Soap & Glory & Peter Thomas Roth Skincare & a Film Book

by Stephanie McCarthy

Soap & Glory Real Zing Body Scrub pink yellow & white container mainly black font in cursive print upper & lowercase letters.
Soap & Glory The Real Zing Body Scrub, 10.1 oz

Soap & Glory The Real Zing Body Scrub, 10.1 oz, $24.28 at Perfume’s Club
I’m not a huge fan of lemon. I once got sick from lemon-flavored tea and I never wanted it again. With that said, I’m really enjoying this. The scent of it reminds me of that lemon Pledge that my mom used to dust our wooden furniture with when I was growing up. It also makes me think of those tasty light yellow sugarcoated Brach’s Lemon Drops that she used to buy me at the end of our grocery store trips as a reward for me behaving when I was little (I was usually hell to take shopping. I admit it. My poor mom.). The body scrub is the color of wet sand. The formulation is similar to Capri Blue’s body scrubs. The consistency is moisturizing and it feels silky smooth as it dissolves into the skin. This is great at lessening and softening calluses on your feet from walking, dancing, playing sports, exercising, and so on.

Peter Thomas Roth Moisturizer, light blue circular container, silver top, fake water condensation droplets, and black font.
Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Cream Hydrating Moisturizer, 1.7 oz

I usually don’t recommend spending more than $10 on a moisturizer, especially in this economy with its relentless, crippling inflation. However, this moisturizer is the bomb. It’s the color of white porcelain and it’s light and airy, just like fluffy white clouds. I actually felt like singing and dancing to the awesome techno song, “Little Fluffy Clouds,” by The Orb when I used this as my evening moisturizer. Normally, I don’t get caught up on the packaging of a product, but it’s amazing here. The silver metal mirror-like top/cap can easily double as a compact mirror that you can carry with you in your purse or makeup bag for applying your makeup or for touch-ups once you’ve finished using the product in its entirety. I also like the sleek Berlin Sans FB Demi font. The rest of the container is a pretty light blue with these fake water droplets that resemble water condensation.

Light grey softcover Hitchcock/Truffaut book by Francois Truffaut with black, orange, and yellow Arial Unicode type of font.
Hitchcock/Truffaut by Francois Truffaut, October 1985 Revised Edition cover
 
Hitchcock/Truffaut by Francois Truffaut, $25.82 at Walmart
What are you guys reading? I’m almost done with Hitchcock/Truffaut by Francois Truffaut. This was actually one of my gifts to my husband early on in our relationship almost 11 years ago (Time flies. It doesn’t seem like 11 years at all.). I think he enjoyed the book better than I did (He thought it was fantastic. I’d say it's very good.) and that’s okay. We don’t live in an echo chamber here. That would be so boring—agreeing on every single thing. I do agree with him that Hitchcock was a genius and you wouldn’t have great directors, like Brian De Palma, if it wasn’t for Hitchcock. The parts of the book that were the most interesting to me were the ones that discussed my favorite movies of his and what I think was his best work (e.g. Rebecca, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho). Along with Making Movies by Sidney Lumet, this is definitely required reading for cinephiles and film school students.

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