I’ll be honest, I think I wear more makeup than my genetically blessed and baby-skinned coworkers. I have rampant adult acne, y’all! It’s OK, I’m not that bitter. Not everyone can radiate sunshine out of their pores. And while I’m not over here wearing a dramatically contoured face everyday (because really who has the…

In skincare, as in life, I prefer the dramatic. Instead of taking the time and energy to actually learn what works for my skin, I always dismissed skincare as frivolous or complex, without realizing that I had been callously over-exfoliating. For the past 17-ish years of my life—starting around the time Blu Cantrell…

About ten months into dating my boyfriend, I stumbled into his apartment at 1 a.m. after an impromptu night of drinking with coworkers. Because his apartment is a 20-minute walk from my office, and because we had kept in touch throughout the night and he knew the state I was in, this wasn’t an issue.

The world has changed considerably since the last time I documented my daily product use, which was all the way back in February 2015. That’s three-plus years. Life was simpler then. Climate was changing slightly less, racism barely existed :), and a bag of Cheetos was exactly the same price as it is now. Back then, I…

This year on my mom’s birthday, I gave her and ultimately myself the best gift ever; I quit smoking cigarettes. Smoking was part of me for—gasp—almost half of my life. My grandmother smoked two packs a day, my grandfather died on a horse while smoking, my aunt, uncle and cousins smoked so much they collected enough…

Isabella Rossellini has been on the cover of Vogue 23 times, acted in David Lynch movies, and appeared in Madonna’s Sex book, but all she wants to do right now is talk about how animals fuck.

When I was younger, I remember looking at women with (what I thought was) effortlessly beautiful curly hair and being perplexed at the fact that mine didn’t just naturally wake up looking like that. Little did I know, maintaining curly hair actually takes a lot of effort!

By now you might be aware that Brandon Truaxe, the CEO of cult beauty brand Deciem (which sells those super affordable Ordinary serums), has been wreaking havoc in the beauty industry.

Something is in the air—spring, allergies, tiny baby birds—and it is driving me to open my wallet and scream “Yas, I want to look like I’m in the chorus of a high school production of Meet Me in St. Louis!” as I throw a very specific shade of blue eye shadow into online shopping carts across the web.

Early morning. Me wake up. Knock knock knock—the pee in my bladder.

Not everyone can age as well as Jennifer Lopez, although many people, judging by the number of search results that come up when you Google “how can I look like Jennifer Lopez???”, would like to know how she does it. The Bronx-born and raised superstar has kept her beauty secrets under lock and key, simply telling E!…

I’ll be moving out of my apartment this month, which means that I should take a hard look at my belongings and eliminate the unnecessary. However, I’m a hoarder and will most likely be packing up every insignificant article that I’ve collected since moving to New York, much to my expense.

First, there were the intimate and sometimes even cruel Instagram posts and replies from CEO Brandon Truaxe of the trendy skin care company Deciem. Then, it was reported that Truaxe had fired the company’s co-CEO Nicola Kilner and the CFO Stephen Kaplan was also out of the picture.

Until recently, my adult life had been characterized by negligence when it came to beauty and skincare. I’d slather coconut oil all over my face and body and call it a night. In the mornings, I’d forget about SPF like a UV-irradiated degenerate. Laziness was the deciding factor — but it wasn’t without an aversion to…

Here’s a strange little glimpse at Glam Masters, the Kim Kardashian-produced reality competition show about beauty YouTubers hosted by Laverne Cox, which is out February 28. It’s 30 minutes long—a bit lengthy for a “teaser,” but you know... why not?

The cool girl is able to look runway-ready exactly one instant out of rolling out of bed. She maintains a dewy glow, even in the dead of winter, and all she needs (or all she’ll tell you she needs) is a “dab of chapstick.” The cool girl is somehow free of blemish, scar, hyperpigmentation, dryness, or oil slick—in…

There’s one area of living that the tech giants can’t take from us and it’s our precious beauty salons.

Welcome to Face Cadet, a beauty column wherein we slather various pigments and tinctures on our facial zones, then let you know if they’re worth it.

Since Fenty Beauty was such a massive success with woman of color who typically can’t find darker makeup shades in a sea of beige, several brands have started stressing or expanding the color range of their products. And now Kylie Jenner seems to be following Fenty’s lead, launching a 30-shade line of concealers.

I have been a freelancer for almost two years, and in that time I have transitioned from “normal, if under-groomed, office gal” to “semi-feral blog waif.” I work extremely erratic hours, which means my days are unrecognizable from one to the next; I’ll often go multiple in a row without having a conversation longer…