My hair has been through a lot. I’m talking numerous salon days of double-process bleaching, root touch-ups, temporary dyes, and several bottles of gloss to get it back to its natural color. As a result, the hair from my roots to ears is incredibly healthy while the rest is dry and barely hanging on. This…

Here’s the deal. When you have skin as perennially dry, parched, and prone to rough patches as mine is, a lightweight lotion or body oil simply won’t cut it. Sure, I might have a rare skin condition most people have never heard of, but something tells me my friends with psoriasis and eczema have experienced…

I distinctly remember the first skin-care product my mom ever introduced me to. I was maybe seven years old, and at the time Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser came in a frosted plastic bottle with a blue label. “It’s so gentle, you don’t even have to really rinse it off if you don’t want to,” she…

As someone with decidedly combination skin, I have both the luxury and the unpredictable need to be able to change up whether I’m using a mattifying or dewy foundation. But at age 41, as I’ve found the lines on my forehead to be increasingly noticeable, I tend to lean toward the glowy end of the…

My brows have never been my most glamorous feature. They are, to put it plainly, stout and short. Many a well-meaning professional makeup artist has filled them in within an inch of their life, so they not only look stout and short, but also harshly dark. And when I look at my brown eyes, with…

This Vaseline skin-protecting ointment is a classic multitasker that works from head to toe.

Just when thought we’d seen Charlize Theron in every imaginable haircut and hair color combination, the Oscar winner has decided to stun us on a random Tuesday afternoon with a sneak peek at a new look she’s sporting for an in-the-works film: voluminous, bright-red curls. Theron posted two not-quite-full glimpses at how she looks in…

BareMinerals was the first foundation I ever wore. (Thanks, Mom!) It was perfect for when my teenage self wanted just a little bit of coverage to even out my reddish complexion and cover up any pimples. As I got older and wanted my skin to look a little more airbrushed, I continued to reach for…

“Holy grail status.” “So bomb.” “Magical.” “Life changing.” “Perfection.” These are just a handful of ways people have described the Tarte Shape Tape Contour Concealer. Known to most simply as Shape Tape, the creamy, full-coverage liquid can be used to not only cover up blemishes, dark circles, and uneven skin tone, but also for highlighting…

Key ingredients: Colloidal oatmeal (calms and relieves itching); shea butter and ceramide 3 (moisturize); licorice root, feverfew, and white-tea extracts (fight free radicals) How it looks/feels/smells: The opalescent white cream is thick but airy — imagine a nonsticky marshmallow fluff — and smells like eucalyptus. Why we like it: Hallelujah and a million emoji hands…