30 for 30 in Pink
May 10, 2025
3 years since my last beauty post?! How is that even possible? Well, looking back, I guess it kind of makes sense. I have been actively working on slimming down my makeup, skincare, and even some of my nail polish collection. I've pretty much let go of everything I'm not using regularly. After all that downsizing, you can probably imagine that I haven't been actively adding to my collection, but as I was thinking about writing this blog post the other day, I realized that I have been adding new things here and there!
Back to Beauty: Products I'm Loving
April 28, 2025
3 years since my last beauty post?! How is that even possible? Well, looking back, I guess it kind of makes sense. I have been actively working on slimming down my makeup, skincare, and even some of my nail polish collection. I've pretty much let go of everything I'm not using regularly. After all that downsizing, you can probably imagine that I haven't been actively adding to my collection, but as I was thinking about writing this blog post the other day, I realized that I have been adding new things here and there!
My beloved turned 32 and we decided to take a trip to our favorite city! So I got to work deciding on what to pack for five days using my Stylebook app – which actually was recently updated?! – did all the pre-work like stopping by the cobbler, dry cleaner, etc, and then we hopped on a flight where I tried to watch Gladiator II (Spoiler alert: I did not finish it).
March in Manhattan
March 24, 2025
My beloved turned 32 and we decided to take a trip to our favorite city! So I got to work deciding on what to pack for five days using my Stylebook app – which actually was recently updated?! – did all the pre-work like stopping by the cobbler, dry cleaner, etc, and then we hopped on a flight where I tried to watch Gladiator II (Spoiler alert: I did not finish it).
Hello, friends. It has been embarrassingly too long. This year has started on such a strange foot with so much bad news, a personal loss, and to be quite honest, most days I've just been trying to put one foot in front of the other so, while I'm always thinking about fashion and style, I haven't been that inspired to write about it. Instead, I've been planning a birthday party (quite a feat), working, watching Severance, and ice skating. I just wrapped up 6 weeks of an adult ice skating class where I'm working on my two-foot glides!
So, while there's not a whole lot of new on JMC, I wanted to share some photos of me taken on film (Fuji 400, to be exact). Each photo and outfit tells a story of its own. From comfy natural fibers and designer glasses for a stop to look at the scenic beauty of the midwest to a skirt suit for the ages, these clothes have been my companions through it all, but especially the past year.
A Look Back at Fashion on Film
March 9, 2025
Hello, friends. It has been embarrassingly too long. This year has started on such a strange foot with so much bad news, a personal loss, and to be quite honest, most days I've just been trying to put one foot in front of the other so, while I'm always thinking about fashion and style, I haven't been that inspired to write about it. Instead, I've been planning a birthday party (quite a feat), working, watching Severance, and ice skating. I just wrapped up 6 weeks of an adult ice skating class where I'm working on my two-foot glides!
So, while there's not a whole lot of new on JMC, I wanted to share some photos of me taken on film (Fuji 400, to be exact). Each photo and outfit tells a story of its own. From comfy natural fibers and designer glasses for a stop to look at the scenic beauty of the midwest to a skirt suit for the ages, these clothes have been my companions through it all, but especially the past year.
As I reflect on 2024, I can't help but see it as a year of restoration for me. A year of bringing my life back into a state of equilibrium, a place where I feel like myself again. But this version of me is different, stronger, having weathered the monsoon that was my life, exacerbated by COVID, but now it finally feels like a turning point has happened.
It was the first year without my grandfather, Michael, a year of learning to live with the absence while also embracing the beauty of change and new beginnings. I said goodbye to my sanctuary for the past three years and moved into a space that is even more comforting and comes with the most healing love I've ever experienced. I said goodbye to a job that I felt so comfortable at, but had outgrown. Instead embarking on an entirely new opportunity. And while New York City remains my beloved home away from home, this year, I prioritized discovering new horizons.
And when the insecurity sinks in about all my choices, and it does, I think what I reflect on is this: the future is uncertain. No matter what one may try to convince you no one truly knows where their path will lead. We have some control though to do the best we can with what we know at the time and when things get too comfortable and start to feel stagnant, we can embrace change, pack up our closet, and take the road less travelled. To quote Robert Frost, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
This is the first year in a very long time that I have felt less optimistic about the year ahead. It is also the first year an intention or word hasn't come to me. There is still time. There is always time.
Regaining My Center
December 31, 2024
As I reflect on 2024, I can't help but see it as a year of restoration for me. A year of bringing my life back into a state of equilibrium, a place where I feel like myself again. But this version of me is different, stronger, having weathered the monsoon that was my life, exacerbated by COVID, but now it finally feels like a turning point has happened.
It was the first year without my grandfather, Michael, a year of learning to live with the absence while also embracing the beauty of change and new beginnings. I said goodbye to my sanctuary for the past three years and moved into a space that is even more comforting and comes with the most healing love I've ever experienced. I said goodbye to a job that I felt so comfortable at, but had outgrown. Instead embarking on an entirely new opportunity. And while New York City remains my beloved home away from home, this year, I prioritized discovering new horizons.
And when the insecurity sinks in about all my choices, and it does, I think what I reflect on is this: the future is uncertain. No matter what one may try to convince you no one truly knows where their path will lead. We have some control though to do the best we can with what we know at the time and when things get too comfortable and start to feel stagnant, we can embrace change, pack up our closet, and take the road less travelled. To quote Robert Frost, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
This is the first year in a very long time that I have felt less optimistic about the year ahead. It is also the first year an intention or word hasn't come to me. There is still time. There is always time.
