Brace Your Skin for Cold Weather

Close-up of Woman's Face

Editor’s Note: We’re celebrating 30 Days of Beauty to help you get ready for all of those holiday parties. Prizes or discounts will be awarded randomly, so you won’t want to miss a day! Red-nosed reindeer may be cute, but red-nosed chicas? Not so much. Dry, cold air stresses skin, making it feel tight, dehydrated, [...]

Cool Kissable Lips

Cool, Kissable Lips

Editor’s Note: We’re celebrating 30 Days of Beauty to help you get ready for all of those holiday parties. Prizes or discounts will be awarded randomly, so you won’t want to miss a day! You know how when you eat a minty candy cane and you inhale and you feel that cooling sensation? This is [...]

Holiday Nails Sparklers

Holiday Nails Sparklers

Editor’s Note: Beginning today, we’re celebrating 30 Days of Beauty to help you get ready for all of those holiday parties. Prizes or discounts will be awarded randomly, so you won’t want to miss a day! Nothing says the holidays are officially on more than Black Friday—except for butter London’s brilliant, limited edition holiday nail [...]

Skin Is In: Doctors’ Solutions for Taking Care of Yours

Skin Is In: Doctors' Solutions for Taking Care of Yours

Tina S. Alster is a dermatological dynamo. The founding director of the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery and clinical professor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is a gorgeous 51-year-old blonde Yalie and happily married mami with a weakness for Chanel couture and caring for her patients. I recently caught up with [...]

This Fall’s Hottest Mascaras for Cool Eyes

This Fall's Hottest Mascaras for Cool Eyes

The fall-winter 2011 runways all showed super-dramatic eyelashes—black-black, lush-long, and spidery. In other words, it’s a really good time to be an eyelash. The latest mascaras (plus one extremely cool new lash accessory you’ve never heard of that I’ll unabashedly rhapsodize about shortly) are all devastating. They deliver in a big way and do the heavy lifting [...]

Lessons on Life via Red Lipstick

Lessons on Life via Red Lipstick

When I was a child, I loved nothing more than watching Mami apply her makeup in the bathroom every morning before heading off to work—the most glamorous civil servant in Havana, Cuba—and then again every Friday and Saturday night to go out with my tall, dark, and handsome Papi. It could’ve been a simple movie [...]