A Grown-Up Take on Jell-O

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Step by Step

The Eadem Co-Founder Marie Kouadio Amouzame Shares Her Favorite Sunscreen and Hair Masks

In the morning, I splash water on my face and use Dior Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose Advanced Serum and put on some SPF. After school drop-off, I do my real routine. I splash again with water and use Rovectin Calming Lotus Water Toner. I do three layers of that. I go in with [my brand] Eadem’s Milk Marvel Dark Spot Serum and then a thin layer of Cloud Cushion Airy Brightening Moisturizer. My sunscreen is Innisfree’s Daily UV Defense, which I’ve been using for 10 years. It’s sheer and gives a finish that’s not too oily or matte.

Then I do my brows, which is the only makeup I wear most days. I use the NYX Brow Glue and a Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Eyebrow Pencil to perfect the shape at the corners. If I’m going to an event, I pile on anything that makes me look dewy. Matte skin makes you look older, is my theory. I pile on the Rovectin Toner — sometimes even six layers. Then I go in with Milk Marvel and Merit Great Skin. If I want to add one special thing, I’ll do a Korean sheet mask — the texture of the juice in this one is like a gel. When you remove it after 20 minutes you look snatched. Then I’ll do a layer of moisturizer. I like my makeup to be superlight so that my skin can show through. I’ll use Merit’s the Minimalist Perfecting Complexion Stick around my eyes or the Ami Cole Skin Enhancing Tint and a Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear Foundation that’s two tones deeper than my skin tone to contour. If I want to have a cool-girl look, I’ll grab MAC Lipstick in Ruby Woo and put it on with my finger. If I want to look more juicy, I’ll use our Eadem Le Chouchou balm that I’ve been developing for the past two years. For my eyes, I really love Glossier Skywash in Echo; it’s the same color as my skin tone but gives my eyes a little depth.

At night, I use an Eadem Dew Dream Hydrating Cleansing Balm to take off my makeup and the Fresh Soy Face Cleanser. Then I go back to my toner, serum and moisturizer. Every time I use Medicube Age-R Ussera Deep Sho, I feel like my skin is more radiant the next day. For my body I usually use La Roche Posay Lipikar AP+ Gentle Foaming Cleansing Oil. We all use that in my family. It’s very nonirritating. I like the Soft Services Green Banana Buffing Bar in the new banana scent, or I’ll use an African net sponge. I’ll either use Dexeryl, a French drugstore moisturizer, or if I want a little bit more self-care, the Frederic Malle Body Butters — the scents stay with you and go onto your sheets, which I love. I wear the Portrait of a Lady perfume every day. In Williamsburg, SpaRelax Spa gives the best massages for $60. All of my friends and I joke that when you go there, you feel like they love you. You feel so light when you leave. For my hair, I’ll use K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask every four washes and, for shampoo and conditioner, I love Briogeo’s Don’t Despair, Repair line. One thing I’ve discovered recently is that the Dyson Airwrap is incredible. Never in my life did I think I could straighten my own hair, and now I do it in 10 minutes — it’s saved me an hour and half every time I wash my hair. With that I’ll use Oribe Supershine Moisturizing Cream — it’s hydrating and makes my hair shiny — and I like the Amika Dream Routine Overnight Hydrating Hair Mask as a treatment.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

Stay Here

A Riverside Lodge in Oregon Opens Glass-Walled Cabins

On the banks of the Rogue River in southern Oregon, Tu Tu’ Tun Lodge sits on 14 acres amid Douglas fir and Myrtle trees. This summer, the property added 12 glass cabins designed by the Estonian mirror house production company Ööd. With private patios, outdoor soaking tubs and mirrored glass walls, the cabins give guests a panoramic view of the surrounding wilderness. The main lodge, which has been open since 1970 and was recently renovated, takes a more traditional approach to rural accommodation with cedar beams, river rock fireplaces and grass cloth walls, inspired by the weavings of the area’s Tututni people. Guests are encouraged to gather for happy hour at the lodge’s restaurant, which serves cuisine centered on local ingredients such as line-caught halibut and Pacific Rogue Wagyu farmed in nearby Gold Beach. In addition to the property’s amenities, which include a creekside spa, a wood-burning sauna and a pool, Tu Tu’ Tun offers activities that take advantage of its riverside perch: You can kayak in the Rogue River, fly fish for steelhead or take an e-bike to the Oregon coast, about a 30-minute ride away. From $595 a night, tututun.com.

Eat This

A New Line of Sunset-Colored Jellies

“I’m not into rules; I’m not into diets,” says Zoe Messinger. It’s a mantra that the New York-based chef and artist kept in mind when creating Gelée, a new take on Jell-O made with non-G.M.O. whole-fruit powders (the fruits are freeze dried, then pulverized) and beef gelatin. A culmination of Messinger’s obsession with bone broth during the pandemic and her experience working at restaurants like Kismet in Los Angeles, the brand is launching with three fruity flavors: Guava Nectar, Passion and Piña Coco, a combination of pineapple and coconut powders. After three years of testing and development, Messinger settled on a powder over a refrigerated option for convenience; you simply whisk the powder in hot water and set it in the fridge for two hours. Messinger envisions Gelée being used in both sweet and savory dishes. She’s partial to a jelly ceviche — in which the Piña Coco flavor is paired with coconut milk and sea bass — and offers a recipe for it, along with others like a jelly egg cream, on her site. As she puts it, “You can make it this healing staple of your day, or it can be your boozy, exciting indulgence.” The first Gelée collection launches on Aug. 8, from $24, geleegelee.com.

Madeline Donahue, whose paintings portray intimate moments of motherhood, turned to New York’s Greenwich House Pottery to adapt an image of her family in a field of flowers into a new, limited-edition vase available through Nina Johnson Gallery. Donahue, who’s based in Brooklyn, conceived the piece at Interlude Residency, founded by the artist Elsie Kagan in Columbia County, N.Y., to support artists with children. (Kagan has also curated a list of other retreats for art-making parents.) Also upstate, the artist Erica Recto has curated a show of ceramic, textile, video and painted pieces by six artists who are mothers, on view through Aug. 31 at Bes, her art space and design shop in Dutchess County that showcases work made in the region. Titled “Soft Animals,” after a line in Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese,” the show posits what it might look like to “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” against the backdrop of parenthood. Recto’s own hollow, beige stoneware sculpture features textured spots, like one with suede flocking, that invite handling, while the name of the piece, “Touched Out,” — a newly popular phrase that refers to the sensory overload that can come with child rearing — says otherwise. Nearby, the Manhattan-based artist Katie Westmoreland has framed a list of art ideas that she dreamed up but couldn’t realize once her daughter, now 4, arrived. That ink-on-paper work is juxtaposed against two of the artist’s labor-intensive embroidered canvases predating parenthood. When creatives become parents, Recto says, art making can become “an escape, [a form of] time keeping, meditation, a grieving process — even liberation.”

Visit This

In Westchester, N.Y., an 18th-Century Inn Is Re-Energized

Bedford Post Inn, a 1762 Dutch Colonial farmhouse turned hotel in the forest countryside of Westchester County, N.Y., was once a rest stop for stagecoach travelers. It had been abandoned and in disrepair for a decade before the actor Richard Gere and his business partner, Russell Hernandez, bought the house and converted it into an eight-room inn in 2008. An adjoining restaurant operated for four years but closed in early 2023, giving the owners an opportunity to refresh the dining room and property as a whole. The Brooklyn-based restaurant and hotel group Sunday Hospitality, whose restaurants include El Quijote at Hotel Chelsea and Greenpoint’s Rule of Thirds, now manages the property in partnership with Gere and Hernandez. Newly launched amenities include complimentary breakfast at the recently opened cafe Bedford Post Barn, a BMW car service that transports guests around town and a suite of activities like horseback riding and canoeing. But the real buzz among locals is Bedford Post Tavern, the hotel’s new restaurant and bar serving classic and seasonal American fare in the evenings (a weekend brunch menu is in the works). To recreate the quintessential tavern experience, the restaurant took over what was previously a private dining room. “We built the biggest possible bar we could in the middle of the space,” says Adam Landsman, a Sunday Hospitality co-founder. Around that marble surface, rustic details reminiscent of an English-style country pub abound with plush booths, bistro seating and wood-paneled walls. From $750 a night, bedfordpostinn.com.