I don’t really understand why she never just took me to the hairdressers to get it sorted out. In the end I ended up with this green, gingery tinged mess of a hair for a good year. There are hardly any photographs of me from the age of 14 to 15, and if there are,…
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One of my first makeup memories is using a drugstore stick concealer—the kind that looks like a beige crayon—to clumsily cover tweenage acne and undereye circles (I’ve struggled with insomnia since I was about 12 and it was already starting to show). I used that chalky stick for about a year until a friend introduced…
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Despite my well-documented love of frequent snacking, there was a time when I rarely bit into a croissant with bare lips when I could have done so wearing two coats of duochrome glitter atop a vibrant crimson red. This is a great litmus test for the staying power of any given product, but also, I…
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I’ve never been into the idea of having a signature scent. Twenty seconds into trying on my first perfume (the classic, spicy Paloma Piccaso), I got bored and proceeded to add a few generous spritzes of Bath & Body Works Cucumber Melon. While this is an appalling scent combination I could never in good conscience…
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Recently, one of my good friends went on a trip to Colorado and fully embraced the state’s legality of recreational marijuana. She came back with a newfound obsession with edibles—and some seriously glowing skin. When I asked her what was going on with her face, she causally said she’d started using CBD-infused oils and thought…
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The third season of The Crown promises to be especially bittersweet. On one hand, as the Netflix series jumps forward in time, we’ll have to say goodbye to the award-winning cast we’ve come to know and love, who will be replaced by an all-new set of actors so that the characters can age appropriately without…
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