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Split Ends, and the Honest Truth About Sealing Them Until Your Next Cut

Split Ends, and the Honest Truth About Sealing Them Until Your Next Cut

Split ends cannot be glued back together, but the right serum or bond treatment can make them look smoother until your next cut. Here are the sealers, bond leave-ins and washes I would use, and why scissors still win.

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The Make Up Bag Edit: Soft Pouches, Clear Cases and What Goes Inside

The Make Up Bag Edit: Soft Pouches, Clear Cases and What Goes Inside

A make up bag should fit what you actually carry and make every piece easy to find. Here are soft pouches, clear cases and vanity bags in every size, plus the sticks and balms that earn a spot inside.

A Makeup Tutorial for People Who Own Too Many Brushes

A Makeup Tutorial for People Who Own Too Many Brushes

This makeup tutorial goes in the order I actually apply things: skin prep and base, then cream cheeks and eyes, then the brushes and sponges that blend it all out. It is a friendly, low-drama route to everyday makeup looks.

Press-On Manicure Notes: Living With Glamnetic Nails

Press-On Manicure Notes: Living With Glamnetic Nails

Glamnetic nails began as a small idea in a Los Angeles apartment and grew into one of the best-known press-on brands around. Here are four of its shades I keep reaching for, other press-on sets worth trying, and the cuticle oils that keep the whole manicure looking good.

How to Style a Suede Jacket This Fall

How to Style a Suede Jacket This Fall

A suede jacket is one of the most versatile layers for fall, and it looks different depending on what you wear with it. These outfits pair suede with a red knit and printed trousers, a floral skirt, a crisp shirt and a long silk skirt. Brown and tan are the easiest shades, but blue and green are worth a look too.

Tatcha Dewy Milk Moisturizer: The Uruoi Idea, And What To Pair With It

Tatcha Dewy Milk Moisturizer: The Uruoi Idea, And What To Pair With It

Tatcha dewy milk moisturizer is the brand's lightweight answer to combination and oily skin, built on the Japanese idea of uruoi. Here is how it differs from the Dewy Skin Cream, what else Tatcha makes, and the other dewy, milky moisturizers I would try beside it.

Chunky Earrings

Chunky Earrings

One bold pair and the rest of the outfit takes care of itself

The Claw Clip Never Really Left, and These Twelve Prove It

The Claw Clip Never Really Left, and These Twelve Prove It

The claw clip went from a 90s bathroom basic to the accessory everyone reaches for on the way out the door. The new ones come in polished acetate, candy colors and hand-painted designs that look more like jewelry than hardware. These twelve cover all three moods.

KUGIG Wash and Gentle Intimate Care for Everyday

KUGIG Wash and Gentle Intimate Care for Everyday

KUGIG wash is a pH-balanced intimate cleanser with aloe vera and a prebiotic complex, made for daily use on sensitive skin. Here is how I would build a gentle routine around it, from body washes to soothing creams, using only what each brand says about its own formula.

The Cleansing Balm Habit: Melt First, Rinse Second, Follow With Something Milky

The Cleansing Balm Habit: Melt First, Rinse Second, Follow With Something Milky

A cleansing balm is a soft solid that melts into oil on your skin and rinses clean with warm water. Here are the balms I would start with, the cream and milk cleansers that make a good second step, and the makeup removers for eyes and lips.

STOULS

STOULS

STOULS treats leather as a daily fabric rather than a special occasion costume. Founded by Aurélia Stouls in 2004, the Paris label built its identity around machine-washable stretch lamb leather. The result is a wardrobe of sharp, tactile pieces that ask less ceremony of getting dressed.

CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser and the Gentle Washes Built for Dry Skin

CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser and the Gentle Washes Built for Dry Skin

CeraVe hydrating cleanser was one of the brand's three launch products in 2005, a gentle wash built around ceramides. Here it is with the cream, milk and gel cleansers I would use when skin feels tight.

Bondi Boost: The Rosemary Hair Brand That Started on an Australian Beach

Bondi Boost: The Rosemary Hair Brand That Started on an Australian Beach

Bondi Boost, written BondiBoost on the bottle, was founded in Sydney in 2018 and is best known for its rosemary-based HG range for fuller-looking hair. Here are the HG treatments, the Thickening Therapy volumizers and the Rapid Repair bond builders, with notes on which to use when.

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Perricone MD and the Dermatologist Who Wanted Skin to Look Rested

Perricone MD and the Dermatologist Who Wanted Skin to Look Rested

Perricone MD began in 1997 with a dermatologist and a very particular idea of what a face should look like on a good day. Here are the serums and finishing creams the brand built its name on, the No Makeup range for days you want less, and the firming moisturizers from other labels that I would put next to them.

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Slip Dresses

Slip Dresses

The slip dress has survived every attempt to retire it. It arrived from lingerie in the nineties, got written off as a costume, and came back as the default answer to almost every dress code that is not explicitly formal.

Light Blue Perfume: Dolce&Gabbana's Sicilian Summer And Fresh Scents To Match

Light Blue Perfume: Dolce&Gabbana's Sicilian Summer And Fresh Scents To Match

Light Blue perfume is Dolce&Gabbana's 2001 lemon, apple and cedar scent, built around Sicily and still the easiest summer bottle to like. Here is how the women's and men's lines differ, plus the other Dolce&Gabbana florals and the citrus and airy scents I would wear beside it. Start with the Eau de Parfum.

Elopement and Courthouse Wedding Dresses

Elopement and Courthouse Wedding Dresses

An elopement or courthouse wedding calls for a dress that feels special without being a full bridal gown. These picks include classic midis, playful minis, silk and satin, beaded and embellished styles and clean columns. Each one works with simple shoes and a small bag.

My Way Perfume, or How Armani Learned to Refill

My Way Perfume, or How Armani Learned to Refill

My Way perfume began in 2020 as Armani Beauty's refillable floral built on tuberose, orange blossom and vanilla. This edit follows it through its flankers, its Armani neighbors and four florals from other houses.

The Kurt Geiger Purse

The Kurt Geiger Purse

Built To Be Spotted

Moon Boot

Moon Boot

Moon Boot traces to 1969, when Italian bootmaker Giancarlo Zanatta watched the Apollo 11 landing and sketched an apres-ski boot around the astronauts' bulky footwear. Tecnica put the design into production in 1970, and the rounded, oversized shape has barely changed since, so this edit moves through it in shell, suede, shearling and satin.

In the Stars Bath and Body Works, and the Amber and Sandalwood Scents Around It

In the Stars Bath and Body Works, and the Amber and Sandalwood Scents Around It

In the Stars Bath and Body Works is a sugared tangelo, starflower and sandalwood scent that launched for holiday 2018, and it now comes in everything from body wash to eau de parfum. Here is how I build it, the warm scents that sit next to it, and the sandalwood perfumes from other houses I reach for next.

The UGG Slipper Edit Is Where The Tasman Hides

The UGG Slipper Edit Is Where The Tasman Hides

UGG's slipper lineup looks beyond the Tasman to sheepskin mules, slip-ons and slides, each with practical outsole details that make these house shoes street-ready. Cooler weather has pushed shearling out of the bedroom and onto the sidewalk, and these are the styles built sturdy enough to make that jump.

Maison Margiela Tabi Shoes Are Still The Ultimate Test

Maison Margiela Tabi Shoes Are Still The Ultimate Test

Almost no garment divides a room as reliably as a split-toe shoe. maison margiela tabi shoes have been doing it since 1988 and the argument has never resolved. This edit runs through the heights and heels currently available.

Hygiene Hero: Michelle Yeh's Quiet Case for Bikini-Line Care

Hygiene Hero: Michelle Yeh's Quiet Case for Bikini-Line Care

Hygiene Hero is Michelle Yeh's brand of intimate skincare, and this edit follows it from the oils and serum to the mists, deodorant and private bars. It ends with bikini-line and ingrown hair care from other brands.

Naked Sundays: The SPF Brand Built For Reapplying Over Makeup, And Its Rivals

Naked Sundays: The SPF Brand Built For Reapplying Over Makeup, And Its Rivals

Naked Sundays began with a TV reporter who could not reapply sunscreen over her makeup without a white cast or pilling. Here is her story and her SPF range, plus the lightweight fluids, tinted sunscreens and gentle cleansers I would put beside it.

The Ganni Trench Coat Edit

The Ganni Trench Coat Edit

The trench survived a hundred years by refusing to change and is now changing quickly. The Ganni trench coat is the clearest example, taking a military pattern and treating it as a colour and material exercise instead of a heritage one. This edit runs the trenches first and then the rest of the label's outerwear.

Curling Wand vs Curling Iron: What to Reach For

Curling Wand vs Curling Iron: What to Reach For

A curling wand has no clamp, and that one difference changes how your curls look and how you hold the tool. Here are the wands I would look at, the clamp irons that do the opposite job, and the sprays that belong underneath.

Miu Miu Perfume and the Little Sister Who Grew Up Sweet

Miu Miu Perfume and the Little Sister Who Grew Up Sweet

Miu Miu perfume is Miuccia Prada's mischievous side in a bottle, from the strawberry and brown sugar of Miutine to the mango and coconut milk of Fleur de Lait. Here are twelve bottles and minis, with a few neighbors to hold them against.