While your love might not cost a thing (to paraphrase J.Lo), every girl enjoys a token of affection from time to time — however humble or extravagant it might be.
Few runway shows during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week manage to produce the kind of wide-eyed wonderment in me that Reem Acra so effortlessly instills via her productions season after season.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been bringing you a plethora of gift ideas inspired by thriving cities around the world — and yet, we’ve focused predominantly on goodies for the ladies, so we thought it was only fair to show the fellas some love with a gift guide installment dedicated exclusively to them.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas which means our Holiday Shopping Around the Girl Gift Guide is drawing near to its inevitable end.
With less than two weeks remaining until Christmas, our Holiday Shopping Around the World gift guide is starting to feel like The Amazing Race — but don’t worry: we’re taking on all the challenges and doing all the heavy lifting so that your journey to the finish line will be easy breezy.
My New York-based readers: I’m hosting a really fun event with SheaMoisture this Thursday, December 13th from 6 p.m.
We may not be able to invite all of our readers on a first-class flight around the world, but we can at least escort you there in spirit — which is, of course, why we wanted to choose a travel theme for this year’s Holiday Gift Guide, with each installment featuring items inspired by a specific city around the world.
It’s been over 20 years since aquatic fragrances first made a splash —pun intended — in the realm of perfumery, with such gems being released in this category as Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Davidoff Cool Water, L’Eau d’Issey, and Michael Kors Island.
Even in the realm of fragrance, fashion designer Donna Karan has refused to conform to confining notions of femininity, insisting that her scents explore every facet of womanhood rather than ill-conceived notions of “sugar and spice” or of outdated”prim and proper” memes.
Chances are, at some point in your childhood or adolescence you heard someone suggest that you spritz your fragrance into the air then walk into the misty air so as to have the scent swathe your whole being, thereby guaranteeing that it won’t register as overly potent or intrusive.
