Hot Blonde Girls with Heavy Eye Makeup

Book excerpt: From 2008 to 2013, novelist T/James Reagan wrote a Tumblr blog called "Hot Blonde Girls With Heavy Eye Makeup." The blog satirized celebrity culture, the fashion industry, and brunettes. In 2018, he deleted the entire blog. Hot Blonde Girls With Heavy Eye Makeup (known as HBGWHEM to its fans) had to be removed from the internet due to the rise of "cancel culture" and the trend of declaring any discussion of female hotness as misogyny. The same girls who gleefully reacted to HBGWHEM's humor had become outraged by... well... everything. Left with a hundred thousand words of content, Reagan mined his blog posts to assemble an entirely new and original novel. Hot Blonde Girls With Heavy Eye Makeup tells the story of two sisters- Jillian, and Kendra. Jillian is hot and blonde, while Kendra is a social justice warrior. Jillian runs a pizza place/ bar/ salon called Blondies, while Kendra doesn't really do much of anything. When Blondies refuses to serve a group of brunettes, Kendra's life goal becomes to destroy her sister's business. We follow Jillian as she attempts to keep Blondies running, her employees happy, and her sister at bay. The book eventually becomes the female version of the bloods vs. the crips, where the brunettes go to battle against the blondes.T old in a bold, unique voice, HBGWHEM presents a darkly humorous look at female entrepreneurship, sisterhood, and the disturbingly common trend of the loudest voices getting the most attention.