Summer’s here, and Free People has lots and lots and lots of flowy dresses. If you are planning on doing any of the following this summer, you need to be wearing this dress (above):

a) getting married

b) going to Italy (ahem)

c) looking hot while under a tree

d) auditioning for Game of Thrones

e) LARPing (I guess that’s kind of the same thing as option D)

Get ‘em here!

All of those spray-on sunscreens are supposed to make putting on sunscreen faster and easier. I get that. But part of the fun of going to the beach is the getting-ready ritual of slathering on sunscreen before you go out: thick, goopy, coconuty-smelling sunscreen.  That’s why I’m going to go in the exact opposite direction of all those new sprays and get myself this here giant tub of zinc (which has the added bonus of looking like a woodie station wagon). —V 

Goop sold here.

This is the pose that KStew gets into when she wants to actually kill you with her coolness. —V

b.b.

I know about this oil.  I am aware of it’s presence.

This is the most magical, amazing-smelling, way-too-expensive-for-me body oil that exisits.  I picture this being the staple moisturizer/oil of the very rich-  something that Oprah or Bono rub all over their bodies in the morning.  

—L

I recently found myself in the man section of Sephora, looking for a shaving cream.  Why?  Because I wanted to pick up a shaving cream that both MY BOYFRIEND AND I could use, done.  I’m sick of all the shaving creams for girls.  Most smell like a barfy combo of coconuts and lavender, and the packaging is pink and dumb.

Sure, there are hipstery options:  the curly-cue labels, the Turn Of The Century motifs.  But I just want something that I can smear all over my legs and that a dude will not be confused by.  

This is what I came up with: Clinique is kind of neutral (yay, Helvetica!!) and the smell of this isn’t anything close to coconuts.  It’s grey and handsome and looks nice standing up anywhere in your bathroom (I realized the other day that I sort of only buy Clinique products because of the font, and how it instantly makes everything around it look clean and design-y and awesome).   Oh and it shaves well, too. 

—L

Here’s the thing: I love beachy smelling perfumes. You know, the ones that basically just smell like old-school sunscreen (i.e. coconut-y) and salt. But I am way too cheap to pay $75 or whatever for Bobbi Brown’s Beach perfume, and waaaaaaay too embarrassed to buy Jennifer Aniston’s “signature scent.” So I was very pleasantly surprised to find this little dude, which smells like the beach, fits in your purse, and is only $20. —V

Available at Sephora, natch.

Mom wouldn’t buy these for you when you were seven? Just wait 20 years and buy them yourself. —V

Nope. —V

It’s Monday. I thought it might be time for a photo of a sexy (dead) blind guy with a cat, curtesy of My Daguerreotype Boyfriend. —V