The peel contains five acids to exfoliate—mandelic, lactic, salicylic, tartaric, and malic—as well as three different berries to provide antioxidants and soothe your skin. It’s a professional-grade peel (meaning it’s definitely not an everyday thing), and has a mix of BHAs and AHAs to work on two levels to clear pores and smooth your skin’s…
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The most raved about secret in beauty this year wasn’t a magic facialist or Real Housewife-lauded injection, it was an unassuming moisturizer made by a 60-year-old German scientist who’d never worked in the industry, let alone had an Instagram following. And yet, despite having none of the traditional resources that makes a beauty brand an…
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My associations with lip plumper are both numerous and vivid: an overwhelming scent of cinnamon followed immediately by redness, pain, swelling, more pain, and a considerable amount of buyer’s regret. The options I remember trying years ago were packed with stinging agents that instantly set my mouth on fire. Technically speaking, you could say they…
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Like most things, my mom was right about blush. As soon as I started regularly wearing makeup in high school, my mom would insist that I needed to “put a little color in my cheeks,” and would practically chase me with a blush brush. For some reason, my idea of blush was that it was…
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Vanessa Hudgens won Christmas last year with her Netflix rom-com, The Princess Switch. The film was a viral sensation, filled to the brim with the feel-good, low-stakes hijinks we’ve come to expect from our holiday movies. A sequel to that now classic is coming in 2020, but while we wait, Hudgens has another holiday flick…
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It was foolish of me to think I knew better than Jennifer Aniston’s long-time makeup pro, Gucci Westman. But when she approached me at the launch event for her new line, Westman Atelier, with a makeup brush and what appeared to be a mauve cream blush in hand, I bristled—no pun intended. No way was…
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