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Ah but see, Hexenbeitst side effects. Being a Hexenbeist isn’t a side effect no matter how it happened, plus if it was the being a hexenbeist why is it side effects instead of side effect. Maybe it just means the whole homicidal, cruel, evil changes it made to her. Cause I mean Adalind’s showing Hexenbeists aren’t automatically like that. Unless it is being a hexenbeist, in which case I’m wrong. Hope not though, with Wu going all cave man she’d be the only one with no real protection.

Juliette’s transformation has been referred to, both in canon and by the cast and writers–and in fandom too, for that matter–as a “side effect” or “side effects” since it happened. David is the master of being coy in interviews, so again it’s possible that she’s still a hexenbiest. But I don’t personally find it very likely based on that choice of words alone, just because there’s so much precedent already for simply referring to Juliette’s whole hexenbiest transformation, with rather comically gross understatement, as “side effects.”

Also, the writers have kind of written themselves into a corner by constantly insisting via both Adalind and Eve this season that being a hexenbiest or a zauberbiest does make a person homicidal, cruel, and evil (and power-hungry), whether they want to be that way or not, unless there’s some kind of outside intervention (i.e. HW brainwashing or a suppressant).

Granted, the writers have yet to explain how that jives with Adalind’s current behavior or all of her previous bad behavior while she didn’t have her powers, but that doesn’t unwrite what they’ve written so much as make me go:

You should probably get this out there, but Juliette is still a Hexenbeist. The one time we saw someone having that removed was with Adalind, and that witch ghost thing burst out of her. When Adalind lost her Hexenbeist side the second time that didn’t happen because it was suppressed not removed, so she was still technically a Hexenbeist.

Actually, we have no way of knowing that for sure, for two reasons:

  1. Juliette/Eve was not a regular hexenbiest. The way she got her powers was completely unprecedented, so there’s no way to say for certain that the same rules apply for if she lost them.
  2. The magic stick is brand new to us, and if I had to guess I’d say its use on hexenbiests is also completely unprecedented. So there’s no reason to think that a hexenbiest’s powers being “purged” by it would look the same.

Finally, we do have this tidbit in an interview with David Giuntoli that suggests she is indeed not a hexenbiest anymore:

“Yeah, that stick is to hexenbiests what penicillin is to human beings. It just kind of cures all. The stick looks like it cured Juliette of her mortal wounds, or would-have-been mortal wounds, and in the meantime also kind of cured her of her hexenbiest side effects, I suppose. And we see that with Juliette, and I think that if that moment had happened at any other moment, it would have been a much longer moment, but we were in the process of being ambushed so Nick didn’t have a lot of time to process that. But it’s in the back of Nick’s mind. “

(Source)

You could still be right. Maybe Juliette is still a hexenbiest, and all it did was break through Eve’s mental block and what Hadrian’s Wall did to her. But if so, all of that woge-ing, convulsing, and de-woge-ing seems a little bit of an odd way to show it.

Either way, it’ll certainly be interesting to see how the team deals with it!