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Wedding Trend: Double Proposals Are the Inclusive Trend We Need


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 knee on the beach and asked me to marry her. I barely had time to gaze down at my ring or think about the chain of phone calls we needed to make to share the good news before it hit me: Am I supposed to get her a ring, too?

I hadn’t really thought about the idea that maybe my wife-to-be needs a token to signify she’s engaged, too. Though I was in a same-sex relationship, I was so used to the standard story of proposals that I didn’t stop to consider anything different. But the more I thought about my fiancee and her love of big moments, the more fitting it seemed that I propose to her too. Asking someone to spend their life with you is a hugely important question—why shouldn’t she be asked?

Double Proposals Are Gaining Steam—And Changing the Wedding Industry

I decided to propose back to my partner, not knowing that I was taking part in a growing wedding trend within the LGBTQ+ community called “double proposing.” The idea is fairly self-explanatory: two people propose to each other, either the same day or at different times.

Queer people have been creating our own unique traditions for years, but only since same-sex marriage became legal in all fifty states have marriage traditions—and the wedding trends surrounding them—begun to catch up. “The LGBTQ community is changing the industry by demanding more of the vendors who work in it, being intentional with who they give their money to, and reinventing traditions to celebrate instead of hide their queer identities,” says Ainsley Blattel, a queer and non-binary wedding planner with event planning company Modern Rebel.

For me, double proposing to my fiancee was an exciting and reflective time to really surprise my partner the same way she wowed me. Instead of a ring, I bought her a custom locket she’d been talking about since we’d met. It was amazing to see the genuine surprise on her face when she turned to find me down on one knee nine months after she’d asked me to marry her.

More Proposals, More Power

So many facets of relationships are bogged down by centuries’ worth of gender stereotypes. For those feeling the pressure, double proposing can be empowering way to rethink the way romance is “supposed” to look—especially for those who don’t identify as a specific gender. “I’d often been the partner to buy flowers, and perform romantic gestures,” says Addie Tsai, 39. “I realized when I met my partner that I’d always felt more comfortable in that role but because of gender conditioning. But he allowed me to occupy a different space than I had before and it was through our relationship I started to uncover how genderfluid and nonbinary I truly am.”

Tsai and their partner double proposed two weeks apart over the holidays. “Double proposing neutralizes the way you enter into a marriage from the beginning, without having the gendered burden of proposing on one person or the other,” says Tsai. For many, it’s an antidote to the heteronormative expectations that follow couples of all orientations.

While smashing gender expectations can be fun, a lot of couples double propose simply to celebrate their equal partnership with one another. Rebekah Giley, 30 and her partner Breda, 32, first started thinking about a double proposal when they realized they had totally different ideas of how a proposal should look: Breda definitely wanted someone taking photos with lots of people around, while Rebekah had a totally private proposal in mind.”We kinda looked at each other and then I said, ‘we could both propose to each other,’ and Breda agreed,” Giley says. “I think the biggest thing was that we both got the proposal we wanted. Especially because we wanted such opposite things, it was really lovely and fun to both see our dreams fulfilled.”



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How to Wear White Eyeliner – Summer 2019's Biggest Makeup Trend


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 natural skin, winged eyeliner, and a nude lip.

So imagine my delight when I noticed a trend on Instagram that was totally within my wheelhouse. Every time I opened the app, white liquid eyeliner, usually applied in a bold wing, was popping up on celebrities and influencers. It even made its way onto the Pose season two promos.

Graphic, ’60s inspired eyeliner has been having a moment for a while now, but it’s usually done in a bright neon or creamy pastel. White is a refreshing contrast. In art, white is the absence of color, so it’s almost like an anti-eyeliner. It still makes a big statement, but because it’s a neutral, it feels a little more approachable, and you don’t have to worry about matching other makeup or your outfit. It’s crisp and graphic like a classic white shirt, but doesn’t have the vintage connotations that black does. Plus, it will really pop with a (safe) summer tan.

As someone who has a cat eye down pat and is terrified of wearing color on my eyes (plus has no idea how to blend eyeshadow), this is the perfect trend for me. It’s a fun way to switch up my makeup and make me feel like part of the it-crowd without stepping too far outside of my comfort zone. So I challenged myself to try the trend for a week.

Since I’m so comfortable in a cat eye, I figured white eyeliner would be an easy switch. I was wrong. While a swipe of black eyeliner instantly adds definition to my eyes and wakes up my whole face, I found white did the opposite. It made me look a little sleepy and washed out, almost like a haunted doll which is….not the look I’m going for. The first time I tried it out, it stayed on my face for a total of 15 minutes before I wiped it off. Granted, I was having a terrible skin day and just not feeling myself overall, so I think I wanted to avoid any makeup that would call attention to myself. I gave it a shot the next night and went much harder on my foundation, which definitely helped me feel less like a drowned rat. I wore it out to a party and got several compliments, but still didn’t feel 100 percent comfortable in it.





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Best Hand Chains 2019: The Coolest Unexpected Jewelry Trend


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 my fingers. If that’s sound complicated, that’s because it is. This thing is basically a ring and a bracelet and a harness for your hand all in one. The other day some woman approached me and asked if the pearls across my knuckles were sewn into my skin. After I explained to her this was actually a piece of jewelry, she asked, “Well, what is it called?” And I didn’t know what to say.

A Google search led me to discover my favorite piece of jewelry is technically called a hand chain, although it sometimes goes by finger bracelet or hand harness. Brooklyn-based boutique and jewelry studio Catbird has a very charming name for its iteration: Kitten Mitten. Apparently a lot of them can also be worn as necklaces or foot chains (allegedly, they are also a thing).

All hand chains are part bracelet, part ring, and in my opinion they’re better than either/or. For one, they basically turn my whole hand into a piece of jewelry, and as someone who likes to wear multiple rings on every finger, this is key. So if you love wearing tons of jewelry, hand chains add a lot of bling with only one piece. But even if you don’t like the look of tons of jewelry, you can just wear a hand chain and that’s it. Some designers like Catbird have a more minimalistic approach, whereas others like Goldish, where my hand chain is actually from, add charms or pearls. Regardless of which hand chain you choose, it’s bound to make a statement. I cannot stress enough how many compliments I get on mine daily.

I also never take my hand chain off. I do everything in it. I sleep in it, I shower in it, I go boxing in it. It’s gotten to the point that it might as well be sewn into my hand because it’s second nature, one of the few things about my everyday look that stays consistent.

Although there aren’t too many jewelry designers making them yet, here are the 10 best hand chains I could find online now. If you can’t decide between a bracelet or a ring, these all would make the perfect alternative, and they’ll definitely have people asking, “What is that?” A question you can now answer.



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Tie Dye Nails Are the Coolest Manicure Trend for Summer 2019


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 has anything to say about it. Get ready for tie-dye nails.

The arts-and-crafts pattern is having a real moment in the fashion spotlight once again. And when we say “a moment,” we mean it was everywhere. The print was spotted all over the runways for both spring and fall 2019. On puffer coats (at Maryam Nassir Zadeh), on miniskirts (at Area, very groovy), while Collina Strada put it leggings. Denim and sweatshirts are also getting the treatment, so it’s safe to say we’ll have no shortage of nineties camp attire come summer.

Beyond fashion week, influencers are bringing the trend into the real-world, posting photo after photo on Instagram of how they’re implementing the tie-dye into their everyday looks. And now, as Refinery29 first pointed out, that includes on their nails.

Hairstylist Justine Marjan shared a look at the tie-dye nails manicurist Kim Truong painted for her. Each nail was “dyed” in a slightly different neon color. In her caption, she credited the inspo to South Korean nail artist Park Eunkyung, the talent behind the Instagram-adored nail salon Unistella, who has also been posting a handful of takes on tie-dye.

Gigi Hadid also recently wore the trend. Nail artist Mei Kawajiri showed off the tie-dye masterpiece she gave the model for her 24th birthday celebration on Instagram. She kept the design concentrated to only Hadid’s ring fingers.

These mango and lime-colored nails look like they’d go perfectly with a margarita.

While these red, white, and blue ones were made for Fourth of July.

Metallic shades give the finish a more disco vibe…

…Meanwhile a faded look gives the trend a dreamscape feel.

Of course, you can’t go wrong with a truly throwback all-out neon.

You can also wear it in smaller, more simplistic ways. Take Los Angeles based nail artist Julie Ventura’s latest creation as a good example. As she explained in her post, “Incorporating negative space in tie-dye makes it super fun and gives it more depth.” Ventura also tempered the trend just a bit by turning it into a stripe, rather than overtaking the entire nail with color.

Another way to ease into tie-dye nails is to use more muted colors.

It looks great in all blue with small dotted designs.

Or simply add a dash of tie-dye by painting just one nail with splashy colors.

Like most nail art, it’s probably easier to pay a visit to your salon to get the look, but you could attempt to re-create it all on your own at home if you’re dextrous. Ventura posted a tutorial on how she creates tie-dye nail polish stickers first, then coats her nails in a clear polish, applies the stickers directly to her nail bed, files, and quickly finishes with another clear top coat.

You could even attempt to draw the pattern directly onto your nail and create the tie-dye effect by pulling a striping brush through the center of the design before it dries. The best news is, the tie-dye look is meant to be a little messy, off-centered, and obscure, so it’s a pretty difficult at-home manicure to mess up.

Want to give it a go? Do as Ventura did and mix together Orly’s brightest colors like Glowstick, Neon Heat, and Angel Rain. Then, top it off with Orly’s no-chip top coat to protect your precious tie-dyed creation.





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Best Spring Dresses for Women: Toile Trend


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” style on the horizon, which combines different elements from great spring dress trends past: nostalgic patterns, soft colors, and prime Instagram-ability.

Toile-print dresses have been popping up everywhere since Selena Gomez wore an Oscar de la Renta two-piece last summer. “Toile” is a type of decorating, when a repeated pattern of a complex scene—normally something pastoral—is depicted against a white or off-white background. The graphic is charming like a floral, but has the same vintage vibe as your favorite prairie dress. And you can find it on everything from oversized silhouettes to strappy minis.

The latest wave of “It” dresses luckily don’t necessarily have to cost a couple thousand dollars: You can find it everywhere from Urban Outfitters to Tory Burch. If want an alternative to the prairie trend but are tired of the same-old florals, toile-print dresses are a happy medium that aren’t absolutely everywhere yet (just yet). Shop the best ones, ahead.



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Buttery Skin Is the New Makeup Trend You Need to Know


“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 above) and there in the caption lied the secret: #butteryskin. Suddenly, neither of us could focus on anything else, we were stuck in a rabbit hole trying to figure out how exactly to get this glistening, radiant look. I went straight to the source, makeup artist Isabelle De Vries, to fill me in.

First thing’s first, what even is buttery skin? It’s similar to the glass skin craze that’s taken over the internet in that it mirrors a radiant, almost reflective complexion. “This look is all about beautiful, healthy glowing skin,” De Vries tells me. The major difference lies in the fact that glass skin is more focused on a skin care routine, while buttery skin is a specific makeup technique. Glass skin is more of a plump, bouncy look (since it primarily centers around hydration), and I find that buttery skin is a little softer and easier to get since you’re masking your skin, not transforming it. And yes, the name does reference a literal stick of butter. “I came up with the term buttery skin, because it gives off the same silky smooth texture and natural sheen that butter has.”

They key to buttery skin, it turns out, is lots and lots of layering. After chatting with De Vries and spending hours scrolling through her Instagram, I was ready to test the look out on myself. Read on for the breakdown.

Skin Prep
“This look is best suited to normal/combination skin but can still be achieved on drier skin types with the right skin prep,” says De Vries. She starts by using a Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Peel Pad to exfoliate away dry patches and boost glow. She then likes to use the Garnier Moisture Bomb Sheet Mask to hydrate and plump skin, but notes that any mask with hyaluronic acid will do.

I used a peel pad and then went in with the Laniege Water Sleeping Mask, since I didn’t have the Garnier on hand. I wanted my dry skin to look really dewy, so I also brought out the big guns and used some Creme de La Mer as a base, and I think it paid off. If you want a less expensive alternative, Weleda Skin Food is a great dupe.

Primer
This is where the layering comes into play. De Vries starts the dewy process with an illuminating primer. Her favorites include MAC Strobe Cream, Danessa Myricks Prism Fx Hydrating Lotion, and Temptu Brilliant Glow Illuminating Primer. I went with the MAC strobe cream, which has a pretty opalescent sheen, and applied it beginning with the high points of my face, and then onto the rest of my skin.

Foundation
“A dewy foundation is a must,” says De Vries. She recommends MAC Face and Body or Temptu S/B Foundation, and likes to use her fingers to apply (it helps warm up the formula so it goes on more natural-looking). “I love mixing a pearlescent liquid highlighter through my foundations like Temptu or Danessa Myricks Illuminating Veil,” she says.

I mixed Glossier Play’s Niteshine highlighter in with my current favorite foundation, L’Oréal Infallible Fresh Wear, and pressed it in using my fingers like De Vries suggested. It’s more messy but it works.





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