Category: DISCOVERIES

  • ALL WE WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS IS 30 MINUTES OF SELF-CARE

    ALL WE WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS IS 30 MINUTES OF SELF-CARE

    In partnership with Crest 3D Whitestrips. All opinions and statements are our own. Pots and pans and new sheets can wait, all we want for the holidays is 30 minutes of self-care every day. And pearly-white teeth. That too ? ? ? We’ve been at this for 5 years now (and by, ‘at this,’ we…

  • Meet Our Little Fitness Friend: EMSCULPT

    Meet Our Little Fitness Friend: EMSCULPT

    We’ve said it before on Instagram, but nevertheless we’ll say it again here, you can go ahead and consider us your guinea pigs for fitness and science 😉 Five weeks ago, we started trying EMSCULPT by BTL Aesthetics, targeting hard to reach abdominal muscles we’ve had trouble activating. It was a week before Pride and…

  • BRAND TO KNOW: MITCHELL EVAN

    BRAND TO KNOW: MITCHELL EVAN

    Find yourself a brand that can do both: basics and color. They had us at, “Yellow Leather Bomber Jacket.” You heard it here first, May 2017, this is a brand to know: Mitchell Evan. Designed and made in Los Angeles, the brand specializes in military-inspired basics with a modern edge. Case-in-point: a yellow leather bomber jacket. Double…

  • FIVE SCANDALOUS THINGS WE DO IN BED

    FIVE SCANDALOUS THINGS WE DO IN BED

    Subtitled: a tale of two 5’11” man-boys and a queen size mattress. We finally upgraded to a queen size mattress (meaning: for five full years prior we were sleeping in a full size bed. FULL SIZE). Why it never dawned on us that we were too big for a full is a mystery. We’re notable…

  • OUR LOWER EAST SIDE NEW YORK CITY GUIDE

    OUR LOWER EAST SIDE NEW YORK CITY GUIDE

    In partnership with Hotel Indigo. ALSO SUBTITLED, HOW WE ATE OUR BODY WEIGHT IN BAGELS, PIZZA, AND MATCHA LEMONADES THROUGHOUT THE LOWER EAST SIDE. In the span of 48 hours, we drank six Matcha Lemonades from Cha Cha Matcha, ate two pizzas at Pizza Beach, two burgers from The Fat Radish, four bagels from Russ…

  • BRAND TO KNOW: ALLBIRDS

    BRAND TO KNOW: ALLBIRDS

    Also subtitled COLLAB TO KNOW: AMPERSAND x  ALLBIRDS, if we’re being specific, specifically, you know? So specific. Considering that our closet is currently overflowing with shoes (read: we’re not complaining), shoes hold a special place in our hearts. Alas, hundreds of shoes OR NOT, you won’t find us wearing shoes we can’t rave about. WHY…

  • BRAND TO KNOW: NEPHEWS

    BRAND TO KNOW: NEPHEWS

    To the detriment of our “Move Out of Our Studio Apartment” savings fund, we bought a $120 tee online last week. It’s hideous. It makes us look like Shrek when wearing it, metaphorically speaking. We mean, it’s not green. But, something about the price tag (splashed across our shopping cart) warranted to us, “This is…

  • 72 HOURS AT SOFITEL BEVERLY HILLS

    72 HOURS AT SOFITEL BEVERLY HILLS

    wherein we dance with beside cast members from Vanderpump Rules, order lobster for practically every meal and meet so many French men and women that we begin greeting every Uber driver with “Bonjour ALLUMER L’AIR CONDITIONNÉ!” — which, you know, means, “hello, TURN ON THE AIR CONDITIONING!” We’re soooooo sophisticated. We spent 72 hours at…

  • LIFE UPDATE: WE HAD A FRITO PIE BENEDICT AT SAWYER & CO.

    LIFE UPDATE: WE HAD A FRITO PIE BENEDICT AT SAWYER & CO.

    Three words: frito pie benedict. Meaning, we ate poached eggs with hollandaise sauce and chili over a bed of frito chips. We don’t intend to review Sawyer & Co. (during our quick trip to Austin, Texas, for SXSW) as if to say, “OMG, YOU HAVE TO GO TO SAWYER & CO., it’s like, TOTALLY trendy right…