My descent into glow-up madness

Sometime last spring, I decided to glow up. This is an extremely embarrassing thing to admit, or at least it should be. But this is America. If you’re not “glowing up,” which is to say, committing all of your time and money to the endless quest of self-improvement, you’re “letting yourself go.” And in America, there’s nothing more pitiable than settling for what you already have. 

Plus, everyone else was doing it. Every day on my TikTok feed, women were telling me about their various “glow-up journeys” ...