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The Pillow Challenge Is Quarantine's Easiest, Strangest Viral Trend


Life in quarantine is exhausting.

You’ve whipped your coffee within an inch of its life, started and abandoned sourdough, danced like a TikTok teen, turned bananas into bread, crossed into full animated-animal insanity, and tried to start drama with your household objects. There is almost nothing left to do.

Enter: The Pillow Challenge. Your task, should you choose to accept it, as tens of thousands of people on the internet have—strap a pillow around your naked body and try to look hot. That’s it.

People who are bad at dancing, gardening, makeup, crafting, and the zillion other domestic skills that make for good internet content, feast! This is our time. No sewing, no needing, no contouring, just stripping naked and tying yourself to an inanimate object. This “challenge” has no rhyme or reason, except that you are in your house, and so are your pillows.

“A pillow is a rectangular piece of fabric,” the tastemakers of the internet seem to whisper. “A dress is a rectangular piece of fabric. You do the math.”

And you can, easily. #Pillowchallenge and #Quarantinepillowchallenge have, combined, over 100,000 tags on Instagram. If Fraulein Maria can make seven playsuits out of a set of curtains and then escape the nazis, you can make a mini dress out of a pillow and then stay inside.

Kseniya Marvanovaa, an 18-year-old in Western Russia, posted a picture of herself doing the challenge with her 7-year-old sister. “I saw this challenge from popular bloggers and decided—Why not try?” Marvanovaa says. Her sister saw her putting on a pillow and joined in. “She saw how I took photos and began to repeat after me, and even put on high heel shoes,” she says.



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Raspberry Bourbon Hair is the Easiest Way to Try Red Hair


Toasty Melt, Brown Ale, Mulled Wine: No, these aren’t menu items at a hot new restaurant, but the latest crop of food- and drink-inspired hair colors that are blowing up on Instagram.

The latest shade to join the party is a perfect way for brunettes to get into the red trend without going all the way. Named “Raspberry Bourbon” by Popsugar, the color takes a cue from its namesake drink and has a rich mahogany base swirled with ribbons of warm red on the ends. It’s perfect for the colder weather.

“I think Raspberry Bourbon hair color is so appealing because it feels like highlights for the winter,” Devon Toth, hairstylist at New York based Salon SCK, tells Glamour. “It’s an unexpected way of brightening up your hair color during a season when people typically take their hair shade a bit darker. The depth is still there but it melts into this bright, rustic mahogany tone. It’s an evolution of the cherry hair color with an added hint of purple.”

Stephanie Brown, master colorist at New York’s IGK Salon Soho, says she’s recently noticed an uptick in her brunette clients trying red shades and credits Zendaya’s gorgeous copper shade at the Emmys. “Seeing how amazing it looks on her is probably why people are wanting to play with reds now—maybe not as bold, but are trying more of an ombré with it,” she says. She also adds that winter is the perfect time to dip into this trend, since “warming up your color for fall and winter helps add a little glow to your skin when we now see little to no sunlight.”

Brown suggests asking your stylist for a partial ombré with the copper shade because it can look brassy if there’s too much color. She also says to bring photos of the exact red you want in order to ensure you’re happy with it, since everyone interprets red differently. For brighter pops of color, Toth suggests asking for a touch of purple in your highlights and for balayage on your ends. For something more subtle, he says to “ask for foil highlights if you want to see the raspberry hues throughout the whole style from roots to ends.”

Both experts are quick to point out that this particular shade needs some extra TLC because red trends to fade much faster than other colors. “Make sure you use color safe products to prevent your hair from oxidizing,” says Brown. “Don’t take too-hot showers, the water should be as cool as you can take it so your hair doesn’t oxidize. Dry shampoo is your friend!”

In order to keep the color vibrant, Toth also recommends using an at home color depositing shampoo and conditioner (try Overtone). He also suggests going into your salon for a monthly gloss. “What I like about this is you can enjoy some of the color fade before it gets too aggressive, and while you’re in the salon, they can really richen up your roots with a single process as well,” he says.

If you’re looking to ease into red yourself, scroll on for some of our favorite ways to wear Raspberry Bourbon hair.

Bella Cacciatore is the beauty associate at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram @bellacacciatore_.





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Farsáli Liquid Glass Serum Is the Easiest Way to Get Glowing 'Glass Skin'


Farsáli is not a brand that’s particularly known for subtlety. You’ve likely seen their creations all over Instagram, dripping off hot pink Beautyblenders or lending their hypnotic sparkle to macro product shots. When the company famous for launching the aptly named Unicorn Essence came out with something called Liquid Glass serum, I had high expectations.

Liquid Glass is Farsáli’s interpretation of “glass skin”, which refers to the reflective, luminous, almost translucent complexion that’s the end goal of the 10-step Korean beauty routine. Founder Sal Ali used that as his initial inspiration, but wanted a single bottle that could replicate those effects. The result is another of Farsáli’s signature skin care-makeup hybrids—a formula designed to deeply moisturize your face while also imparting a mirror-like glow. The ingredients list reads like a how-to guide for retaining hydration: hyaluronic acid, plus watermelon rind, apple, and lentil fruit extracts.

In the bottle, though, that’s not what you’ll notice first. The $54 serum comes in the brand’s frosted glass vial, which includes a dropper for application. Even before you open it, you’ll see that what’s inside is extremely shimmery. The base is a silvery white hue, shot through with iridescent flecks of blue, pink, and purple. It’s colorful. It’s fun to swirl around. It’s also not exactly glassy, more the kind of thing that makes you think, “I’m going to be a disco ball after I use this.”

I can’t quite explain the mystery that happens between the product leaving the dropper and settling on my face, but somehow, that iridescence transforms as I pat it in. It doesn’t have the noticeably shimmery finish of similar liquid illuminators, nor does it impart the slick sheen of Vaseline or glass highlighter. Instead, it perceptibly plumps and refreshes my skin, giving it the illusion that it’s full of good health and radiating from within. It doesn’t matter if I haven’t slept in two days (which may or may not have happened in the photos below); a few drops later and you can’t even tell.

Ali tells me that that you can layer this on over moisturizer, mix it with your makeup and skin care, or try it as a topcoat on eyelids, lips, and cheekbones. I don’t care to wear foundation on a daily basis, so I simply dispense a tiny amount on my palms after applying my serums and creams and pat it on. If I’m especially sleep-deprived, I’ll apply a thin second coat on the high planes of my face as a highlighter substitute—I say highlighter, but really, it’s much subtler than that. Instead of a sheen or shimmer, it gives the impression that you just emerged from a full-service spa treatment before going to bed early. I rarely do either of those things, but at least now I look like I do.

The one thing Liquid Glass doesn’t quite accomplish is replacing my multistep routine. While I can appreciate the hydrating formula and lightweight feel, a small amount of this isn’t going to do away with my sleep masks, acid peels, toners, serums, essences, day creams, night creams, and SPFs anytime soon. But that’s okay—I like my daily skin care ritual to include 10 different products. Well, I guess now it’s 11.

Farsáli Liquid Glass, $54, farsali.com



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Salma Hayek: Harvey Weinstein Dismissed My Harassment Claims Because Women of Color Are 'the Easiest to Discredit'


In the wake of an explosive report in The New York Times outlining numerous sexual harassment and abuse allegations against film industry titan Harvey Weinstein, Salma Hayek wrote an op-ed for The Times in which she accused Weinstein of sexual harassment during the making of the 2002 film “Frida.” (Hayek starred as the title character.) She also said that Weinstein had threatened to kill her.

Weinstein’s lawyers denied the claims made by Hayek, stating: “All of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate and others who witnessed the events have a different account of what transpired.”

Weinstein’s team has been dismissive of other claims—for example, when actress Lupita Nyong’o came forward with sexual harassment allegations of her own against the Hollywood producer.

While the two incidents may have appeared to be isolated, at the Women In Motion panel at Cannes on Sunday, May 13, Hayek argued that Weinstein had been especially dismissive of allegations made by herself and Nyong’o because they are both women of color.

“We are the easiest to get discredited,” she said, according to Variety. “It is a well-known fact. So he went back, attacking the two women of color, in hopes that if he could discredit us.”

Hayek’s candidness surrounding Weinstein’s actions wasn’t the only form of protest exercised at the film festival this past weekend. On Saturday evening (May 12), 82 women, including Hayek, silently protested the significant gender imbalance present at Cannes. The 82 women in attendance were a symbolic representation of the 82 female directors who have screened at the festival since its first edition in 1946.

“On these steps today stand 82 women representing the number of female directors who have climbed these stairs since the first edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946,” actress Cate Blanchett, this year’s competition jury president, and Belgian film director Agnès Varda said in a joint statement. “In the same period 1,688 male directors have climbed these very same stairs. In the 71 years of this world-renowned festival there have been 12 female heads of its juries. The prestigious Palme d’Or has been bestowed upon 71 male directors—too numerous to mention by name—but only two women, Jane Campion, who is with us in spirit, and Agnès Varda, who stands with us today.”

While protests like this one, coupled with the rising resilience of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, are making some traction, Hayek warned in the Cannes panel against complacency in Hollywood and beyond: “Now is the time for action.”

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Pink Has the Easiest, Best Advice for Self-Critical Moms Everywhere


Pink‘s music has always carried the message of embracing your flaws and finding power in your imperfections, and the way she lives her personal life is no different. Pink and husband Corey Hart are the parents of 6-year-old Willow and 1-year-old Jameson Moon, and she seems totally upfront on social media about all the messiness and difficulty that comes with being a parent. As it turns out, she’s been an inspiration to at least one other mom out there, according to a message she posted on Twitter early Wednesday morning.

“A really sweet Mama came up 2me tonight at the grocery store and told me some nice words about how she gets strength from my parenting cause I’m not afraid to fuck up in public. We cried together. It’s so hard. Y’all. I wish us mamas could give ourselves and each other a break,” she wrote on Twitter.

The story has already gained more than 5,500 retweets and 63,000 likes, showing just how much this powerful message of patience and honesty resonates. Many Twitter users responded with similar stories of times when strangers publicly allowed for a little messiness from kids.

Pink’s Twitter also has a gem of advice for parents who want to help their kids deal with their emotions in a healthy way, too. She recently retweeted a video of a dad explaining to his daughter how to honor and move past bad feelings without holding on to them.

And just like parents need to be kind to kids and kind to themselves, they should also probably be kind to one another. Khloe Kardashian, pregnant for the first time, is already being mommy-shamed for working out, and her kid isn’t even born yet. Wouldn’t parenting be a little easier on everyone if we all trusted each other to be doing the best we can?

Looks like things are definitely working out for P!nk’s adorable family, at least:

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