Summer is in full swing and, while in a perfect universe, I’d be typing this by the pool, my feet dipped in the water and a frozen Margarita within my reach, the truth is there hasn’t been much time for fun in the sun just yet.
Just two weeks ago, while driving from New York City to central Texas en route to our new home, my husband and I kept spotting signs directing us to cities with European names: Dublin, Virginia; Scotland, Virginia; Moscow, Tennessee; Paris, Tennessee; Hamburg, Arkansas; Florence, Texas; and so on.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we?
Anyone with color-treated hair will admit that maintaining a healthy-looking mane can feel like a Sisyphean task.
During college, when you’re studying for final exams or perhaps writing a thesis, you clock in such few hours of sleep that when you finally come home for the holidays, spring break, or summer, parents examine you and, with a concerned tone, remark, “You look tired, honey.” Later, when you join the workforce and have to tackle seemingly insane deadlines, it becomes friends, colleagues, and significant others — in addition to parents — who feel compelled to observe, “You look tired.” And then, of course, come the kids, at which point the phrase, “You look tired” almost seems redundant.
Because of our complex brains and our constant multi-tasking throughout the day (which requires accessing different parts of the brain), women need more sleep than men in order to feel refreshed — a theory I’ve always had but which was scientifically proven by a team of researchers at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England.
For her third collection with SinfulColors, Kylie Jenner derived inspiration from the denim-on-denim trend both she and her sister Kendall have mastered.
Many moons ago, when my 12-year-old son was still shorter than me (sigh) and playing with Happy Meal toys, I took him to a press preview for the Makeup Show in New York City.
For years, when choosing a hand soap to place in my bathroom counter, I’ve gravitated towards Softsoap — after all, there are plenty of refreshing scent options, and the prices are beyond reasonable.
You might associate Benefit Cosmetics with dark circle-blasting concealers, brow lifting pencils, and flush-in-a-bottle cheek tints, but the San Francisco-based beauty brand’s offerings expand way past color cosmetics — in fact, Benefit has its very own fragrance, the flirty Maybe Baby Eau de Toilette ($32 at BenefitCosmetics.com).
