Same Name, Different Sunscreen. Moving to Spain did a lot of things to my skincare routine, but the biggest shift was sunscreen. Not in a “I learned to reapply more” way, but in a “why does everything suddenly feel better…
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A long-term favorite finally lands stateside. I discovered La Roche-Posay Effaclar A.Z. just last June. My skin was doing that familiar thing: slightly congested and a little dull. Add heat, humidity, stress, and constant sunscreen into the mix, and my…
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Industrial Chic Without the Drama. The latest Jones Road fragrance, En Route, first appeared during the holidays as part of an adorable little fragrance coffret trio. I remain deeply jealous of anyone who received that as a gift. Unlike the…
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Last year was full of self-care revelations. An international move will do that to you. Since European pharmacies turned from exotic to everyday, I’ve embraced more SPF formulas than I can count. I also found my ride or die sunscreen…
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People get weird in January. Suddenly everything needs fixing. Drinking, spending, eating, productivity, personality. The pressure to reset has been packaged, branded, and sold back to us as self-improvement. I’m not anti better choices. I’m anti pretending that January is…
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Finding the best retinal serum is less about chasing the strongest number and more about finding a formula your skin will actually tolerate. I learned that the slow way. In my early skincare fascination days, retinol felt like the ingredient…
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Encapsulated. Liposomal. Time-released. These terms show up constantly in skincare marketing, usually implying better absorption, stronger results, or advanced science. Sometimes that is true. Often, it is just expensive vocabulary. Delivery systems can improve stability, tolerance, and how a product…
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This will be a very quick, bite-size post. I plan on sharing more of these. It has been a few years since The Maker hosted me at their hotel in Hudson, New York. The memory is still vivid. Snow falling.…
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