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Katy Perry Just Posted A Heartfelt Goodbye to Her Cat, Kitty Purry


Longtime Katy Perry fans might remember her beloved cat, Kitty Purry, from her music video for “I Kissed A Girl,” the breakthrough (if somewhat problematic) song that helped make her a megastar. Perry has been known to post tons of pictures on her Instagram, showing off furry friends like her dog, Nugget—but this week, she had some sad news. After more than 15 years of providing companionship and the occasional video cameo, Kitty Purry died on April 18.

Perry wrote a sweet tribute to the cat on social media Sunday morning. “Kitty Purry crawled through my then-boyfriend’s window 15 years ago, fully pregnant and seeking shelter,” she wrote. “Two litters and many moons later, this street cat became a lovable mascot to many. Sadly, Kitty completed her 9th life last night.” Perry included a few throwback photos from the “I Kissed A Girl” that might take people down memory lane.

It’s been an emotional few weeks for Perry. She shared that she lost her 99-year-old grandmother last month, just after she’d told her that she was expecting her first child with Orlando Bloom. “A lot of what I am is because of my father… and he is because of her. She started it all, as she used to remind us and I’m so grateful she did,” Perry said on Instagram.

She and Bloom have also postponed their wedding amid the coronavirus pandemic. But Perry is pretty tough, as she pointed out herself on a recent episode of American Idol: “I’m the toughest bitch,” she said. “I’m gonna be a good mom. My kids are always gonna get it straight.”

In that spirit, she said goodbye to Kitty Purry with a happy celebration of her life. “I hope she rests in salmon fillets and tuna tartare way up in catnip heaven,” she concluded her tribute. “Kitty, thanks for the cuddles and companionship along the way.”





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There's Nothing Weird About Owning a Cat


If cats have nine lives, then it’s fitting that Susan Michals, the founder of CatCon—the largest cat convention—has had almost as many careers. From farm life as a kid to the publishing world as an adult, Michals was a writer for Vanity Fair and The Wall Street Journal, and a segment producer for E!. But something was missing, and in 2014, Michals created Cat Art Show to bridge the gap between animal lovers and art/culture.

Shortly thereafter Michals launched the first ever CatCon, quit her job as an entertainment journalist, and devoted her career to serving a community of pet lovers often overlooked. At last years CatCon, more than 500 felines were adopted and nearly $200,000 raised for charities across Southern California. Now, as the convention celebrates its fifth year this weekend in L.A., Michals is hoping to eventually expand globally and shine a light on cat lovers everywhere.

In doing so, she also hopes to dispel the stereotype of the ‘cat lady’ and why it’s finally cool to be a cat owner.

Susan’s cat, Miss Kitty Pretty Girl

Erica Danger

I was in my 30s when I got my current cat, a Maine Coon. In the words of Kelly Clarkson’s song, we’re both “Miss Independent.” She’s the only cat in the house, though she does have a canine sib, Buddy. But early on when I told people I thought about getting two cats, they would say, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no! You’re going to be at cat lady.’

Mind you, I didn’t fit the ‘stereotype’ of what people think of as a cat lady—the middle-age, homebody spinster. I had a boyfriend at the time, I was a supervising producer at E! working on shows including Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Live from the Red Carpet. I wasn’t headed towards Grey Gardens country or Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Or Dr. Eleanor Abernathy (a.k.a Crazy Cat Lady) from The Simpsons for that matter. I hear that one all the time.

When people would say don’t get another cat, I would respond with, ‘What the fuck is wrong with you?’ They’d say, ‘Well, if you don’t have a boyfriend and you have a lot of cats, you might scare guys away.’ It was insinuated you become less appealing the more cats you have. But I don’t hear people saying someone is a crazy dog lady. Perhaps it has to do with the stereotype of the crazy cat lady that has been perpetuated and evolved through hundreds of years of history when cats were associated with witches. It’s funny because people can be crazy happy, crazy beautiful, crazy artsy, but unfortunately when you put that next to cat lady, it develops this negative connotation.



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The Best Eyeliner Stencil – L'Oréal's Flash Cat Eye Liquid Liner Review


Just like a classic white shirt and little black dress, there are some things in beauty that will never go out of style—red lipstick, clean skin, defined brows. But perhaps the most timeless of all is the cat eye. I mean, it literally dates back to the ancient Egyptians and also has strong roots in Old Hollywood. Winged liner is flattering on nearly everyone. It draws attention to and elongates your eyes, and the vintage connotations adds instant cool to any look.

There’s a definite learning curve to mastering it, though, which makes it both the most loved and feared style of makeup—hence the slews of eyeliner stencils and stamps on the market. Most of these guides are pure gimmicks; they’re too bulky, stiff, or high-maintenance to actually streamline the process. Still, whenever one hits the market, I’m tempted to put it to the test, hopeful that this one will be the one that changes the game.

Enter the L’Oreal Flash Cat Eye liner, the newest addition to my collection of stencils. The $8 liner pen has a brush tip, and comes with a small stencil that slides right into the cap. The guide itself is a triangle with a single-size cutout for a wing, or you can use the other flat sides to create a straight line, as you would with the Pinterest-famous tape trick. What’s most appealing about it (aside from the price), is that it’s so compact. Most guides add an extra piece into your routine, but with this one, everything you need is right there.

Despite all that, I had my doubts. I’ve been burned by eyeliner stencils too many times before. I challenged my fellow Glamour editors, from cat eye queens to newbies, to put it to the test. Read on for our honest thoughts.

Khaliha Hawkins



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A Beauty Editor's Impulse Buys: $263 of Treatments, Custom Cat Socks, and More


Once upon a time, when I was living on an Upper East Side couch for $1,000 a month and ate a steady diet of ramen, I remember thinking that by the time I turned 30, I’d have it all together. I’d be shopping for and cooking real adult meals. I’d have enough discretionary income to not worry about paying rent if I had a health crisis. But mostly, I’d make enough money to actually have a budget—and stick to it.

Seven years later, I have a Casper mattress (on an Ikea bed frame), pillows that aren’t couch cushions, and a savings account that I’m pretty good about not dipping into for the most part. I eat homemade chicken and broccoli…when my boyfriend cooks. But a budget? Eh. It’s not like I’m in debt or shop a ton. (Although, I’m a retail email marketer’s dream—more on that below.) Rather, I love a plan on a whim. Mani date? I’m there. Brunch? We’re splitting a stack of pancakes for the table on top of an egg dish, round of mimosas, and, yeah, give me the latte. I don’t even want to admit how much I spent on Ubers alone in the past month, because I honestly don’t even want to know.

This usually results in a hodgepodge of Venmo and credit card charges that are hard to plan for. The only thing you won’t find? Beauty products. Call it perks of the job.

A gel mani at the L.A. nail spot I’ve been dying to visit: $136
I started December out with a whirlwind trip to L.A. to visit the brilliant Shani Darden for a facial. (I told you being a beauty editor has its perks.) As a celebrity aesthetician and Garnier ambassador, she’s worked on the faces of Emmy Rossum, Kelly Rowland, and so many more. After she worked her magic on my acne-prone skin, using Garnier’s new charcoal peel-off mask, I had eight hours of free time to futz around the city, so I did it the best way I knew how—booking a full day of treatments at all the L.A. hot spots I’d been itching to try, starting with Olive & June.

I’ve been following the nail salon’s Instagram for nearly half a decade. In my opinion, they just do nail art right: subtle, sophisticated, with just the right amount of kitsch. (Check out their Insta and you’ll see what I mean.) Initially I’d signed up only for the $40 Chrissy, a regular gel mani, and figured I’d get my usual moody blue or purple. But once I sat in the chair, I knew exactly what I wanted: a design inspired by Betina Goldstein (my favorite nail artist at the moment; just look at these fingers!) on each of my cuticles. I ended up with a baby pink base and a delicate line of gold shimmer—plus nearly $100 extra added to the total cost. That said, it lasted a full two and a half weeks, so I’d say it was worth it.

A 60-minute massage at the swankiest L.A. massage bar: $96
Another beauty editor who’s really picky about her treatments recommended I book an appointment at The Now, and I’m so glad I did. The concept is similar to Drybar in that you’re not paying for the overhead of a bunch of different services—rather, the only thing they offer are massages. Correction: great massages. The decor inside was very Instagrammy. You could buy palo santo and tarot cards at the shop, and when you walk back to the treatment area, each room was separated by a patterned curtain. I blissfully melted away the stress of traveling while an ocean sound machine echoed crashing waves from above. Note to The Now: Other cities are waiting. We need this.

My J.Crew haul

The J.Crew sale that was too good to pass up: $251.30
I shop at approximately two places—J.Crew and Madewell—on the regular and never fail to click a sale email from either one. I’ve probably funded at least one junior copywriter’s salary at this point. This time J.Crew was having a pre-Christmas sale, and nearly everything was 50 percent off. Obviously I had to act. I came away with an extensive turtleneck haul—one striped ($17.25), one solid gray ($14.75), one emerald green ($39.75), and one ruffled ($22.50)—plus, a sweatshirt that says “Brooklyn” because I couldn’t resist ($24.75). That’s not all. I also bought a bracelet (because it was $6.49 and why not?), an $8.25 velvet hair bow (because I’m a sucker for red-carpet hair trends), and a bird-print maxi ($99) that I was so excited to wear until I realized it was crazy low-cut. I still haven’t decided whether I should return it or wear it with one of my thousand turtlenecks. Knowing me, it’ll probably be neither and instead will sit in my closet until I sell it. Which brings me to…

The Ubers I took to and from selling my old clothes: $69.87
Errands are much better done with friends, mostly because I continue to put them off if I don’t have someone forcing me to do them. So this is why, season after season, I continue to spend almost how much I make in resales so I can join my best friend at her local neighborhood consignment shop. I still got to take home $20 and ended up bingeing 90 Day Fiancé at her place the rest of the day. Not a bad Saturday.

The custom pet socks every fashion editor was getting, so I did too: $15.95
No shame: I’m one of those millennials who talk about my cat like he’s my child. In fact, most people do think he’s my kid because his name is Matthew. (I firmly believe pets are part of the family and deserve names that reflect that. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.) So when every fashion editor was getting sent these very ugly, incredibly fantastic customized socks with their dogs’ faces on them, I obviously had to get a pair. Technically they were a belated Christmas gift for my boyfriend, but they were too small for him so now they’re mine. Matthew remains unimpressed.

The Gap jeans I bought because my favorite pair ripped: $90.93
Another sale email got me, but this time I had a valid reason. The cropped boot-cut jeans I’d been wearing religiously since our fashion team convinced me I could pull them off got a huge hole in the thigh. Tragic. Gap had only a pair six sizes too small left, so I pity-bought two extra pairs on sale in the hopes that they’d be as cute. The jury’s still out.

A spur-of-the-moment mani and brunch date with an old coworker: $83.71
When a former member of the Glam Fam texted me to get together (hi, Maureen!), it was a no-brainer about what we’d do: manis at the delightfully chic Tenoverten, followed by lemon ricotta pancakes and mimosas at Sarabeth’s. After my gels, I was aching to go back to my usual dark shade. I’ve been dying to try Essie’s new Booties on Broadway—the coolest winter navy—but they didn’t have it, so it was Midnight Cami instead, the perfect shade for the ball drop and back to work on the 2nd.

Lindsay Schallon is a senior beauty editor at Glamour.





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This Woman Is Inspiring People to Donate to Harvey Relief—By Sending Them Cat Photos


The Hurricane Harvey relief effort just got a boost thanks to a very unlikely source: a cat named Jerry in Brooklyn, NY.

Rachel Millman, who’s 29 and also happens to Jerry’s owner, was out for a walk in her Brooklyn neighborhood, thinking about how she’d wanted to help storm-ravaged Texas but didn’t have the funds for a substantial financial contribution. So she came up with an alternative plan: Offer to send people photos of her roommate’s goofy cat in exchange for proof that they donated to Harvey aid.

“@ me with proof of donating to a charity for south Texas and I will dm you a photo of Jerry behaving badly,” Millman tweeted, hoping her out-of-the-box approach might inspire people to donate—at most—a collective $1,000. But Jerry, an exceptionally large feline with a penchant for peeing just outside his litter box, proved to be a pretty big incentive: Within three hours—between midnight and 3 a.m., no less—she’d received images of donation receipts totaling double her initial hope.

“I was shocked,” Millman told Glamour.

Seeing Millman’s success, some of her friends tried their hand at a similar type of fundraising: Branson Reese, an artist, launched a spin-off campaign that allowed people see a special comic he’d created in exchange for proof of donations. Another offered up tarot card readings.

As the various campaigns gained momentum throughout the week, donation receipts rolled in from people who’d given to food banks, diaper banks, animal shelters, and various hurricane relief funds. Mara Wilson, author and Matilda actress, sent Millman proof of a contribution to the Texas Diaper Bank. Of course, some people sent proof of donations they’d made prior to Monday night—but many others were inspired by Millman’s campaign to step up and donate for the first time.

Take this donor, who wrote “I want to see the Jerry photo” when he contributed to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund:

As far as why people were incentivized by Millman and her pals, she chalks it up to the intense “social aspect”—donors were motivated by seeing other people get celebrated on social media, and from there, it was a snowball effect. “My dad was making fun of me earlier for this being the most millennial fundraising,” she said.

“Millennial” it may be, but as the numbers climbed and Millman starting adding, she was stunned: As of Thursday morning, She and Reese had accumulated receipts totaling $21, 249.15, a sum Millman calls “surreal.” “I did not think this would work to the extent that it did, she said.

Still, Millman wouldn’t accept all the credit for her genius fundraising initiative. “The people who deserve celebrating are the ones who donated,” she added. “I’m super fortunate to be first witness to such an outpouring of good.”

Texas is in need of serious help in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The storm pelted Houston and the surrounding area with record-breaking rainfall and ushered in disastrous flooding, leaving thousands stranded in their homes. Experts say the Harvey recovery process could take years

And Jerry? He doesn’t seem to know what a difference he’s making. According to Millman, “He’s been getting slightly annoyed by me grabbing him for thank-you videos for bigger donors.”



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This $3 Eyeliner Is So Precise I Get a Perfect Cat Eye in One Flick


I started chasing the illusive upturned cat eye in middle school. Back then, I used a 99-cent eyeliner pencil, warmed up by my mom’s hairdryer, but I lacked the fine motor skills to pull it off. As makeup evolved so did my technique and I leveled up to liquid liner, gel liners, and eyeliner pens. In college, felt-tip eyeliner markers became my go-to product. I’ve still got a callous on my right ring finger from all the writing I do by hand so I like an eyeliner that I can hold like a pencil. I always wind up over or under-compensating liquid liners that come in other shapes, but there’s a definite downside to my preference.

In my experience, felt-tipped marker eyeliners leak more often and dry out more quickly than their non-pen-shaped counterparts. Still, that’s a price I’m willing to pay for the kind of control I like to have and I’ve gotten used to keeping a bag of cotton balls and a bottle of makeup remover on hand every morning while I put on my makeup. But that necessity evaporated about a month ago when I was doing some field research for work (and by field research, I mean poking around in a beauty supply store and filling up a basket with incredibly inexpensive makeup). My under $20 haul included two game-changing eyeliner markers from NK Makeup. I’ve been using them since that day and I refuse to go back to the smeary, unevenly lined life I lived before.

Say hello to NK’s Microfine Artliner. This insanely affordable brand makes a ton of quality products, but this eyeliner is hands-down my favorite. I was drawn to it during my research trip because they’re so darn tiny. (I’m very charmed by all things miniature. It’s probably why I own a corgi.) The felt tip point is as precise as the ultra-fine ball point pens I horde, but unlike other very fine eyeliners I’ve tested, these pens don’t bleed or smudge. They glide on smoothly without snagging your delicate eyelid skin. As we all know, snagged, delicate eyelid skin is the makeup application equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard: really, really bad.

The first time I used it, everything went incredibly well: smooth, consistent, and snag-free, but I didn’t expect too much. The pens are so little (and cute!) that it was hard to imagine they could contain enough product to last very long. While I don’t burn through as much eyeliner as I did in my sullen, Victorian novel reading days (I called my beauty look in college “elevated goth,” but it wasn’t all that elevated), I still like to apply multiple coats every day. But I’d been using the same Artliner pen every day for two weeks when the photos here were shot and it worked just as well as on day one. (You can tell because the oils from my hands have started to smear the eyeliner’s label. This happens to all my marker-style eyeliners and if you know a way to prevent it, please DM me.)

To be honest, the consistent smoothness of these eyeliner markers took some getting used to. Even expensive eyeliners tend to lose steam at exactly the moment when you need them to be most precise. If you’ve been liquid lining your eyes for as long as I have, you’ve probably picked up some bad habits from overcompensating for an unsteady or unpredictable eyeliner like pressing down too hard or pausing to let a sub par eyeliner leak out a little more pigment. Since these markers maintain a steady flow of smudge-proof color, you don’t have to exert much pressure. It took me a few tries to get the technique just right, but now that I’ve mastered the delicate hand, I literally can’t get close to a cat eye with any other product.

These little powerhouse markers have officially ruined me for all other eyeliners. I’ve been using the same expensive marker for years and while it works just fine, I can’t really get down with spending $20 on a product that isn’t effective 100 percent of the time and doesn’t come in as many colors as my new favorite does. (I love a simple black cat eye, but a girl needs options.) That said, it’s a rare and wonderful thing to find a product that does so much and only costs $3—and that’s rounded! Once it happens, you have to lock it down and never look back, so I’m stocking up on these eyeliners the same way I horde my favorite ball point pens—with an option to stash everywhere I need.

NK Makeup Microfine Artliner, $2.99, nicka.com

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