My recent nail fixation has been the no-manicure manicure. Not bare, but natural. See, without any polish at all, my naked nails don’t look great. They’re thin, filmy, translucent, dull and speckled with tiny white flecks from times I’ve banged my nail and it left a mark. Social media trends […]
Skinny jeans are dead. Long live wide-leg jeans. While it’s been a few years since TikTok labeled millennials’ favourite denim trend “uncool,” slouchy styles continue to rise in popularity, with cargo jeans, balloon pants, and other baggy pairs having appeared on the fall runways and fashion week attendees earlier this […]
Welcome to Sun Blocked, Refinery29’s global call to action to wake up to the serious dangers of tanning. No lectures or shaming, we promise. Instead, our goal is to arm you with the facts you need to protect your skin to the best of your ability, because there’s no such […]
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You don’t need me to tell you that the past few years have been taxing. From COVID rearing its head to skyrocketing inflation to increasing rates of loneliness and feelings of disconnect, it’s been tough to feel real unity among us, even as we all experience these hardships together. Another […]
Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last penny.This week: “I’m a 25-year-old charity worker and a carer. I moved to Bristol in 2022 after leaving […]
During March, a young woman in her late 20s moved in with a man she had been dating on and off since December. They quickly went from meeting up at the blurry tail end of work Christmas drinks with their respective colleagues to inseparable, sharing her tiny flat for weeks […]
This interview took place prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Ayo Edebiri knows that it’s a really weird time to be working in Hollywood. When we first connect on a Zoom call, the threat of yet another strike casts a shadow over our conversation; alongside the already-striking writers, […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Erica Kathleen regularly finds herself making private TikTok videos in the middle of the night to “manifestation sounds“. She never posts the videos and says she wishes she didn’t have to make them but the obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) she’s had for the past decade makes her feel it’s […]
It pretty much goes without saying that the sexcapades of Fifty Shades Of Grey are tired. But the good news is that there are plenty of sexy reads out there that are actually wired. For those looking to update their bookshelves with one-handed reads that hit all the erogenous zones, […]
