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Daily Harvest Review 2020: Vegan Meal Kit Review


I follow the kind of diet that would make your mom (and doctors) cringe. I’m what some might call “peckish” and—if you haven’t noticed—chips, cookies, and candy come in bite-sized, bird-friendly portions. My palette is also extreme in that food must be either a) bland, or b) how you think the word neon would taste. It’s probably because I’ve eaten so many Hot Cheetos, Hot Cheetos Limón, and Chester’s Hot Fries that my tastebuds are essentially burned off my tongue. That, and the fact that I’ve been drinking black coffee since high school.

Suffice it to say I am not the picture of health. When I do peel my hands away from the nearest chip bag and eat ‘adult’ food, I opt for generally healthy options. I’m basically a raccoon: often eating garbage, but sometimes that garbage is raw vegetables. Still, a healthy meal or snack here and there doesn’t make up for my lack of eating whole foods on the regular. So I decided to try a meal kit service to hopefully improve my habits and make sure that I am, in fact, eating protein and not subsisting on a permanent caffeine or sugar high. Enter: Daily Harvest.

So, what exactly is Daily Harvest?

The fro-yo shop of healthy meal kits. Daily Harvest sends ready-to-blend smoothies and bowls in pre-frozen cups. Everything comes pre-portioned and all you have to do is throw the food in a blender, microwave, or pan before eating. Like a good millennial, I was drawn to Daily Harvest because of its branding. The brightly colored smoothies looked like candy masquerading as protein shakes, and since moving to the East Coast from Los Angeles, finding ripe, non-bruised fruit has been hard to come by.

Is Daily Harvest organic?

Yes, 95%. Anything organic is marked on the back of the cups.

Is Daily Harvest vegan?

It’s complicated. Daily Harvest isn’t exactly a vegan meal delivery service—even though its recipes are built on fruits and vegetables. That’s because you add whatever kind of liquid you like to the cups (oat milk was my preference, but you can add whole milk, water, hemp milk, etc.) and because of the customization, the brand likes to call its recipes “plant-based and vegan-friendly.” Everything comes free of gluten, dairy, fillers, preservatives, refined sugars, and artificial anything—but what you do with it after that is up to you.

So, how good is the actual food? (a.k.a. my Daily Harvest meals review)

I opted for nine cups (the lowest number) on a weekly basis, because small Brooklyn apartments come with small Brooklyn freezers. In total, I tested Daily Harvest over a three-week period and tried a cup from each of its categories—smoothies, bowls, lattes, bites, and soups.

Strawberry + Peach Smoothie

Pro tip: Match your smoothie to your sweater.

Shanna Shipin



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Everlane Leggings Review: 6 Glamour Editors Try the Perform Legging


At this point there’s a multihyphenate legging in everyone’s closet: high-waist, sweat-wicking, color-blocked, thermo-regulating…. To say the list goes on is an understatement. But how many times can a legging be reinvented? To that, Everlane said, “Just once,” and introduced its first-ever style in January.

The Perform Legging is billed as a no-frills essential that comes in four colors—black, gray, khaki, and rust—and, supposedly, “does it all.” Meaning, wear it anywhere and style it however you like. Throw on an oversized knit for a post-yoga coffee date. Slip into a tissue turtleneck and wear it with a blazer to make it fashun.

Everlane Perform Leggings

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Everlane Perform Leggings

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$58

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Everlane Perform Leggings

Everlane

$58

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Everlane Perform Leggings

Everlane

$58

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Everlane’s back-to-basics approach—at a time when seen-on-Instagram leggings run upwards of $120—feels like a breath of fresh air. And because some of us would never spend that much on a piece of fabric meant to absorb sweat—and yes, wipe food crumbs on, the brand’s $58 offering proved worth looking into. (After all, nothing spurs a roundtable debate quite like a polyester and Lycra blend.)

Here are six Glamour editors’ honest thoughts about the new Everlane leggings.

Macaela Mackenzie, senior health editor

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Macaela Mackenzie

What was your first impression? I’m always a little skeptical of leggings that promise to take you “from gym to street.” I like a decent amount of compression in a workout legging, which usually feels too restrictive for running to brunch. But I immediately loved these—they were light enough to be comfy but still maintained that snugness I like if I’m going to sweat. My favorite feature, however, was the high waistband. Love ? a ? high ?waist ?.

What are your thoughts on the material? Lighter than air with a good amount of elasticity. Even though it was 32 degrees out when I was wearing these, I have a feeling they’re going to be amazing for summer workouts.

Do you feel it gets the sizing and length right? I’m 5’4”, and the regular inseam hit me perfectly at the ankle in a size S.

What activity did you do in the leggings? I took these from a very chill Pilates class to Sunday errands, to lounging on the couch, and honestly, I never thought about them, which is in my mind, the mark of a truly good legging.

How does it compare with other leggings in your closet? These are standard in the very best way. They’ll definitely be a staple in my closet and in my workout drawer.

Lindsay Schallon, senior beauty editor

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Lindsay Schallon 



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Shrill Season 2 Review: Weight Is Barely a Topic—and That's a Good Thing


Coincidence is a good word to describe the dynamic between narrative and body type in Shrill‘s second season. Annie’s weight is only really alluded to twice, and both times the storylines are nuanced. In one, Annie takes her boyfriend, Ryan (Luka Jones), to meet her parents for the first time; instead of the night centering on that, though, it becomes about her mom’s obsession with food. Annie tries to steer the conversation toward other topics, but her mom keeps on—which, in turn, makes Annie second-guess all the self-confidence she’s built.

“I think that is how a lot of fat people experience the world in a lot of ways,” Bryant says. “Where someone else’s experience of food or their own body or their own clothes comes to reflect on you in some way.”

She cites a wedding toast she once heard as an example: “In the toast they were saying, ‘Oh, this night we felt so thin and that was so good!’ I remember feeling like they were saying, in their minds, the best night of their life was the night they looked nothing like me.”

Bryant’s real-life anecdote, in a nutshell, reveals the main issue in Shrill‘s next chapter: How do fat people who love their bodies go about navigating a world that constantly tells them they’re wrong? “I think that is part of what we were trying to circle around [in season two],” Bryant says. “Annie feels better about herself, but everyone around her is still stuck in that dark mentality that she was in at the beginning of season one.”

Shrill isn’t presenting an idealized world. It doesn’t gloss over the fact that living life as a fat person can be difficult, regardless of self-confidence. The season, in subtle ways, explores the push and pull of being body-positive in a culture that actively works against plus-size women (and men).



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L'Oréal Paris Bambi Eye Mascara Review With Photos


I’ve always been enchanted by huge, cartoonish eyes. After graduating from Disney princesses, I fixed my obsession on anime characters, whose colorful outfits and huge eyelashes equally spoke to me. Early on in high school, I idolized Zooey Deschanel and her wide-eyed look, and drew Twiggy lashes on my lower lash line when I went out at night.

I’ve since moved on to more sophisticated methods of enhancing my lashes in hopes of making my tiny eyes look like a cartoon. Lash extensions and lifts have been the most successful, but they’re expensive and time consuming, so finding a good mascara has been crucial. While I have some go-tos, I’d yet to find one that replicates the doll-eyed look of a lash lift.

Then the new L’Oréal Paris Bambi Eye Mascara came along, and I knew I had something to be excited about. For starters, L’Oréal makes some of my all-time favorite mascaras (at any price point), and anything that promises crazy volume and “a doe-eyed effect” has my attention. But, let’s be real here, obviously the real draw was the name. Bambi is the ultimate big-eye icon in my book. The fact that model Camille Rowe is heavily featured in the ads alongside Bambi himself just adds to my theory that this mascara was made specifically with me in mind.

Adorable branding aside, where this mascara truly stands out is the brush, which has a mix of long and short bristles to grab every lash. It’s on the spiky-plasticy side, which is great for shorter lashes like mine, yet has some heft to it to help with volume.

The first time I tested it out, I was ridiculously sick—I more closely resembled the Corpse Bride than my usual self. But after one swipe of the stuff (singing the Bambi eyes line from “This Is What Makes Us Girls” to myself, naturally), I was wowed. I looked wide awake, and all the life instantly came back to my face. It fanned out my lashes so they were super fluttery, and the brush made it seem like I have double the lashes I actually do. My lashes were instantly lifted and crazy curled (no lash curler needed!), giving me the doll-y eyes of my dreams in seconds. Essentially, it gave me the same effect as my beloved lash lift, without the trip to the salon. In short, I’m obsessed.

Look at that curl.

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If you’re looking for a natural look, this might not be the best choice for you, although it doesn’t clump no matter how many layers I apply. It just definitely looks like you have mascara on, a look I personally love. But despite the crazy volume I didn’t sacrifice any definition, and the inky black formula stays on all day without any flaking or smudging.

It didn’t turn me into a cartoon character, but it came pretty damn close.

L’Oréal Paris Bambi Eye Mascara

L’Oréal Paris Bambi Eye Mascara

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Bella Cacciatore is the beauty associate at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram @bellacacciatore.





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Sex Education Season 2 Review: The Netflix Series Is Even Better


When Sex Education—Netflix’s highly binge-worthy comedy about, you guessed it, sex and relationships—premiered last year, it was such a hit that the streaming service says more than 40 million households watched it within the first four weeks. Naturally, a season two had to happen, and it finally premieres today, January 17. Yes, Sex Education is back for an eight-episode run that’s even funnier and more awkward than the last.

“There were a lot of elements for season one that we loved, but when we came into season two, we really tried to empower all the different departments across the show—from wardrobe to the script department—to be as bold as possible,” executive producer Jaime Campbell tells Glamour. “I think that’s reflected.”

Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson)

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Campbell points to more air time for the adults as one way the show will be expanded this season. You’ll see more of Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson) and her relationship with Jakob (Mikael Persbrandt), and Mr. and Mrs. Groff’s relationship (Alistair Petrie, Samantha Spiro) will “come under more scrutiny,” according to Campbell. That’s a good thing, the producer adds, because “in a show like this, you can often forget the adults and how incompetent they are. We’re really doubling down on their incompetence this season.”

It’s a development the younger cast is happy about, too. Patricia Allison, who plays Ola, Otis’s girlfriend, thinks it’s important to feature the sex lives of the parents. “I don’t think we get to see enough of that,” she says. “Older women who get to actually be like, ‘This is what I want.'” One example of how that plays out: Mrs. Groff, the headmaster’s wife and Adam’s mother, will start her own journey of self-discovery. “She’s in this kind of loveless marriage and feels like she doesn’t have a voice in it,” Allison says, “but then she forms a really lovely friendship with Jean and goes to a vagina workshop which allows her to explore her own sexuality.”

While we loved season one of Sex Education for shedding a light on topics that are usually glossed over on other shows (masturbation and the female orgasm, just to start), season two will go even further. “Our creator and writer, Laurie Nunn, came up with an explosive storyline that has two particular female characters intersect, and I think fans are going to absolutely love it,” Campbell says. As to which two characters Campbell is talking about, Netflix has that plot development on its do-not-spoil list, so mum’s the word for now.



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Cheer on Netflix Review: If You're Not Watching This Show, What Are You Even Doing?


Cheer on Netflix is everything I look for in a show: emotional, compelling, addicting, and so well-made. The six-episode documentary series (from the team behind another favorite, Last Chance U) takes you inside the world of competitive cheerleading at Navarro College, a small junior college in Corsicana, Texas.

Perhaps you’re telling yourself that you aren’t interested in cheerleading—and I’m here to tell you that you’re mistaken. Even if you’ve never tumbled, done a herky, or stood atop a pyramid, this show is utterly fascinating. First off, these young people are incredible athletes of the highest order, and getting to see what they put their bodies through for the sake of their sport is awe-inspiring. (Once you see a single practice, you’ll never question whether it’s a sport again.)

The Navarro squad is preparing for the National Championships, and the school has a storied history of winning under tough-but-kind coach Monica Aldama, who I kind of wish I could hire to make all my important life decisions.

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You get to see lots of the whole squad, but the story focuses on a few main members (and Monica). And let me just say they will find a way into your heart almost immediately⁠—like, you will want to drive down to Texas and give them hugs. I devoured the show in a day over the weekend, and I already miss Jerry, La’Darius, Morgan, Lexie, Gabi, and even Sherbs so much. A number of them come from tough backgrounds, and Navarro has offered them a home and a safe space to be themselves, live their truth, and be a part of a family.

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