June in Arizona is when you stop negotiating with the heat and just submit to it. The sun is out until 8pm, the car becomes a sauna you have to pre-cool before getting in, and your wardrobe narrows to its most essential, most breathable version of itself. There’s a clarity that comes with that, though. When everything is stripped back, what’s actually working becomes very obvious.
Here are my power players from last month.
Dad sunglasses for a price my dad would actually approve of. I found this pair on Poshmark, and they hit the same note as the sold-out Khaite x Oliver Peoples collab and the viral Thistles pair. Slightly oversized, slightly sporty frame shape - for a fraction of either price. This is the whole game. Find the shape you love on something expensive, then go find the version of that feeling that already exists in the world for $20. Are they perfect? Hell nah, the frame is plastic, and the lenses have seen some things (pun intended), but they scratch that itch. And if I continue reaching for them as often as I do, maybe I invest in the designer pair. But that hole in my wallet will be damn well worth it.
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The results on this one are genuinely beautiful. Vintage-soft white cotton, the kind of nightgown that looks less like sleepwear and more like something you’d find in DÔEN for $398. The key here is not to be afraid to tailor those babies. A cropped hem or removing the sleeves can really go a long way. Here’s proof on a dress I sourced, then sliced and diced a few years ago.
Search “cotton nightgown” and add “vintage,” “1930s/40s,” or “Edwardian”. Etsy and eBay are both rich for this. It’s one of those searches where you set a saved search alert and let it work for you.
Unglamorous recommendation, genuinely life-changing organizational move. These multi-pant hangers from Amazon are how I finally got my closet to work the way my brain does. I hang like with like - all my cargos together, all my wool trousers, all my vintage denim, all my dark denim, etc - so each section is its own category. When I’m getting dressed, I usually already know what type of pant I want, so I pull that section out horizontally and pick from just that subset. It sounds simple because it is. But it saves space, cuts decision fatigue, and means I’m actually wearing everything in my closet instead of defaulting to the same three pairs because they’re the easiest to see.
I stopped breastfeeding 2 months ago (go me!), which means I can finally reintroduce retinol. I wanted something gentle enough for a sensitive, PD-prone barrier that was easing back in rather than going all the way and the Mother Science Retinol Synergist has been exactly that. The 0.3% encapsulated retinol releases slowly so it’s not irritating, and the malassezin component is specifically calming for congestion-prone skin. I’m already seeing less texture, less congestion, more radiance. A solid re-entry point if you’ve been off retinol for a while and don’t want to go straight to the deep end.
I keep leaving this concealer, and then I keep coming back, and every time I return I wonder why I ever left. The Westman Atelier Vital Skincare Concealer is so versatile in a way most concealers aren’t - a small dot blended out gives you that no-makeup makeup finish, but build it up and you have real coverage for a full beat. Creasing is minimal and easily corrected with a quick tap of the finger. It wears all day without fading or settling (corporate girlies I see you). And it’s clean!
Nhỏ Girl is Amy Pham Thi’s Amsterdam-based vintage showroom, and her feed has been living in my head rent-free this month. The clothes she sources are worn, faded, imperfect in exactly the right ways - pieces that look like they’ve had a full life before landing with her. It’s a specific aesthetic that’s hard to describe but immediately recognizable when you see it: nothing is pristine, nothing is precious, everything has been lived in.
What I keep coming back to is that the way she presents vintage reframes what we’re actually looking for when we go secondhand shopping. We’re not looking for something that looks new. We’re looking for something that already has a story - that carries evidence of being worn and loved and worn again. That’s the thing worth finding. Nhỏ Girl gets that better than almost anyone I follow.
More on this coming soon…
That’s June. See you next month.
KC
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