Chapter 1
“Shiny Things and Muddy Pastels”
!["Shiny Not Shy"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611788665731-GUBB9VTWLCYK5LY84YZQ/tinselstown_Episode+2.jpg)
"Hats shouldn't just fit your head..they should fit your essence."
Tinsel instructs her viewers on how to find the perfect "essence hat", admits a shocking affinity to glitter eyeshadow and, along the way, meets a carb-obsessed caveman named Mike.
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!["East of La Cienega"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611788906707-OI7K306F7ZIQUS08PPM5/tinselstown_Episode+3.jpg)
Traveling east of one's comfort zone can have unexpected consequences, especially when driving A.S.A.P to the D.M.V for a super-cute P.H.O.T.O on your brand-new ID. TT: Totally True.
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!["Lingo For The Gringo"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611790077389-TK49J6I5NOY7YKHMEDC1/tinselstown_Episode+4.jpg)
Tinsel gives a language lesson on LA slang and – more importantly – the dictionary’s urgent need for a very shiny and very personalized new verb.
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!["Soap"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611791931193-XDLOE2FNAMC7FSFUX7NN/tinselstown_Episode+5.jpg)
A routine beauty routine turns ugly when Tinsel discovers the whittled remains of her beloved "beauty bar", carelessly dropped onto the shower floor by her careless and clueless arch nemesis: her mother.
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!["The Sugar Solution"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611790676592-ENX6671L9BPQRESF29JA/tinselstown_episode+06.jpg)
Tinsel helps a new follower with her LA spin on a classic dilemma: what to do when you crave pie after a nice piece of steak.
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!["Sick Day"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611791714073-92R0H7TU6V0OU6969A90/tinselstown_episode+07psd.jpg)
Tinsel reveals her #1 LA life hack for the common cold: by turning her Robitussin into lemonade. And her Sick Day into a Spa Day.
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!["The Power Of Giving"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611792447297-FEC5HGZNQADS3IBO5Z8U/tinselstown_episode+08.jpg)
By discovering and then her channeling inner Oprah, Tinsel also discovers her one true calling in life: helping the masses of hapless, hopeless others become more happening.
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!["Hard Knocks"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611793064536-ECGQKHK6OYLZHLB66C62/tinselstown_episode+9+b.jpg)
Sometimes opportunity knocks, and sometimes it doesn’t; sometimes your mother knocks, and knocks your opportunity. In this episode, a persistent knocking drives Tinsel from her bed into her bedroom closet, where opportunity knocks once again.
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!["All Poofed Up"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611793289594-70SR3XFAAGBZN59XCZ24/tinselstown_episode+10.jpg)
Tinsel teaches the rules of the road by taking to the streets of LA with a brand-new Mystery Segment. And makes a begrudging admirer. Sort of.
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!["Cafe Haiku"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592b17212e69cfe0046793e4/1611793405591-RIXMHSXBHKL06WSE3FKG/tinselstown_episode+11.jpg)
Trying to expand her coffee horizons, Tinsel ventures outside her comfort zone yet again, this time returning home with a haiku, her own version of PTSD, and a coffee mug.
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