True beauty, doesn’t always live in the new. Sometimes, it lives in what’s been kept, cared for, chosen, repaired, and reimagined. There’s elegance in maintenance …
beauty psychology
The Girl Gets the Guy *After the Eyeliner*
There’s something weirdly magnetic about a movie makeover. The girl steps out from behind her old hairstyle, the camera pans up, and boom, she’s visible, …
Chasing the Chase
Born in 1987 (barely), I’m a Millennial. I grew up on a steady diet of TV shows and movies that centered around a girl, living …
Let’s Tell the Truth
Let’s tell the truth. Makeup is not salvation. It is not a time machine. It will not make you young again, nor will it deliver …
A Lip Color Warm Up
Sometimes, experimenting with beauty comes from curiosity. What would it feel like to step a little outside your comfort zone, just enough to see yourself …
Burning Down Beauty’s Old House to See What’s Left
The modern day beauty industry was built on scaffolding that’s starting to rot: filters, referral codes, marketing gimmicks, and the manufactured scarcity of “limited editions.” …
What Is It About Progress?
What is it about progress that is so incredibly difficult to see in real time? It exists in the smallest of knowings and subtle shifts …
What Enlarges Me, What Diminishes Me?
James Hollis offers a deceptively simple compass for navigating life’s endless choices: What enlarges me, and what diminishes me? At first glance, it feels almost too straightforward—like …
What Makes Me Come Alive
Sometimes I wonder if I’m chasing beauty, or if beauty has been chasing me all along. My favorite kind of beauty lives in the in-between. …
Am I Investing in What Makes Me Come Alive?
There’s a question I return to again and again, both in beauty and in life:Am I investing in what makes me come alive? It’s easy …