Beauty & Fashion

Beauty previews are good at direction and poor at exact color. A hair color app shows whether a shade family suits your face, not how your hair will lift. A selfie color analysis shifts with light and camera angle. Makeup try-ons drift with screen settings. An AI Botox preview shows the kind of softening, not … Read more

Teeth look whiter beside colors that push against yellow: blue-based reds, berry and plum lips, and deeper, cooler hair around the face. Nude, beige, caramel and orange-based shades do the opposite. When 100 observers scored the same smiles with and without five lipstick shades, nude scored darkest and red and violet scored whitest. Most people … Read more

A full night of quality rest is one of the most powerful tools in your beauty arsenal. While expensive creams and treatments have their place, simply sleeping allows your skin to do its most critical repair and regeneration work. The idea of “beauty sleep” isn’t just an old wives’ tale; science backs it up, showing … Read more

If you’re somebody who is interested in looking better, then you’ll be excited about how new technology is unlocking the science of personalised beauty. Now everybody can get a regime that’s tailored specifically for them. But what does this look like in practice? How can you actually take advantage of some of these new technologies … Read more

Beauty is often perceived as being a long list of things you should be doing, buying or changing in your life, but feeling confident doesn’t need to be that complicated. Sometimes, it comes from taking better care of yourself, finding a routine that suits your lifestyle and making a few small changes that help you … Read more

Ever put on a gorgeous piece of jewelry, only to feel like it just didn’t quite click with your look? The secret to finding jewelry that truly shines on you and elevates your everyday look often comes down to your skin’s undertone. When you pick metals that go well with the subtle colors in your … Read more

Makeup, hair color, and skincare routines are awesome ways to show off your style, but there’s another cool trick that can really step up your look: piercings. What used to be seen as super alternative is now a really chic way to add a unique, lasting touch to how you present yourself. Whether it’s a … Read more

Seven years. That’s how long I’ve been doing this. And in seven years, I’ve burned through more moisturizers than I’d like to admit, some of them genuinely embarrassing purchases in hindsight. Here’s what I’ve learned: most of them are packaging. The jar looks expensive, the copy sounds convincing, and then you use it for three … Read more

If you want a straight answer: the best at-home gel nail kit overall is the Olive & June Gel Mani System ($95). It cures in two minutes per layer, holds for up to 21 days, and is forgiving enough that most people get it right on their first go. On a tighter budget, the Gellen … Read more

Life is a journey that takes you to so many different places, and yet for many of us, it seems to be all about going back to our youth. The problem is that aging is a natural part of our journey through life, and something that will happen regardless of what we do. Moving beyond … Read more