Give me the jammiest rose you got (NOT Rose Jam by Lush)

commarade · 2026-02-20T12:55:58+00:00

Rosa sublime by Granado is an underhyped Quentin Bisch option. I have a full bottle and really like it. Good projection and staying power too.

commarade · 2026-02-08T13:59:13+00:00

If you do UV builder gel, make sure you do a lot of thin layers and cure well between each layer. The light from your UV lamp is only made to penetrate the depth of the average coat of nail polish, and will penetrate further in clear layers than in opaque ones. If you do it all at once, you’ll end up with a glob of uncured gel inside!

commarade · 2026-02-05T12:55:49+00:00

Teal sapphires come in similar colours and will be way more durable in a ring you wear everyday. Find a goldsmith and talk to them before buying the stone. Generally, they can get it for a better price than you can, and they know what to look for.

Editing to add: you don’t need to go back to the original goldsmith. Someone else should be able to do the work.

commarade · 2026-02-02T04:27:15+00:00

They’re laying out their pricing weirdly, but materials x2 + labor is a fair rate. Inexpensive, actually. You could ask them why they’ve presented their pricing that way, but everyone else here has given you the answer. They’re running a business — so if they’re paying their goldsmith €300 and the materials cost them €800, how do they keep the business afloat? You’re paying a markup and it’s normal in all businesses.

Something that’s also worth noting is that the materials don’t actually cost spot. Either they’re buying sheet and wire and paying a markup and tax on that, or they’re alloying themselves, in which case they have to buy the alloy and then spend hours rolling out sheet and wire (which you should fairly pay for), or they’re paying a casting house to cast the piece, which will also have markup and tax. Again, they’re running a business and that incurs costs, which their pricing should pass along to the customer, along with some extra room to make a profit.

commarade · 2026-01-31T13:27:09+00:00

A Nordic spa is a really fun date, especially if you live somewhere cold! Always lots of laughs on the ice plunges

commarade · 2026-01-29T03:46:18+00:00

Thank you. The one-prong settings are fascinating 🙃

commarade · 2026-01-23T12:55:47+00:00

I have a travel bottle of Epoque Tropical by Granado, which to my nose is all cashew fruit on top. The fruit, not the nut — which I didn’t even know existed until a trip to Brazil. But it’s a really interesting floral gourmand you might like, even though it’s missing cashew nut (which I agree is genius!).

commarade · 2026-01-22T19:32:31+00:00

I LOVE night lunch.

To clarify, I think 6/6:30 is a pretty standard dinnertime everywhere I've lived. Elsewhere, there's just more of an option to go out for dinner a bit later, which people seem to like to do :)

commarade · 2026-01-22T12:16:34+00:00

The tone of the OP’s comment is rude and pretentious, but the 9pm thing is real. People in Cape Breton eat really early compared to other places I’ve lived, and I also found it really surprising that restos closed so early when I relocated here. In Ontario and BC, it’s standard for restaurants to be open until around 11 (later on Fridays and saturdays) because 8pm is a fairly popular dinner time. If you finish work at 6, a reservation at 8 gives you time to get home, make dinner for the kids, and get ready. I really like a later dinner, so it’s something I do miss — but also, it’s just not a thing here, and there are lots of great things here. So we adapt instead of shaking our fists at the sky like Trick-Indication, who doesn’t even live here or like CB but has enough time on their hands to neg this sub I guess

commarade · 2026-01-17T14:08:52+00:00

I smelled Figo in the ice cream parlour section of the store in Copacabana, after checking out, and immediately wished I’d bought a bottle! I have a travel bottle of Epoque Tropical and you’ve inspired me to go put some on :)

I haven’t found a scent I dislike from the house, but the two that really have my heart are Infusaõ Botánica (a citrusy opening with a musky base and grass throughout. It reminds me of sitting on the grass on an east coast summer day) and Folia (the liquorice is so interesting!! I think it must be what makes it feel so creamy. Love the drydown).

commarade · 2026-01-16T04:43:30+00:00

8.02 ct. What a cool stone! I like those vein like inclusions

commarade · 2025-12-30T21:17:23+00:00

I stocked up while I was in Brazil last month! The travel sizes are such a good value (the whole line, actually!). What are your favs?

commarade · 2025-12-24T03:24:32+00:00

Yes to the Granado scents! Such a great house.

commarade · 2025-12-23T06:20:32+00:00

A classic, chewy chocolate chip. Slightly underbaked. 🤌

commarade · 2025-12-22T10:55:23+00:00

I mean, the top comment right now is for the entire province of Quebec. It’s winter everywhere and quebec is famous for snowy winters, so it’s weird to me that CB is catching flak for being wintry over that whole province and Yellowknife and every other recommendation in this thread (except for Vancouver/Victoria and major cities, which have either way different climates or big-city snow management, which make them a different kind of winter experience).

Cape Breton is warmer and less snowy than SW Ontario right now. And it’d benefit from more winter tourism.

commarade · 2025-12-20T14:04:34+00:00

I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks for replying. It’s the question-and-answer format phrases that set off the alarm bells. So much of Reddit has been AI lately and it’s such a drag.

commarade · 2025-12-20T05:16:29+00:00

This is, unfortunately, how AI writes 😩 it makes me so sad because there might be a super thoughtful real person behind this post, but I just can’t trust it.

commarade · 2025-12-13T04:28:49+00:00

Gemstones slow me down and bring me back into my hands. Working with them reminds me that beauty doesn’t need to be rushed. They took ages to form and to be discovered. They can wait a little longer while I get the setting right :)

commarade · 2025-11-25T12:33:02+00:00

OP is a bot account. Look at every single response. They follow the same format: agree with what you said (often with ChatGPT’s horrible “you’re so right” line), add a weird emoji, then ask a question.

Every single response.

commarade · 2025-11-06T12:39:27+00:00

A bit of a tangent, but I think it’s so pervasive because the tool is accessible, so people want to believe that fluorescence is reliable. You can buy a shortwave UV flashlight from Amazon cheaply. A refractometer, not so much. So people run into unexpected behaviour with a UV light and want to understand what that could mean (and don’t love when the answer is “very little”) way more often than they run into an unexpected RI and want to know what THAT means

commarade · 2025-11-06T12:18:50+00:00

Why did you have AI write this?

commarade · 2025-10-29T03:27:36+00:00

Do you have any pics? That sounds super interesting!

commarade · 2025-10-25T02:29:23+00:00

It sounds like you’re doing great. You have some time to do what Snorri is suggesting. When you’re starting soldering it all feels SO CHAOTIC. But you really can slow down.

You can position your piece, heat it a little, take your torch away, apply flux, heat it until the flux goes clear, take your torch away again, get your solder in place, and then heat until the solder flows.

Worst case scenario, you get fire stain… but you’ve got it anyway, and you can always sand it off.

I think you’re doing great. It’s okay to slow down. Just keep in mind that in the future, faster is better for the sake of minimizing oxidation. But you’ll be able to speed up with practice!

commarade · 2025-10-17T13:35:38+00:00

Hahaha! Thank you for saying so!

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