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Travel-Size Perfume for Holiday Travel

Travel-Size Perfume for Holiday Travel

Travel-size perfume is the easiest way to bring your scent home for the holidays without checking a bag. Here are the small sprays, rollerballs and discovery sets I would pack, from vanilla and sandalwood to rose and hinoki.

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A Harlem Sidewalk, a Grandmother's Recipes and SheaMoisture Shampoo

A Harlem Sidewalk, a Grandmother's Recipes and SheaMoisture Shampoo

The story behind SheaMoisture shampoo runs from a 1912 market in Sierra Leone to a Harlem sidewalk. Here are the shampoos, conditioners and curl creams to build a wash day around, plus four hydrating shampoos from other labels.

Makeup Brushes for Face, Cheeks and Eyes, Minus the Drawer Clutter

Makeup Brushes for Face, Cheeks and Eyes, Minus the Drawer Clutter

Most makeup bags hold too many brushes and not enough of the right ones. Here are the face brushes for foundation and powder, the cheek brushes for blush, bronzer and contour, and the small eye and brow brushes that do the precise work, the short list that covers almost everything.

How To Clean Makeup Brushes Without Wrecking Them

How To Clean Makeup Brushes Without Wrecking Them

Learning how to clean makeup brushes properly comes down to a few habits dermatologists actually recommend, not a deep scrub every night. The American Academy of Dermatology says brushes need washing every 7 to 10 days to keep bacteria from building up, and the method matters as much as the schedule. Here is the routine, plus the cleansers, mats and tools that make it easier.

Cocokind Resurrection Polypeptide Cream: Founder, Formula And Peptide Rivals

Cocokind Resurrection Polypeptide Cream: Founder, Formula And Peptide Rivals

Cocokind resurrection polypeptide cream is a fragrance-free jar built on a polypeptide complex, squalane and a desert plant with a good story. Here is what is in it, who I would give it to, and the other peptide moisturizers and firming creams to compare it with.

Glitter Lipstick for the Party Season

Glitter Lipstick for the Party Season

Glitter lipstick is the fastest way to look dressed up with almost no effort at the mirror. These are the sparkly lipsticks, glitter glosses and shimmer lip oils I would pack for every party between now and New Year's.

NYX Butter Gloss: The Non-Sticky Lip Gloss Story, Shades And What To Pair

NYX Butter Gloss: The Non-Sticky Lip Gloss Story, Shades And What To Pair

NYX Butter Gloss is the dessert-named, non-sticky lip gloss that grew out of a Los Angeles brand started at 25. Here is how I would wear it, which liners frame it best, and the glosses, masks and balms I would keep beside it, starting with the original Butter Gloss.

The Best Body Lotion Is the One You Reach For Wet

The Best Body Lotion Is the One You Reach For Wet

Body care is the step most people skip and then wonder why nothing improves. The best body lotion works on timing as much as formulation. These eight are rich enough to matter and quick enough to survive a morning.

The Banana Clip and the Claw Clips That Took Its Place

The Banana Clip and the Claw Clips That Took Its Place

The banana clip is the curved, hinged comb that gathered hair into a tall 1980s ponytail. Here it is with the claws that took its place and eight dressier clips, bows and pins.

The Best Korean Moisturizer Is Hydration First, Everything Else Second

The Best Korean Moisturizer Is Hydration First, Everything Else Second

The best korean moisturizer answers to hydration first and everything else, glow, calm, barrier support, second. Korean moisturizer went mainstream in the West on the back of snail mucin, a slick, faintly tacky filtrate that plumps skin without the greasy finish of a petrolatum cream. This edit follows the category from that original texture through the barrier creams, water bombs and glass-skin gels that built on it.

The Best Dry Shampoo for Every Hair Color, From Sprays to Powders and Foam

The Best Dry Shampoo for Every Hair Color, From Sprays to Powders and Foam

The best dry shampoo depends on your hair color, your scalp and how much you mind white residue. Here are clear sprays, tinted formulas and non-aerosol powders, a mist and a foam.

Where Your Brushes Live: A Makeup Organizer for Every Kind of Mess

Where Your Brushes Live: A Makeup Organizer for Every Kind of Mess

Finding the right makeup organizer is less about looks and more about being able to see everything in five seconds. This edit covers the acrylic drawers and rotating stands for a dresser, the hard train cases, and the soft pouches for the bag.

Slingbacks, Silk Scarves and Statement Belts for Fall

Slingbacks, Silk Scarves and Statement Belts for Fall

Some accessories are simply having a moment, and this fall that means slingback pumps, suede clutches, silk scarves and statement belts. This edit gathers the best of each, plus a little animal print. Any one of them can refresh an outfit you already own.

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Charlotte Tilbury Lip Liner: The Lip Cheat Shades I Reach For

Charlotte Tilbury Lip Liner: The Lip Cheat Shades I Reach For

The Charlotte Tilbury lip liner called Lip Cheat is the pencil that started the brand's lip story. I sort the shades by undertone, cover the Pillow Talk and Super Nudes options, and add liners from other brands for comparison.

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NYX Blush: Buttermelt, Fat Cheeks and Wonder Stick Shades

NYX Blush: Buttermelt, Fat Cheeks and Wonder Stick Shades

A nyx blush comes in three very different textures, from the buttery pressed powder of Buttermelt to the juicy Fat Cheeks liquid and the Wonder Stick. Here is how I would choose between them, and which shades from other brands sit next to each one.

Expensive Perfume: The Famous Bottles and What Makes Them Special

Expensive Perfume: The Famous Bottles and What Makes Them Special

Expensive perfume usually comes down to three things: the concentration, the person who composed it and the history of the house. These are the famous prestige bottles, the fashion house private collections and the extraits I would smell first.

La Veste

La Veste

The brand began with two friends walking to a show during Paris Fashion Week deciding, more or less on the spot, to start a brand. Stylist Blanca Miro and designer Maria de la Orden founded it in 2018 and named it after the French word for blazer, because at first that was all they intended to make. It is now the most recognisable of the new Spanish labels and still runs on the same instinct.

The Black Tie Dress, Done Right

The Black Tie Dress, Done Right

A black tie dress means one thing: floor length, formal fabric that holds its shape under photography and dance floor lighting, with a hem that grazes the floor in heels and a neckline you won't be adjusting all night.

The Flats Worth Replacing Your Uncomfortable Shoes With

The Flats Worth Replacing Your Uncomfortable Shoes With

Soft support, flexible soles, and neat profiles make long days feel lighter.

The Long Sleeve Dress For Weather That Can't Decide

The Long Sleeve Dress For Weather That Can't Decide

One layer, no jacket math required.

Over-the-Knee Boots

Over-the-Knee Boots

Boots that stop above the knee

Milk Blush: Jelly Tints, Cream Sticks and Look-Alikes

Milk Blush: Jelly Tints, Cream Sticks and Look-Alikes

Milk blush began as a sideline of a downtown New York creative studio and became a jelly tint with a waitlist of more than 60,000. Here are the jelly tints, the cream sticks and the gel blushes I would wear beside them.

Wedding Guest Nails That Stay Out of the Bride's Way

Wedding Guest Nails That Stay Out of the Bride's Way

Wedding guest nails should look polished in photos without pulling focus from the couple. Here are sheer polishes and milky press-ons that do exactly that.

Tiffany Perfume: The Iris Signature, Rose Gold And What To Wear Nearby

Tiffany Perfume: The Iris Signature, Rose Gold And What To Wear Nearby

Tiffany perfume is built around iris, a flower the jeweller has used as a motif, in a faceted bottle with a blue collar. Here is the signature eau de parfum, Rose Gold and Tiffany & Love, plus iris perfumes, soft musks and scented body lotions from other houses.

How to Pick a Blush Color That Reads Like Your Own Flush

How to Pick a Blush Color That Reads Like Your Own Flush

The right blush color reads like your own flush, the one you get after a walk in the cold. Here are soft pinks and roses, peaches and corals, and berries and deep plums, with a simple way to find your family and the shade names to look for.

Milan Street Style Outfits to Copy Now

Milan Street Style Outfits to Copy Now

Milan Fashion Week street style this season ran on silky pajama dressing, soft tailoring, clashing checks and more than one scarf at a time. These four outfits translate those ideas into pieces you can shop now. Each one works as well for an office as it does for a fashion week queue.

CoverGirl Blush and the Powders and Creams I Pair With It

CoverGirl Blush and the Powders and Creams I Pair With It

CoverGirl blush is the compact so many people learned on, and the current lineup still makes sense. Here are the CoverGirl powders I know best, plus creams and glowy powders I would put next to them.

Barrel Jeans Outfits, From Ladylike to Denim on Denim

Barrel Jeans Outfits, From Ladylike to Denim on Denim

Barrel jeans have settled in as a real alternative to straight legs, and they are more versatile than their curved shape suggests. These outfits take them from ladylike knitwear and mules to head-to-toe brown, denim on denim and a peplum top with flat shoes. Each one balances the volume of the leg with a neater top half.