There are golden, springlike days peppered intermittently in with the cloudy ones, but we're waiting for a proper London summer, hot and filled with untold meanderings and adventures. I've been having issues with my hair for the past few weeks (oily at the scalp, discoloured, and extremely dry at the ends) and thought that I needed to switch up my shampoos and conditioners, but then dry patches began appearing on my skin.
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RECENTLY finished reading Susan Sontag's essay, "The Double Standard Of Aging" (1972) and found it very enlightening. Made a lot of notes, some of which I'll share in an upcoming article, but mostly, thought for a long time about her ideas on the subject, and what it it means to be a woman in today's society.
America’s independent bookstores may look like the tattered, provincial shops of a bygone era—holding onto their existence by the slimmest thread. And booksellers may appear genial and absent-minded, like characters out of Dickens. But in reality, they’re the marketing geniuses of our time.
Made from wildcrafted, organic, plant-drived ingredients
A sensorial multifunctional treatment cleanser infused with powerful plant oils and regenerative botanical extracts; this comforting warm honeyed aromatic beauty balm is subtly imbued with healing Frankincense, sweet Myrrh and Chamomile flowers, softly scented with nuances of an apothecary and herb garden.
BALM OF ENCENS is an exquisite regenerative face cleanser, mask and eye/lip treatment enriched with plant-based omegas, antioxidants and naturally occurring vitamins A, B, E & K, creating a cocooning experience for the skin and senses. This multi-use beauty balm maintains the skin's softness and elasticity with a host of nourishing pure plant extraits including Clemency Alice's signature Camellia (the 'Rose of Winter'), and an infusion of artisanal Calendula flowers extract (soothing), sea green Avocado (nourishing) and Rosemary CO2 Antioxidant. This balm is imbued with the skin restorative essences of Frankincense (healing), Lavender from the Te Horo coastal region, Rose Geranium (balances sebum production), soothing Chamomile Romaine, rejuvenating Elemi, and anti-inflammatory Myrrh.
HOW TO USE:
Cleansing: With the spatula, warm a small amount with your fingertips (while slowly breathing in to receive the aromatherapeutic benefits) then apply to the face, neck and décolletage. Gently massage in the BALM OF ENCENS using flowing, circular movements then remove with a damp hot cloth. Repeat this process with a second cleanse and massage in, this time for 3 minutes. Infuse with a steamy compress muslin cloth, hold for a slow count of 10, then remove excess product.
Mask: Apply a thin layer to cleansed skin and leave on for 30 minutes or longer. Remove with a hot damp muslin cleansing cloth.
Lip & Eye Balm: Apply a tiny amount round the outer orbit of the eye and around the lips to nourish and protect.
Insider Tip: For an ultimate aromatic 'infusion' treatment, massage a small amount to the skin, then infuse the plant-actives to the skin with a hot damp muslin cloth. Remove. Can also be used to soothe and condition after sun exposure and a skin must-have for ski vacations. Apply a thin layer and leave on overnight as a regenerative skin treatment.
When to Use: Use 3 x per week as part of a skin wellness program. Or 1 x per week to provide intensive nourishment for the skin. When skin has been exposed to harsh weather conditions ie. dry winds, post-skiing, sun exposure, use this balm as a nightly treatment until the skin is replenished and renourished.
For all skin types including dehydrated, dry, dull and weathered skin. The aromatic BALM OF ENCENS is multi-functional and can be used as an aromatic deep pore Cleansing Balm, restorative and nourishing Face Mask and a protective Lip & Eye Balm. Perfect also for dry hands and elbows.
Paraben-free, Silicone-free, Sulfate-free, Phthalate-free
Size: 60ml
Made in New Zealand
Few journalists and their sources have fallen out as completely as Kara Swisher and Elon Musk. The reporter met the future billionaire in the late 1990s, when she was a tech correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and he was just another Silicon Valley boy wonder.
IT WAS A chilly, rainy, blustery weekend and we’ve become very disenchanted with winter now. It’s true that the longer days make everything a little better, but it still feels like spring is a long way off, despite all the pink magnolia buds on the trees and beautiful falling cherry blossoms.
You’ve probably seen the famous photograph of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce’s Ulysses. If you have, you know that it is, on its face, an absurd image. Monroe is in full makeup, wearing a fashionable romper, seated on the wooden slat of a merry-go-round with a copy of the book in her lap.
In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its citizens’ extroversion. Americans weren’t just setting out to build new churches and new cities. Their associations were, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “of a thousand different types … religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute.”
ON FRIDAY P brought home a box of fortune cookies he found at the supermarket in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Neither of us is entirely certain of all the traditions associated with this celebration, but according to the Chinese zodiac, this is his year.
THIS INSTALMENT of 10 IMAGES features the work of Marco Valmarana. Born in Venice, Italy, Valmarana got his start working for Belmond as a lifeguard at Hotel Cipriani. After his studies, he took a different path, working in photography and social media.
ON FRIDAY afternoon, met with Anna, my new hairstylist (no, Eugen did not work out) for a maintenance cut to trim away all the dry and split ends (winter) and add some shape and layers back in. On Saturday we ate cake and drank wine and on Sunday afternoon, we stopped for some oysters and a glass of English sparkling
LAST WEEK, we stopped by the Tate Modern for a brief visit. Long enough to view a Klein, a few Lichtensteins, and a Modigliani. We prefer the Tate Britain, but we hadn't been to the Modern yet, so it was time.
WE ALL KNOW the iconic opening scene of the 1963 film Charade: Audrey Hepburn looking devastatingly chic in a chocolate brown Givenchy coat and oversized sunglasses, sipping coffee on a sunny terrace in the French ski resort of Megève.
Have a puzzle mindset—really resonated. It goes something like this: Rather than viewing the problems we face in the world (either individually or collectively) as crises, which can cause us to feel despair, seeing them—whether financial, environmental, health-related, or political—as puzzles can help us to think about new approaches to solving them...
Like so many millennials, I entered the online world through AOL Instant Messenger. I created an account one unremarkable day in the late nineteen-nineties, sitting in the basement of my childhood home at our chunky white desktop computer, which connected to the Internet via a patchy dial-up modem.
