Four Things to Copy from Your Facialist
After the last two years of cute events like lockdowns and Covid-iso we may have gotten reasonably adept at our DIY aesthetician skills, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t ditch the YouTube and TikTok...
View ArticleTake Your Vitamins
Navigating the alphabet of skincare options out there can be a monumental task, not too dissimilar from learning the actual alphabet many years past. (If you’re using Vitamin A diligently though, not a...
View ArticleHard Stop on Hard Water
When venturing abroad, your thoughts are rightly occupied by where to have pre-dinner drinks, how swiftly you can do the pool-to-bar lap and what gem-adorned shoes go with the most outfits pre-planned...
View ArticleSlow and Steady Beauty with Dahlia Devkota
It started with a library card. As a child, Dahlia Devkota would spend Sundays at the public library with her father. “I would go and check out books on natural beauty,” she begins when asked about...
View ArticleLight Years Ahead
I somehow managed to skate by in High School with nary a pimple. Don’t worry though, acne caught up with me in my early twenties and by 22 I was in constant combat with deep cystic acne on my chin and...
View ArticleSlow and Steady Beauty with Dahlia Devkota
It started with a library card. As a child, Dahlia Devkota would spend Sundays at the public library with her father. “I would go and check out books on natural beauty,” she begins when asked about...
View ArticleBeauty is Knowing Yourself
About a month after I had my baby, I FaceTimed my best friend, Bee, from my new office. By “new office,” I mean the rocking chair in my bedroom where I spent 80% of my time breastfeeding. My shirt was...
View ArticleOur Brows
Sometime in 1997, before my freshman year of high school, I stole a pair of tweezers from my Mother’s makeup drawer, sat in front of a mirror with a photo of Kate Moss, and went to town on my brows. By...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Rosacea
Skincare is never a one size fits all type of scenario. With rosacea, the type of condition and treatment varies from individual to the next. It can be a frustrating and anxiety-inducing condition that...
View ArticleLet’s Talk about Acne with Sofie Pavitt
If you had asked teenage Sarah about her skin, she’d have told you vehemently (with exaggerated arm gestures for added melodrama) that it was a zit colony, where all the disgusting pustules got...
View ArticleThe Skin You’re In
Looking back, it’s a bit ironic to think that I was a swimmer in high school… because it necessitated so much of my body being shown. A body I was acutely aware of and which I covered as much as...
View ArticleLasers, Peels, and Micro, Oh My!
It feels like everyone I know seems to be talking about lasers, peels, microneedling and microdermabrasion. Everyone wants to get something or is about to get something or just had a little something...
View ArticleCellulite versus Body Positivity
I do not remember a time when I did not have cellulite on my ass. Fetus onward, there were dimples. I didn’t think much of it until society told me to think a lot about it, which was when I was about...
View ArticleWhat is Colostrum and How Can it Benefit Your Skin?
I remember the moment like it was yesterday. I had recently stopped breastfeeding and now had the time and mental capacity to readdress my grooming and beauty routines, starting with a much needed...
View ArticleHow Much Beauty is Too Much Beauty?
Are you a skin minimalist or do you love an extensive routine? Once upon a time, a skincare routine consisted of face wash and a moisturizer. In college (a long ago version of me), I was lucky if I...
View ArticleSmooth Operator
When I was young, my mom would help me wax my own legs using one of those at-home kits you plugged into a wall. It was a roller with a cartridge and, once heated up, coated my legs in sticky,...
View ArticleAre Mushrooms the Key to Our Future?
Late last year, The New York Times posed the question, “Are Mushrooms the Future of Wellness?” An astute observation, as mushrooms seemed to be abundantly emerging in unlikely places—filling our...
View ArticleStreamlined Beauty: Why You Don’t Need Eye Cream
I don’t know about you but 2020 has got me Marie Kondo-ing my whole life. Something about spending months indoors looking at the same spaces, clothing, and things in general has made me really consider...
View ArticleEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CACTUS IN BEAUTY
The word cactus is typically synonymous with dry, desert conditions, prickly surfaces, pain, and a plant that should be avoided (‘don’t touch’ comes to mind)– not so much as an ingredient in beauty...
View ArticleBeauty in Quarantine
Ahhhhh quarantine. A time for me to have a personal spa day everyday as I luxuriate in my silk robe and participate in a 12 step skin care routine so that I shall emerge from this time with the skin of...
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