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Coffee Break: Vision Flush Glowy Highlighter

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pinky opal highlighter in silverish tube, product is superimposed on top of swipe of the product

I think I may have mentioned this product before, but I just bought a refill of it so I thought I'd give it a shout out again, particularly since it's currently in stock: this Danessa Myricks highlighter is my favorite.

As a pale person, a bit of pearly pink/purple/silver highlighter looks nice — it's kind of like if Guerlain Meteorites were to have a gel baby. I can definitely see the potential for overdoing it and walking away looking like a club kid — but if you're the type of person who only likes a little bit of product, this one goes the distance. I wouldn't use it for every day, but for nights out I really like just a smidge of this high on my cheekbones and a bit on my eyelids.

I finished my first tube sometime many months ago, and I've been checking Sephora ever since — and it's always been out of stock. I was a bit worried they were discontinuing it, so I was psyched to see it again when I did another Sephora order during their big sales week.

The highlighter is $22, at Sephora. (My color is “Femme,” pictured above.)

Sales of note for 1/15:

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  1. Heading to Stockholm this week for the first time- would love any and all recommendations. Has anyone been recently?
    I’ve heard that town will likely empty out for Christmas, but I’m looking forward to getting bundled up and exploring!

    2. I was last there in August 2023 – it was definitely a great time. Take public transit and walk – it’s a beautiful city, and it was easy to get around.

      Definitely go see the palace – it’s honestly really impressive. We paid for a tour, and we got to see the chapel (which isn’t open to the public), and it was really fun.

      Also make sure you get a cinnamon/cardamom bun while you’re there. They’re fantastic. Don’t worry too much about cash – everything we encountered was cashless.

    3. Highly recommend the ABBA Museum and the Vasa Museum. There is also a Christmas market in Gamla Stan (“old town”) but not sure when that wraps up for the season. If you’re into Christmas music, look for a choir show at one of the old churches as that should be beautiful. Us Swedes are really into Christmas.

      1. I’m 3:59 above and definitely agree on Vasa and ABBA Museums – very different experiences but both really enjoyable!

    4. Make sure to check seasonal opening times – Scandinavia often has fully closed days this time of year. Both stores, restaurants and museums can be closed 24th-26th December. Christmas Eve is the big day, and everything will be very quiet.

  2. Has anyone had a good experience with microneedling at home? I think it may be the only thing that actually works on sagging (other than a lower facelift, which ain’t gonna happen). The med spa is $$$$.

    1. A couple of thoughts/experiences:

      Disinfect your tool consistently
      Replace your tool consistently
      Hypochlorous acid on your skin before and the day after helps to bring down any inflammation
      No actives the first couple of times you do it
      Redlight therapy, if you have one, helps to bring down if you have any reaction
      Sunscreen
      IMO eating well, and being hydrated, helps

  3. Caveat that this is hard to read/hear and it’s not at all festive, but if anyone is looking for an important, in-depth deep dive while off from work, the new Guardian series and podcast exposing the Freebirth Society is fantastic.

    1. I just finished the podcast last week, and yes, it is extremely well done. But pay attention to the content warnings – I’m childfree by choice and some parts were still very difficult to get through.

  4. Catch me up here. The Brown shooter and the MIT shooter was the same person, a guy from Portugal who had gone to school with the MIT victim in Portugal 20+ years ago, come here to Brown 20 years ago, dropped out, moved back to Portugal, gotten a visa to come back, lived in Florida and then, like a switch flipped, did all this after a vanilla life otherwise? It all just seems so impossibly random (and awful).

    1. Isn’t it the oppos1te of random? It was way more targeted and specific than the “average” mass shooting.

    2. Obviously we don’t really know, but it doesn’t seem random at all. He was at the top of his class in Portugal and then came to grad school at Brown where something immediately went so wrong that he dropped out of grad school and never talked to his family again. Clearly I’m speculating here, but it seems fairly likely he blamed Brown for his inability to have the life he wanted and was also jealous of a peer who had the kind of success he thought he should have had.

      1. But was he just seething quietly for 20 years? Why now? Left no writings? The Unibomber had his manifesto. Nothing at all has come to light here. This can’t be on the ID channel fast enough.

        2. I mean … yeah, sometimes things build up and not everyone displays “warning signs.” It’s also possible that more will come out about the perpetrator in the coming months. I’m reminded of Amy Bishop case – she was a professor who murdered three colleagues after being denied tenure. It came out during the aftermath that she’d killed her brother, but it was deemed accidental and she was never charged.

          2. There’s a very good article in the New Yorker about Amy Bishop, recommend for sure.

      2. Guessing he had some form of schizophrenia. I agree that not every mentally ill person has a manifesto. And most don’t kill or hurt anyone.

  5. If you have parents who have multiple children and one is the executor, does it ever go smoothly? Or is it usual for that to be just as smooth or rocky as all other things in that family? I cannot recall drama in my extended family but having to be one parent’s executor (in what should be a vanilla case of all being left to a surviving spouse, with a few small gifts of personal items), it is a constant generator of criticism. And there is an IRA where RMDs were never taken to clean up, so this has just become a three ring circus for me. Ugh.

    1. A few years ago I would have said it’s best when there’s just not enough money to fight over, but seeing my mom’s family bicker over their parents’ miniscule assets changed my mind, unfortunately.

    3. My brother and his sister are barely on speaking terms; they haven’t gotten along since they were young kids. Their mother died 30 years ago. Somehow, she and he didn’t fight over any estate matters when their father died in 2020. I think she was just grateful he was doing all of the work. And it is so much work! She didn’t do anything to help take care of their father when he was declining, and actually barely even spoke to their father at the end either. I have no idea what her issues were/are.

      I’m sorry you are in this position. Even with no conflict and very little involved, my husband found this exhausting, so much so that he immediately got all of our financial info organized, downloaded onto a flash drive, and then told our 8-year old son, “if Mommy and Daddy die, this is where all of the important information is…” Hopefully, our son isn’t traumatized for life.

    4. There are four of us: Me, younger brother who is a total deadbeat, and two half-siblings who were badly neglected by my dad and were justifiably not expected/did not expect to participate in anything related to elder care. So everything including the estate distribution fell to me. While it was annoying to be the only one doing any work, it was almost worth it because there was never anybody second-guessing anything I did.

    5. I was the sole executor on my mother’s estate and I have 4 siblings. I never heard a complaint and even my least favorite brother thanked me. On the other hand, I was the sole executor because I flat out told my mother that I would not serve as co-executor with anyone. I hate group projects.

    6. It has gone smoothly for both of my parents. Two younger brothers on my mom’s side, one younger sister on my dad’s side. Key was that in both cases, the dying person told everyone what was in the will BEFORE death, and also divided up things people might otherwise fight over. Also, everyone involved was sane, sober, and employed, which also helped.

    7. My father had three children and my BIL was his executor. There was a little bit of drama with my step-mother on behalf of her children (blended family but they married when all of the kids were grown or nearly grown) but that died down pretty quickly. My siblings and I had no issues with each other. Same with both sets of grandparents, one of whom had nothing to fight over and the other had quite a lot but nobody was inclined to argue about it.

    8. In our family there was no drama related to the executor because there was only one of those and he knew what he was doing. The problem was, and remains several years later, the trust with all four children named as co-trustees who must all sign off on everything, not because of disputes but because it is such a hassle to coordinate with four people in four different states plus banks that don’t know which end is up. Whatever lawyer went along with that ridiculous idea in drafting the trust did not do his job right.

    9. In our family there was no drama related to the executor because there was only one of those and he knew what he was doing. The problem was, and remains several years later, the trust with all four children named as co-trustees who must all sign off on everything, not because of disputes but because it is such a hassle to coordinate with four people in four different states plus banks that don’t know which end is up. Whatever lawyer went along with that ridiculous idea in drafting the trust did not do his job right.

    10. It’s a ton of work, and my mom (the take-charge older sister) and her sister (the more go-along-get-along youngest) bickered over some things but it was fairly smooth. There was one piece of property in another state, some small personal items, and a few thousand in the bank. It still took over a year.

  6. Kind of disappointed that we have reached the relying on foreign countries to leak the news past our censorship walls stage of democratic decline.

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