Let’s be real: Goest candle samples
I started this account four years ago (!) so I could have a place to talk about candles and scents and all the ways they make me feel. I also… Continue Reading
The pursuit of love, only it’s lip balm and there are zero Nazis
Last summer my friend Jess, my lip product enabler and guiding light, asked me if I’d heard of the REFY Lip Blush. This kind of product — the allegedly blurred-but-also-balmy-tinted-lip-product-don’t-call-it-a-lipstick —… Continue Reading
Candle club #2
It’s time for a late spring/early summer meeting of candle club! Candle club is like the Babysitters Club only we’re all adults who are allowed to have candy in our… Continue Reading
The Anthropologie candle racket
I didn’t even bother with a Top Candles of 2022 post because I knew my number one candle was no longer for sale. It was an Anthropologie seasonal candle called… Continue Reading
Candle recs: campfires and lavender
My friend Millie DM’d me the other night asking for candle recs. This is my favorite kind of ask and I went to town with my answers, and then realized… Continue Reading
The goth candle
The newest addition to my spring candle roster (do we need a 2023 roster update? we probably do) looks like October but smells like May. Burke & Hare Co’s Cemetery… Continue Reading
Tennis, everyone?
I never thought, when starting this blog three years ago, that through it I’d discover my nemesis. And I never ever thought that in all the realms of possibility, my… Continue Reading
Curly hair science: product update
Two months ago I asked Instagram for some curly hair styling product recommendations. I was in a rut after trying to replace all my old DevaCurl products the year before,… Continue Reading
(I will never be able to retire because I can’t stop buying) Tinted lip balms
My two hobbies? Weaknesses? Money holes? Are candles and lip products. I am forever in search of the perfect one and sometimes I find it, but then I like to… Continue Reading
Kitchen candles
Another mailbag question: Can you recommend a good candle for kitchen smells? Yes I can, thank you for asking! The idea of a kitchen candle is kind of weird –… Continue Reading