Thanks to social media and the power of a generation that understands marketing better than any of its predecessors, pop music is free to explore new frontiers. YouTube doesn’t pick its pop stars from the Disney Channel, nor do you ...

Determining whether or not new beauty trends and products are worth the hype is getting harder and harder as marketing gets more efficient. I heard about micellar water through a group of beauty gurus I happened upon on Facebook, but ...

When I first saw the model/actress, Jaime King, she was “James King” and there was no possibly way she could get cooler. It was the mid-90s, she was 15 one of the top runway models for Christian Dior and Chanel, and ...

If you’ve considered checking out Poshmark to sell your clothes but aren’t sure that it’s worth your time, please allow me to be your test subject. I offer myself as tribute. Of all the ways to get rid of old ...

For the last two years, my go-to leggings for everything from swanky events and casual days to personal training and five mile hikes has been Bombsheller. They’ve been a well-kept secret (with a few glimpses on Instagram), but I’m ready ...

Grace Helbig and I have a lot in common. First and foremost, we share an obsession with the internet and have a compulsion to participate in online communities, no matter how futile. In addition to that, both Grace and I stumbled into femininity ...

Over the last couple of months, I have been trying to take better care of my skin – not just the skin on my face, but also the other 95% that covers the rest of my body. I’ve admittedly been ...

Valfre is all about movie nights, cat drawings, pastries and female solidarity. ...

Let’s talk next-level food gifts for a second. Combine love for sustainability with equal or larger love of food and you have the entire schtick behind Back To The Roots. I first met this team when they’d just released their ...

*Editor’s Note: Fast forward to 2025 – Naja is no longer with us. They served us well and we’ll never forget them! But enjoy this story about them anyway: Now it doesn’t get much more affordable than this – Naja ...

I grew up splitting my time between two houses: one with a single father in it (we ate a lot of ice cream), and the other kept my mom and sister, whose skincare educations started in their early teens. I did ...

For the book lovers in my family, I turn away from the obvious choice of "books" and give literary themed gifts that they're sure to love, and definitely don't own yet! ...

Let me preface by stating that FreshPaper gift cards are definitely not for everyone in your life, but if there’s a chef, gardener, farmer, or veggie-junkie in your life, be sure and tack one of these very special gift cards to ...

Do you know what bums me out? Gift guides. Having been a blogger for almost a decade, I’ve seen many years of elaborate, in-depth, creative gift guides published around the web from some of the best internet-diggers around, each post ...

The moment in which I felt most understood was the moment I saw this scene from 30 Rock: Liz Lemon gets me. Heaven is being wrapped in a Snuggie next to a wood stove, just me, a knife, & a block of ...

Every summer, women around the world start to dread the humidity. While it does incredible things to hair, it does some really, really, terrible, godawful things to inner thighs. Walking around a festival or fair for seven hours in high ...

My interest in swimwear is definitely on the rise. For most of my life, on a scale of 1-10, my interest in swimsuits fell somewhere around -3. Combine one pudgy kid with a lot of mega-sensitive feelers and you’ve got ...

Every time I go to Bombsheller with the intention of selecting my next pair, it inevitably turns into an emotional rollercoaster full of hopeless indecision, self-doubt, and the confrontation of deep inner longings. But after that’s all over, I get ...

Update: Sadly, as of December 2017, Limnit Lipsticks have closed shop. We loved them dearly and wish them all the best in their next chapter! When I started researching indie makeup brands about eight months ago, the first one that ...

Well, hi. I have been straight up missing for two weeks and you probably didn’t notice because: internet, but hi. I’m back from a whirlwind 14-ish days of complete and utter chaos, fun, education, light motion sickness, and general shenanigans. ...