It’s been a running joke that I wasn’t allowed to propose to my girlfriend. Since the early stages of our relationship she’s been adamant: she’ll do the proposing one day. I didn’t feel strongly one way or the other, so I agreed. Then, in late August 2018—ten years after we’d met—she got down on one…
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I want to be the person who’s always trying new makeup trends. It’s so easy to convince myself that I’ll wear the neon pink eyeshadow, metallic lipgloss, or extreme contour that I’ve hoarded in my apartment. But the truth is, no matter how appealing a trend, I rarely break free from my daily look of…
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My favorite piece of jewelry is something I don’t know how to describe. My boyfriend got it for me two years ago, and I haven’t taken it off since. It’s made of a gold chain that ties around my wrist three times, forms a cage with pearls attached across my knuckles, and then loops around…
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The cold, dark, dreary days of winter are finally behind us and the warm spring sun is here. That means it’s time to pack up your winter coats and bulky sweaters for the season. And, while you’re at it, you should probably put away your dark nail polishes too—at least if the latest nail trend…
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Normally, spring dresses are all about the florals. (If you can get Miranda Priestley saying “Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking,” out of your head, that is.) But with the rise of prairie dresses, shoppers have opened their hearts and their closets to puffy sleeves, vintage-inspired prints, and other trends every season. For 2019, there’s another “It”…
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“I need buttery skin!!!” is a message I received from our senior beauty editor, Lindsay, about two weeks ago. Before I could ask her WTF that meant, she sent me a photo of a model with some of the smoothest, glowiest skin I’ve ever seen. It was a shot from a makeup artist’s Instagram (pictured…
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