Your Zine, I Reviewz It: Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to HELL #3
Reviewing: Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to HELL #3
By: Tuija Hassinen (aka Tukru)
Format: A4 (US) folded 1x. b&w.
Came with:
Personalized thank you note on functional kawaii stationary.
Ever wanted to know everything — EVERYTHING — about someone’s life? Then Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to HELL is the zine for you.
From her love-life, to her IKEA shopping sprees, to her unhealthy bowel movements, Tukru lets the reader in on her most private moments
in minute, almost excruciatingly picayune detail. And you will lap up every item, every word (my personal favorite: squatly), and leave feeling closer than you probably should to a perfect stranger.
There is something intensely endearing about Tukru’s unabashed exhibitionism. Her unusual frankness is utterly refreshing in a world gone cold from technological saturation. While you pretend to be someone you clearly shouldn’t be for the sake of making virtual pretend-friends, Tukru is putting her soul to bare on paper, without ever expecting a single other person to read, much less care, what she’s written. Indeed, the zine is at it’s most profound in a short, meandering clip which finds Tukru drunk off her ass, typing at the whim of her subconscious, poignantly concluding with “I’m afraid of reading this. now, sober or ever.”
Your Pretty Face is far too honest and heartfelt. And that’s precisely what makes it such a great zine.
