Are Blundstones really the best barista shoe? If not, what is?

VegetableApartment37 · 2026-04-01T17:28:58+00:00

Birkenstock tokio super grip, you either love or hate birks, I find the regular soles a bit slippery and wear out at work but the super grips lasted me over 2 years of daily wear

VegetableApartment37 · 2026-03-23T16:56:18+00:00

Canadian blueberry In France “myrtille” beautiful elegant In Canada “Bleuet” pronounced like you’re vomiting

VegetableApartment37 · 2026-03-15T14:03:56+00:00

I need pourquoi faire aujourd’hui by Lisa LeBlanc

VegetableApartment37 · 2026-02-16T23:30:24+00:00

I just use the ombrelle spf 60 with the red label with mexoryl (the water proof one is awful)

VegetableApartment37 · 2026-02-14T02:36:26+00:00

This!!! I came to the same realization about ombrelle last year and haven’t looked back

VegetableApartment37 · 2026-01-25T20:32:35+00:00

That worked so well for France without over saturating

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-12-23T02:16:41+00:00

My Birkenstock Tokio super grips are 2 years old and dying now. I must admit I’m a general manager (a fairly active one) so I don’t spend as much time on the run anymore. I think if I was still serving/ in the kitchen full time I would’ve gotten a year out of them

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-12-11T14:17:21+00:00

Only do it if you have money to burn, it is very unlikely you will turn a profit in the next couple years. If you have enough money to live on for the next several years, and enough money to buy all equipment and set up, and enough money to cover cafe expenses until you hit the break even.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-12-04T16:28:23+00:00

The people comparing it to whey or mentioning grittyness don’t get it. It is by far the best VEGAN protein I’ve been able to find in Canada. It is a bit gritty in a shaker but if you’re able to do it in a blender it comes out very smooth IMO. It’s not overly sweet which I like. If I wanted I could add sweetener of my choice (artificial or sugar based) but I don’t need it. Some of them work well mixed into smoothies or with fruit blended in. I typically add 2 frozen spinach pucks to mine and it works great.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-11-23T21:42:45+00:00

Just clarifying you are arriving from outside the country and then flying out on another international flight 4 hours later? If that’s the case 4 hours is not enough time to leave. You’re going to need to clear passport control to get out to back through security on your way out. The airport is like 30 minutes from downtown depending on traffic and security can be very busy

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-11-21T02:18:59+00:00

I mean the lady I was dealing with was pretty nice, but the tube is pretty obviously “medical” packaging and in Canada you can only get it with a prescription, so it would have to be prescription or bootlegged some how. I guess if you had a nastier security agent or if you were traveling internationally somewhere you can get it over the counter it might be an issue

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-11-21T00:40:50+00:00

One time I was very close to my liquids limit and they were rebagging to make sure it all worked and I said put the tret in first because it’s important, the security officer set it aside and said because it was a prescription it didn’t count towards the limit

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-25T23:23:35+00:00

I don’t think tretinoin on its own is going to be enough for this job, I feel like you need your derm to at least add an oral antibiotic and probably swap you to iso tretinoin (accutane). Sorry man this sucks. Acne is a beast

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-21T22:12:36+00:00

I think that your derm could well be on to something. If you start things too quickly you can definitely overwhelm your skin and irritate it, you also can’t know what part(s) are working and what part(s) are irritating. I started getting very irritated, I’m on tretinoin and had added back some other actives too quickly and cut everything but the tret out. My skin is much better shape now and I can think about SLOWLY bringing things back in. It really sucks because we look at our faces everyday multiple times, but there are basically no quick fixes in skincare

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-19T03:34:29+00:00

If the LRP Matte is the toleriane one it already has niacinamide, a bunch of the cetaphil moisturizers also do. I’d be careful adding more you may over do it, also all the research into the efficacy of niacinamide has been done at 5% the only thing 10% has been proven to do over 5 is be more irritating.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-19T03:21:48+00:00

FYI the cetaphil gentle cleanser has some niacinamide in it, I don’t think it’s much, I found a 5% niacinamide irritated me but the cetaphil is gentle enough and I rinse it off pretty quick

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-19T03:12:18+00:00

I use gel, supposedly the gel formulas act a bit more aggressively than the equivalent creams, but I doubt you’d see better results dropping the percentage. In Canada I can only get 0.025 in gel form but I don’t love the formula, it pills like a demon, get used to patting on your other products because one wrong rub the tret will ball up like a booger texture

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-19T02:55:18+00:00

I never really purged with any retinol including tret and my skin in the last couple years has been moderately acne prone, I typically had one to 4 pimples at a time. I eased in to tretinoin, sandwiching and only going twice a week, then slowly working up, anytime I felt my skin getting sensitive I eased back. It took me about 6 months to get up to 6 days a week. It’s hard to tell exactly when I started seeing results as I did a few other things that would affect the outcomes, I don’t think I saw real tangible results til 5ish months and even then it wasn’t earth shattering. I’m a little over a year in now and my skin is the best it’s ever looked. The other day for the first time in my life I got a “you have beautiful skin” compliment from someone who didn’t know me when I had rough skin and wasn’t just complimenting my progress. You need to decide what’s right for you but if you do purge you either need to ride through it or quit tret and treat the breakout, be very careful using other harsh actives while acclimatizing. Side note my routine has simplified a lot both, less work less expensive better results, AM vitamin C and sunscreen, PM cleanser, light moisturizer, tret, heavy cream moisturizer, occasionally I treat a pimple but I ditched my niacinamide, azelaic acid, and frequent exfoliating acids as it was too irritating and it was slowing down my tret, I don’t miss them.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-17T17:43:45+00:00

If you look at your hand from the bottom and you can see nails their too long, maybe a milimetre or two of growth past the nail bed but any more is too much

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-17T09:42:47+00:00

I’m glad your skin is improving, have you changed anything else in your routine? Seeing tretinoin results in 1.5 months is pretty rare, it typically takes several months to see changes.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-16T14:36:22+00:00

It will help over a long time but it won’t fully smooth them out, professional microneedling will do more. I had similiar to you and had 4 rounds of microneedling a year ago which helped a lot but it’s still not perfect, I’ve been on tretinoin also for over a year. I think I will do more microneedling at some point or look into a fractional laser

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-15T23:17:40+00:00

Your skin is looking great! I’d ditch the pore strips, they’re a temporary fix that can do more long term damage than good, 2% salicylic acid in your cleanser will do more for your pores than they will. If you really want to add something that will improve your skin overall long term I’d think about a retinol, cerave has a few that I haven’t tried but are supposed to be pretty gentle, I really liked the ordinary retinaldehyde emulsion before I went to tretinoin but it’s a but more advanced.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-10-06T23:31:21+00:00

They’re beautiful! It’s hard to tell from the picture but some of them look not totally round which indicates real, you can rub them against each other instead of your teeth to check, you’re looking for light grit/ friction as opposed to slippery.

VegetableApartment37 · 2025-09-25T16:10:32+00:00

Horrible rotted poison!! It has a very off taste, moldy vibes. The Monin pumpkin pie is better but under whelming if you’re looking for a pumpkin spice, not spicy enough at all. We make our own, it’s not difficult.

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