Ever since my makeup brush collection exploded and multiplied, I’ve felt a responsibility to actually use them all. I may or may not be guilty of getting makeup brushes because I feel like I’m “supposed” to have them… only to ...

It’s time again for the annual tone-setter for my summer: the official summer playlist of 2016. This year, I’m predicting that this summer going to be hot. Like, really hot. And before you give me a gold star for predicting the ...

At the end of my 20s, two goals have emerged with a new, fiery importance: keeping my skin in really good shape and always smelling good. The skin part makes sense because I’m dealing with dumb fine lines and wrinkles ...

VICELAND, the new television network from indie global news & culture giant, Vice, has taken over what was the History2/H2 channel to present a view of the world from a new generation’s eyes. Namely, my generation: the kids who grew up with ...

What could possibly be more appropriate to post about today than the use of cannabis and hemp in beauty products? It’s on the rise, and it doesn’t even get you high at all! Well, in most cases. Hemp, the fiber, is ...

Yay for Earth Day/Week/Month! All of the best ethical and eco-friendly companies come out of their off-grid treehouses to offer some of the best deals you’ll see outside of the holiday season! Zoya has been around since the beginning of ...

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 ...