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Lucy Hale's Favorite Leggings Are $98 and ‘Feel Like Pajamas’


Lucy Hale is feeling really lucky these days. Unlike many other series, Hale’s CW show Katy Keene wrapped filming its first season in New York City before the coronavirus pandemic hit. (Doesn’t that feel like a lifetime ago?) “So many shows are on hold right now, and the state of them is unknown,” Hale says from her home in Los Angeles, where she’s quarantining with her dog, Elvis. So in these times of uncertainty, she’s happy that her fashion-forward, music-filled dramedy can provide some reprieve for viewers who are feeling fatigue with the constant stream of bad news. “I feel like more people are watching it now because they need an escape. It’s the polar opposite of what’s happening.”

So while Hale entertains us, what’s entertaining her? Well, let’s just say her skincare routine and Postmates habit are keeping her plenty occupied.

My fave dish to cook at home

I’m not much of a chef, but my favorite meal in general—and my favorite meal to cook—is bolognese. My friend has a secret family recipe, which includes one really bizarre ingredient that you’d never expect. I can’t share it—she’d kill me—but I made it last week and was pretty proud of myself. This is actually the only meal I’ve cooked since all of this started. You’d think I’d be cooking a lot, but I’m keeping Postmates in business.

The best book I’ve read recently

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. I’m in the middle of it right now, and it’s absolutely beautiful.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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My go-to app

Outside of Instagram, which we all love, there’s an app called The Pattern. It’s astrology-based but also focuses on the phases of the world. I’m big into spirituality and energy. The Pattern has daily updates for you and shows what’s going on in the world. The accuracy is insane—it’s almost creepy at times.

The fashion trend from the early 2000s that I miss the most

I was really into Limited Too. Remember those tiny little shirts that would stretch out? I was really into those, stretchy chokers, butterfly clips, and anything sparkly and bright.

Butterfly Hair Clip Set

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The reality show I can’t stop watching

At the moment, it’s Love Is Blind, along with everyone else in the world. It’s just so ridiculous; I sit there in awe. I haven’t finished it yet—I’ve started ten shows these days. I need to finish them and quit starting new ones.

My fave feel-good song

The new Dua Lipa album is really amazing. Every song on it makes me happy. There’s a song on there called “Cool” that’s really good, but the whole album gives me good feelings.

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The fragrance I always use

Molecule—it’s unisex and smells a little bit different on everyone because it mixes with your pheromones. It’s the one I always get compliments on, so I always go back to it. I’ve been wearing it for the last few years. It’s my go-to.

Escentric Molecules Molecule 01

Bloomingdale’s

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The hands-down best leggings

I have these black, cotton Lululemon leggings that are incredible. They feel like pajamas.

Lululemon Align Pant 28″

Lululemon

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The last thing I bought

I’ve been going crazy on Amazon and just bought a skincare fridge! It’s a mini fridge that stays in the bathroom, and it’s where I keep my face masks. I’m losing my mind and am just buying things I don’t need.

Cooluli Mini Fridge Electric Cooler and Warmer

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The self-care products I’m using

I love a good sheet mask. Every morning, I wake up, make myself a cup of coffee, and I put on a sheet mask, even though I have nowhere to go and no one to see. It makes me feel normal. I love the 111SKIN masks. They are amazing. I found out about them from Amazon—it’s where I hear about everything. [Laughs]

111Skin Bio Cellulose Facial Treatment Mask

Dermstore

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The beauty tip I swear by

On Katy Keene, we would put jade rollers in the fridge, and every morning, we would detox our face with them. It feels like putting ice cubes on your face. We also kept eye patches in the fridge. You better believe mine are in my mini fridge now. I don’t know how I ever lived without it.

Herbivore Jade Roller

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Cooluli Mini Fridge Electric Cooler and Warmer

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My fave item of clothing

My white high top Converse sneakers and my Memphis Tigers sweatshirt. I’m from Memphis, and I forget who the sweatshirt belonged to in my family, but it’s mine now.

Converse High Top Sneaker

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University of Memphis Tigers Hoodie Sweatshirt

Homefield

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The best color to wear

Black. Definitely black.

My all-time favorite sneakers

Aside from Converse, Golden Goose. I have a couple of pairs with leopard print and silver stars. They’re really cute.

Golden Goose Superstar Leopard Low-Top Sneakers

Intermix

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Golden Goose Superstar Sneaker

Shopbop

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My movie snack of choice

Popcorn, but with ranch seasoning. I usually bring Hidden Valley ranch seasoning packets in my pockets. My friends think I’m crazy that I love ranch so much. It’s the Southern in me.

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Hidden Valley Original Ranch Seasoning

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The jeans I love best

Right now, it’s the Levi’s Wedgies. I’m short, and they fit my body proportions well. They look good on everyone.

Levi’s Wedgie Icon in Black Desert

Revolve

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Levi’s Wedgie Ripped Straight-Leg Jeans

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My favorite workout

SoulCycle. I like spinning a lot and really miss it. I have a Peloton treadmill, so I’ve been taking different classes on that and it’s been getting me by.

The romantic comedy I always watch

There are so many, but probably How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days. I love the chemistry between Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It’s one that I keep going back to and I feel really nostalgic when I watch it.

Lucy Hale’s show, Katy Keene, airs on Thursdays at 8 P.M. ET on The CW.



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How Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Reportedly Feel About Each Other 8 Months After Their Breakup


It feels like it’s been about 20 years since Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth announced they were splitting up after just eight months of marriage (and many years together). In reality, that was just in August 2019, and the couple only finalized their divorce in January.

Since that time, both stars have moved on to new relationships. Hemsworth is reportedly dating model Gabriella Brooks, and Cyrus is currently self-isolating with boyfriend Cody Simpson after a brief relationship last summer with Kaitlynn Carter.

A source recently talked to Entertainment Tonight about how Cyrus currently feels about her ex-husband, and it seems like it’s all good vibes. “She knows how important love and marriage are for him [Hemsworth], but she just needed her independence,” the source said. “Miley and Liam have moved on and it seems they’re both where they most want to be in life.”

The source continued, “Miley has moved on; she feels free. She is happy and dating Cody at the moment with no pressure to marry. Miley and Cody are staying home and social distancing together. She keeps saying this has been the best thing for her.”

According to the source who spoke to ET, Hemsworth is doing just fine, too. “Liam loved Miley so much but in the back of his mind, he always knew a life with her would prove difficult because she never seemed ready to settle down,” they said. “Liam wanted a marriage and family.”

The source added, “While Liam’s family has been a huge support since the breakup with Miley, it was Gabriella who made him realize there is life after Miley. Gabriella is quiet, low key. She loves to be alone with Liam and isn’t seeking attention from others.”

This sounds very much like an all’s well that ends well situation, and we’re just happy if Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are, too.



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I Drink Seltzer to Feel Alive


I am susceptible to trends. I get dressed, thinking I am carefully attuned to the soft voice of my own internal style, and then look into the mirror and see a crumpled copy of an Instagram influencer, circa 18 months ago. I like vitamins and juices. I am receptive to the idea that owning certain things will make me feel better. I believe I am one Tupperware purchase away from tripping the wire that sets off daily gym visits and predawn wake-ups and leaps up the corporate ladder. Even now, as we speak, I am the owner of multiple $18 lip balms.

My possessions and I keep up a quiet, often unsatisfying relationship. I buy things, hoping they will act like psychiatric drugs crossed with religious epiphanies, and they pile up in my apartment like what they are—elegantly packaged plastic. I seek the better-living-through-careful-capitalism that the age of online reviews offers. I get melted candles and sooty charcoal drinks.

There’s only one product I’ve found that costs very little and makes me feel that goop-y, goodly nirvana, that delivers on the inane belief that I am “clean” and, well, that gives me a feeling of both crackling pleasure and puritanism—seltzer.

Violently carbonated water, more than life events or human touch, makes me feel something. It’s a feeling I chased after for a long time—that thing other women seem to get when they come home from work and put on sweats and pull their hair back and drink a glass of wine. I don’t like the taste of wine. But I wanted that feeling.

So I went through a period when I applied a single-use Korean face mask every night. I could not be comfortable until I was in my room alone, looking like a child in a ghost costume on a rainy Halloween. My roommates got used to seeing me coming around a corner and managed not to scream. But the experience didn’t bring me the sense of contentment I was after. It didn’t soothe me.

Still, I wanted to feel better. I wanted to feel good. I wanted that placid, pleasure-laden experience that I’d seen in the movies, often depicted between glasses of wine and the erotic exhale: “That was a day!” But I have never met a drug or an alcohol that felt just right to me, so instead I spent roughly the cost of an econ major’s textbooks on CBD products—gummies, mints, tinctures, and sodas. The business of CBD seemed healthful and kind. Mere conversations with CBD salespeople felt like sinking into a suede beanbag chair. I read that CBD would make me feel calm but not drugged. I just wanted to come home, light a candle, and consume $24 worth of CBD. I do believe that CBD works for many people, but it did not work for me. I had to admit that I was essentially in a seedy folktale of my own creation, trading money for beans.

I had set out to eat or drink or smoke or slather on something that would make me feel luxurious but not extravagant. That thing turned out to be carbonated water from a can. Seltzer, like everything else I like, was brusquely inserted into my life by ad campaigns and influencers who made me think it was my idea. Even though I grew up with a mother who housed liters of Pellegrino the way addicts chain-smoke cigarettes, I started liking seltzer at the same time everyone else did—in 2016, when a drop in soda popularity encouraged seltzer brands to campaign aggressively for the millennial dollar. The Midwestern seltzer brand La Croix became explosively popular, and cans of it came to signify minute, tasteful indulgence. Even in New York City, a can of La Croix from a 12-pack cost 50 cents at most. I started drinking three a day.



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What Does An Orgasm Feel Like? A Neuroscientist Explains


For all the time our society spends talking about sex, many women are still asking themselves this question: What does an orgasm feel like?

As a certified sex therapist turned neuroscientist, I get asked about orgasms a lot. In my new column for Glamour, I’m here to address your pressing questions about sex, love, and pleasure. With over three decades of experience studying the science of pleasure, I can say without a doubt that the ability to experience potent and satisfying pleasures like orgasm isn’t a luxury—female pleasure is a necessity for our health and wellbeing (something I talk about in much more detail in my new book Why Good Sex Matters out later this month).

The female orgasm is a fantastic thing: it can be triggered by stimulating the clitoris, vagina, nipples, cervix, or an out-of-this-world combination of all of the above. Here what you need to know about what an orgasm feels like, and how to prioritize having more of them.

For starters, what is an orgasm?

Although there’ve been many attempts to define and describe the elusive experience of the “big O,” my favorite, and simplest of all, was coined by Charles Kinsey, a pioneer in the study of human sexuality. In scientist speak, he nailed it: “The expulsive discharge of neuromuscular tensions at the peak of the sexual response.”

Here’s how that breaks down: “Neuro” refers to the nerves of the body and neurons of the brain, “muscular” refers to muscles, and explosive discharge, well, speaks for itself. An orgasm is an intensely pleasurable response to sexual stimulation.

Having one doesn’t necessarily involve the genitals. Case in point: “nipplegasms.” There are even some talented individuals who appear able to experience a “thought” or “imagery”-induced orgasm, without any physical stimulation at all. Lucky them.

My research has demonstrated that the “big O “is indeed a “big brain” event, increasing blood flow to a range of brain regions, which is good for brain health. In fact, having an orgasm may be better for your brain than doing crossword puzzles—not to mention, much more fun.

What should an orgasm feel like?

A study done back in the 1970s asked male and female college students to describe how their orgasms felt. Most of the descriptions involved a pleasurable release of built-up tensions, experienced as an explosion of sensation, sometimes bordering on the ecstatic, and finally a wave of warmth, peace, and relaxation.

The truth is, orgasms exist on a spectrum: There are orgasms, and then there are ORGASMS! Some are pleasant, but not earth-shattering, and others are screaming-laughing-crying episodes of pure ecstasy. Both are important and valid.

I tend to discourage people from “shoulding” on themselves or their experiences. When we evaluate how things should feel or how they should be, we take ourselves away from the experience. My book, Why Good Sex Matters is not entitled Why Great Sex Matters for an important reason; when we start evaluating our erotic lives, chasing and seeking great sex or super or multiple orgasms, we miss the point, likely sabotaging our own capacity for pleasure. Good sex involves being present to the experience we are having. And a good orgasm is any orgasm that comes along.

What is the difference between the female orgasm and the male orgasm?

One big difference is that males have a refractory period after orgasm, which shuts down the sex party, at least for a while. Females are not wired that way—women are capable of experiencing multiple orgasms during sexual activity. In a recent study using a nationally representative sample of 1005 women, a whopping 47% of women reported having multiple orgasms.



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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Reportedly Feel They're Being ‘Driven Out’ of the Royal Family


Meghan Markle and Prince Harry‘s decision to “step down” from their roles as senior royals sent shockwaves around the world—and inside the royal family itself.

On January 8, the couple made the announcement on their @SussexRoyal Instagram page. “After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution. We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” they wrote.

Journalist Tom Bradby, who filmed the Sussex’s documentary in Africa, says there are a lot of hurt feelings involved with this situation. “There’ve been a lot of fallouts; a lot of harsh things were said around the time of the wedding,” he told People. “And it’s gone a bit too far. And certainly the rest of the family find Harry and Meghan very difficult and, from Harry and Meghan’s point of view, they’re just being driven out as they see it. And it’s sad.”

“There are going to be so many complications, so many controversies,” he continued. “There needs to be a peace deal really soon because this is so toxic, there’s so much anger and, to be honest with you at the moment it looks like it might get worse, not better.”

Bradby also gave some insight into why Markle and Harry’s announcement might have been released when it was. “Harry has been talking to his family for some weeks about all this,” he said. “And certainly as I understand it what happened is he was asked by members of his family—or at least their officials—to put some of these ideas in writing. He said, ‘I really don’t want to do that because it normally leaks.’ And they were very insistent in order to go forward and discuss it properly it had to be put in writing. He did put it in writing, and it did leak. So yes, I don’t think [the royal family] got much heads-up as to the actual announcement, but they certainly knew what was going on. I think [Harry] felt once it had been leaked all bets were off.”

He also explained that he thinks the duke and duchess have a philosophical approach to their future, but understand that they won’t necessarily have the final say in how this plays out. “They’re philosophical as in it’s up to [the royal family]—protection, Frogmore, everything else, the titles,” Bradby said. “You want to take it all away, fine. That’s okay. But it’s sort of up to you. We’d like to be involved, we’d like to do our charities, we’d like to support the Queen and we’d like to do stuff through the Commonwealth, but we accept that we’ve got no right to do that anymore.”

Needless to say, this is all very complicated. But reports say the queen wants a solution found quickly, so we may have some more answers about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s situation soon.





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Shawn Johnson: ‘My C-Section Made Me Feel Like A Failure As a Mom’


Four-time Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson East—like so many women—has incredibly high expectations of herself. So when the delivery of her daughter Drew Hazel didn’t go as she’d planned, she felt like she’d failed in her first moments of motherhood. “I went in with such a stubborn mindset of thinking the only way I could bring our baby into the world was naturally. No meds no intervention. At 14 hours when I chose to get an epidural, I felt guilty. At 22 hours when we were told I had to get a C-section, I felt like I had failed,” she wrote on Instagram. Here, Johnson East opens up to Glamour about the complicated world of social media moms, wrestling with mom guilt, and what it means to be a strong mother.

As an athlete, I had one mentality: you have to be strong, not weak. I was never one to take pain medication, worried it might affect my performance or somehow make me less of an elite athlete. Fast forward to motherhood, and those same attitudes applied. I muscled through the aches and pains of pregnancy, never wanting to be ‘that complaining pregnant woman,’ and planned to have a natural birth—it was my body against the pain. It was my first real mom decision and I felt like the safest option for my baby was going natural. That’s what I thought it meant to be a strong mother.

Things did not go as planned. Fourteen hours into labor, I asked for an epidural. By 22 hours, I was being taken for a C-section.

It my first wave of mom guilt. I felt like I’d caved, like I was selfish for getting the epidural. I wondered, Am I already making a poor decision for my child? I felt guilty, like I wasn’t doing this for my daughter but as a selfish reaction to the pain. And when doctors told me I’d need a C-section, I felt like this beautiful dream I’d had as a first-time mom to do the best thing for my child had failed. I know that C-sections are relatively safe procedures—safer than delivering vaginally in some cases—but I couldn’t stop thinking, What if something goes wrong because I selfishly decided to do this? I felt like I had failed her already.

There’s so much pressure on moms to be perfect. We tell moms that they have to be perfect otherwise they’re going to scar their child, raise them the wrong way, and leave them with issues that will be all mom’s fault. Sometimes it feels like no matter what decision you make, it’s the wrong one. In the hospital, I had this painful doubt: Am I already doing something wrong for my baby?

People on social media have a lot to say about this. We all know the mommy shamers—I’ve already been asked how dare I not breastfeed—people with such passionate opinions and an appetite for confrontation. It can breed a very negative mindset that you’re doing everything wrong for your child. But there’s another side to social media that offers so much support and makes moms not some idealized figures but human.

I know this from personal experience. Three years ago, my husband and I shared our miscarriage on social media—it was such a random leap of faith but opening up about that pain was really the only thing that got me through it. Thousands of women reached out with their own stories and it showed me a whole community that I didn’t really see before. It made me feel so much less alone.

After 22 hours of labor ending in a C-section, our daughter Drew Hazel East was born happy and healthy. After we brought her home, I thought about how healing it felt to share my miscarriage and decided to open up about feeling like a failure for having a C-section. I still had doubts about the whole thing—Should I feel guilty? Did I do the right thing? Seeing messages like “I went through the same thing and I felt the same way,” was so reassuring. I stopped feeling like a failure as a mom and felt human again.

When we’d shared our miscarriage story, I felt this frustration: Why aren’t these feelings of insecurity and shame talked about more? Why do women feel like they have to keep it hidden? I think the same thing goes for having a kid—people make every topic so dramatic, so controversial, and so political. You’re a natural birth mom or an elective C-section mom. A breastfeeding mom or a formula mom. A stay-at-home mom or a working mom. There are so many topics that just alienate you from the world immediately.

I think that’s the wrong approach. The moment I got to hold my daughter for the first time, I literally could have laughed at myself and everything that I cared about before that moment. For me to have cared so much about what it would mean if I had an epidural was crazy—I’d brought my daughter into the world happy and healthy. And that was all that mattered in my first moments as a mom.

Now I think being strong as a mom is learning how to go with the flow. You can have your plans and you can have your preferences about what’s best, but at the end of the day it’s about you and your child figuring things out together. Being strong as a mom isn’t sticking to a plan, it’s figuring it out and wrestling through it. It’s about being able to hold your baby and say, “Okay, we made it one step closer to whatever the goal is.” And being okay with however you get there.

Shawn Johnson East is an Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, YouTuber and mom. Follow her at @shawnjohnson.





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