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  • Was it the barista’s favorite song?

     I can’t even remember what I planned to write about. All I know is that I wish I had brought a pair of earplugs to Starbucks. The music is blaring. Because I use this as basically an office rental, I am annoyed. The level of background noise meant I had to take my Zoom call…

    awrensays

    July 29, 2024
    Marketing
    customer service
  • The Dior Lip Oil is genuinely good

    Sigh, I hate when products go viral. Mostly because, I have this thing about not wanting to appear to be just going with the crowd. But I have to admit, the Dior Lip Oil is popular for a reason. As someone who is perpetually on the hunt for products for my perpetually dry lips, I…

    awrensays

    July 28, 2024
    beauty
    Dior, dry lips, lip balm
  • A very quick review of Commodity Gold -personal

    I specifically chose to wear Commodity Gold Personal . I wanted to wear some fragrance, but fly under the radar. Well, that didn’t work out, because it was smelled as soon as I hopped in the car. On the bright side, I liked that it smelled like gold, like a luxurious touch to my outfit…

    awrensays

    July 27, 2024
    Fragrance
    Commodity, fragrance review, warm fragrances
  • A good mistake

    I rushed out of the house to try and an appointment done before work. I sat patiently trying to figure why my name hadn’t been called. 40 minutes went by. I headed back to my car do some digging and discover I was at the wrong location. After a long week of not getting enough…

    awrensays

    July 26, 2024
    Reflection
    mindset, mistakes
  • Insights from thinking about the Crowdstrike chaos for too long

    You know, this whole Crowdstrike wouldn’t have been such big issue if it wasn’t the biggest cybersecurity firm used and if Microsoft wasn’t the default software. If you think about it, this is a different example of why monopolies aren’t a good idea.  Often we think about overwhelming market share being bad in terms of…

    awrensays

    July 25, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Mergers
  • Their token of appreciation

    “We’re sorry that our site experienced some technical issues recently, which may have disrupted your shopping experience.” It was an email from a brand I had shopped before, but not recently. In the midst of the Crowdstrike outage, the recognized that their shoppers were affected by their own site issues. As a result, they looked…

    awrensays

    July 24, 2024
    Marketing
    communication, controversy, crisis, public relations
  • On that “Microsoft outage”

    It is unfair really. It came across my inbox, in conversations, and in the news that there was a Microsoft outage. When in reality, Microsoft was affected just like everyone else by the Crowdstrike glitch. They didn’t cause the problem, but it was definitely on their backs to figure out a way around it. When…

    awrensays

    July 23, 2024
    Marketing
    controversy, public relations
  • Tom Ford’s creative director is out. Here is the big lesson in that.

    Yet another change at the head of tom Ford. Peter Hawkings, who took the creative Director role after the departure of the brand founder, is now on his way out. This is just yet another major luxury brand this year this position without a creative director.  It could easily be seen as there is something…

    awrensays

    July 22, 2024
    News
    creative director, fashion, Gucci, peter-hawkings, Tom Ford
  • The Biossance lip balm.

    In my quest to find the best lip balm for me, I turned to the Biossance Squalane + Rose Vegan Lip Balm.. My thought, “Meh. Not as moisturizing as I thought it would be.” The product is thick and waxy. I wouldn’t describe it as a lip gloss at all. Perhaps it would work best…

    awrensays

    July 21, 2024
    beauty
    lip balm
  • Give Fleur de Peau by Diptyque some time

    Fleur de Peau by Diptyque is a scent that I have been hiding from. It is not just that the name translates to “Skin flower,” but more because of how I interpreted on first spray. As soon as the scent hit my skin, I thought to myself, “Oh, no. Oh, no. Definitely not.” But I…

    awrensays

    July 20, 2024
    Fragrance
    diptyque, fragrance review, musk, musk scents
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