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…
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5 Easy Ways to Give Your Beauty Routine an Eco-Friendly Makeover By: Shammara Lawrence Packaging and containers make up about a third of the trash in US landfills (yes, you read that right), and most likely, there are some empties—bottles, jars, and tubes—tossed from your own beauty collection among that staggering mass. If you’re looking to do better by the planet, know…
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Ada Rojas On Catapulting Botánika Beauty To Instant Success Ada Rojas always wanted to be the boss. Growing up she often spent her nights accompanying her mother to her job cleaning office buildings, and immediately began to imagine herself in a position of power. After studying marketing and public relations in college, Rojas used her platform as a successful beauty…
What Our Covid-19 Beauty Buys Tell Us About The National Mood By Lisa Niven-Phillips It was hand sanitisers, soaps and hand creams that were stripped from beauty retailers’ shelves first when Covid-19 arrived in the UK. Then lockdown hit, and the forced closure of salons, spas and services saw us turning to long-ignored stores of boxed hair dye, swapping fringe-trimming tips, and getting…
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There’s one icon so hard to define, so hard to pin down to one look, category, or even profession, that we’ll call her an icon of the hustle—or even just, ‘Cher.’ The Bob Mackie outfit she wore to the 1988 Oscars? Iconic. This video of Cher doing a one-woman rendition of West Side Story? Iconic. Her mail-order gothic furniture catalog? Iconic. And, 48 years after the…
The Portland-based company treats skin with probiotics, fermented antioxidants, uses clean natural ingredients, and above all is TSA friendly. Sally Kim spent her life in a beautiful, nature-oriented city like Portland, Oregon. Stepping outside and having the sun glowing in your face is quite a wonderful feeling, but can leave your skin dry, irritated, or burnt. Kim is the founder of, “We Are Wild”…
Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc spent nearly four years shooting portraits of — and collecting stories about — women from around the world. The product of her vision — and her travels to 50 countries — can be seen in her book The Atlas Of Beauty The project, she says, began as something “very genuine and sincere” that she financed, initially, with…
