As Mixael Laufer tells it, the vision came to him in El Salvador. Laufer was visiting Central America as a human rights envoy, touring a tiny, rural mountain town with the Marin County Peace and Justice Coalition. When he arrived at the town’s medical clinic, it had just run out of birth control.
There’s no denying that, over the past decade and a half, music has opened up. The internet’s made way for genre explorations and collaborations that, before, might have never seemed possible; it’s obliterated regionalism (and perhaps territorialism), given global music acolytes access to the micro-est of genres,…
Ikea has recently unveiled plans for The Dining Club, a restaurant in Shoreditch, London where diners can, under the supervision of a chef, cook dinner for a large party of friends. What’s next? A warehouse style furniture store where you’re forced to spend the entire day walking around and fighting with your…
As many of us spend today flipping through the endless Coachella style diaries of eager and well-meaning fashion websites, I am yet again paralyzed by the fatigue of what we as a society have deemed “Coachella style,” a manner of dressing that can hardly be called style at all, but more specifically a “uniform” or a…
On a scale of one to ten—one being Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who is literal royalty and has never touched a scissor, and ten being Martha Stewart’s youngest, thirstiest Craft Assistant, who probably got engaged at a goose farm last June and has an Exacto knife in place of one of her Jamberry nail wraps—I’d say…
Ever since Sarah Maslin Nir’s investigative pieces on the poor working conditions and human rights violations at nail salons, manicure fans might be wondering what the most responsible nail route is going forward. While it’s great news that Governor Andrew Cuomo quickly stepped in, ordering investigations to be…
No one wants to hear about Coachella any more, so we’re not going to tell you what inspired this nail art, only that you’ll need two types of tape to achieve it: Scotch and striping. This variety pack of striping tape was half off at Sally’s which made the gold roll we’re going to use about $.50. Excellent. Aside…
As we talked about last time, color choice is key to nailing this look. We're going to use polish and rhinestones, in a simple way, but the trick is to choose ones that are just barely a shade different from each other. This will create an almost imperceptible depth to your design. So chic.
"I have too much jewelry," said no woman ever!
Employees at a chain of British DIY stores are being encouraged to flip through Fifty Shades of Grey and get ready to field relevant questions from curious customers, and managers "need to be aware of the implications that the film may have on stock levels." This is probably the most exciting thing to hit hardware…
Here are a few promises about the nail art tutorials you're going to see around here:
We were hoping to start this series with a tutorial on how to do a basic mani-pedi at home, but then this shit happened. Here's how to save a broken nail.
Hey, all you origami lovers out there: go back to folding paper, and then folding it again, because I have here a grave offense to your craft.
In Just The Tips, Katy and Katie heed the siren song of "best life" advice in the realms of fashion, makeup, DIY, crafts, and home decor. Their efforts are met with only varying degrees of success; their spirits remain suspiciously undefeated. Today, they make sexy underwear for fruit.
The wedding dress is a torture device. Not necessarily in the physical sense — unless you're sporting a Pnina Tornai piece of corsetry that promises to elegantly fuse your spleen to your gall bladder because it's your special day — but the dress can certainly be a nasty piece of psychological weaponry, particularly…
You probably won't be surprised to learn that Pinterest has a corporate HQ full of twee, crafty little touches that fair scream D.I.Y. It is enough to make me run screaming in the other direction. Yes, I know that I am a cranky, crotchety bat.
When Sarah Goer and her husband discovered a disused storage space attached to their son's room, they decided to convert it into a Secret Treasure Room. For years, they concealed the room's entrance with a dresser, waiting for the perfect moment – their son's fourth birthday – to reveal its existence. Here, Sarah…
Do you suffer from acute boring floor-itis? Welcome back to DIY, where solutions for all your wardrobe- and decor-related snafus are at hand.
If you've been wishing and hoping (and thinking and praying) for a way to create a dress that's even a little bit like some of the amazing fashions out of The Hunger Games, your dreams have just come true. Natalie Walsh has posted both this video and instructions on how to make your own fantastic luminescent dress…
A new survey shows that more women are becoming "do-it-yourselfers," spending money and time fixing things around the house themselves—GASP—without the aid of a man.
