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Best Thermal Brush for Blowout: Hot Air and Heated Brushes

Best Thermal Brush for Blowout: Hot Air and Heated Brushes

The best thermal brush for blowout, by hair length and finish. Hot air vs heated brushes, and round, oval and flat shapes compared.

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Best Highlighter for Sensitive Skin: Powder, Cream and Balm

Best Highlighter for Sensitive Skin: Powder, Cream and Balm

The best highlighter for sensitive skin starts with texture: powder gives a placed sheen, while cream and balm sit closer to the surface.

Moisturizers and Brightening Creams: How Much Cushion Skin Needs

Moisturizers and Brightening Creams: How Much Cushion Skin Needs

The real choice is how much cushion your skin needs. Shop 17 moisturizers and brightening creams from Dior, Tatcha and Augustinus Bader.

Peptide Skincare: Creams, Patches and Lip Treatments

Peptide Skincare: Creams, Patches and Lip Treatments

Peptides promise results without the retinol negotiation period. Shop peptide creams, patches and lip treatments from Peter Thomas Roth and Allies of Skin.

Average Price of a Candle: What a Good Scented One Costs

Average Price of a Candle: What a Good Scented One Costs

The average price of a candle worth buying runs fifty to a hundred and thirty dollars in a small format, roughly a dollar a gram of wax. I go from small formats to the large pours and holders, and where the money really goes.

Sportswear Style: How Sport Left the Gym for Polos and Tanks

Sportswear Style: How Sport Left the Gym for Polos and Tanks

Sportswear style has moved on from athleisure and now borrows from actual sports. I look at the polos and rib tanks that carry it, from Burberry, Malbon and rag & bone.

LED Face Masks, What They Actually Do

LED Face Masks, What They Actually Do

LED masks moved from clinics to bathroom shelves fast, and what you get now ranges from an impulse buy to a serious appliance. Red light is the one with the most research behind it for firmness, blue is aimed at breakouts, and consistency matters more than wattage. This edit separates the full face masks from the targeted devices, so you can see what you are actually buying.

The Best Lip Balm for Dry Lips

The Best Lip Balm for Dry Lips

Repair balms, SPF and tints for dry lips

The Best Body Lotion Is the One You Reach For Wet

The Best Body Lotion Is the One You Reach For Wet

Body care is the step most people skip and then wonder why nothing improves. The best body lotion works on timing as much as formulation. These eight are rich enough to matter and quick enough to survive a morning.

L'Heure Bleue 1912: Guerlain's New Eau de Parfum Explained

L'Heure Bleue 1912: Guerlain's New Eau de Parfum Explained

L'Heure Bleue 1912 is Jacques Guerlain's original perfume, and it still exists unchanged next to a new Eau de Parfum by Delphine Jelk. I explain what the new version adds and which size I would start with.

Holiday Travel Beauty Essentials: Mini Skincare and Hair Care

Holiday Travel Beauty Essentials: Mini Skincare and Hair Care

Holiday travel beauty is less romantic than a summer trip, mostly airports, relatives and a bathroom that is never your own for more than a night. Packing a full routine for that kind of trip just means a heavier bag and rushed decisions once you actually get there. This edit sorts the kit into what handles the road, refillable basics and dependable sunscreen, and what stays in the bag for the actual visit, a rich cream, a little color and one hair fix.

Warm-Weather Getaway Beauty: SPF, Body Care and Travel Skincare

Warm-Weather Getaway Beauty: SPF, Body Care and Travel Skincare

A warm-weather escape is rougher on beauty basics than a typical trip, with sun, humidity and salt water working against whatever you put on that morning. The easy mistake is packing an entire bathroom shelf of products for a bag that will mostly live in beach sand. This edit sorts the kit by moment, protection first, then a little color and hair fix for getting ready, and a calmer step for after the sun goes down.

Ski Weekend Beauty: Skincare and Lip Care for Snow and Wind

Ski Weekend Beauty: Skincare and Lip Care for Snow and Wind

A ski weekend puts unusual pressure on a small beauty bag, glare off snow and dry wind during the day, then a fast turnaround to dinner at night. Overpacking is the common mistake, bringing a full routine for a trip that only allows for quick, half-frozen hands at the mirror. This edit keeps the kit to sun protection you will actually reapply, one hair fix for hat-flattened, wind-dried strands, and a couple of dependable lip and skin steps for the evening.

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Aspen Beauty Packing List: Skincare for Cold, Dry Altitude

Aspen Beauty Packing List: Skincare for Cold, Dry Altitude

Aspen beauty packing has one real variable to plan around, which is what altitude and cold wind do to skin and hair over a long weekend. The instinct is to bring a full shelf of products for every scenario, but the version that actually gets used is smaller and organized by moment rather than category. This edit sorts the trip into three parts, hydration for the altitude, a few fast pieces for the change from slopes to dinner, and one overnight treatment to undo what the day left behind.

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Hotel Bathroom Beauty: Travel-Size Skincare, Fragrance and Hair

Hotel Bathroom Beauty: Travel-Size Skincare, Fragrance and Hair

A hotel bathroom beauty edit is really an exercise in negotiating with bad lighting, an unfamiliar counter, and a shower that never quite matches what you use at home. Most people either overpack a full routine in miniature or underpack and end up relying on whatever the hotel leaves by the sink. This edit picks the travel formats that actually solve that problem, from sun care and a trial moisturizer to hair, face and one small finishing touch.

Plane to Dinner Beauty: Travel Makeup and Skincare to Pack

Plane to Dinner Beauty: Travel Makeup and Skincare to Pack

The jump from a red-eye cabin to a dinner reservation is a beauty problem with a short deadline, not a full routine. Dry air and bad sleep show up first on the lips and skin, so the fix has to be fast and to take up little space in a carry-on. This edit sorts a compact routine into what gets you through the flight and what turns that same tired face into a dinner-ready one.

Skims Pajamas

Skims Pajamas

The Sets that Made Sleepwear Part Of The Outfit

Deiji Studios Pajamas: Linen Sets, Shirts and Easy Dresses

Deiji Studios Pajamas: Linen Sets, Shirts and Easy Dresses

Deiji Studios makes linen pajama sets and daywear, and it began with linen bedding in a Byron Bay garage in 2016. I look at the shirt and shorts sets, floral pajamas and dresses that keep the same ease.

Sleeper Pajama Sets: Three Ways to Wear the Sleeper Set

Sleeper Pajama Sets: Three Ways to Wear the Sleeper Set

A Sleeper pajama set is the piece that turned loungewear into something people photograph. I go through the pajama sets first, then the dresses and separates.

Cozyland Pajamas Are Loungewear With A Real Point Of View

Cozyland Pajamas Are Loungewear With A Real Point Of View

Cozyland pajamas are built around one silhouette, the Ellie set, and then repeated across prints until you find your one. Cotton, a relaxed camp-collar top and a straight trouser. It is a brand that decided it only needed to make a single thing properly.

The Best Tinted Moisturizer With SPF Finally Merges Two Steps Into One

The Best Tinted Moisturizer With SPF Finally Merges Two Steps Into One

The best tinted moisturizer with SPF finally merges two steps into one, which sounds simple until you realize most people apply far too thin a layer to get real protection from either half. Complexion coverage and sun protection do not automatically travel together just because they share a bottle, and the amount you actually put on decides which one wins. This edit compares finishes from matte and mineral to glow-forward, judged by the same standard: real coverage from a full application, not a flattering swipe.

The Sun Hat Is The Only Sunscreen That Does Not Wear Off

The Sun Hat Is The Only Sunscreen That Does Not Wear Off

Sunscreen needs reapplying every two hours and a brim does not. Eight sun hats, eight pairs of sunglasses and eight cover-ups from $105.

The Sweatpants That Don't Look Like Pajamas

The Sweatpants That Don't Look Like Pajamas

Soft volume, clean lines, and a finish ready for the rest of the day.

My Fall Hair Essentials

My Fall Hair Essentials

After a summer of salt, sun and air-drying, my hair wants moisture and a little structure. This fall edit keeps things simple, with products that each carry their weight in the routine. Here is what I am washing, treating, styling and sleeping on this season.

What to Wear to Pilates, and After

What to Wear to Pilates, and After

The best Pilates outfits fit close without digging in, so you can move freely through every exercise. These picks cover sports bras, leggings and bike shorts, warm-up layers and easy pieces for after class. Most of them work just as well for a walk or a coffee run.

Cushion Foundation Went From K-Beauty Novelty to Every Luxury Counter

Cushion Foundation Went From K-Beauty Novelty to Every Luxury Counter

Cushion foundation started as a Korean invention that looked like a compact and behaved like a sponge soaked in skin tint. It spread because it fits the current appetite for skin that looks like skin, dewy and adjustable rather than masked. These are our selects from the original Korean houses to the European and Japanese luxury brands that turned the format into a refillable object.

Loveseat Sleepers for the Guest Room You Don't Have

Loveseat Sleepers for the Guest Room You Don't Have

Loveseat sleepers are how you host overnight guests in a home with no guest room. These are the ones I would look at, plus the bedding that makes a pull-out feel like a real bed.

Grande Lash Serum and Other Lash Serums Worth Knowing

Grande Lash Serum and Other Lash Serums Worth Knowing

Grande lash serum comes as GrandeLASH-MD and GrandeLASH Peptide+, with GrandeBROW serums for brows. I compare them with other lash and brow serums and explain why this routine rewards patience.