Up From the 36th Chamber!

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🎂 ah, three times twelve. What an age. The universal tumult we all experienced semi-recently made me feel less alone in the world— that’s for sure—but one thing is for even SURER: I’m probably never gonna grow up (?) !

That concept has never felt more real than right now, pushin’ 40, literally, but still up to my old habits of:

• Never shutting the f*k up — unless its time to listen

• Keeping my values at center, even when its really inconvenient

• Kicking down the door for other folks behind or next to me (gatekeeping is trash!)

• Not being too old, too this, too that, or too anything to express myself

😈I only hope I can inspire a bit of beneficial mischief or mayhem in the rest of you 😈

This edition of Dan Gives a F*ck, we’re talking affordable presents for yourself in beauty and ouid, soft-launching my April project: a Cannabis infused food festival at Rise Radio, and inching closer towards me playing live instead of teasing tidbits on TT and IG.

How exciting! Read on for more 🍔🥦

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This is so much more than a guide to entertaining with weed— its a new way to normalize it, encouraging folks who like to provide fun things for their guests to try with a bit o’ the good stuff.

Even if you are a pro, proper dosing and light guest education are crucial for successfully incorporating cannabis into your house party or event. Tips from Fruit and Flower Co.’s Christina Wong and MXXN founder Darnell Smith are all about how to make it look cute while making sure nobody gets toooo baked 😜.

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INFLUENCED: Buying Insights 📲

I didn’t want to like lip liner again, but here we are

When I was deepest into my makeup days, I used like 15 products at once to achieve a perfected ‘natural’ look. It was really fun, honestly, and felt much closer to retouching a photo than painting on a whole face from scratch. I’d add a pinch of light here, shadow there, complimenting my face rather than redesigning it.

With that technique in mind, I approached applying lip liner in a new (to me) way— enhancing the existing ridge of my lower lip and simply adding a smidge to the upper lip’s corners to gently recast them, versus over line outright like is currently trendy.

Using Hard Candy Insta-Pout Lip Liner in First Move,(just $5.97!) I found its gently-cool reddish brown to match my natural lips pretty well, almost surprisingly well. This made the only-slightly over line look exactly like it was supposed to: barely detectable! With this and some gentle highlighter, you can perk and polish up in just a few short minutes if you don’t have time for a full look.

The Cutest On-The-Go Storage: Hemper’s The Keeper💸

Getting to try the cute Tea Party Box from Hemper really brightened my month! With femme and fun accessories like a tiny Chip bubbler and sprinkles-filled poker, the cuteness was overwhelming. My fav product of the mix is one my dear bud Sarah ElSayed first showed me some years ago— The Keeper!

An all-in-one, portable, and waterproof rolling and storage station, this is a true innovation and at $14.99, its popularity is evergreen.

Stash a few nugs in the top portion that snaps closed, or grind some in the next level down. Drop papers, finished joints, and a mini lighter into the third and largest chamber, and you’re fully stocked, come what may! 🌿

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Links to Love 💕 or Hate 🫀

Would I drink an olive oil latte? Maybe! Would I read this silly take on them all day and giggle, giggle, giggle? Absofrickenlutely. While I’m not sure how it would taste, the fact that Italians haven’t burned the chain from whence these oily bevs came to the ground is a tacit endorsement that it’s probably not that horrible. I come to Jezebel for the hot takes, spit takes or otherwise, but I stay for the feeling of zeitgeist-y comradery— they did after all name check TT popular oil Graza. 💋

If you don’t identify as a woman you had better read this. The sheer ineptitude of some men in corporate or hierarchal spaces is just too much to bear, and a hefty dose of self awareness would do y’all some good this InTerNaTiOnAL WoMeNs HisToRy MoNtH. ☄️

And now for more bullshit, Femtech, aka technology geared towards solutions for women, is being overtaken by male investors with ‘innovations’ that nobody asked for and sucking up vital funding that women founders could instead be accessing. Just think, instead of having tools to treat endometriosis or childbirth issues, we have pink doggie bags for hiding tampons. Rough.⚡️

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• Streaming music and chat every other Wednesday at 7p ET !

• Next stream: 3/15 at 7p ET

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