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The Checkup: How to Make Perfume and Cologne Scents Last Longer
RedlineVector/Shutterstock.com • If you’ve always sprayed perfume or cologne on your wrists or neck, well, you’ve always been doing it wrong. Experts say there’s no proven evidence that spritzing these...
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Beauty News to Know: Sephora Opens in Suburban Square Next Week
Radu Bercan / Shutterstock Makeup and skincare addicts living out on the Main Line have something exciting to look forward to at the start of this new year: National beauty emporium Sephora is opening...
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How to Banish Dry, Scaly Winter Skin
Get your glow on. | Shutterstock. We’re barely two weeks into our new normal – freezing, winter-like temps – and already we’re noticing the telltale signs of cold weather: dry, flaky, scaly skin. While...
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Ditch EOS for Good With These 10 Fantastic Lip Balms
Keep those lips looking hydrated and luscious. | Shutterstock. In case you haven’t heard, several people are suing EOS Lip Balm on the grounds that it made their chapped lips worse (best-case...
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Learn to Contour Like (Ugh, Fine) Kim Kardashian
Images via Kevyn Aucoin. Love her or hate her, Kim Kardashian has taken contouring – you know, when you strategically paint your face with various splotches of brown/taupe/white/bronze to create faux...
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The 5-Product Makeup Routine That’ll Get You Out the Door in 5 Minutes
Run from the gym to the office with a fresh face in mere seconds. | Photography by Claudia Gavin. In my constant quest to pare down the makeup kit I bring everywhere, I’ve gotten things down to a...
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Yikes: Lush Bath Bombs Are Dyeing People’s Skin and Hair Crazy Colors
Lush’s enormously popular bath bombs. | Lush. Call it the month of the beauty product backlash. First, EOS – makers of those Easter egg-like lip balm balls – was thrown in the spotlight after customers...
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How to Rock a ‘90s Brown Lip … in 2016
The timeless brown lip. | Images via family archives and Amrezy. I was born in the 1991, and while many people would argue I’m too young to fully appreciate the decade, I beg to differ when it comes to...
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If You Can Never Find Your Foundation Color, Sephora Is About to Solve All...
Expert help at navigating the makeup aisle. | Images via black|Up. For women of color, finding the perfect foundation shade can be a nearly impossible task. True, there’s long-time drugstore brands...
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Pubic Hair Oil, Daily Blowouts and Lash Extensions: How We Are All Losing Our...
Illustration by Michele Melcher. Something alarming is happening, and as with most things I find alarming or annoying, I blame Kim Kardashian. Lately, women—otherwise sane, relatively grounded...
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5 Best Places to Score Korean Beauty Products in Philly
A sampling of K-beauty goods. | Photos via Instagram I made the switch from American drugstore beauty products to South Korean ones in high school, and I can tell you, without exaggeration, that it...
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Shop Talk: 7 Travel Beauty Secrets Flight Attendants Swear By
How to mile-high rejuvenate. | iStockphoto. While we love lusting after supermodel-grade travel beauty essentials, some of those items would eat up an entire paycheck. (Le sigh.) Fortunately, the pros...
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12 Celebrity Products We’re Embarrassed to Love
You make it, we’ll buy it. | Images via iStock [1] [2] [3]There are some people who become famous for their products (or infamous, like Doe Deere of Limecrime, or Chaz Dean of Wen). And then there are...
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Shop Talk: How to Make the Skincare Products You Already Own More Effective
Stop spending more than you have to on your skincare. | iStock/alphabetMN. Skincare can get pricey — especially the good stuff — which is why we’re always on the lookout for insider secrets that’ll...
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I Tried It: The Eyebrow Shaping Treatment That Costs $600
Going under the blade for good brows. | iStockphoto/Jacob Wackerhausen. It’s very easy for most women to justify absurd beauty and fashion purchases. We practically have our master’s degrees in it....
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I Tried It: Is Sugaring Really Better Than a Traditional Bikini Wax?
Image via Green City Beauty. For most people, getting a bikini wax for the first time is somewhat traumatic. Mine? Straight-up horrific. The scene of the crime: My friend’s dorm room. The offender: A...
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How to Make Your Blowout Last Longer: Drybar Founder Spills Her Secrets
Alli Webb at Drybar Center City’s grand opening today. | Photo by Lauren McGrath. There are few things that can instantly improve your confidence and outlook on life as drastically as a good blowout....
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Shop Talk: 8 Vintage Shopping Secrets for People Who Hate Vintage Shopping
Vintage shopping secrets for your best thrift store haul ever. | Armin Staudt/iStock. Intimated by thrift stores? Overwhelmed by consignment shops? These eight vintage shopping secrets help you nail...
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3 Sunburn Remedies You Can Make in the Kitchen
lindwa/iStock. So you laid out on the beach all day to try and bring some life back into those translucently pale legs, but only managed to go from white to 50 shades of lobster — we feel your pain....
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The 4-Hour Spa Treatment That Made Me Cry
Planet cards and palm readings. | Images via Lush. You don’t have to ask me twice to try out a spa treatment — especially when said spa treatment is a four-hour, spiritually-focused, astronomical...
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