Hi, I'm Nina Iordanova and this is the 29th edition of Something Good, a newsletter filtered through my 🧠, 🖐, and ❤️. Coming your way every two weeks, I hope you find something good here.
In an effort to have a personality outside of my puppy, I’m going to talk about other things today.
Chief among them is a recent attraction to nail polish on men. Here’s Pleasing and Faculty and Crete in case you haven’t been exposed to this phenomenon yet. Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah, show me that dark blue, deep red, white, black, bubblegum pink, I’m all in baby.
Is nail polish the new suit for men? Who am I to say. I’ve mostly been catching this on TikTok and clothing ads, but I eagerly await the day I see it out in the wild. And have also been wearing more nail polish lately in an effort to be the change I want to see in the world.
SECOND thing that I’ve been very into is a white tank top I bought, mostly remarkable for how much skin it covers and how stunningly see-through it is. Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah. It’s just inappropriate enough to not be able to wear outside, but to make me feel like a hot 90’s chick whenever I put it on at home with a pair of low-slung jeans (there is no more correct way to put the vibe than “hot 90’s chick energy”).
I think I have found a renewed interest in being hot. What that looks like we don’t know yet, but step 1 is probably becoming blonde again. (Thank you to everyone who wrote in with feedback on my poll from last newsletter! 100% of respondents said don’t go blonde but maybe that was before we all learned I want to be hot this summer).
I think there are different parts to being hot. One part is the desire to be looked at and seen in the first place. Another is feeling “on” when you’re yourself. And another (this part is so fun!) is the clothes and hair and makeup and perfume etc. etc. etc. all different tools you can use to play with.
I’ve been feeling super bogged down lately to the point where my singing teacher was like, listen, we need to work on your self-criticism more than we need to work on your singing right now. You know the notes but you’re so tense and judgemental that you kill it completely. And if you’re approaching singing with this kind of death grip, you’re gonna start hating the work. And the work needs to be fun.
I brought the story up to my executive coach and he was like, “Okay, what does fun look and feel like?”
Me: “Getting it right. That’s fun.”
Him: “Okay. I’m not gonna lie, it does feel good when we do things well. But what about outside of that?”
Me: “…………..*thinking very deeply* ……………………………………I don’t know what to tell you.”
So, you know.
Niloo recommended The Artist’s Way to me as a good remedy for that, and I’m excited to start reading it (probably that’s what I will be doing when you get this email!!).
Here’s to a summer of being blonde and hot and maybe learning how to not squeeze the life out of everything I do.
Okay I’ll settle for just being hot.
Hope you’re over there being hot too. hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah
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Warmly yours,
Nina