Fashion

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 …

Tester feedback: “Most retinol formulas leave my skin red and aching the morning after application, but this one houses aloe vera, glycerin, and rosemary leaf extract to hydrate dry skin and soothe, leaving behind fresh-looking skin that’s not tight-feeling or itchy every single time I use it,” senior news editor Nicola Dall’Asen previously wrote. “It’s the rare retinol formula that …

Yes, we’re shedding a single tear for the end of summer, but nothing dries our eyes quite like an avalanche of the best back-to-school sales tumbling into our open carts. Whether you’re shopping for your final semester at college, spoiling your freshly minted high school sophomore, or not even actively enrolled (hey, a sale’s a sale!), a new school year …

As an avid user of mineral sunscreens, shopping director Shanna Shipin majorly approves of this peach-tinted SPF. “It has an amazing light-reflecting luminosity that blurs the skin while providing straightforward zinc oxide protection,” Shipin noted in our roundup of glowy sunscreens. Regarding the tint, which she was initially skeptical about, she said that “it melts in instantly, leaving nothing but …

As we continue to navigate the ongoing health battles, protecting our immune system has become more important than ever. With the world focusing on the importance of a healthy immune system, it has become crucial to recognize key vitamins and minerals that help bolster our immunity. One such nutrient is Vitamin C, an essential vitamin that can aid in preventing …

Tester feedback: “I love the wash of color just one finger-dip of this shadow gives me,” says contributing commerce writer Annie Blackman. “It’s subtle, bridging the gap between shimmery and not-so-shimmery, and the Auburn Aura shade (pictured above) is a sophisticatedly sexy addition to any look—especially with my bluish green eyes.” Key ingredients: mica, vitamin E, chamomile, aloe vera | …