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It’s been a long year, and now that I spend most of my time on the internet, I have spammed my closest friends with links for far too long. This newsletter is to give them a break and give me an outlet for my ever persistent desire to share things that excite me. Who knows what I’ll put in here, but you can expect links, photos, design, videos, routines, stationary, and anything else my heart fancies. So without further ado, some things I want you to look at!
This here video is of Bottega Veneta’s new shopping bags and it provides me with the same kind of brain mush sense of calm that I get from ASMR videos. The 1950s vibes I’m getting from the music also scratches a particular nostalgia itch for earlier stages of capitalism where I believed that buying things would actually make my life better. How easier things seemed! There is a series of these, which I highly recommend watching at your leisure.
I’ve become very strict about my hair care routine. Maybe it’s because my hair is now almost to my belly button, or maybe it’s because I enjoy controlling a routine when faced with the current mass global instability. Or maybe it’s Maybelline.
For context: my hair type is thick but made of thin strands, so it requires very specific care to facilitate any volume or wave or curl. I salute all of the rest of the hair types for your separate journey to haircare bliss.
First: Always brush before washing with a boar and nylon mixed bristle brush to distribute the oils from your scalp throughout the rest of the strands. Once I started doing this, it felt incredibly important. I use a Maison Pearson but I sense that the Crown Affair Brush No. 001 is just as good and less expensive. And I cannot stop thinking about the R in their logo.
Post Wash is a COMB ONLY situation now. Apparently this is gentler on wet hair. I use this Lesse comb after the shower and save the previously linked Crown Affair one for my purse. I’ve only ever used it at the beach, but just having a comb on me at all times makes me feel rich, old, Italian, and aristocratic, which I occasionally enjoy cosplaying at.
Ok that link to the Crown Affair Brush? That was to a set and it also happens to include the best and only hair towel I’ve ever used. It has elastic that doesn’t slip, the towel in insanely absorbent, to the extent that it took my sopping wet hair and dried it within the time it took me to oil my skin post-shower.
And then I oil just the tips. I prefer the F.Miller hair oil, but if you want to go whole hog on the whole Crown Affair thing, because you too are enamored with the branding, I do enjoy the scent of their hair oil. However, it’s not just oil and I’ve my brief research shows that the main ingredient (dimethicone) can lead to build up. So, there’s some research to be done if you’re so inclined to make well educated.
This is Not Sponsored by Crown Affair, but I will accept one if anyone’s watching 👀
Today I spent my day rearranging my lamps, and discovered that I am in need of one to fill a corner behind a reading chair. In my hunt for a modern orb floor lamp I found HAY has these ridiculously good looking LED ‘neon’ tubes. They’re made of plastic I expect that they’re cat safe. Neon has always had a special place in my heart so I promptly pre-ordered a yellow one and am waiting with bated breath for the 11 week production time to pass. If you too would like one, here’s a link!
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