Morning-Night Must Haves
Whimsy Makes Eye Mask
Whimsy Makes is a Sonoma County, CA based textile studio. Perhaps I’m partial because everything is hand dyed and curated by my sister, Chelsea. I’ve been lucky enough to have many of her thoughtful items in my life (shoutout to the Whimsy robes) but this eye mask…game changer. I have religiously used an eye mask to sleep for a long time. I recently reached out to my sister in distress when I somehow lost mine one evening (it ended up being stuck in a sweatshirt hoodie) and felt extremely discombobulated. I rushed a Whimsey order in and received a fresh silk eye mask in the mail. I put it on and audibly gasped. It’s soft, snug, and ultimately plush to the point that getting out of bed has become even more difficult in the mornings…thanks Chelsea. The most perfect gift!
Buxom Power-Full Plump Lip Balm
“A visibly plumping and moisturizing tinted lip balm that blooms to your custom shade by reacting with your lips’ pH level.” Sign me up. I’m all for a pH level complimenting product. A tinted balm goes a long way. I first tried this in a sample where the container was half the size of my pinky. I found it at the bottom of a relatives bag and it had probably 4 uses left. I could feel the base of the container when I applied it to my lips. It didn’t take long to hook me! I got a full size in the same color, “big o” and then made my sister and mom try it while on vacation and it somehow didn’t make it back home with me….now I’m using the “dolly fever” shade and it’s such an easy way to get a bit of color that can be applied like lip balm and the tint stays on my lips where I don’t have to keep reapplying all day!
Trader Joe’s Date Syrup
As impressive as quitting caffeine is, it’s just not for me at the moment. I’m a coffee drinker but have been consuming a lot of matcha in the past few years. Unfortunately this interest has turned me into a bit of a matcha snob, so much so that I fear I might have bullied a barista in Austin over the summer after being disappointed by each matcha I ordered in that damn city. I learned that the one that I prefer is my matcha latte’s I make at home unless I’m with best friend (@caitlinrance) in New York at Brooklyn Ball. I use matcha powder from @spirittea and sweeten it with Trader Joe’s date syrup. It’s perfect and implementing it into my morning ritual has both turned me into a woman with a matcha complex but fueled with a lot of passion.
