Walmart Birkins with Alyssa Vingan

Listen now | Episode 9 of The Review of Mess Podcast

Emily Kirkpatrick

and

Jessica DeFino

Jan 17, 2025

∙ Paid

Hello!

We’re back with another very special paid subscriber only episode of The Review of Mess: a podcast collaboration between The Review of Beauty (by

Jessica DeFino

) and I <3 Mess (by me, Emily Kirkpatrick). For this installment, we invited

Alyssa Vingan

, host of the podcast and newsletter The New Garde to join us in conversation.

Today we’re talking about: Heidi Montag’s 15-year-old album Superficial reaching number one on iTunes thanks to TikTok [4:30], the Walmart Birkin bag and if dupes can ever really be acts of class warfare [16:50], what we all learned from a Nosferatu / Babygirl double feature [41:45], Emily recaps a good amount of Twilight and True Blood lore unprompted [51:50], whether or not you can copyright a vibe [58:50], Alabama Barker’s latest beef and rap single [59:40], the great throughline of this podcast that is Dr. Phil [1:05:27], and the many highs and lows of MGK [1:11:55]. Plus more!

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A guest post by

Jessica DeFino

Jessica DeFino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (The New York Times, Vice, Vogue). She writes the Guardian's beauty advice column, Ask Ugly, and has been called "the woman the beauty industry fears" by the Sunday Herald.