I have a magazine-writing-induced allergy to talking about "what I loved in June" once it's already July. The moment's gone, you've moved on, I've moved on. But here we are anyway.
This month included a fun dinner with my friend Aly at my favorite local sushi restaurant, OKO. June also brought a stack of deadlines (Westchester and Hudson Valley Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Rye Record) and a welcome uptick in copy client work, which I think says something, and that something is: people are realizing AI copy is fine, until it sounds exactly like everyone else's. When you need work tied to your brand’s DNA, you need a person behind it.
Onto the favorites.
Missed May’s? Here they are!
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The Cellcosmet Hydra-Soothing Mask is the skincare equivalent of a sick day. It calms redness, floods in hydration, and rebuilds your barrier whether you're dealing with everyday sensitivity or fresh post-peel devastation, plus, it's got the 21-day clinical data to back up the "it's actually working" feeling.
In a rare departure from oil body washes, I’ve been loving OSEA's seaweed body wash, which is oil-adjacent in terms of its Olympic levels of moisturization. Aloe and glycerin keep it from going full Sahara on your skin, so you get out of the shower soft and hydrated instead of squeaky and regretful.
The ultimate luxury, to me, is spending a full day binge watching something in the A/C with a luxe blanket. My pick: The Lola blanket in Sea Glass, essentially a permission slip to be horizontal. Its double-sided faux fur is so soft it borders on suspicious, four-way stretch so it actually drapes over you instead of fighting back, in a color that's very "ocean on a good day.”
The Hanni Shower Scarf makes me want to shower longer. It's extra-long so you can finally reach your own back, textured enough to buff away whatever your body wash isn't doing, and it makes a $18 piece of fabric feel like the closest thing to a spa day you'll get this week.
I've made peace with the fact that gel manis own my soul (and my cuticles). The Londontown GelShift Kit is the closest thing to a truce: Paint your regular polish like normal, zap it under the included lamp for 60 seconds, and suddenly it's giving salon-grade shine and a week-plus of wear. No drill, no soak-off horror show, no guilt.
The Nation LTD Evonne Maxi Dress does the trick of looking like it took effort while requiring exactly none. Pima cotton, a smocked waist that does the flattering for you, pockets (PSA: pockets), and a tiered skirt that moves like it's got somewhere to be — even if somewhere is just my kitchen for a second coffee.
The MBR Face Cream Smooth 100 is the moisturizer equivalent of finishing your serum's sentence: it doesn't just hydrate, it makes lines and texture go soft-focus, like your skin got the memo to relax. It costs the earth so I won’t be buying it any time soon, but I did rediscover it via a sample I’d misplaced and it’s just beyond incredible.
These Wit & Wisdom High Rise Denim Shorts have a longer inseam and the perfect color blue wash. They’ve got just enough stretch to forgive a second helping of anything, and an 8-inch length that splits the difference between weekend errands and leaving the house.
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