Diary of a Gen Z Student: Get ready for Hot Girl Summer — messy hair, glossy lips, mini dresses and sunglasses

This is the summer where you remember that every body is a bikini body. That you’re ignoring the magazines and TikToks telling you how to get your body ‘summer ready’. Because hating yourself is simply not on the Hot Girl Summer agenda

Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan. Photo: Barry Cronin

Temperatures in Dublin have officially exceeded 16C. Which means one thing, and one thing only: Hot girl summer has begun. 

It’s the event of the year for young girls everywhere. Our time to thrive.