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What Does Venus In Pisces Mean For Your Love Life? The Return Of An Ex, For One

What Does Venus In Pisces Mean For Your Love Life? The Return Of An Ex, For One

Being newly in love is like being in a dream: You walk around (and stay up too late) in a semi-haze, preoccupied by giddy thoughts about the object of your affections. All that to say: Romantic Venus finds a very happy home in the dreamy sign of Pisces. The two […]

Mercury Retrograde Is Over, & Retro-Shade Is Here To Clear The Air

Mercury Retrograde Is Over, & Retro-Shade Is Here To Clear The Air

After three long weeks, the first Mercury retrograde of 2021 is officially ending. On 20th February, the speedy planet goes direct in Aquarius. But don’t start celebrating quite yet. Unfortunately, the woes of this transit aren’t over just yet. Retro-shade is coming. After Mercury turns direct, there’s still a two-week […]

Pisces Season Has Arrived, & Even Our Biggest Dreams Could Come True

Pisces Season Has Arrived, & Even Our Biggest Dreams Could Come True

After a month spent in innovative Aquarius, the sun is entering the dreamy, creative, intuitive sign of Pisces, the twelfth and final sign of the zodiac. Spanning from 18th February to 20th March, we can expect Pisces season to make the next several weeks magical. During this time period, “you […]

The Britney Spears Doc Is Finally Airing In The UK. Here’s How To Watch

Those who have been frantically searching for ways to watch Framing Britney Spears will be happy to know that the New York Times-led investigative film finally has a UK air date. Discussing Britney’s ongoing legal battle with her father Jamie Spears (not to be confused with the star’s sister, Jamie […]

New York Girls Love This Hair Brand & One Product Transformed My Curls

New York Girls Love This Hair Brand & One Product Transformed My Curls

Since going au naturel at the start of lockdown 2020, I’ve been doing my best to use products that are good for my curls, but finding the right formulas can be a minefield. Thanks to a constant stream of deep treatments, cleansers and leave-in conditioners (to name a few products […]

The Dark History Of The Cecil Hotel — From Its Heyday To Richard Ramirez & American Horror Story

The Dark History Of The Cecil Hotel — From Its Heyday To Richard Ramirez & American Horror Story

The new Netflix anthology series, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, takes a closer look at the 2013 disappearance of Canadian college student Elisa Lam. Unfortunately, Lam’s bizarre vanishing is not unique to Los Angeles’s most notorious hotel. The nightmarish history of the Cecil Hotel, which first opened […]

Can A Personality Test Help Me Find True Love? Let’s Find Out…

“What’s his star sign?” is the question that gets fired off in my WhatsApp group chat whenever a new love interest enters my life. Next come the ‘Pisces woman, Aries man compatibility’ internet searches which, inevitably, tell me he isn’t The One and alas, my search begins again. Now, some […]

Britney Spears Was Yet Another Promising Young Woman

According to a 2018 study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, film criticism is a field overwhelmingly dominated by (surprise, surprise) white men. Not anymore. In Refinery29’s new series, our woman movie critic will give fresh consideration to the movies we love, hate, or love to hate. It’s time for […]

How I Finally Forgave Myself For Being An Unintentional Mistress

How I Finally Forgave Myself For Being An Unintentional Mistress

It was the summer of 2014. I was at a music festival in Brooklyn with some friends, and couldn’t wait in the enormous lines for the port-a-potties. We spotted a firehouse across the street and dashed over, hoping they’d let us use the bathroom. It was a moment worthy of […]

Why Gigi Hadid Decided To Have A Home Birth

Why Gigi Hadid Decided To Have A Home Birth

Gigi Hadid’s original plan was to deliver her first child in a state-of-the-art New York City hospital, not an inflatable bathtub in the middle of a farm in Pennsylvania. But after the COVID-19 pandemic hit shortly after she learned she was expecting, the 25-year-old model had to reevaluate exactly where […]