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Broadway Star Elizabeth Stanley’s Indulgences Include Nine Hours of Sleep and Blackout Shades


I sleep with a humidifier to keep as much moisture in the air as possible—especially with the New York City radiator heat, it gets really dry, which is hard on my voice. I get nervous about humidifiers because of mold and things like that. I try to be good about cleaning it, but I don’t invest in really, really fancy ones because I get new ones every year or so—I just buy, like, the Vick’s one that’s available at Duane Reade, or one you can kind of find cheaply on Amazon.

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Midnight Snack

I do tend to have a strange eating pattern because of working at night. I love popcorn. I’ll often pop it on the stove myself with coconut oil, and I love putting the Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel seasoning on it. I love Hippeas, the chickpea snack; I love the cheddar Hippeas. I really love, like, a rosemary flatbread cracker with a soft cheese.

Old-School Skin Care

I’m old-school in that I love a hot washcloth—there’s something about the hot steam of it that makes me feel like my face is actually really getting clean, rather than just splashing water in my face. Feeling like I can actually wipe away the dirt? I love it. I’ve been a fan of Origins face products for years—I should be their spokesperson, because everything I use is from Origins! Lately I’ve been into the Original Skin Cleansing Makeup Removing Jelly because it’s really gentle. My skin tends to be dry, and that’s really not drying. And then I really love the High-Potency Night-a-Mins Resurfacing Cream. I also love Weleda Skin Food; sometimes I’ll put that on too.

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I don’t do any serums. I feel like I should, but I don’t. Sometimes I will use an oil, the Night-a-Mins oil. For me it’s all about getting the hydration, and then getting eye cream. The eye cream I use is also Origins—Planstcription, I think.

Flossing, as a Lifestyle

I floss, and then I brush, and then I use mouthwash. I always have flossed. My mom has always been like, “You gotta floss!” since I was tiny. It’s a weird thing that’s not hard for me to do because I started doing it so young, I think. I love Glide floss. It doesn’t snap, it doesn’t get caught! It’s really good. Again, super basic—I love green Listerine! And for toothpaste I’m a Colgate paste fan. I usually do that right before I fall into bed.

Sleep It Off

I usually need nine hours of sleep, which I know is really indulgent! But I’ve just found that I’m the type of person who needs a lot of sleep. When I’m doing the show, I try to go to bed around midnight and then get up around nine. But when I’m not doing the show I go to bed at around 11 p.m. and get up at 7 or 8—I’m more like a waking-up-with-the-sun kind of person.

Screen Time

My phone is tempting, of course. When I’m really being the best version of myself, taking the best care of myself, I use a battery-powered alarm clock and I try not to look at my phone in the 30 minutes before I go to bed, or in the first 30 minutes after I’m awake. I’m an early riser, so it’s better for me to go to bed sooner, but my fiancé is actually on the opposite schedule from me—he could stay up all night and be happy about it. We’ve found a happy medium, and we’ve been slowly making our way through The West Wing, which is his favorite show. He was like, “You must see it.” Sometimes the curtain is at 7 p.m. rather than 8, so if I get home kind of early and there’s not a long stage-door line after the show, then I’ll indulge and I’ll have my cup of tea while we watch that.

In the Bedroom

We just got a Saatva mattress, and we love it! It’s the one sad thing about this escape, that we’re like, “We miss our mattress.” I’m really a fan of 100% cotton sheets, I don’t care if they’re linen or just a really nice thread count, but I love natural-fiber sheets. I like it to feel cool and crisp. We have a king-size bed, which feels crazy in a small New York apartment but has been really awesome for helping us to be able to both have a good night’s sleep. Neither of us is a super petite person—my fiancé is really tall and really broad-shouldered, so he needs room to be able to spread out. A big bed has been an amazing luxury for us that’s been really helpful. Also, he was used to just sleeping with a duvet and I’m very into having a sheet—there were things like that that we’ve had to learn to accommodate one another on. He’s coming around on the sheet!

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When the Lights Go Down

We have blackout shades—it was like a hilarious thing in our relationship. He was like, “We have to get the ones where you have the remote and you just press it, and it comes down,” which are a bajillion times more expensive than ones you just walk over and do yourself. But I was like, “Okay! If that’s like a priority for you, okay!”

It has actually been this amazing indulgence, because we have a very small apartment, but it has high ceilings, and I would not have been able to just reach up and pull them down. We have a little button that you press and then the room just becomes this great cocoon. Especially since I am someone who wakes up with the sun easily, if I’m working really late at night and I have to be able to sleep in, the blackout shades are really helpful.

Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.





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Bachelor in Paradise Season 5, Episode 8 Recap: Three Hours of Nonstop Drama


Tonight’s Bachelor in Paradise was a full—and I mean FULL—three hours of nonstop ups and downs. So let’s get right into it, shall we? Spoilers ahead.

We pick up where we left off last week: Everyone is shook that Eric agreed to go on a date with…um, I want to say Cassandra? [Pauses to Google.] Yes, Cassandra! It’s especially throwing the women in paradise off because he seemed so into Angela—to them, this is proof things in their own relationships can change. Tia, however, is the only one not worried. She and Colton are 100-percent on the same page. Well, in her mind that is…because Colton tells Kevin he’s just going through the motions with Tia: “I can’t sit around on a beach anymore and look at her everyday and know that there’s not a future.”

Colton then breaks up with Tia, claiming, “I gave it my all.” (Did you, though?) They cry in each other’s arms and both decide to leave paradise. I’d say more—but, honestly, we’ve spent enough time on Tia and Colton’s relationship, or lack thereof, this season. We’re all ready to move on.

Of course, this split does not help the vibe in the house. People are feeling even more uncertain, especially Jenna who buries herself under a comically large beach pillow to cry. Jordan comes over to comfort her and, shock, does a decent job! He doesn’t minimize her feelings; instead, he says “it’s OK to be emotional.” Good job, Jordan.

One person not stressed about Colton and Tia? John, who was taking a long nap when all of this went down. “Really? You can do that?” he asks Jordan, who broke the news to him. “What the hell.”

But back to the drama that started this all: Eric’s date with Cassandra. When they return, Cassandra describes the date simply as, “We were in a parade. It was cool.” It’s a testament to how much and yet how little happens in paradise that nobody had any follow-up questions to this. In fact, they change the subject. Imagine if your roommate came home and said her date involved leading a full parade. Would you not need a lot more details?

Maybe nobody had follow-up questions because they’re upset that Eric waited—in their opinion—too long to speak to Angela upon his return. He does eventually pull her aside, though, and she tells him her feelings were hurt because he said he was “all in” but then went on a date. Eric’s defense is that he woke up that morning with “a lot of question marks” about their relationship. “I don’t see how eight hours of sleep makes a difference,” Angela replies. But Eric turns it on her, claiming he felt like she was never as “all in” as he was. (Being “all in” is going on a date with someone else? OK.) He wants to pursue things with Cassandra now.

[Drink every time someone says “all in” this episode. Except don’t, because you’d be extremely drunk.]

This conversation doesn’t go over so well with Angela, and she responds by pulling Cassandra aside to share her side of the story. She repeats “all in” 100 times until Cassandra agrees this is “a red flag” from Eric. She doesn’t really want to side with Angela or Eric, so she tells him she’s over all of this and would like to remove herself from the narrative.

Meanwhile, Astrid also felt rocked by Tia and Colton’s breakup. She shares her concerns with Kevin, but he says there’s nothing to worry about because he’s falling in love with her. (“You’re so out of my league that I knew I was going to fall in love with you from the first second we talked.”) “I hope you know that I’m falling for you too,” she says.

The next morning, two new arrivals come to paradise: Christen a.k.a. Scallop Fingers a.k.a. Scallops and Shushanna, who right away says she’s “not here to make friends with the girls.” It’s fitting, then, that she’s greeted by Cassandra who tells her, “Oh, we don’t want you here! Haha!”

Christen and Shushanna have a double date card; Christen invites John, who agrees, and Shushanna asks Kamil to go. When Kamil tells Annaliese he’s going to go on the date, she handles it really well…until he leaves. She spends the rest of the afternoon crying and pacing around the beach.

She’s not the only one having a hard day: Poor Kevin has to watch as his ex, Ashley, arrives in paradise with her new boyfriend, Jared, to gush about their love. His face throughout this is akin to:

That alone would suck, but it gets worse: Jared proposes to Ashley on the beach while Kevin (and the rest of the cast) watches from afar.

That said, the engagement is very cute. (“I’ve been a fool … I want to make it up to you for the rest of my life,” he says. “Holy shit, it’s perfect,” she says of the ring.) Kevin even graciously gives Ashley a hug and tells her congratulations. Later, though, he admits to Astrid that he’s annoyed. He wishes he would have left the relationship earlier than he did because now he wonders if she was using him to make Jared jealous. I mean, probably? He does get a date card to make up for it, though, and he and Astrid are in love so he’s fine.

Later, as soon as Kamil returns to the villa from his date, he tells Annaliese that he has a better connection with her than Shushanna and they spend the night together. The next night, ahead of the rose ceremony, Shushanna asks Kamil why he chose “the blonde girl” over her. He admits he didn’t think they had much in common, and she tears up. Kamil, correctly, says, “You shouldn’t be crying over me!”

She’s about to go home voluntarily when Chris Harrison shows up with a twist: Jordan from New Zealand Bachelor / Bachelor Winter Games is arriving with a rose, giving one more woman a chance to stay in paradise. Naturally, all of the women are immediately attracted to his accent. Christen even tries to imitate it, to which he says, “Honestly, you sound like a drunk Mary Poppins.”

But instead of focusing her attention on New Jordan’s arrival, Chelsea decides to make a last-ditch effort to win over Kamil. Of course, this does not go over well with Annaliese. Kamil even plays along with Chelsea’s gamble for a bit, but in the end gives Annaliese his rose. The other couples at the end of the ceremony are: Astrid and Kevin, Chris and Krystal, Old Jordan and Jenna, Kendall and Joe, Eric and Cassandra, New Jordan and Shushanna, and Olivia and John.

This means Angela, Chelsea, and Christen must leave. Angela chooses the traditional “cry in the back of a SUV” exit. Things are different for Christen and Chelsea, though. After the roses are handed out, Christen says she feels nauseous and her “ears are ringing.” Meanwhile, Chelsea has a full-blown panic attack during her post-rose ceremony interview. I hope they’re both OK—but we’ll have to find out what happens when the show returns tomorrow night. See you then.





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Constance Wu's Hand-Embroidered 'Crazy Rich Asians' Premiere Dress Took 765 Hours to Make


At the red-carpet premiere for Crazy Rich Asians on Tuesday, Constance Wu embraced the extravagance her character Rachel comes face-to-face with in Kevin Kwan‘s 2013 novel and its upcoming film adaptation. The actress went for allout glamour in a gorgeous gown designed by British label Ralph & Russo (yup, the very one that made Meghan Markle‘s engagement portrait dress). And the amount of detail that went into the high-neck, strapless style is truly spectacular.

According to Vogue, Wu’s premiere look took more than 750 hours to make; 490 of those were spent hand-embroidering more than 200,000 Swarovski crystals onto the fabric. If you’re too enthralled by photos of the dress to pull up your calculator app, that translates to more than 31 days spent crafting the garment. Casual.

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Micaela Erlanger, Wu’s stylist, told Vogue that, beyond matching the opulent lives of the film’s characters, certain aspects of the “couture red-carpet moment” held even deeper significance for the actres, and for Hollywood as a whole: “In history, tassels have almost always been a symbol of power and prestige, not to mention they make for a glamorous detail. This movie is so important for so many reasons, and I felt that Constance should look both powerful and glamorous.” (Among those reasons? Crazy Rich Asians is the first Hollywood film to feature a majority Asian cast since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club.)

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And lest you think that Wu and Erlanger would go easy on the accessories, given how spectacular the gown is, think again. The actress finished off her Ralph & Russo gown with pink pear-cut diamond drop earrings by Lorraine Schwartz that clocked in at a whopping 90 carats. She carried a boxy, reflective silver clutch, and donned sky-high ivory platform pumps with bedazzled stacked stiletto heels. (Hey, Erlanger literally wrote a book on accessorizing, so she wasn’t going to skimp on the add-ons.)

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“The gown itself is such a statement, but we really wanted to complete the look with the perfect accessories,” Erlanger told Vogue. Mission definitely accomplished.

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Kylie Jenner Makes More Money in Two Hours Than Most Americans Do in a Year


Last month, Kylie Jenner’s Forbes cover started yet another Jenner/Kardashian controversy with its cover line describing her as being set to become the youngest-ever “self-made” billionaire. The comment sparked a huge internet debate about what exactly makes one self-made and interest in Jenner’s finances has not waned since.

Now, another staggering statistic about the cosmetic mogul’s income has been revealed—and it’s definitely another conversation starter.

It turns out that Jenner is making around $45,550 every two hours selling makeup to the masses, which is almost exactly the median salary ($45,552) for the average American, according to Business Insider. That’s right, in just over two hours the almost-21-year-old is making more money than most people will see in an entire year.

Just to put that in perspective, most Kylie Cosmetics lip kits are priced at $30, which translates to roughly 1,518 sold every two hours to bring in that kind of cash. Breaking it down even further, that means Jenner is making $19,007 an hour which is just…wow. Of course, we already knew that she is absurdly rich—Forbes reported that she made $166.5 million between June 2017 and June 2018—but it somehow seems even more insane when you boil it down to an hourly paycheck.

Online retailer I Saw It First created an interactive tool that calculates how long it would take for you to make the salary of some of the richest stars around. By their calculations, it would take the average American 10 years to make what Jenner does in a single day. And a worker making the median U.S. salary of $45,552 a year would have to work for 3,655 years to equal Jenner’s yearly income.

But no matter what you think about the Jenners and Kardashians, it’s hard not to respect the hustle it takes to build a cosmetics empire that continues to keep selling product at that level—”self-made” or not.

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Glow Recipe's Pink Juice Moisturizer Sold Out In Two Hours, and It’s Worth the Hype


Following the ridiculous success of its gently exfoliating Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask—which had a waitlist of 5,000 people within days—Korean beauty brand Glow Recipe is back with another product that takes its cues from your favorite summer fruit, the watermelon-scented Pink Juice Moisturizer. And, just like its predecessor, it’s a hit: According to reports, bottles of the jelly-like formula sold out during in its first two hours of presale earlier this month. So, it was with some excitement that I cracked open the sculptural glass bottle to take it for a test drive—but also trepidation. I typically hoard heavy creams thanks to the speed with which my combination skin sucks up moisture, but I am nothing if not a follower who believes in the Internet’s wisdom, so I set aside my beloved emollients and subbed in this light, oil-free “juice.”

After testing the moisturizer for a week, I can attest: It’s worth the hype. Like the brand’s Sleeping Mask, Pink Juice smells uncannily like watermelon Jolly Ranchers. I’m into that, especially because while hard candy will always mean stickiness to me, after a few seconds of glistening, the Pink Juice sinks in and leaves a velvety-soft finish behind. If you’ve used a hyaluronic acid before, it’s a similar feeling—and given that Glow Recipe’s formula includes the hyper-moisturizing acid along with “vitamin-rich watermelon,” antioxidants and “soothing botanicals,” that effect checks out.

In my experience, though, hyaluronic acid only moisturizes your skin for an hour or so, unless you lock it in with a heavy cream on top. No need with the Pink Juice—every morning that I’ve slicked it on, my skin has stayed bouncy and flake-free for the rest of the day. Emphasis on the bounce: K-beauty routines are famed for creating skin that looks like you invested at least 10 steps in getting it to a translucent, collagen-crazy state (see: “glass skin“). The Pink Juice delivers that without the time commitment, and leaves behind a subtle, light-bouncing sheen in the best possible way.

If you’re starting to get over applying a highlighter daily, this is the ideal next move. The moisturizer goes on sale for $39 today on Sephora.com, and if the brand’s track record is any indication, you’re going to want to get a bottle while you can.

Glow Recipe Watermelon Pink Juice Moisturizer, $39; at sephora.com

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Lancôme's Monsieur Big Mascara Review: It Holds Curl for 15 (!) Hours


I like my mascara to be big, flashy, and easy on the eyes. Those are the three goals, and while it seems like that’s what every new mascara release promises to deliver, very few follow through on that last, crucial stake. Blame my dry eyes, allergies, and the office AC—I blame them all, ruthlessly. But the fact remains that while I love trying new mascaras, by the end of the day I’ve smudged it, I’ve rubbed it, I’ve put eye drops in underneath it, and that leaves just the slightest trace of mascara still hanging around.

Which sucks, especially because my specific problems aside, this summer has been good to us in mascara options. From Dior’s fun and efficient squeezy tube, to Urban Decay’s sex-proof mascara, and L’Oréal’s excellent drugstore stunner, we’ve got choices. Then again, so did Carrie Bradshaw for six seasons and look how that turned out. (Fine, that was regarding men, not mascaras, but as often as she stared at a computer screen too, I bet she also knew this struggle.)

After trying endless reccs from friends and every new launch that caught my eye, I couldn’t help but wonder where was my match? My one loyal mascara I could trust to stay with me on my lashes day in and day out? Was I destined to settle? This, of course, is hyperbole, but to both my elation and dismay (#TeamBerger) I actually did find “the one” that met all my needs. Mr. Big. Or rather, because it’s a Lancôme mascara and the brand is French, Monsieur Big.

Unlike its namesake (who was flaky at best), this Big comes through. With just a few strokes, my lashes become dark, thick, and long enough to graze my browbrone. It doesn’t even leave those annoying smudges behind that other mascaras do, because the best part is, it stays where you want it. I have my morning regimen down to a science, so I can say with some certainty that I apply my mascara at around 7:42 A.M. every day. By the time I call it quits and wash my face around 11 it’s still there, curl perfectly intact. Coming from the brand behind the cult favorite Definicils mascara, I shouldn’t have expected any less.

I almost judged a book by its cover; a product by its silly (yet also entirely brilliant) name. But this is a great mascara.

Lancôme Monsieur Big Mascara, $25, sephora.com

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