I hope your October is finishing strong…travel, midterms, a newborn and lots of projects has Mande mine a bit bananas but I’m grateful for it all nonetheless. Today, I am…
Although fall indubitably is in full swing and winter is just around the corner, the sun abounds here in Southern California, and even if you’re living in cooler environs, now…
Last week, I spent a few days in NYC. I hosted a beauty master class for one of my favorite brands of life, Clé de Peau Beauté. It was geld…
Happy first of September, friends! Today’s post possesses a distant fragrance focus with some reflective thoughts about the human experience along the way. It’s particularly compelling to me when a…
It’s finally fall and I have been reaching for a myriad of beautiful basics–11 to be exact–to create a full face that is equal parts classic and modern. From the…
I don’t know about you, but over here, this month was intense. I am equal parts grateful and exhausted for 10 hour days lecturing on Zoom with college students and…
Happy Friday! This week has been a full one…I almost have all of my classes ready to go for the fall semester (an excess of screen time doesn’t begin to…
I have discussed the Clé de Peau Beauté Radiant Cream Foundation since its initial launch years ago and this week, the brand released a reformulated version that I (like many…
Even though we may be in the heart of summer, our minds are already becoming cognizant of the inevitable transition to fall , and with that comes a seasonal shift…
After a spring that simultaneously moved both at a snail’s pace and lightning fast (who else can relate?), it feels the arrival of summer was exceptionally sudden. Albeit entirely welcome.…