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on first times
Substack
I have been blogging for over 2 years on Holly Victoria, and have just recently moved to Substack.
I run two newsletters: First, my monthly blog, butterflies, and a weekly fashion and beauty section, In The Spotlight.
In The Spotlight
https://innnthespotlight.substack.com/p/1?r=2etzgm&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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
age as an asset
I am now 23, and have been for the past two weeks
time out
Hello reader, and Happy British Summertime.
3 year anniversary and playing catch up
Unfinished business
On finding completeness in the unfinished
Whiplash
And my love letter to Spring
A writing hiatus and chatarangas
A month in Guatemala
Development demands loss
Plus a big personal update inside!
Tumultuous and all its synonyms
A piece about a common state I find myself in, particularly in the first weeks of 2025
Onto 2025
The final piece of 2024, enjoy
To Papa
Happy birthday to my bestest friend in the whole wide world
Remembering outfits
An anecdotal account of my strange encounters with outfits on the tube
September, you flirt
An ode to September, and why it is more similar to us than we initially think
Summer is a season, not a lifestyle
How did I have the best summer of my life yet simultaneously not miss it at all?
The first time is the last time
An explanation of the feeling of trying and failing to preserve core moments
Festival time? Epiphany time!
A wrap-up of my latest festival experience, and why it has given rise to several epiphanies