People Are ‘Harmonizing’ Their Faces. Why?
Over the summer, millions of videos on “facial harmonization” and “facial balancing” collected billions of views across social media platforms. Some users…
Disrupt the Doom Scroll
When the doom scroll Has you downcast And the newscasts Leave you cold When the reels Have sent you reeling And you’re…
Packing list: Mexico
A bit of housekeeping: I am going on vacation this week, and will be posting lightly. Expect me back here on the…
The Friday wrap-up
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Inauguration Fashion — A Feast Of Fascist Undertones!
We’re back with another episode of The Review of Mess: a podcast collaboration between The Review of Beauty (by me, Jessica DeFino)…
Places I’ve lived, part 4
36 Conselyea Street, 1992-1994 This guy named Charles was my first real post-college boyfriend. We met when I was 24, at a…
Hailey Bieber’s Flesh-Eating Empire
Last night, Puck beauty correspondent Rachel Strugatz reported that Hailey Bieber’s beauty brand, Rhode, “made about $90 million in revenue from its…
A LETTER OF LOVE TO THE 92%
I want to share some thoughts on the tension many of us feel between the desire to care for others and the…
Ten slightly elevated cardigans
This is just about the point in the winter during which I give in to complete schlumpiness: baggy jeans, comfy shirts, and…
Searching for pants in which to lounge
My morning routine is thus: get up around 6 or 6:30 (I would love nothing more than to sleep later, but my…