Despite their ability to make your eyes appear more open, give your lashes a lift, and amplify the mascara you thought couldn’t get any better, eyelash curlers tend to be the unsung heroes of beauty shelves. Well, it’s time to give the under-hyped beauty tool the praise it deserves, because aside from taking a dramatic…
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As someone who writes about things you should be adding to cart, and happens to sit riiight next to the Glamour beauty team, I’m lucky enough to test out some of the most talked-about skin-care products on the market (i.e., the Tatchas and Tata Harpers of the world). Other than, you know, great skin, the…
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A little over a year ago, I interviewed top dermatologists about the CBD trend, the cannabis-derived cure-all that was beginning to blow up. An avalanche of CBD-spiked products started hitting shelves, each claiming that the weed compound would solve every skin woe imaginable. While I believed in the ingredient’s potential, it didn’t take long before…
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For anyone with a serious beauty obsession, Amazon Prime Day is basically a holiday—albeit one your office colleagues might not understand you phoning in for (which is why we have work from home days, right?). It’s one of the biggest sales of the year from the online retailer. Consider it the halfway-to-Black-Friday sale, and this…
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I grew up poor. Not broke, which isn’t poor, and not bohemian poor, like a gentrifier living in the ghetto but able to afford nice clothes. Undocumented-child-of-undocumented-immigrants poor, which means that even as I worked to g degrees from Harvard and Yale, delivering the American Dream at my parents’ feet, my mother and father are…
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Not long ago, most people’s skin care routine consisted of a quick wash, maybe a weekly exfoliant, and some moisturizer. To 2018 eyes, this routine seems minimalist, even monklike in its simplicity. At worst, it seems downright deprived—wherefore art thou, serums, oils, masks, and muds? It’s no news that these days, skin care is kind…
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