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I couldn't help but feel a through line as I asked her about how she balances her creativity with all other facets of her life and watched her so carefully round out her arrangement, wobbly, until the perfect high-reaching stem equilibrates it.

The purveyor of mindfully sourced, satisfyingly relevant second-hand clothing and accessories, Aisha has melded her thrill for the hunt with her vision for the future of a more sustainable fashion industry. We joined Aisha in her studio in Costa Mesa to shop her collection, and get the TLDR on her approach to living abundantly with less.

In hopes that some of his artistic inclination might rub off on us, we asked for unbridled access to his home from denim chair to bathroom shelves, he let us ask him all of our burning design, style and skincare questions, and shared more about his very first product launch.

While I can’t say I suffer from pimples on an ongoing basis, I do often experience hormonal cystic acne—which leaves me with under-the-skin breakouts that result in uneven pigmentation.

When it comes to dissecting the differences between glycolic, lactic, and salicylic, Dr. Samolitis breaks it down.

For our comeback interview, we knew we wanted to feature someone who’s lifestyle and creative vision is synonymous with our own -