It’s been a hot minute since we checked in on Brandon Truaxe, the CEO of cult beauty brand Deciem who you might remember as having an extremely bizarre approach to the company’s social media. After sparring with customers on Instagram, abruptly firing staff, and posting a photo of a homeless woman to the Deciem…
“It rubs the lotion on its skin....”
I was very proud of myself for using very few products until I started accounting all of mine for this product diary. It turns out I am just as much of a slave to the Sephora industrial complex as everyone else, even though I am not very good at putting on makeup. That is one of my darkest secrets, one I have managed…
Love it, hate it, or begrudgingly buy it even though you’re hyper-aware of how uber-trendy it is and secretly wish your shopping choices reflected some sense of individuality, Glossier ain’t going away anytime soon.
I recently started worrying about my skin—the sort of small worry wrapped up a larger worry about aging and death—but not enough to do anything extreme about it. Do I do enough to keep it healthy and clear? Is my routine too lazy and in need of a wider variety of products? Will I look old and weathered by the time I’m…
A few months ago, I started noticing that whenever I washed or combed my hair, huge clumps of it would fall out. I ignored it—I have (had?) a lot of hair, and I figured I was maybe just going through a stressful time in my life, or that my body was getting used to a new medication I’d started taking.
I have few regrets from my period of employment at Gizmodo Media Group, but never writing a product diary has always been high up on the list. I read them obsessively—one of my favorite creepy interests is watching other people’s beauty routines, and product diaries are basically that, but in blog form.
If eating too much red meat and walking yourself right up to the edge of a stroke over racist conspiracy theories has taken a toll on your skin, I have good news.
I am agnostic down to my soul, which is to say that I have a very strong belief in possibility. I am as set in my ways as one can be while acknowledging that those ways mainly consist of stumbling through life while trying to do what’s right but never coming close to having it all figured out. This is my approach to…
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…
Drake is working on a new album and you can tell, apparently, by the bags under his eyes.
Skincare: So hot right now that even Fiona the hippo is doing it and—more excitingly—sharing her routine with the world. Teach us how to get that slimy glow and we’ll be forever grateful, Fi!
Early morning. Me wake up. Knock knock knock—the pee in my bladder.
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.
The drama at Deciem, parent company of The Ordinary, continues apace with this update: word on the street is that Brandon Truaxe, the enigmatic CEO who treats skincare like a tech startup, has somehow availed the company of co-CEO Nicola Kilner.
Hello my dewy-skinned angel babies. Have I got some plump, and juicy skincare-adjacent drama for you!!
A few weeks ago, I nibbled a Xanax, chugged some water, and got on a 16-hour plane ride to Taiwan. Usually I am not concerned with what my face is doing on a long plane ride. But a year spent fully immersed in the annals of beauty blogs and this post written by a woman with a skincare regime that is both aspirational…
Apparently The Revenant co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy engaged in a sporting wager over who would get nominated for an Oscar, which, two years later, resulted in Hardy getting a lame tattoo.
