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Reader Mail: The Difficult Sunscreen

05.29.2007

In today’s Reader Mailbag:

Dear Bunnyshop:

I understand all this stuff about how we’re not supposed to go in the sun anymore, etc etc, but I am finding that the sun is really quite unavoidable, especially in the summertime. (Which it is now, hurrah!) So anyway: Every sunscreen I try, I break out. So then I don’t wear sunscreen, and I get freaked out about skin damage. What to do? Can you poll your people for their solutions, if I am not the only person to have sunscreen-resistant skin?

XO
J.

We can honestly say that we have been there. But! We have a solution. A solution for us, and our finicky skin, anyway, but we had the same exact problem, and it drove us crazy: sunscreen: not supposed to fuck your skin up. We’d buy sunscreen, and then we’d break out, and it was all extremely annoying. What we discovered was that our skin simply would not tolerate sunscreen and moisturizer in one, and we needed two separate products. Since then: no annoying sunscreen breakouts. Lovely pomegranate scent! Actually, it’s sort of weird, but we find ourselves liking it, because it is the scent of sunscreened skin. And no zits. Hurrah!

Our sunscreen-erific routine:

We begin with the cleanser, because it seems wrong not to. Philosophy Purity cleanser, $20

We love our moisturizer. We have been a bit cash-poor of late, and have put off replacing our newly-depleted one, and it’s like we can feel our skin wrinkling as we save up the cash. Cryste Marine Firming Cream, $45

And the key point: Murad Waterproof sunblock. We assume it’s blocking problematic sun-things, and we know it’s not making us break out. Murad SPF 30 sunscreen, $35

We encourage anyone who has faced a similar situation to provide our question-asker with more suggestions.

Oh, Shorts

05.25.2007

Shorts are a class of clothing we typically figure to spend around $20 on. Or: cutting off the legs of existing jeans, so free. But: We are becoming more open to the idea of shorts as the center point of the outfit. And we are also thinking that most of these shorts terrify us. Still: We were forced into some mid-thigh shorts this week, and we wish we had burned them. Short-shorts: absolutely more flatteringly. Bizarrely so.

These are practically evening wear. Matthew Williamson shorts, $340

We are pretty sure it makes sense to think that cuffs actually make your thighs look smaller. Er, not that we’ve ever sat around thinking really, really hard about that. Anlo hot shorts, $158

Okay. We are feeling a little insane. But we totally, totally love these. Milly short shorts, $185

Ditto. We are really not sure we would ever wear these, but we love them. L.A.M.B shorts, $145

We also love these. We are thinking it is the side-closure that is new and apparently exciting. Geren Ford shorts, $214

Limited-Edition Marc Jacobs

05.25.2007

Yay! It’s Marc Jacobs bazaar time again. We came home with: MJ London tote bag, MJ gold compact, and MJ silver-y wristlet, which we’re thinking is almost practically a neutral color. All for around $25! “It’s not like Marc’s slaving away antagonizing over this line,” the cashier guy said. To which we were all, “No shit! Really! You don’t say!” We don’t mind, though, because we think it’s all pretty adorable, and it was all sold alongside t-shirts benefiting the Martin Luther King Center. Can’t complain super-much about that.

Get to the store! Is what we’re saying. Otherwise, all these items are on eBay, aggravatingly for about twice the retail price:

London tote plus gold compact: current bid, $5.51, ends May 30

MJ compact, current bid $8.95, ends May 31

And P.S.: We were all excited because these shoes were 40% off in the store. We can’t link there, unfortuately, but the closest we could get online were these from Shopbop. We love these. MXMJ peep toe shoes, were $325, now $227.50

Decisions, Decisions

05.25.2007

Okay, so we will be the first to admit that we used to be really nothing but annoyed at Kate on Lost, and would be all, Can they not just leave her behind in the jungle to starve, etc. But things have changed, and we are not ones to hold grudges: We actually sort of like her now, and hope, if passively, she and Jack will smooch etc. Anyway. We are just sort of finished thinking about the finale: so many questions. And. Yet. None more pressing than—major spoiler coming right now!—do we like Future-Kate or Island Kate’s hair better?

Now, we are surprising no one here more than ourselves, but we think we actually prefer Island Kate. This is evidenced by the fact that this morning, we first reached for our Bumble + Bumble Surf Spray, even if one of the stylists at the salon where we used to work once told us that it basically deposits nasty salt blotches in your hair. To be honest, we’ve never noticed this. Still. A concern. B+B Surf Spray, $21.07

But then we are all, ‘Sleek! Sleek!’ Erm. Can’t decide. This is our favorite of the hair-straighteners, and we have tried many of them. Kiehl’s Heat-Protective Silk-Straighening Cream, $15.50

And then this is what we need from roughly June 1 – Labor Day weekend. Yaaaaaay, summer! Frederic Fekkai zero-humidity frizz control, $20

We are totally going with Island Kate.

Reader Mail: The Missing Sunglasses

05.24.2007

We recently received the loveliest email:

Hi,
I was checking out an awesome post that you had on May 26 2005 on Cutler and Gross Aviators but it keeps switching to your new url and I can’t access it. Do you have information on the following sunglasses (colors, price, if it’s for men, etc). Thanks so much!

E.

Can we add here that we try, very hard, to respond to every we get, but are lazy, lazy, lazy at heart and sometimes fail ourselves, as well as the letter-writer, but we are so much more likely to really hop on it when people use the word “awesome,” because we are freaking suckers.

Anyway, as it turns out, we couldn’t, because we apparently broke our old site in making the new one, so it turns out that while we managed to reply to this email, we failed to provide the letter-writer with much useful information. It did get us thinking, however, about how much we would really like a pair of aviator sunglasses, like these:

And only $400! OP Aeros. Sheesh

We will admit here we are constantly torn between wearing our $9 H&Ms and our $We have no idea because they were a present but super freaking expensive Oliver Peoples. The truth is there is a little bit of crushed Pop Tart in the wing of the H&Ms, because we just jam them into whatever bag we’re carrying (not addressing, for the moment, why there is Pop Tart in our bag) and the OPs sort of sit reverentially on our desk, because we are so scared we are going to destroy them.

We actually find it pretty easy to find plastic frames we like cheap, but not metal. We do, however, always really like FF’s. Doctor Octagon sunglasses with metal arms, $9. Cannot beat $9, we’re thinking.

Crossing Party Lines

05.24.2007

Can we just say that The View in general and Elisabeth Hasselbeck in particular gives us a ridiculous headache—Joy Behar, voice of reason? incroyable mais vrai—but we totally love her maxi dress. No? Even if it sort of looks like a hot-air balloon. Er, we know it sort of does. But we love those colors for summer.

When Skinny Jeans Heart Leggings

05.24.2007

Skinny jeans that are so skinny they are actually sort of more like leggings: mm, a hybrid option that seems not quite as tired as its parents. Above: APC “tight trousers,” $152

And from Genetic Denim, these are actually described as denim leggings. White pants always mystify us in the barbecue season. Moth to the flame, etc. Genetic Denim denim leggings, $198

We feel a bit more confident about them i this lovely dark (officially: “zinc”) color. GD leggings, were $231, now $162

Spring Sales Continued: La Garconne

05.24.2007

Okay. So in the sense that “on sale” does not always exactly mean “inexpensive,” we bring you the summer sale from La Garconne:

Our favorite thing about this dress is that in the listing, the description is all “PLEASE NOTE: MANNEQUIN HEIGHT IS 5’11″” Like, (a) it’s not this short on you, and (b) the mannequin has achieved a height of which you can only dream. Tss. We do want to say we own a dress of similar sheer quality, and it drives us fucking nuts, lacking a slip. Valentine dress, was $390, now $273

This seems v. ’70s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to us. By the way, we absolutely hated that freaking movie, even if Natalie Wood looked totally amazing in it. Paisley tunic, was $529, now $370

We are interested in a white dress for summer. We are not sure if this is it. Development dress, was $288, now $202

Supposedly these are “Sienna Miller’s favorite.” We have no idea if that is correct or not. Harlan 59 skinny jeans, were $219, now $153

Reader Question: The Hairband

05.23.2007

In today’s Reader Mailbag:

Dear Bunnyshop:

I want my hair to look exactly like this, at least as far as the hairband is concerned. But whenever I wear one, it never stays in place for more than five minutes. Do you have any suggestions for solving this?

Help!
J.

Actually, we are equally baffled. But: here’s hoping someone else has a solution?

Spring Sale At Standard Style

05.23.2007

Spring sales, continued: Everything’s 30% off at Standard Style. We decided to focus on shoes, and our picks are thusly:

Red patent leather shoes are exactly what we would like to wear today. Steven by Steve Maddens, were $136, now $47.60

These are so the shoes of the summer for us, peep-toe wedges. Dolce Vita wedges, were $79, now $55.30

Ditto. But in silver! Felicity wedges, were $134, now $93.80

And these are the sweet ‘n’ expensive ones. MXMJ shoes, were $425, now $297.50

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