I can’t remember when exactly I encountered the two duvets, one bed sleeping arrangement, but I do know I wasn’t a fan at first. It would have been during the first year of my relationship with my Danish girlfriend (now wife), when we were long distance between my university and […]
Trans visibility is better than it ever has been but trans women in happy, loving relationships with men are almost completely absent from mainstream media. With perhaps the exception of Janet Mock, whose New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness documents her relationship and marriage, it is rare to see trans […]
Dr Pimple Popper fans, this one’s for you: In this episode of Macro Beauty, we get an up-close-and-personal look at Folayemi Akinbolaji’s first-ever extreme blackhead removal. Akinbolaji, who goes by Fola, only started getting acne on her face within the last two years. She recently decided to get her blackheads […]
On 12th January, with schools closed during England’s third lockdown in less than a year, a photo went viral. It had been taken by a mother going by the name Roadside Mum on Twitter. In it she laid out the contents of the free school meals provisions she had been […]
Manifestation can feel a little… squishy. Whenever I hear someone describe the practice, I find myself thinking, Is that really it? You think about your intention, take some positive action, and — live your dreams? Am I missing something? That’s why the 369 manifestation method, which I’ve seen popping up on […]
While we’ve come a long way with the technology behind acne patches, the best ones still look like circular Band-Aids. Sure, they serve an important purpose — to suck the gunk out of a clogged pore — but they don’t look cute doing it. Former beauty editor Julie Schott wants […]
Even during the pandemic Jennifer Lopez has maintained her impeccable sense of style. The 51-year-old’s sartorial genius was proven supreme on Monday, when she posted a slideshow on Instagram with the caption, “How last week started ➡️ how it’s going this week.” The first photo showed Lopez balancing on a […]
I kicked off 2020 resolving to go on at least 20 dates, a so-called carrot on a stick that I hoped would force me out into the cruel, daunting dating world and out of my comfort zone. Then, of course, the world changed. And so too did dating. Zoom dates became […]
If 2020 was a year to bring us to our lowest point, then 2021 starts out with a sense of rugged determination. There’s a way through our financial mess — though it won’t come without effort. Jupiter, the Planet of Abundance, met with Saturn, the Planet of Authority, on December 21, […]
Early this spring, as it was dawning on people how devastating the Covid-19 pandemic was going to be, Martin Cahill walked across the Ed Koch Bridge in New York City from Queens to his girlfriend’s apartment in Manhattan. She had just completed a two week-long quarantine after returning from a […]
