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01.31.2013

Three Awesome Yoga Tops That Aren’t From Lululemon

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Because being a cliche is bad, we’re always on the lookout for cute yoga clothes that aren’t from Lululemon. Last night, at International Orange here in San Francisco, we stumbled upon these tops from Alo, which are both cute and about half as much $$ as Lulu. Win-win.

This camo-y one, though it would need a bra beneath it (er, we hope), is our fave. Alo women’s dropped armhole tank, $38

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We swear this could go from yoga -> the bar. Alo cross strap yoga tank, $46

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This was a lot cuter in real life, when it wasn’t paired with pants of the exact same color. The bra-like detailing at the top is really adorbs, and the racerback straps in the bank are adjustable. Alo adjustable tank, $50

01.29.2013

Shopping San Francisco: The Detox Market

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Our week of shopping in San Francisco continues—to The Detox Market, which is a beauty and health store that is not Sephora. (Which in itself is pretty exciting.) It goes a little further down the healthy-living spectrum than we, personally, tend to go—like, we’re not going to cry if we can afford sunscreen, but not “non-nano size zinc oxide” sunscreen. (We don’t doubt, we just have room for only so much complexity in our daily existence.)

They do, of course, also have some really beautiful things. Now, if you’d told us before we walked inside that we would spend $80+ on a blush, we would have attacked you, and then shaken the quarters out of your pockets. Not really. But we like our makeup to cost much, much, much less than $80. Once we saw these Kide blushes, though—we have to call it true love, even though we know that sounds horrible. But it was! They’re so pretty, and they stay on, and they’re filled with all the nice things, pure minerals and vitamins and all that. But mostly, they’re pretty. We especially love the ones with the gold flecks: One of the flecks got stuck in one of our pores, and we were tied between (a) our pores are humungous and (b) our face is fucking gold. Kide bronzers and blushes, $85

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We’ve been cleaning a lot more lately, and though we’re not anti-toxins mavens, we have been getting a little skeeved by breathing in cleaning fumes all day (read: the 15 minutes when we’re actually cleaning). We get Method and all that, but these are just as healthy and have nicer packaging, which counts for something in our book. Sapadilla cleaning products made with 100% essential oils—our favorite is the countertop cleaner in lavender and lime, $9.99

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Finally: We don’t necessarily go in for organic skincare at the moment—we’re pretty happy with our Avene gel cleanser, not too drying for winter—but when we do give it a try, we’ll start with this trial kit. Discovery kit by Odacite, $29

01.29.2013

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This is the wreath and book selection at General Store.

01.28.2013

Shopping San Francisco: General Store

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We’re in San Francisco this week, which has the benefit of being an awesome shopping city and significantly warmer, than anywhere else we’d be. Yesterday we went out to the ocean (almost) to see General Store, which we love so much we included it in a story we did for Lucky (when we worked there), but we’ve never been, because it’s all the way out by the ocean. Yesterday, though, we made it out, and it was well worth the trip, especially since we spent most of it playing Drop 7.

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Not much of what’s there is “cheap.” There were a lot of complaints on that issue on Yelp (and Jesus, if we owned a store, we’d like send them dead things in the mail until they took us off the website—can you imagine being graded by everyone you worked with, every day, in public?) But we’re down with the idea of buying just one perfect thing and not getting anything else these days. Maybe it’s because our apartment is the size of a normal person’s kitchen—we don’t have room for it, we don’t like tripping over it, and we’d rather just buy, like, one trivet, forever, than many small ones that aren’t as great and just end up disappointing us, to the extent that a trivet can do that.

Anyway, that problem is best avoided with those necklaces above, because they’re all super awesome. Samma necklace(s), $105

And then right below that we have Claire Nereim’s 10-color silkscreen (the mind boggles) of winter fruit. It’s neater (and bigger) in person than it looks online. This would be very neat if your kitchen is bigger than our kitchen, and trust us: It is. Claire Nereim winter fruit, $50

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Someone made fun of these on Yelp (“wooden boxes!”) but we think they’re really cool, and really quite a nice place to put, like, earrings, if you’re not into the normal frou-frou. Woods from the Forest, $30

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And these are the trivets we mentioned. See, the thing is: These are the world’s most perfect trivets. They’re made by the design group Fort Standard (whom, speaking of our previous jobs, we interviewed for NYLON), and they’re perfect: They’re heavy, they’re smooth, they’re pretty, they’re bigger than they look (around eight inches), and they even have leather on the bottom to prevent damage both to said trivets and to the tables below them. One trivet, always: If you love trivets, it’s a pretty good way to go, we think. Fort Standard trivet, $90

01.27.2013

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If I had a kid or were much, much smaller I would totally buy out @gap’s peter rabbit collection.

01.25.2013

A Cool Shop: Flight in Park City, Utah

So we’ve been in Utah this week for Sundance, and it has, quite unexpectedly, been a good week. (Usually, there is a lot more whining and napping on our end.) We saw a surprising number of very good movies, and even though we would literally sell all of our possessions to get out of here a day early and we still have no iea how American Horror Story ended, we’re glad we came.

Park City is a weird place, with a lot of people who have a lot of money. That is why we were so happy to discover a store called Flight, which has plenty of big-ticket items (like this $375 Soia and Kyo coat, which we wish we’d known about when we did our puffer post, because it’s awesome), but a surprising lot of stuff that’s under $100.

Like this dress. This is a totally cute dress! For $55! Completely inappropriate for the weather at the moment, at least where we live, but we’d buy it now and throw it in a drawer until spring. Insight Corner dress, $55

This scarf is so “Utah ski town.” We’re into it. Blanket/scarf, $45

We find purple to be a low-key way to do the whole colored denim thing without getting too aggro about it. And it makes sense to not spend too much $$ on it. Kut skinny jeans, $80

That is the coolest looking skirt we’ve seen in a long time. Ladakh skirt, $75

01.23.2013

Our Top Resource For Valentine’s Day Things

We used to work in the same building, more or less, as the Journelle on Mercer Street, and to get home expeditiously (or, at least, get to the APC/Georgetown Cupcakes), we’d need to walk past Journelle. We swear to God, sometimes we’d just stare in the windows because everything was so, so pretty. But the reality was that when we needed new bras, we’d always end up going to Victoria’s Secret, even though we know it is the McDonald’s of underthings.

We had it in our mind that the actually really nice underwear at Journelle was too expensive to afford. Then, one very important day, we realized that we were completely wrong, and that while there are plenty of — let’s say, special occasion pieces — there are also plenty of things that are both (a) nicer and (b) cheaper than VS. It’s a win-win! We were a little sad for not having figured it out earlier. Maybe it’s because they (and their brands) spend so much less money on Gisele Bundchen.

Above: the Eberjay Theodora bralet, $49

This is quite small. Maison Close Villa Satine triangle bra, $64.90

This is a very V-Day sort of color. Stella McCartney Julia Tumbling bra, $85

This is more on the special-occasion end of things. Myla Rita Underwire Apex bra, $149

This has matching garters, which is a bonus. We’re seeing 2013 as a very pro-garters sort of year. Chantelle Eternelle demi bra, $105

01.21.2013

Two Products For Perfect Beachy Waves In The Middle Of January

(Late-breaking addition: the Josie Maran hair serum this post is about is now 10% off with free shipping at their site with the code: CHEERS.)

We spend a lot of time trying to get beachy waves right, and untold amounts of money—like, trunks full of gold amounts of money—on our two favorite “surf” sprays, Bumble + bumble’s Salt Spray and Sachajuan Ocean Mist. These are meant to be super easy: prime, spray, scrunch, done. We don’t know what it is—whether our hair’s too fine or what, but this technique gives us nothing but flyaways and frizz. Frustrating.

The closest we can get has been our go-to Kiehl’s Creme with Silk Groom twirled into a bun overnight when wet and then de-raveled in the morning, when it’s closer to dry. Curls, but not beachy, piece-y waves, which was the original goal.

Now: We’ve tried every frizz product on the market, from Kiehl’s Silk Groom Serum to John Frieda Frizz Ease and never got the results we wanted. That was until: Josie Maran Argan Oil Hair Serum. It has a slightly thicker consistency—more like, er, silicone? Lard? Delicious? We don’t know. But we work it into our hair (along with a tiny bit of Kiehl’s Creme)—and presto, beachy waves. We first tried it with our tested overnight method, but the real proof was in this: Generally, if we let our hair air dry, we end up with a nightmare of frizz. With a lot (really, quite a lot—four or five pumps) of this in our hair, it dried to the waves we wanted. This was a shock—like, so shocking we mentioned it to the friend who was lucky enough to be getting lunch with us at the time. Honest to God, we couldn’t believe it when we saw them. Speaking of gold, it was like finding a pot of it at the end of the rainbow.

One thing: We’re not like … obsessive about daily shampooing—the woman with the best hair we’ve ever known, our editor at Lucky, washed hers once a week. By 10 o’clock at night, though, our hair definitely looked like it needed a wash—so we’d have some dry shampoo around if we were planning a long day and would definitely need a wash if we were headed to an office in the morning.

In short, the review:
Josie Maran Argan Oil Hair Serum
Price: $30
What it does: Calm frizzies and define curls
The good: The easiest way we’ve found to recreate beachy waves
The bad: It did leave our hair greasier than it found it
Bottom line: We’ll buy it again, for sure.
Grade: A

01.17.2013

The Most Beautiful Thing Ever: This La Fee Verte Kimono

This is proof that we’ll love a galaxy print on absolutely anything, because we are so not about amazing sheer kimonos. But if we were, this would so obviously be the one.

The great challenge with Valentine’s Day, in our opinion, is to get through it while not going to Victoria’s Secret. Right? There is nowhere better to start looking than La Fee Verte, the Canadian lingerie maker. Everything they do is gorgeous.

La Fee Verte kimono, $240

01.16.2013

What To Wear With Yoga Pants

Er, for us, the answer to this is “literally everything.” This is partially because we live in yoga pants. That’s more of a statement of fact than an exaggeration. That’s what happens when you freelance, especially in winter: At a certain point, what you wore to yoga is going to be what you wear for the rest of the day. (Typically: 3 p.m.) To be honest: This happened when we had a job, too. We’d go to yoga, get to work early, and before we knew it, everyone would show up around 10 and we’d still be in our yoga pants. And it’d be less weird to actually pretend like we wore them on purpose, rather than the truth, which was that we got lazy and had a pair of jeans in our bag.

So moving on: Zoe Saldana shows how it’s done. As discussed, we don’t think, with today’s full-coverage yoga pants, that it’s necessary to cover your rear. (One super thick pair is these reversibles—they’re so thick we almost need to go up a size. It’s like there’s extra fabric where your body is supposed to be.)

So obviously you can wear whatever you want with yoga pants. But what we like is a thick, fitted top, just like Zoe here. The temptation (well, for us, anyway) is to go sloppy—like, tank top and American Apparel sweatshirt level sloppy. But that’s not the way. We prefer either a super-slim functional top like this wool one from Icebreaker, one of our favorite brands…

Icebreaker top, $90

or at the other end of the price spectrum, this $26.50 J. Crew top ($14.99 in two colors, including a very nice gray).

Then add these very inexpensive aviators, one of the few cheap ones with slim frames (the metal usually gets chunky):

And then a bit of frizz-fighter:

And done. To us, this is super tidy. And we love tidy, even if we can rarely achieve it. We prefer neat and trim to swamping yoga pants, either with big, bulky sweaters, extra-long t-shirts, or tunics. (Oh, tunics.)

We’ll add that we actually also love yoga pants with black heels (like these Kate Middleton favorites), a drape-y (but above-the-hip-length) tees (like the Misha from French Connection—did we mention they’re doing free shipping on all orders with code AW12FINAL?), and an awesome fitted blazer (like this one from Vince). So, we like that, too. But the key, throughout is fitted. And if someone thinks only size 0s can wear fitted tops and leggings … we’re sure he’s a dude, and we’re sure he’s a douche.

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