Valerie Monroe
@valmonroe · How Not to F*ck Up Your Face · Substack profile · Fashion & Beauty
Valerie Monroe has 56,765 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #43 on Substack's Fashion & Beauty Bestsellers board. 63 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 50.
Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 56,765
- read Nov 1
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 23K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- Thousands
- bestseller badge 1,000+
- Recommended by
- 63
- +1 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 50
- Bestsellers rank
- #43
- Fashion & Beauty
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | 56,765 | +25 | 23K+ | Thousands |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 56,740 | 23K+ | Thousands |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fashion & Beauty Bestsellers | #43 | #43 | 4 of 4 |
| Fashion & Beauty Rising | #18 | #18 | 4 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fashion & Beauty Bestsellers | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 0 |
| Fashion & Beauty Rising | 25 | 19 | 19 | 18 | ▲7 |
I read every board once a day.
Recommendations
63 publications recommend Valerie Monroe; 1 started in the last 30 days. Valerie Monroe recommends 50, and 10 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2022-05 | 1 |
| 2022-07 | 1 |
| 2022-10 | 1 |
| 2023-05 | 2 |
| 2023-07 | 1 |
| 2024-01 | 1 |
| 2024-07 | 1 |
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 4 |
| 2025-02 | 3 |
| 2025-03 | 6 |
| 2025-04 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 3 |
| 2025-06 | 2 |
| 2025-07 | 3 |
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 3 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
| 2026-01 | 3 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
| 2026-10 | 1 |
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All 63
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All 50
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- The Spreadstarted May 2022
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Fashion & Beauty writers with 50,000 or more followers (27 writers in that group), but not Valerie Monroe.
- recommends 9 of them
Emilia Petrarca@shoprat - recommends 9 of them
Plum Sykes@plumsykes - recommends 8 of them
laura reilly@magasin - recommends 8 of them
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Mia Rigden@miarigden - recommends 7 of them
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Kelly Wearstler@wearstlerworld - recommends 7 of them
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