Beauty
Beauty
Rhode Highlight Milk: A Pearly Glow and Its Best Neighbors
Rhode Highlight Milk for a pearly glow from face to body, plus liquid illuminators, creams, powders and body shimmer to pair with it.
About-Face Makeup: Halsey's Color-First Picks
About-Face is the color brand artist and author Halsey launched on January 25, 2021, and it is happiest when you play with it. This edit covers the face and cheek products I reach for first, the lip, lash and glitter extras, and the cream eyeshadow sticks from other brands that work the same way.
Work Holiday Party Makeup and Beauty: Desk-to-Party Picks
A work holiday party usually starts at a desk with no time to go home first, which makes the beauty question a logistics one before it is a style one. The useful kit is small, something to correct, something to add shine, and one scent that will not fill a shared office. This edit keeps to a few fast, dependable steps instead of a second vanity hiding in a drawer.
Lip, Eye and Nail Makeup: What Actually Changes the Result
Lip, eye and nail makeup works because of formulation and how it is applied, not price. I picked eyeliner, lip oil, highlighter, eyeshadow and nail polish from Haus Labs, Ogee, REFY, Charlotte Tilbury and Chanel.
Lincoln Park After Dark and the Best Dark Plum Polishes
Best plum lipstick and nail match: Lincoln Park After Dark, OPI's near-black plum, its closest cousins and matching plum lipsticks.
Purple Blush That Reads as a Flush, Lilac to Plum
Purple blush sounds risky until it melts into skin and reads as a cool, lit-up flush. These are the lilacs, violets and plums I would try, and how to blend each one so it looks like you.
Red Lipstick Is Back to Being the Whole Look
After years of glossy balms and blurred, barely-there lips, red lipstick is back as a full statement. The shift tracks with a broader return to polish, where a single strong color replaces a complicated face. This edit sorts the reds by personality, from flat mattes and heritage houses to statement cases and comfortable satins.
The First-Date Beauty Edit
A first-date beauty routine works best when it disappears into the evening instead of competing with it. The goal is comfortable skin, a little color, and a scent that already feels familiar, not a face built to withstand interrogation under restaurant lighting. This edit keeps the choices short enough that you forget about them by the time the food arrives.
Westmore Beauty: A Hollywood Makeup Dynasty, Now in Your Bag
Westmore Beauty carries a century of film-set makeup know-how into a small, practical kit of skin tint, filter finish, eyeliner and mascara. Here is that kit, the body makeup that evens out legs and shoulders, and the full-coverage concealers I trust for close-ups.
The Best Eyeliner Color for Brown Eyes Is Not Black
The best eyeliner color for brown eyes is usually something other than black, which can flatten warm irises. Plum, green, bronze and navy all pull out the gold and amber that brown eyes already have. These liners cover the shades that make the best eyeliner color for brown eyes.
Best Advent Calendars of 2026: From Sephora to Dr. Barbara Sturm and Dior
Forty countdowns, from Sephora to Dr. Barbara Sturm and Dior
Morphe Lip Liner: Nude Shades and Liners to Pair
A Morphe lip liner is the easy, no-fuss pencil that makes a nude lip look finished. Here it sits with the matte, creamy and long-wear liners I would reach for, from a soft pink nude to a rich berry.
What Is BB Cream, Explained With Eight to Try
If you have ever wondered what is BB cream, it is a tinted balm that does the work of moisturizer, light base and often sunscreen in one step. Here is a short history, eight BB creams to try, and the tints, primers and powders that help a light base last through the day.
MAC Velvet Teddy Lipstick and the Matte Nudes Like It
The MAC Velvet Teddy lipstick is the deep beige matte that turned a nude-brown lip into a signature. These are the matte nudes that sit in the same family, the satin versions for dry days and the liners that pull it all together.
The No-Makeup Makeup Edit: Five Lessons in Looking Like You Slept Eight Hours
The no-makeup makeup edit, in five lessons: skin prep, skin tints, concealer in the right places, cream blush and the brow, lash and lip finish. I would treat it like a very good haircut, the kind people notice without being able to say what changed.
A Hyaluronic Acid Lip Balm With a Strange Backstory
The hyaluronic acid lip balm you keep in your bag traces back to a 1934 lab paper about cattle eyes. Here are the balms, tints and lip treatments that put it to use.
Winter Wedding Guest Makeup: Long-Wear Beauty Picks
A winter wedding guest routine has to survive a ceremony, a reception and however long the dancing goes, which is a different brief than getting ready for a quick dinner. The pieces to pack are the ones that hold through photographs and a warm room, not a fresh version of every step you already do at home. This edit is a short, useful kit built around skin prep, a polished face and a small bag of touch-ups for later.
Face Mist for Dry Skin: Hydrating Mists for Dry Office Air
Face mist for dry skin: hydrating mists, setting sprays and treatment mists from Caudalie, Summer Fridays and EADEM for dry office air.
How I Wear Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Foundation, Start to Finish
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Foundation is a full-coverage, matte base that first launched to the public in 2019, and it works best as part of a system. Here is the Airbrush Flawless family, the softer Charlotte Tilbury bases for days I want less, and the sponges and brushes that apply them.
The 90s Lip Is Back: Brown Liner and Clear Gloss
The 90s lip is back, a soft brown liner under a clear, glassy gloss. Here are the brown pencils, clear glosses and plumping glosses I would use to wear it now, blended and softer than the first time around.
Guasha Tool Guide: Stones, Oils and Cooling Helpers
A guasha tool has roots in traditional Chinese medicine, and the facial versions are smooth stones you glide over oiled skin. Here are the stones I would look at, the face oils that give them slip, and the rollers and cold tools that sit beside them.
Plated Eye Serum: The Mayo Clinic Research Behind Your Under-Eye Routine
(plated) Skin Science EYE Serum and INTENSE Serum, plus peptide, caffeine, retinol and vitamin C eye serums. I wrote it as the guide I wish I had before I started layering anything under my eyes.
Cream Or Powder Blush, Explained
Cream or powder blush: which suits your skin, how each one wears through a day, and how to apply them without patchiness.
Brown Liner, Frosted Lids and Matte Skin: A Field Guide to 90s Makeup
Brown lips, thin brows, frosted shadow and matte skin: 90s makeup is back, and it is easier to wear than you remember. Here are the lipsticks and liners, the shadow sticks and glitter, and the bronzers that bring the decade to your face.