This shoutout is long overdue--the Total Turnaround Visible Skin Renewer is one your editor's must-have beauty products. To be honest, we often leave the beauty posts to our beauty bloggers, for their knowledge is so impressive that our olive-oil and sunblock beauty routines seem a bit simple in comparison. We've realized, however, that we are not alone in loving this particular Clinique product. We buy mostly everything online but something, time and time again, we forget to purchase in advance is our moisturizer. It seems before we know it we're scraping the bottom of the glass jar and making some time in our day to run to Sephora for an instant replenishment. This happened for the fourth time in a row this week and for the fourth time in a row we dredged all the way over to Sephora only to realize that the moisturizer was sold out. Why we hadn't learned our lesson the first time is another matter completely. From this experience we learned two valuable lessons. One, our mousturizer of choice is acutally a lot of people's moisturizer of choice, and, shopping online takes the cake every time!

The Clinique Total Turnaround Visible Skin Renewer is super light and almost mealy to the touch. It leaves our skin actually glowing with out the sparkles that so many 'glow'-titled moisturizers secretly pack in their bottles. It always gives our skin just the right amount of moisture; never are we oily, never does our face feel dry. Quite frankly, it serves us better than any moisturizer we've ever tried and (our mom and grandmother always said, 'As far as skincare goes, only trust the French') it's from a company that's been with us since our teenage years (boy, did our skin glow back then). Below, the star mousturizer and a few other Clinique products we have scattered about our powder rooms.

For some reason we're really drawn to the Les Prairies des Paris aesthetic these days. It's that familiar, Parisian chic that we see from brands like A.P.C. and Vanessa Bruno but, in this case, it's even less recognizable. Call us tired of the loud stuff, call us in the mood for a little reading in the backyard. Even though fashion moods come and go we still think Les Prairies des Paris is a great brand to look to when you're revising your Fall wardrobe or are in need of office basics that don't come from Express (shudder). Les Prairies started back in 2002 and has remained a well-stocked contemporary brand that, to us, always blends in at the boutiques, until we realize everything in our dressing room is made by them. A few seasons ago, they made a sick navy trench--it was heavy and cut just right. This season, there are more than a few basics to covet. In fact, it's just like the days when A.P.C. was still fairly under wraps and it was possible to look like a preppy little french girl without people confusing that with, well, a hipster in a brownstone. There is no real difference, it's just better when a contemporary brand does not yet give away your place of residence.

There are not many ways to make short, thin white shorts flattering, but Alice Ritter has seem to have done it. We covered Alice Ritter's Fall 08 presentation, in all of it's mad off-site glory, but if you seek that 'French romantic meets Annie Hall' vibe straight away, the S/S 08 collection is making it's deliveries as we speak. This collection is heavy on silk, feminine dresses with a few blazers and shorts which give a nod to Ritter's somewhat boyish aesthetic. Most importantly, the collection has many perfect 90 degree weather garments that are both office appropriate and undeniably sexy.