The first thing you notice is the lips. No, the eyes. Well, not so much the eyes themselves, but the eye region: the plump cheeks, the bold brow, and the plumed lashes offset by all that dewy, sculpted skin. Maybe you see beauty. Maybe you see artifice. Maybe you want some of it anyway. The…
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Few things bring more joy than a bottle of whipped cream. The sugary coating it leaves in your mouth? The fun of watching it puff out of the bottle into a white, airy cloud? But one of the unfortunate things about being an adult is that you can’t exactly indulge in that experience every day.…
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This isn’t something we say often, but blush is almost too basic to be fun. Take a beaten-up brush that’s seen better days, grab an inoffensive shade of pink, and swipe it across the apples of your cheeks. You look a few degrees more alive, and you’re done. If that sounds familiar, well, the sorry…
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Salicylic acid, retinol, charcoal—people who have acne like myself can rattle off a laundry list of ingredients that are formulated to prevent and treat pimples. I’ve not only memorized them, I’ve tried them all. And after almost a decade of testing, I like to think my anti-blemish regimen is a finely tuned machine. One of…
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Embarrassing confession: It took me a solid two decades to come up with a bedtime face washing routine that I actually stick to every night. During my teen years, I didn’t wear a lot of makeup, and for some reason I thought that excused me from nightly cleansing on the regular. (This may or may…
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It’s hard to remember, but it really wasn’t all that long ago that Sephora sales were a rare thing. Before the retailer kicked off its Weekly Wow series featuring regular 50%-off discounts, you had to rummage through pages of sales sections or drop cash so you could trade in VIB points. Still, the words free…
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