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Yes, You Should Absolutely Have a Hot Girl Summer


When it comes to summer, people seem to divide into two camps: those who dread the heat, hibernating until September, and those of us who are right. We live for the shortened hemlines, the debauchery, the sweaty nights out spent talking to strangers. We are consumers of pizza-shaped pool floats and Instagram-photo-shoot enthusiasts. Some small part of us believes it’ll be hot and humid forever. And we have lived according to the “hot girl summer” constitution, long before it was ever given a name.

For the uninitiated, “hot girl summer” is the phrase that will soon appear below every single Instagram thirst trap on your feed. The definition is a little ambiguous, but here’s how Jordyn Woods used it in a sentence.

The concept can be traced back to Megan Thee Stallion, the Houston artist who’s known for rapping about subjects once reserved for men—sex, money, and confidence. She opened one of her most popular songs, “Cash Shit,” with the lyrics “real hot girl shit,” and she’s been known as “thee hot girl” ever since, a title she’s earned over and over. Take the cover of her recent album, Fever. Stallion is decked out in full leopard and almost engulfed in flames, looking like a mix between Jessica Rabbit and the baddest bitch in the wild, wild West. The text reads like a warning, “She’s thee hot girl and she’s bringing thee heat.”

Fans soon took Stallion’s title and turned into a humid, sweat-soaked rallying cry, and the idea of the hot girl summer was born. But much like 2018’s big dick energy (better known as BDE), which started with a tweet about Pete Davidson’s, well, D and quickly turned into a cultural phenomenon much greater than the comedian’s nether regions, hot girl summer is about more than Stallion. Because hot girl summer isn’t just cute Internet slang. It’s a lifestyle.

But how to explain hot girl summer? For starters, it’s useful to compare it to the aforementioned BDE. Not because the two are similar, but because they’re polar opposites. BDE is all about the casual confidence of being well-endowed. Think: that not quite hot but somehow oddly appealing dude who lived on your freshman hall, had off-beat taste in music, and still pulled a shocking number of girls. You saw his cute smirk, his swagger, and you just knew. That’s nice, but there’s nothing subtle about hot girl summer. Hot girl summer is all about oozing your hottest, loudest, most extra life—without apologies.

As Stallion put it to The Root, “It’s about women and men being unapologetically them, just having a good-ass time, hyping up their friends, doing you. You definitely have to be a person who can be the life of the party and just a bad bitch.”





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A Tabloid Called the Hadids’ Books ‘Hot Accessories‘ and People Have Thoughts


Every mundane happenstance in the lives of Gigi and Bella Hadid has become tabloid fodder at some point. Whether they’re leaving the house or wearing a thing, commentary on their movements and whereabouts is guaranteed. Recently, a tweet from a large publication about yet another average Hadid activity—carrying books, to be specific—is drawing eyes for the wrong reason.

Back at Fashion Week, both Hadid sisters were photographed carrying the books they’re currently reading. For Gigi, it’s Albert Camus’ French classic The Stranger. For Bella, it’s Stephen King’s thriller The Outsider. As a former English major and present-day book hoarder, I was excited to get a peek of what the Hadids are reading in their spare time, in case I could add them to my own reading list—and then I moved on.

Gigi Hadid, minding her own business and carrying a book.

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Bella Hadid carrying a book

Bella Hadid, also minding her own business and carrying a book.

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The New York Post, however, had other ideas about their handheld literature. In a tweet to a story about their outfits, the newspaper called out their paperbacks as the “hot new accessory of 2019.” The accompanying story went on to imply that the models coordinated their outfits to their books, because a model would prefer to carry her book instead of reading it.

Calling books a “hot new accessory” is wrong for, well, many reasons. Number one, books have been in circulation for literal centuries (look it up); “hot new” trends usually have an expiration date. Number two, calling their books out as accessories—ornamental and for show—somewhat implies that the Hadid sisters are more interested in the appearance of reading and less in the substance of reading itself. Even if you can appreciate how a nice book cover looks propped up next to a latte on Instagram, you have to admit that this language is a little absurd.

It might have been meant as a joke or a way to bring their reading choices into the conversation, but the tweet didn’t go over well. I wasn’t the only one who took notice and had questions—the reactions on Twitter were swift. Publishers like Scholastic Books and Little Brown Co, and social media users shared the same opinion on the matter: Books aren’t anything “new,” and designating them as an “accessory” because Gigi and Bella Hadid carried them is low-key condescending to both.

Trivializing women who happen to be successful and beautiful, and also enjoy immersing themselves in literature, also isn’t anything new. Take last winter for example, when Amber Heard shared a shocking story from her experience on the set of Aquaman. She enjoyed reading between takes while they were filming, until costar Jason Momoa would tear pages out of her books to get her attention. “He adopted this method of ripping out the pages of my book so I would pay attention to him,” Heard told ABC NEWs last year. “It would drive me crazy because I’d have 30 pages left and it would be gone.”

The Post has a history of designating normal and otherwise unremarkable things as “trends” just because they’re associated with women. (Remember when it tried to call cleavage a “movement” in 2017?) Whether Gigi and Bella Hadid had “stepped out” with their books or not, books are doing just fine without them. Print book sales actually rose 1.9 percent in 2018, according to Publisher’s Weekly. An endorsement from a celebrity from what to buy to how to vote never hurts—but in this case, that wasn’t the point.

So when a model leaves the house with a book in her hand, it’s not a “fashion moment.” It’s something they’re entitled to do like everyone else. Gigi and Bella, keep on keeping on with your books. Also, hit me up if you need a recommendation.

Halie LeSavage is the fashion associate at Glamour. Follow her @halielesavage and @haliereads.





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I Tried a No Hot Tools Hairstyle Challenge and Learned a Ton


As soon as I took my helmet off, I looked like I was shot out of a canon. It wasn’t as bad as it could have looked, but then again I also have low expectations. Most importantly, I survived zip-lining across the rainforest and didn’t manage to get eaten by an alligator. I’m winning.

Jessica Radloff

I get back to the resort and realize I need to wash my hair before dinner with the Herbal Essences team. The only problem is that I can’t dry my hair once I shower (darn rules). It’s also too wet for me to put it in a hair tie. So I’m going to have to go to dinner looking like a wet dog and dripping like a faucet. I didn’t think this part through.

This is where things start getting uncomfortable. Our dinner is outside on a veranda, and between the humidity in the air and my now-soaking wet clothes, I feel the opposite of presentable. Everyone thinks it’s kind of cute because they all know I’m doing a ‘challenge,’ but I feel like a fish out a water. Then, as my hair starts to dry, I want nothing more than to douse it with oil. Even with all the moisture in the air, it still feels dry. In fact, it feels so uncomfortable that I’m having trouble enjoying dinner because I can’t stop fidgeting with it.

I Tried a No Hot Tools Hairstyle Challenge and Learned a Ton
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A few hours later, it’s almost entirely dry, which wouldn’t be the case if I were back in Los Angeles. It would probably still be wet the next morning, but in this climate, it’s like I’ve gone through a car wash. Surprisingly, it doesn’t look bad—especially my bangs, which I for sure thought would curl under like Kerri Strug’s in the ’96 Olympics. If anything, the look is working for me, and I’m wondering what magic is in that new Herbal Essences Replenish White Charcoal Conditioner (besides, of course, the deep-cleaning charcoal).

Day 3: A Downpour of Epic Proportions

I Tried a No Hot Tools Hairstyle Challenge and Learned a Ton
Jessica Radlof

For weeks I had been scared to death about going to Costa Rica because of the mosquitos so bad “you’ll want to rip your skin off” (yes, a friend actually told me that). What she didn’t tell me was that if you go during the rainy season, they’re almost non-existent. So the good news is that I spent almost a week in the most bio-diverse place on earth and never once got bit. The “bad” news was that when it rained, it rained. Like monsoon-style.

But let’s get to the important part: my hair. It’s the morning after I washed it and did nothing else. It’s got a ton of body and definition, and I’m kind of digging it. The temps are also in the low 80s with modest humidity, so it’s pretty much resort weather at the resort.

After breakfast (where we learned that the brand’s new Bio:Renew formulas are eco-friendly), I sought out the help of hairstylist Bridget Brager to teach me all her heat-free hair secrets. Apparently braids are the answer, and I’m immediately out of comfort zone. But she says the style will keep my hair off my face (my problem from the night before), and then when I take the braids out the next day, it’ll give me the most incredible waves ever. So braids it is.

I Tried a No Hot Tools Hairstyle Challenge and Learned a Ton
Jessica Radloff

I won’t lie, they took some getting used to. But Bridget loosen them up some and pulled out a few wisps, so it didn’t look so severe. I can’t say I’d ever do this back in L.A., but you know what, if you’re not going to try something fun and different on a tropical island, then when else will you?

Day 4: Waves for Days

I Tried a No Hot Tools Hairstyle Challenge and Learned a Ton
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Ted Bundy Is Not Hot. He's a Serial Killer.


Ted Bundy, a serial killer, has somehow (from the grave!) landed himself a buzzy four-hour special, as well as his own full-length movie. Both will be on Netflix, offering different views of the same story: Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, available for streaming now, centers on what an evil genius Bundy was. The movie, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, isn’t out yet but will reportedly focus on his life with his partner Liz Kloepfer.

And thanks to the timing of both, Bundy is trending right now. If you google his name, though, you’ll notice the conversations about him are largely centered on women. Not his victims—as it should be—but on the people, past and present, who think he’s so hot.

Why is this the thing about Bundy we’re all talking about? And does anyone actually know one of these women? (I sure haven’t met any.) Apparently, it’s so common that Netflix had to remind us there are plenty of non-rape-y fish in the sea:

Thanks for the warning, but I want to believe that the majority of women don’t fancy guys who confess to brutally raping and murdering 30 women.

And so I’m calling bullshit on this whole “women want to sleep with a serial killer!” narrative, real or fictitious. This includes Netflix’s You, which has also reportedly seen a rise of women swooning over its murderous lead character.

Some women may have tweeted about their questionable attraction to Ted Bundy or Joe Goldberg, but there’s a bigger problem at play here: Hollywood’s relentless pursuit to explain, humanize, fetishize, and even glorify white men who like to hurt people—particularly women.

It’s not that I think stories involving murder or crime shouldn’t be told—though I am personally sick of seeing women stuffed into refrigerators or tortured by Quentin Tarantino. My issue is that men are still doing most of the telling, whether it be directing, writing, financing, or green-lighting the movies and series the world then consumes.

Matthew Bright, for example, is the person behind both Bundy projects. Considering how Bundy’s actions affected women, it would have been nice to see at least one be a female director’s take instead of a guy’s (the same one!). Maybe a woman would have handled the Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile trailer more thoughtfully, rather than cutting it with Zac Efron’s flirty smiles and winks over a “fun” soundtrack.

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In a recent interview, Bright said the criticism that he’s glorifying Bundy is a “naive and knee-jerk reaction.” To him, the backlash about the trailer is unfair because most people haven’t seen the movie yet. “I think telling filmmakers any subject is off limits is a very slippery slope that leads us to Trump declaring that the media is ‘fake news.’”

No one is saying he can’t tell Bundy’s story, but given the way he told the same story for the Netflix series, which is available, I’m not holding my breath that his film version is more thoughtful to Bundy’s victims. Bright could have chosen from a number of fascinating angles for Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, but the one he went with? A deep dive into how hot, smart, and “normal” everyone thought Bundy was.

The series interviews a few women, but it also gives a lot of attention to the women who supported Bundy, from his fans in the courtroom to the woman who accepted his marriage proposal during his murder trial, had his child, and even smuggled drugs for him while he was in prison. The rest of the story is told by men who go on and on about how clever and handsome this boy next door was. “He’s one of us,” one says. Another compares Bundy’s need to torture women to a child who’d been denied candy. Even the Mormon Church chimes in about his commitment to the church. To top if all off, we hear Bundy’s side of the story straight from the horse’s mouth.



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Chloe Kim Talks Korean Beauty, Hot Cheetos, and Soap-Cutting Videos


At 18 years old, Chloe Kim has one hell of a résumé. She’s the youngest woman ever to win an Olympic snowboarding medal (and a gold one at that), one of 2018’s Most Influential People, and the world’s coolest teen, if Twitter has anything to say about it. She can also slay a cat eye and talk skin care like it’s nobody’s business. Which is why it should come as no surprise that Korean Beauty brand Laniege tapped her as an ambassador.

We caught up with Kim before she sets out for another season of training—and possibly Princeton, NBD—to have her answer all our Big Beauty Questions. Hot Cheetos may or may not have come up.

Glamour: Your skin probably takes a beating out on the slopes all day. What do you use to fix it?

Chloe Kim: I’m obsessed with K-Beauty. I use Laneige’s Lip Sleeping Mask as a lip balm—I can’t remember the last time I’ve bought normal chapstick. It goes with me everywhere. And for the rest of my face, my other two go-tos are the Water Bank Essence and the Water Bank Sleeping Mask. I use the essence before I put on makeup and at night after I wash my face, while the mask is perfect whenever I’m feeling really dry. My skin looks totally revived the next day.

Glamour: What’s one beauty trend you wish you’d never tried?

CK: Oh my gosh, thin eyebrows. My friend had really pretty thin ones. I tried to copy hers, but I ended up plucking them on top and not from the bottom, so I completely lost my arch. I had two really sad, diagonal-looking eyebrows.

Glamour: What’d you do to grow them back? They look great now.

CK: I prayed. [Laughs]

Glamour: What’s one beauty rule you swear by?

CK: Moisturizing. All the time.

Glamour: What’s one beauty rule you think is bullshit?

CK: Primer. I don’t get it. Eye primer makes sense to me, but face primer…I don’t know. I swear it doesn’t actually do anything.

Glamour: Fill in the blank, I love my hair…

CK: Not crazy. Sometimes if I sleep with wet hair, I’ll just have a rats nest in the back that I can’t get out, and the only way to fix it is to shower again. It’s the worst. So now if I shower at night, I’ll braid my hair so it doesn’t wrap against the sheets when I sleep. But sometimes when I forgot or I don’t have hair ties, I just can’t deal. It’s too much.

Glamour: Your house is burning down! What are the three products you grab?

CK: My curling iron, my essence, and highlighter. My friend just gave me this highlighter she had custom-made in some random country. It doesn’t even have a label on it but it’s so pretty. It’s like a cream compact that you dab your Beautyblender into and put on your cheekbones. I’ll have to ask her where she got it. I’m obsessed.

Glamour: What color are you loving on your nails right now?

CK: I got my first set of acrylics done a couple months ago, and I love them. It was like a white French tip with sparkles and roses on them. So right now I don’t really want my nails done unless they’re acrylics and long. They’re coming back—the claws are out.

Glamour: What’s your go-to getting ready music?

CK: I love Post Malone. When he’s in his feels, he’s the best. Stay is such a good song. And I love Billie Eilish. I’m into more mellow music typically, but when I’m snowboarding I’ll listen to hard rap. Playboi Carti is everything.

Glamour: How much time do you spend getting ready?

CK: It depends. If I have a hot date and I want to be fully beat, it probably takes me around 45 minutes to an hour. But if I’m just going out for whatever, with these lash extensions I only need 10 minutes.

Glamour: Where do you get your lashes done?

CK: It’s this new place in Santa Ana called My Lash Studio. Their lashes are fake mink, so they’re not hurting a little baby animal out there. They look so natural and fluffy, and they’re so light. I didn’t know how good they were until I got extensions done while I was traveling. My eyes were drooping because they were so heavy.

Glamour: What’s your favorite way to take a moment for yourself?

CK: I like to lay in bed and do nothing. If I have food and RuPaul’s Drag Race is on, even better.

Glamour: Screw, marry, kill: mascara, lipstick, highlighter.

CK: Kill mascara because I don’t need it anymore. Screw lipstick—I’m all about that lip mask and it gives my lips a tint anyway. Which leaves me with marry highlighter—my mystery one!

Glamour: What’s the last Internet rabbit hole you went down?

CK: You can’t judge me.

Glamour: Never.

CK: Soap cutting videos.

Glamour: Soap…what?!

CK: I found them on Instagram. Here, you have to listen to it. [Pulls up the following video…]

Doesn’t that sound so good?

Glamour: What’s your favorite emoji?

CK: The rose ?. If I don’t have a caption for my Instagram? Rose emoji. If you want a conversation to just be over and bye? Rose emoji. I use it to get myself out of any situation.

Glamour: You’ve got $20 and free roam of a drugstore. What do you buy?

CK: Waffles.

Glamour: $20 worth of waffles?

CK: And Hot Cheetos.

Glamour: You probably have, what, 10 bucks left?

CK: No, definitely $15…oh! In New Zealand, I bought the best charcoal peel-off mask for your pores. So I’d probably buy one of those. And then hair ties—I always need them.

Glamour: If you could change one thing about beauty perceptions, what would it be?

CK: I feel like girls always try to cover up their “flaws” with all this makeup, but you need to own it. I have a scar on my face that I used to be so insecure about. I got scratched by a dog when I was nine. It starts right under my eye and goes all the way down my cheek. That’s what made me want to start wearing makeup in the first place. But once I started to flaunt it more, everyone was like, “That scar is so cool. Where’d you get it from?” Don’t be scared of what makes you you.

Glamour: Who are the women inspiring you the most right now?

Zendaya. She’s a queen. She always makes bold statements and doesn’t really care what other people think. I think it’s so dope that women are using their voices and putting themselves out there. Like, “I feel strongly about this, and thats how its going to be—deal with it.”





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Rihanna Looks Like an Actual Barbie in This Ruffled Hot Pink Gown


All weeks are probably good when you’re Rihanna, but this past one especially has been something. The singer/beauty mogul/designer showed her debut Savage x Fenty lingerie show at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday, and promptly followed up the iconic event with another one: her fourth annual Diamond Ball on Thursday, for which she wore an incredible lace catsuit. But this is Rihanna, so even that doesn’t justify an evening crashed on the couch with Netflix: On Friday, she rightfully celebrated the one-year anniversary of her Fenty cosmetics line, which has in a very short time brought a wave of change to the beauty industry.

She teased the magnificent dress we’re about to talk about—because it needs to be talked about—on her way to Fenty’s birthday celebration, held at a JCPenney Sephora location in Brooklyn. How else but with a few Instagram stories?

RiRi stepped out at the event in a strapless Calvin Klein by Appointment gown with major nineties vibes—and a boatload of ruffles cascading along the dress’s hemlines and thigh-high slit. But as remarkable as the dress’s construction was, it was the color that stood out: an eye-popping fuchsia that doesn’t look all that dissimilar from Fenty’s Starlit Hyper-Glitz Lipstick in Gravity. Check it out, below—and the pointy hot-pink heels she pairs with it like a boss:

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

Although we can’t be sure that this bespoke dress was inspired by that lipstick (or that it wasn’t) it was just as extra as you’d expect for a birthday party at Sephora. Note the Fenty kabuki brush chair and life-sized Diamond Bomb mirror, below:

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Fenty Beauty

Her fans, obviously, loved it too:

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

We’re already saving the date for the 21st birthday. Rihanna, don’t forget our invite.

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