It’s the fifth of the month again, and I’m inspired to create another list of five things that I like. I’ve already posted about my makeup staples, so this will be a follow-up post, listing five very basic skincare products that I’ve purchased and repurchased over the past few years.
I bought my first bar of Victoria Lanolin-Ägg-Tvål Eggwhite Facial Soap somewhere between four and five years ago, at New London Pharmacy in New York. I liked the soap so much that I went back for a box of six bars, and it became part of my nightly skincare ritual.
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Penhaligon’s Peoneve. You can read it here.
Dorothy Parker is known as a humorist, and a black-humorist at that; but a few of her short stories are surprisingly touching. I’ve read “The Lovely Leave” (1943) many, many times, and I still enjoy its vignette of a soldier’s wife preparing for her husband’s all-too-brief leave in wartime New York.
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I’m still trying out a few products from LUSH’s new Emotional Brilliance cosmetics line, and this item has turned out to be one of my favorites. It’s a cream eyeshadow in the shade called Sophisticated, and it was one of my selections in my Emotional Brilliance preview reading (which you can read about here).
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