cleanse that midlife aura, hun

plus rupaul's house tour, the other two, selling sunset, keri russell's diplomat hair, and more skarsgard now and forever

Oh, my midlife crisis? It’s going pretty well, thanks! Overall it’s much duller than those fancy midlife crises you see on TV. There’s no Ferraris. Not even one motorcycle. Zero frolicking on a Fijian beach with my barely-legal paramours.

I guess this is because I’m not a man!

Women aren’t exactly encouraged to take time to review our forty-something lives and make big changes that prioritize our own wants and needs. (We’ve got laundry to do! Pubescent funk to deal with!) The templates are scarce. There’s Eat Pray Love, of course. But it should be noted our girl Elizabeth Gilbert doesn’t have children. No shade to women without children, but being unencumbered by offspring generally results in more time, more money, and a society that accepts your quest for self discovery because, you know, they’ve already labeled you as selfish. (I don’t think you’re selfish! I think you’re smart as hell!) Another childless woman with a lot of midlife advice is Oprah. I watched Oprah every single day a…