying whatever just because I want to own it. It has forced me to tailor my taste. Taste = hot.
Listening to books - I have not been much of a book listener in the past but I think I would eat this up on my runs and walks. I find I am always excusing myself from a walk or run because I’m choosing to read instead. This alleviates that excuse; girl, let’s do both.
Learning to make Sourdough - my fiancé is literally obsessed with sourdough bread and he finds great joy in getting a loaf at a local bakery weekly but I am convinced we can make our own and get creative to provide that same bakery high.
Subscribe to a newspaper - Chic. Literary. Hot.
In fact make that subscriptions to print literature as a whole. My magazine subscriptions you will have to pry out of my cold dead hands.
Writing instead of scrolling - I frequently think about the habits of the people I find the most interesting and taking on those habits. And who would ever say that interesting people aren’t hot? When I picture the most interesting people they always have a book. If they have a laptop I only assume they are writing their best selling novel or creating something. I have found lately that social media seems so loud and somewhat dumb but writing and reading make me feel sexy. Plus how fun would it be to truly make this space a journal and a scrapbook of all the things from all the other apps I used to frequent? Hot. Substack = Hot.
Using my cookbooks!
Being Conflicted - hot take for sure but I think being conflicted means you are understanding the complexities of a topic and unable to be partisan in a situation. Color me crazy but I think that it can be a healthy thing. Currently I am very conflicted about diet culture. I find that I consume rhetoric that influences me to take better care of myself but I also find that depending on the source I can quickly be misinformed about my own body in the guise of “wellness.” Being a bride, I feel a great sense of wanting to be “the best version of myself” walking down the aisle, but, what the hell does that even mean to me and does it have to do with thinness?
Sewing - I am dead set on my new clothing being things I make myself in 2025. NOTHING is hotter than replying to a compliment on your clothing with “Thank you so much, I made it!”
Paying attention
Kindle for in bed reading - Niche with a capital N but I have had this weird thing with my Kindle lately and I have realized that it isn’t my Kindle it is the location in which I am reading. If I am ANYWHERE other than my bed I want the physical book. If I am in bed I want my Kindle due to comfort of not having to turn the pages and getting cozy to get to sleep. This is also perfect for the kind of books I read on my Kindle. They tend to be easier reads, light hearted and I can pick them up whenever so it actually helps me go to sleep faster. I don’t know, this made sense in my head.
Wearing fun glasses
Keeping stuff - I am so sick of people saying to not keep clutter, get rid of stuff or anything along those lines. Minimalism is the most boring thing ever. It ALSO contributes to capitalism. When you don’t keep anything you will inevitably have to buy something like it again. Your home is yours. Keep shit that you like, that is useful or that is important to you.
Manifesting
Cards - I love getting and giving cards. They are forever.
Color - I am so bored. Give me anything but grey and beige.
Art - I am so looking forward to our travels in 2025 for purely an art hunt.
Being weird. Vastly underrated.
Taking your Goodreads account seriously - sister that is CAUTE! Leave that 4 paragraph dissertation review. I will be gobbling it up.
Details - planning the details of something is the hottest. Caring that much?! Hot.
Mugs with a saucer - something hella chic, hella literary about the way a mug fits on it’s little plate home.
Mixed metals - it’s always been in for me but I think I am about to lean in and get a white gold wedding band alongside the yellow gold. Make it permanent.
Fireplace fires
Drinking water out of a formal glass - I think about the most fabulous women ever….I don’t think they have a Stanely I’m gonna be honest.
Hanging out with your parents - and subsequently their friends. They are the actual best. They have the best candor and typically deeper thinkers.
Phone chains - being able to wear my phone like a bracelet is an opportunity I will never let go of.
Letting yourself be successful - knowing you are worth getting everything you ever want
Making hot and not lists ;) this is fun af
“Not” list comes out tomorrow!
That’s it until February’s list,
Lou
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