Fashion

Charles says Fulani braids are one of the most requested hairstyles at her salon, explaining that its appeal is in how customizable it is. Her clients love how creative they can be when “choosing their design for the front of the head or the cornrow part,” she says. Braiders, celebrities, and content creators are putting modern twists on the classic …

How did your beauty “thing” become your beauty “thing”? That’s the question we’re posing to celebrities in our new series, Just One Thing. Of course, journalists that we are, we’re also taking the opportunity to ask about the one beauty product that helps keep their thing… thing-ing. For this installment, we caught up with Chlöe Bailey at the Martha’s Vineyard …

By this point, you’ve heard the word “demure,” perhaps even used it yourself, more in the past week than in the previous calendar decade. It’s because of a makeup artist named Jools Lebron, who recently shared a video explaining how and why she maintains a respectful amount of daily glamor when she arrives at her place of employment. “I do …

Editor’s tip: Since this scalp treatment also contains heavy moisturizers, it’s meant to be a post-shampoo treatment that substitutes your usual conditioner. Key ingredients: rice powder buffing beads, salicylic acid, papaya enzymes, pineapple enzymes, Kalahari melon oil, jojoba oil | Fragrance-free: no Best Multi-Use Formula: Ouai Scalp & Body Scrub Why it’s worth it: Dr. Camp loves that Ouai’s Scalp …

That evening, I washed my face with a gentle cleanser and applied the most ceramide-packed moisturizer I own to prevent any further irritation before calling it a night. The following day, I noticed my skin looked a lot smoother, more even-toned, and bouncy than it had the day before. I avoided any actives, such as retinol and AHAs, for the …

If you have long hair, you can skip the bun, and just pull your hair back into a ponytail and bobby pin it up so it’s upside down on your head. If you go this route, curling the pieces in your ponytail before securing it can help create that rose-shaped bun that sits atop the French roll later on. TikTok …

Highlights, lowlights—it’s all semantics, right? Well, not exactly: These similar-sounding coloring techniques yield very different results, especially on blonde hair. If you ask the internet which look proved more popular this summer, it will undoubtedly tell you that lowlights reigned supreme. Recently, people have been repeatedly typing the phrase “lowlights on blonde hair” into the Pinterest search bar, causing a …

Editor’s tip: Hussein loves to follow this intensive formula with a cushiony, hydrating body lotion. Her current lotion of choice: First Aid Beauty’s Ultra Repair Body Lotion, a thick cream spiked with colloidal oatmeal that soothes any retinol-related irritation she sometimes experiences. Key ingredients: 0.25% pure retinol, 5% niacinamide, 3% glycerin | Who it’s for: those seeking a lightweight, layering-friendly …

Not a single insecurity we’ve ever had about our bodies has been by accident. As far back as the 1950s, advertising brought tiny waists into fashion, a beauty standard that would endure through the “heroin chic” era of the 2000s, in which tabloids dissected celebrities’ bodies with increasingly rigorous standards and new terminology for so-called flaws like “love handles” and …

How many of us can say we’re skilled at acting, skydiving, and drawing on bold red lipstick? (Heck, we’d take any one of the three.) But actor Pom Klementieff—who has displayed her physical prowess on-screen in Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One and multiple films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—has somehow mastered all of the above. When she’s not on-set …