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Garance x La Mer
In the world of sensual, trustworthy and luxurious beauty, La Mer has always held a special place. The line gives me a sense of confidence that my skin is taken care of.
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A Backyard Soirée
I love planning dinners and having lots of people over, but it stresses me out!!! Sometimes, in the hour before my guests arrive, I feel like I’m about to have a panic attack because nothing seems ready.
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The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Your Skin
When you’re a beauty editor, you get used to fielding questions from aunts/ sisters/ friends/ random-women-you-meet-in-the-restaurant-bathroom. Yes, we do get free product. Yes my beauty cabinet is...
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Perfect Pairs: Which Beauty Products You Should and Should Not Layer
Some things just go together: cheese and wine, white shirts and blue jeans, Meghan and Harry. But, if you’ve ever accidentally poured month-old milk into your morning coffee, you’ll know the effects of...
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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT RETINOL
If you were to approach any impossibly glowy and radiant woman and plead for the secrets to their literal skincare brilliance, you’re likely to hear a few of the same responses over and over again....
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I Got Botox for the First Time And Have a Lot to Say About It.
About a month ago at holiday party I had one of those weird out of body experiences where you’ve had 2.5 glasses of champagne and not enough canapés to balance the bubbles. You’re just the right amount...
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What’s Going On With Our Necks?
Bestselling author, revolutionary director, and gone-too-soon and all-around extraordinary person Nora Ephron once wrote in her wry 2006 book I Feel Bad About My Neck, “You can put makeup on your face...
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What I Learned from Hours of YouTube Beauty Tutorials
When I don’t shoot, I retouch what I’ve shot. It takes hours. This photo that you see in the header of this post – took an hour and 15 mins. As you can imagine, it’s a lot of staring at the computer....
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What Alcohol Really Does to Your Skin
I’ve been writing about beauty for almost the same amount of time that I’ve had a taste for wine. Yet, in those decades, never have I asked what it does to your skin. Not in casual conversation, not in...
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Beauty 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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EVERYTHING 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...
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Streamlined 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...
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Are 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...
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Smooth 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,...
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How 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...
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What 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...
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Cellulite 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...
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Lasers, 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...
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The 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...
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Let’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...
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