I am always on the hunt for a holy-grail status sunscreen. Even though my personal natural preference is for pale, smooth skin rather than a bronzy tan, my skin absorbs sun rays (and consequently sun damage) with an unholy glee. I can just go *near* a window and I feel my skin begin to tingle.
The…
My aspiring minimalist wardrobe has been getting what feels like a near-total makeover this summer, with many more things finding their way out than finding their way in.
As I make a concerted effort to buy and keep only those pieces that
A) Look good on me
B) Make me happy
C) Conform to my own personal style
I…
It's time to shop my wardrobe! This has been the summer of the great closet cleanout, and my loss is your gain! Check out the items I have for sale on Facebook Marketplace and let me know if you're interested in anything. Will ship for additional charge once I work out the shipping costs. Click…
NUDESTIX have been showing up in my peripheral vision for a year or so now, one of those brands/products that I kept thinking I should try, but didn't in any way need to try. NUDESTIX seems to be in that current club of makeup brands that promise simplicity, "natural beauty" and one-product wonders (except buy more products, K?). Like Glossier and Milk, their PR images feature glowing women of all skin tones who don't even look like they're wearing makeup, guys! Indeed, Glossier wants you spend quite a bit of money to end up showing all your natural "imperfections", the implication being that you'd better be a bouncy, upper middle class 20-something who can afford to show their natural skin texture and pigmentation, or else just... stay home or something? I don't know.
This months' Sephora PLAY! box, was it a deal or a dud? Read on for my (mostly) well organized thoughts on the matter.
The Sephora PLAY! subscription is one of the best values in the current, crowded beauty box market. $10 gets you five good sized montly samples, along with a bonus sample (usually perfume or a smaller packet sample) as well as a card that gets you an extra 50 Beauty Insider points if you make an in-store purchase that month. For me, a major benefit to Sephora's subscription is that their boxes will only contain brands that Sephora actually carries. Other similarly priced boxes (looking at you Birchbox and Ipsy) would send some of the very offest of off brands, things I was afraid to put on my face because I had no brand trust or even recognition. I don't think anything I get in a Sephora box will harm me or be full of Chinese factory toxins. Probably.
I have been subscribed to the PLAY! box for a year now, and it's been mostly hits and a few total misses, but at least no harmful products or brands that I've never heard of before. Let's see what this month brought us.