#32 Sunscreen, crisp sheets, and Akari lamps.
Plus tasteful vs. trendy, Breathe India, and Bladee x Charli.
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The sun is shining! It feels so good! The warmth feels like finding your friends in a busy park on a Saturday afternoon. But plz protect your skin! If not for wrinkles/aging, but to prevent skin cancer (which many young people get!). Even if you’re not going outside (like if you have a bright window in your home or something) you should be wearing sunscreen. Also, it is a myth that you cannot get tan whilst wearing sunscreen. Ideally, you should be reapplying sunscreen every 2 hours (I know, so annoying, just do it). If you wear makeup, try and get a foundation with SPF in it.
I personally use Elta MD’s UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF 46, because it is medical-grade, has a v high SPF, and is oil-free!
Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40 always has raving reviews. I’m going to try this next! Right before I sent this, I had two separate people send me this sunscreen. It’s fate!
When I wear makeup, I really love the Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer Natural Skin Perfector Broad Spectrum SPF 30 (oof long name)! If you’re not able to reapply sunscreen because of makeup, definitely try to get something with SPF in it. Or throw on a hat!
The Cicapair™ Tiger Grass Color Correcting Treatment SPF 30 is really great for redness. It’s this green colored cream (green corrects red!) that blends into your skin for light coverage and some SPF.
For my body in the summer, I just get whichever sunscreen at the drug store has the highest SPF, but if anyone has any other suggestions 👀
Please please please please wear sunscreen<3
Been listening to this new. Lol the lyric “Crying in Prada, in the Bahamas.”
Been revisiting this old.
Nice bedding is the kind of thing where you don’t realize how nice it is until you actually sleep in it. Here you see my C R I S P Brooklinen Classic Hardcore Bundle. I’ve also been using their Mulberry Silk Pillowcase (good for your hair, and sleeps cool!) and Mulberry Silk Eye Mask :) Use my ~special link~ and you’ll get 20% off Brooklinen products. It’s their biggest sale ever, and you have until Wednesday, 5/5!
"Good taste" versus "on trend" w/ Connie Wang Maybe Baby/Haley Nahman
I’ve linked to Haley Nahman’s newsletter Maybe Baby a million times. Ugh, love her. She’s an incredible writer. Paid subscribers get access to her podcast (like this episode) and her JUICY advice column Dear Baby. In this podcast ep, Haley and Connie Wang (executive editor of Refinery29) talk about the difference between having good taste and being on trend, being defined by your things, what it means to actually take care of yourself, and if we can really vote with our wallets.Inside Troye Sivan's Victorian-Era Melbourne Home Architectural Digest
Okay. This is THE ONE. If you haven’t already watched Troye Sivan’s AD tour……literally make sure you’re sitting down first. It is stunning!!!things that made me laugh
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If you’re new here, hi! Every month I collect donations for a charity/org. Until the end of May, I will be collecting donations for Breathe India. It’s a fundraising effort led by Indian Institutes of Technology alumni seeking “to procure effective distribution of oxygen concentrators to hospitals in Delhi” amidst the oxygen shortage due to their massive COVID surge.
You can read more about Breathe India here.
Venmo me at @elisebang (email me if you prefer a different method) and at the end of every month, I’ll match up to $50. You have until the end of May! Thank you!
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