I have tried self tanners in the past and had given up hope that any brand would ever work for me. My skin is on the browner side of the spectrum thanks to my Mexicana mama, but I sometimes want a little more even color on my legs and face. After week 6 of quarantine, I caught a glimpse in the mirror and thought I had seen a ghost (maybe I’m being dramatic but I feel it). My complexion looked…
I remember my first SoulCycle class better than my first kiss. It was a turning point after which I compared every spin class from that day forward, and Soul became the gold standard of cycling in my mind. When pre-orders of SoulCycle’s at-home bike launched amid social distancing and the imminent COVID-19 quarantine, I couldn’t have put down the deposit fast enough. I’ve been using it for two weeks now and here is my honest review of SoulCycle’s at-home bike:…
It’s moving season, and post-quarantine I feel a major moving boom on the horizon. We moved right before shelter-in-place became a part of our every day vocabulary, and now it feels like we’ve lived in this house forever. Moving with 3 kids under 4 was a lot of logistics, but I implemented a few tricks that helped ease the big change for my brood that really went a long way on a very long day. Here are my 4 best…
There is no time like the present to get a jump on spring cleaning. The time spent after-houring and happy-houring in the evening last year is now ripe for closet purging, donating, and reorganizing. I was able to do a big clean-out before our late February move, and I am almost done. This goes back to one of my cardinal rules of closet editing: set a deadline. I am giving myself till the end of this month to finish, and…
It’s Friday even though it doesn’t feel like it, but it’s about to because these Friday finds are going to make a weekend happen all over your screen. Does that even make sense? Does anything anymore? What does make sense right now: making the most of your work from anywhere at home situation, ordering the best Mother’s Day Gift if you haven’t already, and maybe a little something for yourself for when you eventually do crawl out of this giant…
Today we received the news that school is cancelled for the remainder of the year. I expected it, but it still stings. Life as we knew it will never be the same, and our empty social calendars are here to prove it. I am happy to be a part of flattening the curve, but I am also looking forward to warmer days ahead and getting out of my loungewear soon. In the spirit of such and in desperate need of…
Now that things are warming up outside we will soon be wearing sandals again (most likely paired with a sloppy DIY pedicure unless you ordered these). We also may have to change out of sweatpants, but luckily for us all, the sweatpants of shoes are back in a big way. If you were alive in the late 90’s you probably had a pair of these ubiquitous elastic slides or some iteration of (I had the giant platform version). I remember…
Yesterday I spilled some guts and shared the 3 best free Mothers Day gifts. However, since we are not all going to be able to see our mamas this year, I rounded up some amazing contact-free gifts you can send to the moms in your life to show you care. This cashmere set, which is one of my favorite Mother’s Day gifts I ever received, is back. It’s perfect for lounging at home now and travel later, plus the eye…
While I was working on rounding up the 10 best Mother’s Day gifts, I realized that the greatest presents are actually things that money can’t buy. When I think of the things I would truly love for Mother’s Day this year, they aren’t things at all. Shelter-in-place, quarantine, social distancing, whatever you’re calling our state of being during this pandemic, has presented most mothers with unprecedented situational stress. The amount of time we have been spending with our children has…
To be honest, I haven’t worn more than three pairs of shoes in six weeks, AKA before quarantine. The three musketeers of my current footwear rotation includes a pair of indoor workout sneakers, a pair of outdoor running sneakers, and a pair of sequined Golden Goose. What I am wearing more of these days: slippers. My feet are always cold, and I don’t do shoes in the house. Here are the 10 best slippers I found:…