Beauty

There’s good heat and bad heat. Stuck on the Q train in mid-August with no air conditioning? Bad heat. A poolside cabana in Cabo San Lucas? Good heat. Heat-styling your hair after every wash? Not so great heat. While a blow-dryer can give you a big, bouncy style, and a curling iron can truly be a magic wand, sometimes it’s …

Tester feedback: “I’ve been a die-hard GHD Platinum+ Styler ever since I could flatiron my hair—and I’ve been styling my hair weekly with straighteners for almost 20 years,” says commerce writer Jennifer Hussein. “I have especially thick, wavy-curly hair that won’t bend to the heat of most flatirons, but its 365-degree Fahrenheit temperature whips my strands into shape without frying …

It goes without saying, but Rihanna is a trendsetter. But even the most influential among us are influenceable, so is it so crazy to think the superstar singer and entrepreneur might be browsing Pinterest for new hair ideas? It just so happens that side bangs have been creeping up in search popularity on the idea-amassing site, and we can’t help …

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There are mothers, and there are Mothers. The former is a role as old as time; the latter you may have heard of only if you’ve seen Paris is Burning or RuPaul’s Drag Race, or follow Pat McGrath on Instagram. To be Mother is one of the highest titles one can earn in the drag scene and beyond, and signals …