Allow me to extoll the virtues of caffeine in your everyday beauty benefits.
coffee
gross things
I believe that you’re only as sick as your secrets, so here, for all the world to see, is the essence of my beauty editor malpractice. Forgive me, y’all, for I have sinned.
skin
Being angry all the time is messing up a lot of things, but it’s really messing up your skin.
loose skin
I wanted to show the process because, honestly, I love my stomach like this.
an unmarried woman
When the invitation came to attend my 20th college reunion, a wave of nostalgia was followed immediately with an overwhelming sense of nausea. Would the questions start again?
losing weight
When you deal with your weight loss issues, you suddenly trigger Other People’s Weight Loss Issues, which means that you suddenly have to deal with their shit as well as your own.
gym style
This is for those of you who roll into boot camps, yoga classes and spinning with an entire face full of makeup and then leave it all on bleached towels like the floor backstage after a drag queen smackdown.
aa cream
After getting a shitload of “Which one do I use?” questions from friends, I feel like it might be time to define industry buzz terms like “AA,” “BB” and “CC” creams.
shoppables
In essence, I did to my hair what my last boyfriend did to me: took me for granted and treated me like crap.
cute nails
I have to share a beauty editor shame point: I suck at painting my own nails.
pubes
I wasn’t prepared for the morning I went to the bathroom after a break from waxing and discovered a whole sea of grey hairs down there.
deodorant
I'm the MacGyver of Beauty!
shoppables
I’m like the Goldilocks of Makeup: This foundation is too yellow, this one is too white, this one is too chalky, etc.
fighting
When life knocks you on your ass, you can continue on the path of least resistance and hope that everything ends up okay, or you can put your ass back in the ring and learn how to fight again.
beauty
Oh, hey girl, HEY. You broke? We’re about to go all Laura Ingalls, Little-House-on-the-Prairie style on your hair routine.
shoppables
This summer, crazy little brown spots started showing up on my forehead and along my jaw line.
hair
I deeply respect the natural hair community. I also respect that for some, the choice to stay in the processed camp for the time being has been made.
body dysmorphia
My mother had to carry me out of a department store dressing room many years ago when I kept picking and pulling at my stomach until I started to literally bruise and bleed.
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If you are Caucasian or anywhere in the fair-to-medium category, the world is pretty much your oyster. However, if you are a woman with olive, golden, reddish-brown or dark brown skin,save yourself time: go to NARS, MAC or IMAN.
hair
Because at the end of the day, we all just want a small hug from our hats, not a full-on ring-inducing, flyaway-causing frenzy.
race
I don’t know exactly when it became completely okay to ask a random stranger which one of their progenitors stepped outside the narrow queue of their own race and decided to knock boots with someone of another race.
shoppables
I’ve found my beauty “thing” and I’m sticking with it.
beauty
After YEARS of posting ridiculously made-up photos on the Interwebs, this whole semi-natural look got MUCH better emails than the smoky-eye-Bond-girl looks I used to post.
beauty
After people appear shocked, the questions start: What’s my secret, what’s my ethnic heritage, what products do I use?
