Coffee Break: Marine Cream
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The folks at Elemis were kind enough to gift me a few products, and this Pro-Collagen Marine Cream just might be my new favorite face cream, especially for dry winter months when I want to pamper my skin.
It's just so smooth and luxurious, with a nice, fresh smell. It feels like you're really treating your skin.
(The other two products they gifted were also amazing, for what it's worth — the Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm and Dynamic Resurfacing Facial Pads. You can buy the whole set for a total of $199 instead of the $284 it would cost to buy each individual product, or a travel kit of all three for $69 (instead of $100).)
They make a version of the marine cream with SPF, as well as a nighttime version. You can buy a 50ml jar for $145-$175, or smaller/larger sizes for $57-$255.
Sales of note for 8/21/25:
- Ann Taylor – $20 sale types (select styles), 25% off tops and sweaters, and extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 10% off new womenswear styles with code
- Dermstore – 20% off the Anniversary Edit
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off late summer styles, plus extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything and extra 15% off $100+
- M.M.LaFleur – Up to 70% off new markdowns – try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Neiman Marcus – Last call designer sale! Spend $200, get a $50 gift card (up to $2000+ spend with $500 gift card)
- Nordstrom – 9,800+ new women's markdowns
- Rothy's – Ooh: limited edition T-strap flats / Mary Janes
- Spanx – End of summer sale
- Talbots – 25% off your regular price purchase, also, end-of-season clearance
- Tuckernuck – Sample sale, prices up to 70% off! (Including lots of this bestselling work dress marked to under $75)
Is there anything I can do to slow the progression or improve varicose and spider veins? I’m 38, had a few visible veins since my early 30s but it’s gotten a lot worse in the past few months. These run in my family but on my dad’s side so I can’t really ask anyone. I respect older women rocking shorts and skirts with veiny legs, I just thought I had more time before that was me!
I’m about 10 lbs overweight by BMI, run and lift weights regularly.
yes, there are quite a few things that can be done medically for this! Talk to your doctor.
If they are true varicose veins – yes there are surgeries and minimally invasive ways to treat them. If you qualify based on symptoms/diagnoses, insurance should cover it. Unfortunately if they are traditional smaller spider veins then that are considered cosmetic and insurance wont cover removal. I think they need to be larger/bulging with symptoms like pain for coverage.
They run in my family too. I was told to watch my weight and work on weight training with my lower body. I started wearing compression stockings in the winter, but I kind of hate that. When I am resting at home I elevate my legs. I haven’t worn shorts in public since I was in my early 20s.
Unfortunately the veins can come back after treatment. I haven’t looked into it.
First world problem:
In the past, our family did not even go to college, but I went to a small college and joined a sorority there. I have teen daughters; time will tell if they chose this and I know it’s school very school and chapter dependent; no thumb on the scale to influence their decision either way. My niece just got a bid to my sorority at a different school than the one I went to. Her mom was not in a sorority and that’s sort of foreign to everyone. Do I offer to do anything with initiation? Not sure what is normal; I’m sure niece would be happy with anything or nothing or a card b/c she is sweet and reasonable. A friend had her grandmother’s pin when we initiated, which I though was very sweet (do you lend it or let them keep it, maybe until we know what my daughters might do?). I am very excited for my niece who very much wanted this and thinks that it is something cool that we share (I helped her get reference letters from my friends, and would make a point of saying that “Judge so-and-so wrote your letter for this house,” or “Colonel so-and-so wrote for you for this house” (to be fair, this whole system is stupid and we should just trust sororities to look at the rushee’s forms and decide based on meeting her and not bother adults with this stuff).
I don’t know anything about this but it’s sweet that you are bonding with your niece over this! 💕
if your niece is into the history and tradition of it all, as it sounds like she is, either lending or giving (idk which, but honestly I don’t even know where my pin IS right now…) your pin sounds really sweet.
I don’t know about your sorority in particular, but as an initiated member you can usually participate in her initiation. It can be very meaningful to be the person to give her badge to her. Otherwise, I think sending her a set of letters to wear once initiated is a thoughtful gift.
As for the badge, you can absolutely lend yours to her for her initiation, but I presume she’ll want her own. Usually they have the initiate’s initials and initiation date on them. That being said, they are very expensive and it is perfectly reasonable for you to pass them down in your family should your own daughters decide to be initiated. That is a nice family legacy.
+1 to joining for initiation and lending your badge/pin.
I was able to join an initiation for a family friend and found it meaningful!
I’ve never seen a badge that had initials and initiation date on it. It’s interesting how much this varies by sorority and school.
Personally, I would write her a nice letter telling her about how much your experience in college meant to you. I think that would be more meaningful than lending your badge, but that’s also a nice thing to do.
Same. A lot of people had legacy pins in my sorority, I think that’s a lovely tradition.
Yes, mine didn’t either. But I was an active a long time ago. I don’t know what people do now.
It’s been common on the back in my sorority since the 90s at least.
I was inna sorority in the 90s and not for us. Cost extra and we weren’t into it at my chapter. That said, for the OP, I’d look into gifting a new badge for your niece, maybe one of the upgraded nice ones (I’d have loved to have had one that wasn’t basic)
Yep, you can use your badge for initiation and then she can order her own.
You could send some fun gifts with your letters – shirts, mugs, bag charm, etc.
If you can afford it, it would be nice to gift her new pin to her.
Just recommended this! Should have read the thread first, but this is the way.
I could see wanting to hold on to your pin until you know what your daughters end up doing. Also given they have a cousin looking into this as well, it might influence them into wanting to join the same sorority down the road.
Would maybe sending a letters T-shirt or sweatshirt to your niece be a nice gesture? I recall needing to buy several T-Shirts w/ letters for different activities.
+1 I was able to participate in a younger relative’s initiation ceremony and highly recommend, if allowed. You might also be able to offer to purchase a nicer badge for your neice, if you’d like to hold on to yours for your daughters.
My niece rushed my sorority HARD at another school and my plan was to give her my pin for initiation. Unfortunately she didn’t get a bid after preference (which means a different sorority had her higher on their bid list) so it never came to pass. But I would have given her my pin in a heartbeat.
Is your hesitation because you’d like to give your own daughter your pin if one of them goes that way?
If so you can talk to niece’s mom before giving her your pin and tell her you’d love if she returned the favor to her cousin in the future if it happens. But you know this is an extremely long shot!
I still have my pin but it has been rattling around in my jewelry box since college. I have never worn it except to a single alumni event, and even then it wouldn’t have been a big deal either way.
I think it would be a lovely gesture for you to give it to her.
PSA: I walked by a Talbot’s this weekend and their leopard print cardigan is really good! I was sweaty and had just had a haircut, so I didn’t go in to try it on, but I will tomorrow. It’s a dark print with lots of black & dark brown, so will look amazing with black.
I will go tomorrow and check it out! Thank you for this!
I got a catalog from them today and they had a leopard print cardigan in an olive colorway that really tickled my fancy!
Thanks for the reminder, I have been meaning to look for some cords for the Fall.
Has anyone tried any of the new lip stains that are supposed to be transfer proof? Wonderskun or whatever but so some other ones from like cover girl or elf?
I have an ELF stain that doesn’t live up to what I think stain should be based on how I hear them described. It sits on top of my lips, only lasts a few hours at most, and comes off on my water bottle.
Haven’t tried that one, but I’ve been pleased with the lip IV from NYX.
I feel like NYX is always the answer for drugstore makeup, especially color.
I tried the Wonderskin that is only one coat, rather than a base coat and then a gloss. My review: “meh.” It doesn’t last much longer than regular lipstick, and the novelty of wiping off the purple layer wore off just as quickly.
+1 I used Wonderskin for a bit but the novelty wore off—pun intended hah. Did not like the taste of the gloss that was chemically sweet. And I hated how it came with a teeny piece of black microfiber cloth (felt like cleaning cloth for your glasses) for you to wipe off the stain—so wasteful.
Would you rather be one of the least wealthy families in a very wealthy town, or one of the wealthiest families in a less-wealthy town?
Relevant factors are that the schools are substantially better in the wealthy town, but you can afford another house in the less-wealthy town.
If you have children, you have your answer. Go to the better schools. In our family, what’s best for our children makes every decision for us.
Same. Also, a lot of people in the rich town may be not so well off and living in a parent’s house or helped substantially. Living in a “rich” area, so many others are like you — grasping at anything to get good schools for their kids. Some live in a 2 BR apartment or with grandparents or do whatever they can to make it work. Some people are rich and some are overextended. It is definitely a mix maybe unless you are in Greenwich or somewhere like that.
What’s best for the children is subjective. As long as the other schools are decent, I think it’s best to live in a more down-to-earth environment, instead of feeling like you are always striving and still “less than”. There was a moms post the other day about a kid whose friends own private jets and go to expensive shows and concerts on the regular. Is that “best”?
For an extrovert outgoing neurotypical kid who would likely get invited along to these events and trips for free it absolutely is best.
Not good for a neurodivergent kid who would be othered though.
No it’s not good even for an outgoing neurotypical kid. You’ll still be at best othered and at worst bullied for being poor.
I have a friend who went to a prep school with the kids of billionaires and movie stars and honestly, she hated it. Her parents were a computer programmer and a graphic designer, so middle-class but not high income, and she never fit in socially or academically (she was/is brilliant and was like first or second in her class). It’s not an experience I wanted for my own kids.
Same. My SiL went to prep school in nyc with the children of literal billionaires. It was a ghastly experience. She isn’t a socially butterfly and wouldn’t have been the homecoming queen at a regular high school, but she’s neurotypical and well within the realm of normal socially and would have had a much less awful experience at a regular school. This is not a thing I would want for my (extroverted, relatively popular) kids either.
You’re in LA right? Is it Harvard Westlake? I went to college with people from there a their stories were wild.
Yes, but not HW. Buckley.
I know I’ve told this story here before, but I can’t resist: After Professor Susan Estrich of Harvard Law School finished her stint as campaign manager for the ill-fated Michael Dukakis presidential campaign, she was vacationing in Los Angeles and found herself out to dinner with a group of people she had just met. Her dinner companion turned to her and asked politely, “So, Susan, what do you do?” She modestly replied, “I teach at Harvard.”
Immediately all the conversation at the table stopped, all heads turned her way, and her interlocutor asked breathlessly, “Really? WHAT GRADE?”
I grew up in a rental with a bunk bed and did not have a car as a kid. When offered a scholarship at a local private school for senior year because I played an instrument their orchestra needed, I declined because I would miss my friends and worried about fitting in as the new kid from a regular background. The school is hippie leaning, but it is also attended by many nepo babies who at this point are known names in showbiz.
+1
Less wealthy in a wealthy town. The better school systems are life changing. The social dynamics will be different, and I don’t necessarily think one is notably better than the other. In less-wealthy towns, especially ones with not-great school systems, you may have values around education that aren’t shared by people around you. In wealthier towns, you might get some overly privileged classmates.
as a kid I lived in both. at the time it was more comfortable to be among other similarly-situated kids vs. to be the kid who had the fake Uggs rather than the real ones, KWIM? but I get why my parents picked the better schools, in hindsight.
OP here and that was supposed to be “a nicer” house not “another” house.
I would lean towards the less wealthy town. But it would depend on what you mean by less good schools and, in particular, if a big part of that different is just because that town has lots more English language learners and minority students who scored worst on the standardized test.
+1. I have a 13 year old, and when I read about what teens in affluent suburbs are dealing with, I thank my lucky stars my kid attends a public school in NYC that looks a lot worse on paper (and aesthetically – serious bomb shelter vibes)
I think you have to evaluate how much you’d feel like you’re “playing pretend” in the wealthier district.
Less wealthy town FOR SURE. It does a number on your psyche (and often your morals) to always be keeping up with the Joneses. We did indeed pick the less wealthy town in this situation (even though the schools are objectively “worse”, I think they’re better because there’s less pressure and more diversity). No regrets.
I would go for the better schools.
Is the less-wealthy town more just normal and not richy-rich? As opposed to a poor, depressed town?
I would rather be in a normal, less-wealthy town than try to scrape by in a ritzy town where we can’t really afford to do anything.
1000%
I am the ‘rich’ person in the non-wealthy town, my bestie is the ‘poor’ person in the wealthy town (she is not poor, I am not rich).
Her life is exhausting to me. There’s sooooo much keeping up with the joneses and competitive parenting and a deep focus on kid sports and activities from toddlerhood. There’s a ton of SAHMs (often with Nannies for support) and (as a working business owner) she admits doesn’t feel like she fits in, but is 10000% committed to the ‘good’ schools (NYC area).
I am a ‘rich’ person in a poor school district (DC area – the town is wealthier than the schools because of private schools and various demographics). My neighborhood is nice, and I do fit in with my neighbors (almost every household is two working parents, etc). But, the overall schools are exhausting. I opted into these specific schools because I was/am hyper fearful of super competitive schools that are the norm around here. And while I am glad I am not in a pressure-cooker district, the tradeoff is that my district is meh to bad and even the ‘rich’ parents (who didn’t move here ‘for the schools’) aren’t motivated to fix it (why is beyond me).
I haven’t hit the point where it’s worth to it for me to move, but my tip is asking if the ‘good’ school district is better, or just richer? It could be both! But beyond that knowing a town’s culture is sooooo much more important than ‘good schools’ vs ‘big house.’
IME it can be really hard to fix schools, especially when there is plenty of enrollment or when the leadership isn’t very good. In our district, the middle and high school administrators are pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about doing anything that would involve accelerated or advanced academic programs. The district leadership is basically a revolving door, so even when we get a superintendent who has some interest in it, they’re usually gone in a year or two.
Schools win for me. I don’t mind telling my kids that we live where we do so they can get a great education and that’s why we have a 2 bedroom rental and most of their friends live in 2 million dollar homes.
Oh and to some of the comments above, I do not playing keeping up. We aren’t and can’t.
When I was a kid going to good schools and surrounded by some fabulously wealthy families, “people choose to spend their money in different ways,” was how my mom described the situation to me, and that explanation satisfied me. That attitude is similar to “comparison is the thief of joy,” and has helped me focus on my own finances for my own life goals rather than, for example, spending to the extent feasible at a Biglaw job before making a planned move to the public sector.
Honesty seems the best way to go! Also, if there are opportunities for the children to socialize outside of school with a wider range of economic backgrounds, that can be good. Some parents are so focused on their children’s education, they forget about the importance of their social development. This is why if a person has a child who is a minority at school, they need to make sure to facilitate socializing outside of school in environments where they are not a minority (other POC kids, neurodivergent kids, etc.). This also helps long term for the parents who want to be grandparents someday, as it helps to start developing social skills in childhood.
If the schools are still good in the less wealthy town, I’d pick that.
one of the least wealthy families in a very wealthy town, for sure — schools will be better, more opportunities, and your kid might even be more humble/less spoiled
My experience with friends who grew up in such a situation is that they are very spoiled. They may not have gotten everything their friends got, but they still as adults think that their family was poor when they were actually upper middle class. There ideas of how an average American family lives are incredibly out of touch, and they think they are entitled to so much.
This is my experience too.
Yes, what’s that saying – “you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” So if everyone else is spoiled (or more charitably “is given everything they want”)…it shapes your child’s character and expectations by osmosis
In addition, they often seem to emerge with a chip on their shoulder about all the things they didn’t have, and as a result end up more materialistic, not less, as an adult.
I see this with my husband. He’s not bitter or anything, but I have to remind him that his expectations for quality of life are out of touch. (No, we can’t buy new cars. We are going to need to save for many many years before we can hope to afford a house. Buying the new switch on release day is something that requires budgeting and trade-offs, you can’t just buy it because you want it.)
I mean I understand about the car and I agree entirely. But you block him buying a switch? If he is into that hobby so much that he is itching to buy it on release day, this seems a little harsh.
And I’m totally frugal and weigh the trade offs an embarrassingly long time before buying new sheets at Costco. But the switch thing seems like what you say to your child. Not your spouse.
You realize not everybody can afford to buy video games just because they want to, right?
It depends on what you mean by substantially better schools. If it’s lower test scores or not quite as many kids going to four-year colleges but similar resources, I’d go with the less-wealthy town. It also depends on the age of your kids. IME K-5 isn’t super-different at the “good” school as opposed to the “not-so-good” school. Middle and high school are different, but it also depends a lot on the kid (e.g., whether they’d be OK at a pressure-cooker school or not).
And FWIW, the reputation of various schools can change over time. The “hot” elementary school in my district wasn’t one that people with choices want to send their kids to when my kids were in k.
+1 to all this.
It depends what you mean by “less good” schools. Just worse test scores? I wouldn’t think twice about it. Test scores correlate very closely with parental income and education, so I would assume your kids will be fine on tests wherever they go.
However, if the “less good” schools have real, tangible issues you’re aware of, it would be a different story.
Either way, I wouldn’t underestimate how hard it will be to be the “poor” kid in a very wealthy district.
Depending on where you are, you can generally get a breakdown of test scores by demographics. In my kids’ district, test scores were heavily correlated with SES and/or race.
Nobody has brought this up, but your house will gain more equity over the years in the very wealthy town. You will be investing in a higher-yielding asset.
Not necessarily. At a certain point, the land in a wealthy town can only invest so much. And if it’s the worst home in the town, it will probably just get knocked down when sold for a new build.
If the less wealthy town is an up and coming suburb, it will likely have a better return on investment. Plus, you can invest some of the difference in mortgage payments too.
And taxes! The taxes are often (much) more in the “best” school towns. Money you don’t get back
Less wealthy town. I grew up in a rural area with one school so I have always thought I would prefer the much better schools. I probably would academically, but I also know how difficult it can be when you don’t have enough money in middle and high school when kids can be very mean about not having the same stuff.
Co-sign. Also I got to college not knowing I was supposed to be impressed by various prep schools or even knowing the names of boarding schools (it was the 90s so the only boarding schools I knew about were Miss Minchin’s in A Little Princess and the one in Dead Poets Society). Kids were plenty mean at my rural-ish high school, no one’s parents had a private jet to whisk the soccer team to Cabo for the weekend.
Perspective as someone who was a student in both – my parents picked the less wealthy town to avoid the pressure cooker of the very wealthy town for high school. This meant that I graduated at the very top of my high school, rather than in the top 20 percent, and other advantages of being in a less competitive environment. Twenty something years on, I am in the same spot career wise as my peers that went to elite private schools, and a somewhat better place than plenty of my friends that went to the pressure cooker wealthy high schools. Long story short, unless you are talking about a truly elite private school, or your kid being able to get to the very top of their class, the benefits are probably overstated of the very wealthy town.
Yup. All of this.
This is a good point. Assuming the less wealthy town has schools that will offer a chance for a good education, it can be better to be “big fish, little pond” for college admissions. We are fortunate to live in a town with one of “the best” public high schools in the state and it’s hard for kids to stand out because so many of them take all the AP classes, get near-perfect standardized test scores, have a million volunteer hours, play 10 varsity sports, etc. If State Flagship U will only take a certain percentage from a particular HS, a lot of really smart, really talented kids get left behind (this happened to our babysitter, but she got into another excellent school, so not a huge deal).
there’s some joke about how much money you have to be happy and the answer is $50k more than your brother in law. we live in the less nice town, my kids have been to sleepaway camp, disney world, a broadway show… not all their friends have. Much prefer this to being somewhere where i feel like we couldn’t keep up. Also think a lot of the noise about better schools is just that noise– your kid is your kid where ever you put them….
Agree with this.
I’d look at the schools and community and see what’s a better fit in terms of what’s offered for my specific kid. What makes one set of schools better? How do you know they’re better/likely to remain better? Is what’s “better” important for your kid? Who are the people who are telling you things about the schools and what are their biases?
My local school district has a national reputation for being excellent and super intense. Perhaps that was true in the past, but now there are inadequate opportunities for gifted or very motivated kids to get an appropriate level of challenge until about 11th grade. If you have a kid who needs more challenge, the local schools are definitely not excellent.
so if it’s literal billionaires at the school then you probably want to avoid it. but i will say that my son went to a special ed school that had kids from 27 districts and when we would go to classmates’ parties it was clear we could never invite people over to our house because the classmates were living in such rundown squalor. that is its own kind of uncomfortable.
Why would you not be able to invite less affluent people over? We are upper middle class bordering on rich (not private jet rich, but we have everything we need and a lot of what we want, including frequent international travel and a beautiful 5 bedroom home). My kid has friends who live in subsidized housing and trailer parks and we invite them over and they come over and have a great time playing together.
+1
Please invite them over. Speaking as a child who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.
I’d follow the good schools, but I also know I’ll always prioritize education over most things
I’m just not convinced the education is really better at high test score schools. Testing is a weak proxy for the actual educational experience.
real question. Why does a “better” school mean it’s better for all kids (or even specifically your kids) i live in an affluent suburb of NYC. There are “better schools” nearby but every year plenty of kids from my “not top but decent” town go to ivy league schools and are merit scholarships and all the rest. The difference seems to be the percentage of kids that go, like where do the median and the mean go? i always think it’s unlikely that any one kid (the kid of the family we are talking about here) is so on the cusp between the two schools…. and that’s assuming that college outcome is the only identifier….
that is why it is still super subjective and depends on what OP means by wealthy vs. less wealthy. Like if you’re in Westchester, NY a lot of the schools are great and the difference between the various towns wont be as impactful. If you’re in another area of the country, there can be a HUGE difference between schools in terms of basic things like class size, a school having or not having a library, etc.
I can’t imagine anyone here is contemplating moving to a totally run down, destitute town. I imagine it’s between two suburbs of a major city, one slightly wealthier than the other.
I thought everyone knew that school ratings are really just a proxy for socioeconomic factors. Anyway, putting that aside I want to be wealthy in the poor neighborhood because I’ve never figured out how to comfortably socialize with rich people who live in affluent neighborhoods. And I remember that one rich neighbor in my poor neighborhood who went on a yearly fishing trip to Alaska and then held a neighborhood fish fry to off-load all his fish every year and I wanna be as cool as that guy.
Secondary students don’t so much go to schools as go to specific classes. What are the best programs in the less wealthy area? A high school may get mediocre numbers while the top students are getting an excellent education in an IB program for example.
I have a closet full of solid work clothes and am looking for a printed top for fall. I like dark florals and abstract prints. I love navy, plum, burgundy, and dark green, with a splash of caramel or tan. Has anyone seen anything good lately that I should check out? Budget is $100.
i think burgundy is big this fall, there’s a lot out there.
https://www.anntaylor.com/clothing/tops-and-blouses/cata000010/geo-blouson-sleeve-shirt/850754.html?priceSort=DES
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Evereve Elowyn.
I’m going to Chicago and would love to do an architectural boat tour. I’m debating whether to do it in the afternoon or evening. Has anyone taken the tour in the evening and can comment on the experience? The weather should be good either way, although certainly warmer in the afternoon.
I took an evening boat tour and it was lovely!!! I went around 6/6:30 so not too late but there was a nice breeze and the sun was setting so it was very picturesque.
Bonus is that you’re already down on the river walk so it’s easy to go have dinner down there afterwards!
What time of year? Right now it is so hot that I would say do the evening tour to have fewer tourists and cooler weather.
This coming weekend. The high is only around 82 degrees, which does not seem that bad to me.
I took the sunset tour in July (not this year) and it was wonderful – highly recommend. I can’t think of what would be better in the middle of the day.
100% evening if you’ve got good weather.
Similar to another responder, I live here and it’s been pretty warm…and even if the forecasted temperature doesn’t seem that high, it’s been super humid so that might make it feel warmer. There are multiple companies giving river tours…Wendella, Chicago Architecture Center, probably others. I’ve done the river tour multiple times but never in the evening. I personally like a late-morning tour, followed by lunch outside on the river (maybe Pizzeria Portofino, not that you asked for a rec :) ) Enjoy!!
When are you coming? I live here and it’s been really hot but the temp is supposed to drop down to a high around 70 and a low around 55 early next week. I think you’ll still be ok on an evening boat but you’ll definitely want a sweater or jacket. It feels much colder on the lake.
Low stakes question: what color should I get for my nail appointment after work? I currently have a nude shimmer and usually do dip powder. Not opposed to something out there but am always scared to branch out from nude/blush/white.
Powder blue is one of my favorite manicure colors.
What do you do that this is an acceptable nail color? Super jealous.
not 4:01, but our GC frequently wears powder blue finger or toe polish. ~5000 employee company and not a particularly unstuffy culture. Lot more leeway than there was 15 years ago, when I nervously went into the office with Wicked on my nails!
LOL what do you do that it isn’t?? I’m actually genuinely curious. I work in state level policy/advocacy.
I never do my nails anymore but I think this color is acceptable in a lot of workplaces.
right about labor day i like to shift into darker more fall colors– taupe, dark brown, vamp….
For this reason, I like a classic bright red for this time of year.
I’m always happy with classic red.
I have a periwinkle blue right now. It feels fresh and summery.
I’m planning to do a fun sparkly purple tonight. It’s nearly the end of the summer, and I don’t have any important client meetings, so I’ve decided I’m doing something that will spark joy for me!
Navy – like Essie’s After School Boy Blazer – is one of my go-tos for this kind of “it’s still summer but bright pink feels too tropical” time of year.