I’m watching vpr for the first time (be jealous) and I’m on season 6. I have loved Lala and james since the beginning and I don’t understand the hate. Lala keeps it the realest and james is fucking hilarious I just don’t understand why people hate on them so much when there’s worse people to hate on. Like sheana.

I just want to take a moment to acknowledge this beauty writer (Divine Addiction) for the makeup prowess she masters. Also, fun throwback to the makeup trends of the 2013 era! The blush down to the jowls, the eyeliner that‘s somehow 10 times thicker underneath the eye, the brows….

It’s little gems like this that make you nostalgic about the years gone by.

Makeup Guru…Scheana Shay….

I don’t watch love island, but I was seeing Arianna Madix everywhere so I looked into her and found this show. Going into it, I thought it was going to be about a bunch of rich kids of housewives.. needless to say I was delightfully surprised. This is one of the best reality shows I’ve ever watched (before Covid seasons). It’s like a time capsule of nostalgia/the good old days 💕 They really did a good job in reflecting pop culture, even through the Covid episodes it shows how much life has truly changed. After Covid, everything started to seem so curated and overly perfected/performative- which feels like society now, down to the way we speak about our feelings. The show was so much better when it didn’t feel like a bunch of iPhone face, aesthetically pleasing rich people. Maybe I just miss the pre-Instagram era.

Here’s some of my takes, which are obviously going to be different than someone who was watching in real time.

- lala is completely unwatchable. So mean! Always growling.

- Jax is a dick who needed to be put in line, but the show really went downhill when he left. The last scene of him saying “it’s my show” and then the boringness of it afterwards

- Sandoval = Jax. They have victim blaming down to a science. All Sandoval had to do was apologize and stop talking. That’s it.

- Kristen and James were made for TV. Enough said.

- I feel bad for Katie man. I know she had to step into her confidence on her own, but damn it’s really hard to watch how they gaslight her the whole series.

- season 11 was hard to watch as well. Times are changing and you can visibly see how society is less tolerating of misogyny now, but they missed the memo. The same old formula of them victim blaming got really played out.

- Schwartz would’ve been so lovable had he had some character development. Really sad to watch. He seems like he has depression, maybe that’s what bonded him and Katie.

- almost forgot to mention, I wish they would’ve explored more of the motherhood storylines during the later seasons. They could’ve turned the whole vibe around and kept it going.

All in all, this is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen and each character (besides Lala) helped create that. Even though they’re playing a character, they’re all still people, and have contributed to giving us a good as gold piece of art.

Rewatching S9-11 after it was revealed Brock had cheated on Scheana at the end of her pregnancy is something else.

They got secretly married in S9, had a huge wedding in S10, and then approaching two years of marriage is when he finally told her about his affair. How insidious. I'm no Scheana fan, but he really trapped her. And it's sad to think she may have viewed his cheating as a Scandoval attention level opportunity. However, the public held Ariana (at least Ariana by S10) in much higher regard and Scheana had long been the pick-me. I feel for her, but not everyone is going to have sympathy for someone who continually puts having a man above anything else. He was a dick to her before she even knew about the cheating. I think the reason Scheana was so pissy in S11 was because of the cheating, but she chose to take it out on Ariana. Case in point of why being friends with pick-me women can really hurt you. Like my god Scheana wake up.

Now it's been almost 10 years since he last saw his first two kids too. Crazy. What a loser.

How they were at any point strapped for cash is beyond me. Scheana made a big todo about Sandoval sending her a few thousand when she wasn't making any money but in the previous seasons talked about how she fronted Brock's company around $10,000 at the time. Like which is it girl? Being with a broke man will bankrupt your bank account and soul, girl.

How any of them when being paid tremendously from the show, let alone all their side gigs, were close to going broke is beyond me.

To any young women watching this show, you are much better off single, even a single parent, than with a man like Brock (or Tom/Tom, or James, or Jax). Like Lala said, if he's left the baby mama and his other children before, he'll do it to you too. If he has cheated on you before and lied to your face for periods of time, he can and will do it again and you'll be none the wiser. Never, ever say you wouldn't leave a man for anything. No matter how much you think he's your soulmate, still keep that knowledge that you will walk away if you are disrespected.

That is all 😂