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Best Green Luxury Beauty: De Mamiel and 5 Other Options
This post has been in the making for months, if not years, but I’ve always felt that „oh, I still need to try this“ or „cannot really do it before I’ve used that“. Obviously, that’s not a very smart way to approach the topic, as I’ll never be able to test ev..
The Ordinary: Direct Acids
This is the third installment in my The Ordinary overview, you can find the first post here and second one here.
Talking about acids in the skincare context sounds scary, but they are among the most useful ingredients out there. Acids are generally good f..
Lazy Person’s Spring Brunch
Brunch is my favourite meal. I’m not a morning person, so even if I love breakfast in theory, I rarely love it in practice. I like the free form of brunch, how you have many small dishes rather than a couple of big ones that you usually have for lunch and di..
A Non-Capsule Wardrobe
Capsule wardrobes are as ubiquitous as avocado toasts recently (or chia puddings, for that matter), everyone and their pet iguana is doing it. If you don’t spend your days on Instagram, let me try to be helpful and recap: capsule wardrobe is a limited collec..
My Korean Skincare Stash Update Vol 1
When I did my first post on Korean skincare almost two years ago, the products seemed so exotic and the beauty rituals of Korean women mystical and incomprehensible. 10 steps! Snails! Sleeping packs! How far we’ve come, the barbarians of the West. Sheet mask..
Gucci Loafers and 6 Other Things For a New Job
Some of you know that I started a new job last week, joining the Estonian EU Presidency team for 10 months. I’m very excited: the work is going to be interesting and we’ll be doing great things. Less maturely, a new job also seems like a perfect excuse to bu..
On The Occasional Act of Getting Drunk
I’m writing this with a medium-level hangover, which makes the thesis of the post particularly unlikely. Essentially, I’m going to say that I’m OK with people – me included – getting drunk once in a while: I’m warning you right now so that you can stop readi..
The Face of a Blogger: 9 Cult Skincare Products
My love of lists is well documented and there are very few genres I like better than lists of cult beauty products (the other contenders being Best Books of All Time and Perfect Wardrobe Staples). If you are a beauty junky, however, cult product lists often ..
The Obama Book Club
When I woke up in the morning of 24 June last year, in shock, I thought things couldn’t get any worse, that this was the political nadir of my life. Silly me. Things can always get worse and they just have. I spent yesterday in a daze of horror and disbelief..
Best of 2016: Skincare
I love best-of lists, but they are always more difficult to write then I expect – and I really should know by now. Skincare is particularly troublesome: I test and use a lot and most of it is good, but I’ve become very tough to impress unconditionally. In ad..