Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Take a chill pill. We’re slamming down the proverbial gavel on holiday stress, and sharing some portals to some R&R ... Start with considering the path to enlightenment via a new [subterranean hobby](. Imagine yourself getting home for the holidays on one of those [streamliner trains that oozed the elegance of old world travel](.  Cozy up by the fire with a cocktail courtesy of this [archival treasure trove of cocktail books](. Life ain’t so bad! At least you don’t live in [the town where it’s illegal to die](. So turn on some tunes and take a cue from [these famous people]( dancing like nobody’s watching.  As always, your Weekend Conversation Starters await, complete with a raid of Marie Antoinette’s closet, and a deep dive into the not so beautiful past of the world’s biggest beauty empire. Stay cosy, and curious… Love, [Nessy]   [Before Cher Horowitz had her Computer Closet, Marie Antoinette had the Wardrobe Book](  [cluelessvsmarieantoinette-1]( Ask any millennial with a heartbeat for fashion about the 90s cult-classic film, Clueless, and watch their eyes light up as they recall Cher Horowitz (played by Alicia Silverstone) and her “way normal” morning routine of mixing and matching pieces on her desktop computer to pick out an outfit for school from her revolving dream…  [Continue Reading](   [What Lies Beneath: The Curious Underworld Of Hobby Tunnelling Â](  [Knights-templar-cave1]( In 1924, a truck accidentally sank into a backlot in Washington DC, opening a sinkhole and revealing a labyrinth of tunnels. People were aghast at what had been found; there was talk of bootleggers and spies that would later make the front page of the Healdsburg Tribune, but no one had any answers. Eventually, a…  [Continue Reading](   [She’s the Overlooked Female Caravaggio](  [Royal Collection]( The story has everything a good drama needs: religion, sex, and murder. Judith was a beautiful young widow who saved Israel when the town of Bethulia was under siege by the Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar. After a long prayer, she entered the Assyrian camp with her maid and gained the trust of the general Holofernes.  [Continue Reading](   [We Should Probably Talk About L’Oréal’s Dark Past](  [lorealnazi]( Beauty is only skin deep. But what if it’s actually even shallower than you think, only a few microns of spray tan thick? The global cosmetics conglomerate L’Oréal has devoted over a 100 years to the titivation of our precious bodies and telling us ‘we’re worth it’ from billboards and glossy magazines. L’Oréal has also…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXIX)](  [bb62dee5f9db]( 1. Reading in Paris A themed compilation of 1950s photographs found on Live Journal  [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.