By: Marci Robin As common as psoriasis may be, the autoimmune condition, which typically presents as rash-like scales on the skin, poses a unique challenge for those who wear makeup. Many people with the flaky, often red patches psoriasis causes want to conceal the condition’s most visible symptom, but those plaques are also especially difficult to conceal. Where daily makeup application may be an…
So you probably know by now that I’m absolutely obsessed with box braids. But as someone who loves to constantly switch up her look, it isn’t superideal for me to sit for hours and hours to get an expensive style that I’ll have to keep on my head for at least a month (you know, to make the time and money worth…
By: Leah Prinzivalli As hair salons have now reopened around the country, many people, many of which have longer hair than usual, find ourselves asking the same question: Should I get my hair cut? Depending on your home state, hair salons may have been open since April (Georgia) or as recently as late June (New York City). Hairstylists and salon owners, like other personal-care…
Your emotional fitness matters as much as the physical kind.
BY ALYSSA JULIAN Food Scraps For Natural Colors My first foray into natural dyes came after a trip to the Rose Bowl Flea Market, where I stumbled upon a booth full of indigo-dyed textiles (shibori) and knew I wanted to get my hands on something similar. Shortly after, I followed this Instagram account and, well, the rest is history. Nothing…
5 Reasons to Practice Mindfulness in 2020 Of all the ancient and modern practices designed to wake us up, why has the simple practice of mindfulness and mindful meditation arrived at the forefront of our cultural sensibility? Why is it taking hold so strongly in our American health care, academic, and business institutions? What makes mindfulness so compelling, grabbing our…
By: Alisa Vitti If you’re tried different fitness routines to help solve your period problems, you know on some level that they don’t work for women. Maybe you made progress for a while, but then it stalled. Maybe you never made progress or, worse, your symptoms got more severe when you started a new health and fitness routine. This phenomenon…
By: Emily Torres How To Write A Poem I used to believe that poetry only lived in old books and dusty libraries. I’d pace the tenth floor of my college campus library—what we called the stacks—and run my finger delicately along the linen spines of old hardbacks. That environment, I believed, was where poetry lived and nowhere else. A place…
From heat to humidity to pool days, the elements of summer take a toll on our bodies. Here’s what you can do to keep your hair and skin healthy. By Kristin Granero Summer certainly has its perks (among them warm weather, sunny skies and opportunities to hit the beach with family and friends), but with a rise in temperature also comes a…
No more rubbing or irritation, promise.
