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Xmiramira’s Melanin Pack Revolutionized The Sims 4 — But It Was Only The Beginning

Xmiramira’s Melanin Pack Revolutionized The Sims 4 — But It Was Only The Beginning

“I wanted to be a damn lawyer,” laughs Amira Virgil during a recent Zoom interview. “I never thought this was a thing.” By “this,” she means a career as a professional gamer and streamer. Because as it turns out, we had the cheat codes all along, and it is in […]

I Write About Beauty For A Living & Have Had Acne For Over Half My Life

I Write About Beauty For A Living & Have Had Acne For Over Half My Life

If you told teenage me that one day in the not-too-distant future that I’d be making a living and writing and reporting about the beauty industry, I’d probably call you a freaking liar. At 14, I was only discovering my love of all things beauty — mostly by way of YouTube […]

I Went To A Charli XCX Metaverse Concert & The Future Isn’t Here Yet

I Went To A Charli XCX Metaverse Concert & The Future Isn’t Here Yet

“Is this purgatory?” someone asks in the Samsung Superstar Galaxy chat as a colossal, digital manifestation of English hyperpop queen Charli XCX cycles through five of her most popular songs. No, fellow Roblox user, this isn’t purgatory. This is a metaverse concert. As someone born firmly in the 20th century, […]

Naked Knits, Prints & Baguettes: Resort Trends To Steal This Season

Naked Knits, Prints & Baguettes: Resort Trends To Steal This Season

Keeping up with designer runways sometimes seems like something only fashion journalists and rich people do. For resort collections that can feel like even more the case. After all, the word ‘resort’ in itself sounds like a five-star all-inclusive space that’s not actually inclusive at all. But this in-between season […]

Hold Onto Your Mitts: The Oven-Safe Cast-Iron Always Pan Is Back In Stock

Hold Onto Your Mitts: The Oven-Safe Cast-Iron Always Pan Is Back In Stock

The internet’s most multifunctional kitchen essential, the Always Pan, can officially handle the heat — and by heat, we mean 260 degrees Celsius. Any lingering concerns about the original pan’s infamous kryptonite (high temps) have flown out the window due to Our Place’s newest addition: the oven-friendly Cast Iron Always […]

Mismatched Shoes Are A Secret Styling Tool, Here’s How To Do It

Mismatched Shoes Are A Secret Styling Tool, Here’s How To Do It

There’s an episode in season 4 of Gossip Girl, in which the show’s resident “evil dictator of taste,” Blair Waldorf, is unraveling as she tries to balance a full-time job at W Magazine and a hefty course load at Columbia University. So much so that she shows up at a […]

Will 4 Dots of White Eyeliner Make Someone Fall In Love With Me?

Will 4 Dots of White Eyeliner Make Someone Fall In Love With Me?

As a single woman living in a city, let me tell you: Dating is like wandering into a cesspool of molten garbage. And the Rat Kings in this city right now… I’m doing pretty much anything and everything to find love — spells, jewellery, crystals — anything but actually going […]

In The Battle Of The Braiders, African Aunties Will Always Win

In The Battle Of The Braiders, African Aunties Will Always Win

It’s 23 degrees celsius on a late Saturday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and I’m squeezing my way through a dense crowd of people on Rye Lane. As I lope across the concrete pavements dotted with chewing gum, I pass shopfronts selling fresh fruit, vegetables, raw meat, fish, phone accessories, […]