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Still Here NYC Jeans: Skater, Everyday and Life Jean Fits

Still Here NYC Jeans: Skater, Everyday and Life Jean Fits

Still Here NYC jeans come in the Skater, Everyday and Life styles, with rise, stretch and sizing covered.

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Best Designer Shoulder Bags: Loewe, Staud and Kate Spade

Best Designer Shoulder Bags: Loewe, Staud and Kate Spade

Designer shoulder bags in leather and wicker

Bakuchiol Serum, the Retinol Substitute That Actually Holds Up

Bakuchiol Serum, the Retinol Substitute That Actually Holds Up

Bakuchiol serum built its case as the gentler stand-in for retinol. Retinol works, but the flaking and sun sensitivity it can cause send plenty of people looking for an alternative that skin tolerates better. Here is our take on the comparison of a hedged formula that pairs the plant compound with a little retinol against ones that run it alone or widen it into a fuller anti-aging blend.

The Tabby Coach Bag

The Tabby Coach Bag

Why Nineties Hardware Never Left

Sol de Janeiro Perfume: Beach-Day Sweetness, Numbered and Ready to Layer

Sol de Janeiro Perfume: Beach-Day Sweetness, Numbered and Ready to Layer

Sol de Janeiro perfume is built on a simple idea: skin that smells like a warm afternoon by the water. This edit walks through the numbered mists, the jelly balms and eau de parfum, and the Bum Bum creams that go underneath.

Cotton On Sweatpants

Cotton On Sweatpants

Wearing on Repeat

A Rome Address on Every Bottle: Valentino Born in Roma, Donna and Uomo

A Rome Address on Every Bottle: Valentino Born in Roma, Donna and Uomo

Valentino Born in Roma is a fragrance line named after the city where the fashion house was founded. This edit walks through the Donna bottles, the Uomo ones, and two other Valentino perfumes for when you want to wander a little further.

A Detangler Spray Is Doing More Than You Think

A Detangler Spray Is Doing More Than You Think

A detangler spray is doing more than easing a rough brush stroke, it is often the difference between hair that survives washing and hair that snaps at the first knot. For a long time slip was treated as a finishing touch, something added after the real work of shampoo and conditioner was done. T

A Heated Eyelash Curler for Lashes That Drop by Lunch

A Heated Eyelash Curler for Lashes That Drop by Lunch

A heated eyelash curler sets a curl the way a hot tool sets hair, and for straight lashes that drop by lunch, it makes the difference. Here are the heated and classic curlers, the mascaras that hold the shape, and the primers, serums and finishers that help it last.

Tom Ford Ombre Leather and the Art of Smelling Like a Good Jacket

Tom Ford Ombre Leather and the Art of Smelling Like a Good Jacket

Tom Ford Ombre Leather is the leather fragrance I hand to anyone who says they do not like heavy perfume. This edit lines up the three Ombre Leather bottles, the other Tom Ford scents I would wear alongside them, and smoky, woody alternatives from other houses.

Gucci Perfume, Starting From a Scarf Made for Grace Kelly

Gucci Perfume, Starting From a Scarf Made for Grace Kelly

Gucci perfume has a garden at its center, and it goes back to a scarf from 1966. Here are the Gucci Flora bottles, the Bloom and Guilty fragrances that sit beside them, and a handful of jasmine and gardenia scents from other houses.

Coach Perfume Started in a Leather Loft, and It Still Smells Like Going Out

Coach Perfume Started in a Leather Loft, and It Still Smells Like Going Out

Coach perfume comes from a house that began as a six-person leather workshop on 34th Street. Here are the eau de parfums that carry the name, the men's bottles, and a few easy fruity florals for days when you want something lighter.

Tatcha and the Kyoto Lesson: Skin and Mind, Same Root

Tatcha and the Kyoto Lesson: Skin and Mind, Same Root

Tatcha began in 2009 in a San Francisco garage, with a founder who had left Wall Street and a philosophy she picked up in Kyoto. Here is how I would build a shelf from the brand, starting with the moisturizers, then the cleansers and rice powder, then the essences, serums and primers.

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Way, Not Wow: A Wash Day Through the OUAI Shelf

Way, Not Wow: A Wash Day Through the OUAI Shelf

OUAI is a hairstylist's brand that quietly grew a body-care and fragrance shelf, and this edit walks through all of it. Start with the wash-day and leave-in basics, move on to the St. Barts and Melrose Place body products, then finish with the three eau de parfums.

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Amika Hair Products: Where It's From and What to Buy

Amika Hair Products: Where It's From and What to Buy

amika hair products began in a Brooklyn neighborhood in 2007 and the name means friend in Esperanto, which tells you a lot about the tone. Here are the styling sprays and creams I reach for, the masks and treatments for dry or frizzy ends, and the two brushes that finish a blowout.

The Ordinary Glycolic Acid and the Acid Shelf Around It, Explained Slowly

The Ordinary Glycolic Acid and the Acid Shelf Around It, Explained Slowly

The Ordinary glycolic acid toner is the bottle that made a lot of us learn what an exfoliating acid does. Here are that toner and its close relatives, the other acids on the same shelf, and the barrier creams and sunscreens that make an acid night a calm one.

A Jar of Loose Minerals in San Francisco: Getting to Know bareMinerals Again

A Jar of Loose Minerals in San Francisco: Getting to Know bareMinerals Again

Leslie Blodgett saw something in a jar of loose minerals in a San Francisco shop and launched bare minerals in 1995 on a very simple promise. This edit covers the loose powders and newer foundations, the blush and bronzer, and the concealers, lip care and skin care that fill out the range.

Twelve Lipsticks in 1994, Now a Complexion Cabinet: Choosing a NARS Foundation

Twelve Lipsticks in 1994, Now a Complexion Cabinet: Choosing a NARS Foundation

Choose a NARS foundation by finish, from a tinted moisturizer to light reflecting and natural matte longwear formulas. I also cover the two concealers for two kinds of day.

Dermalogica: A Skin Therapist's Shelf, Built From the Treatment Room Out

Dermalogica: A Skin Therapist's Shelf, Built From the Treatment Room Out

Dermalogica began in 1986 with skin therapist Jane Wurwand, and the range still feels like it came from someone who has actually stood at a treatment bed. Here are the cleansers and powder exfoliators, the serums and moisturizers, and the sunscreens, masks and eye care.

Clarins, From a Paris Institute to the Lip Oil on My Nightstand

Clarins, From a Paris Institute to the Lip Oil on My Nightstand

Clarins opened its first Paris institute in 1954, and seventy-odd years later it is still best known for one two-chambered serum and a lip oil that started a category. Here are the serums and oils, the lip products and primer, and the cleansers, eye cream and body care.

CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum: A Quiet Start, Ceramides Included

CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum: A Quiet Start, Ceramides Included

CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum: retinol with ceramides and niacinamide built in, plus CeraVe moisturizers and other retinol serums.

Dr Murad Skin Care: Serums, Cleansers and Moisturizers

Dr Murad Skin Care: Serums, Cleansers and Moisturizers

Dr Murad skin care began in Los Angeles in 1989, built by a doctor who wanted skincare to be taken seriously. I start with the serums, then the cleansers and moisturizers for a calm everyday base.

OLEHENRIKSEN: Ole Henriksen Left Denmark for LA and Brought Banana Bright

OLEHENRIKSEN: Ole Henriksen Left Denmark for LA and Brought Banana Bright

Ole Henriksen opened his first skin care centre in 1975, and the brand that carries his name is still best known for its Banana Bright vitamin C line. Here is the Banana Bright range, the cleansers, toners and moisturizers around it, and the lip treatments I keep within reach.

A Christmas Tree Farm, a Green Echinacea and Farmacy Green Clean

A Christmas Tree Farm, a Green Echinacea and Farmacy Green Clean

Farmacy Green Clean started with a patented green echinacea found on a New York Christmas tree farm, and it became the brand's best known way to take off the day. Here are the three Green Clean cleansers, the other Farmacy steps I keep beside them, and the cleansing balms from other brands worth trying.

Is Lovery a Good Brand: Faye Lynn's Spa and Perfume Gift Sets

Is Lovery a Good Brand: Faye Lynn's Spa and Perfume Gift Sets

Lovery is a good brand to know for gift sets: Faye Lynn founded it in 2016, and it sells spa, grooming and perfume boxes. I go through the sets and perfumes I would pick first, and how to choose one for the person.

KIKO Milano, Bergamo's Answer to the Color Counter

KIKO Milano, Bergamo's Answer to the Color Counter

KIKO Milano began in Bergamo in 1997 as a family idea, and it has been putting bold color into pockets ever since. Here are its face and eye favorites, the lip products I keep reaching for, and the glosses and oils from other brands that sit beside them.

Is ILIA a Korean Brand: It Began in Vancouver With Tinted Lips

Is ILIA a Korean Brand: It Began in Vancouver With Tinted Lips

ILIA is not a Korean brand; it began with a small Vancouver idea about tinted lips. I use the ILIA skin tint in place of heavy foundation and go through the complexion, lash and lip products.

Dolce&Gabbana Perfume, From Light Blue Skies to a Panettone Gourmand

Dolce&Gabbana Perfume, From Light Blue Skies to a Panettone Gourmand

Dolce&Gabbana perfume runs from the sun-washed citrus of Light Blue to the sweet, bakery-warm Devotion. Here are the Devotion bottles, the Light Blue family, and The One, K and Dolce, with notes on how each one wears.