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I run two Substack newsletters: for fashion and beauty, In the Spotlight, and for personal essays, butterflies. Explore my writing below.

In The Spotlight

Below you can find my weekly fashion and beauty newsletter, In The Spotlight

In The Spotlight •

the birth of In The Spotlight

Hello fellow readers, and welcome to In The Spotlight! Over on TikTok, I spend far too long rambling about my top five articles I read each week - so I thought, why not also turn it into a written series…but with a little extra sparkle? As a writer in the fashion and beauty space, my week is a blur of spotting trends before they hit the high street, gathering images for style lookbooks, and testing beauty products so I can share only the best with readers.But what I love about Substack is the fr...

butterflies

And secondly, my monthly blog, butterflies (previously Holly Victoria) 

butterflies •

On mastering a pose

‘Falling over is good for your brain. It rewires neural pathways’, the yoga instructor tells me as the class wobbles back and forth into a variation of curved Shiva Squat. The pose requires you to balance on one leg, whilst meeting the arch of the other foot into the crease of your standing leg in a V shape, and the tricky part is contorting your upper body in the opposite direction with the aim to reach your palm onto your balanced leg.As always, I practiced front and centre of the flashy studi...
butterflies •

september pressure

Hello reader, and welcome back. I always enjoy these monthly check-ins, but only once I start writing them. I must admit, my workload has steadily increased over the past few months, and I find it hard not to treat this blog as just another item on my to-do list. I never want this space to be something that I have to do, but rather what I want to do. Oftentimes, it does feel like another heavyweight, when in actuality, it makes me feel weightless once the words pour out. And now here I am, prett...

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