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How Wearable Are Lip Stains Really? R29 Staffers Put 5 To The Test

How Wearable Are Lip Stains Really? R29 Staffers Put 5 To The Test

If you’ve been on TikTok lately (and let’s face it, it’s endlessly addictive) you might have spotted the app’s beauty obsessives fawning over one particular makeup product. This time it isn’t Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood Flawless Filter or Maybelline’s Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara. Rather, TikTokers can’t get enough of lip […]

Cargo Denim Is 2022’s Anti-Skinny Jeans Trend

Cargo Denim Is 2022’s Anti-Skinny Jeans Trend

It’s been over a year since TikTok declared skinny jeans to be over, and denim trends continue to deliver on that promise. For proof, see the season’s street style featuring every It girl out there wearing denim cargos like it’s 2003.  Take, for example, Hailey Bieber, who was spotted back […]

Why Black Women Still Love Reality TV Even When They’re Not Included

Why Black Women Still Love Reality TV Even When They’re Not Included

Let me set the scene: it’s a Monday evening in 2011 and an excitable 13-year-old me is rushing upstairs to switch on the TV, practically bouncing with anticipation. For weeks, adverts for E4’s new reality docu-series Made in Chelsea had glittered across screens and billboards promising an unprecedented window into […]

What I Learned From Being Caught In A Love Triangle

Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups that you’re too afraid to ask your partner — or maybe even your besties. Last time, relationship therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare, LMFT, helped a reader who was deciding […]

This TikTok-Famous Mask Revived My Dry, Frizz-Prone Hair

This TikTok-Famous Mask Revived My Dry, Frizz-Prone Hair

Even though I’m a beauty girl to the core, I’ve always been very low maintenance when it comes to hair products. Obviously, shampoo and conditioner are a given, but aside from my fervent love for hair oils, I don’t use anything on my brunette waves. Hair masks, in particular, are […]