Hello Gorgeous! Beauty + Life

Hello Gorgeous! Beauty + Life

Weekend Mode: Back to Cool

Dorm decor, but make it stylish

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Rachel Weingarten
Sep 26, 2025
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Hello, Gorgeous!

I’m ready to start roadtripping to peep fall leaves, though I’m dreading tagging along while friends visit their offspring in college.

A friend dropped her daughter off at college a few weeks ago and came back flabbergasted. “Where did all this cool stuff come from and why didn’t they have any of it when I was in college?” she asked me over and over again.

Well, your guess is as good as mine. It took me seven years to graduate college since I started working full-time straight out of high school. I went to college at night and at one point started studying makeup artistry over the weekends. Along the way I also collected many many (probably useless) degrees in addition to my majors. What I didn’t collect was cool dorm room swag. I think it’s time to make up for that now with amazing items that would be perfectly at home in the coolest dorm room - or your home.

Gorgeous wine glasses

Remember hanging out in your dorm room and drinking cheap wine? I don’t, because I never d…

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