My Victoria Beckham eyeliner review: It’s perfection. I have greasy eyelids — why? too many pizzas in my life? an unrepented sin from a past life? — so it is work to get eyeshadow to stick to my lids. For this reason, I’m an eyeliner girl. So I know what....
My Bumble and Bumble Seaweed Air Dry Cream review: My full-time job is testing air dry creams for fine hair and this is the best of all of them. An air dry cream has a simple job: to provide texture and wave straight out of the shower, while also reducing....
I recently had the chance to sit down and interview my 14-year-old niece (specifically, my best friend’s elder daughter) about her beauty routine, and it was fascinating. Casey is one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, which I’m not saying just because I love her, and I was struck....
My Sunday Riley Wake Up With Me review: It’s complicated.
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My Le Labo Jasmin 17 review: I’m obsessed with it. Jasmin 17 smells like jasmine, at midnight, in a courtyard in Tunis: Jasmine is the national flower of Tunisia, which I did know, and also a symbol of the Tunisian Revolution of Dignity, a.k.a. the Jasmine Revolution. In Thailand, it....
Over the past four years, I’ve tried everything I could to combat my hair breakage. I finally feel like I have a winning routine — but it took years to get there, and along the way I tried more things that didn’t work than those that did. Read on for....
I wanted to put together a post advising how to spend $75 at French Pharmacy (the threshold for free shipping), since they have an excellent range of French brands and for some reason everything there seems to be 20% off in perpetuity. Then I realized I could there just with....
One of my weird splurges this year was a makeup consult with a verifiable Parisian makeup artist. It was a strange experience — I don’t wear a lot of makeup, and I walked out of there wearing a lot more than I’m used to. I don’t know how much time....
Is there anything nicer than lighting a lovely, powerfully scented candle as the leaves begin to fall and it gets darker earlier? There isn’t. Especially when that candle — my vote for the top spot on the list of the best fall Diptyque candles — is the Diptyque Pumpkin candle....
