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Battered Birkenstocks, we meet again
Substack
I write two Substack newsletters: for weekly fashion and beauty related pieces, In the Spotlight, and for monthly personal essays, butterflies. Explore my writing below.
In The Spotlight
Below you can find my weekly fashion and beauty newsletter, In The Spotlight
#31
The Devil Wears Prada 2 made me cry
#30
Help, I'm an overpacker!!!
#29
I wanna go to Coachella!
#28
Anna Wintour's plea for fame
#27
The Wedding Guest Formula
#26
On the Portobello Road Market swarm
#25
On the power of dressing (courtesy of Uniqlo)
#24
My phone broke and I forgot how to dress
#23
I only watched Wuthering Heights for the outfits
#22
To disappointments
#21
Fashion fixations
#20
Style on the slopes
#19
can I have an invite?
#18
is 2016 is the new 2026?
#17
the golden globe awards
#16
let them eat cake
#15
VOGUE January + frivolous 2026 goals
#14
team dress up
#13
xmas parties + hello satin
#12
maxi skirt obsession + Gen Alpha spending power
#11
deer print + skin-friendly clothes
#10
Mario Badescu dinner + Black Friday
#9
Laura Weir + coat season
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butterflies
And secondly, my monthly blog, butterflies (previously Holly Victoria)
Let's write something
words are how I feel at home, no matter how far away I am from home.
Why is everything the same?
a rant, really
Sexy sentences
and what they mean to me
Let's just breathe, yes?
in out up down
To stay or to go
hello 2026, you look gorgeous
A small flame
and raging fires
My medicine
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...
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...
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