Journey To The Center: What Do I Put On My Face?
I’m intrigued by the ways that makeup can be both feminizing and masculinizing, often at the same time. As I started working on this project, I realized that’s been true for a long time.
These Black Nail Polishes
Black nail polish will inherit the earth.
8 Vegan Cosmetic Products Just Waiting to Look Amazing On You
Just seemed like something you might need in your life.
This Shit Rules: Damage Control
“I really couldn’t tell you what monoi oil is, but I like to imagine it is suckled from the nipples of woodland nymphs.”
4 Vivid Lipsticks I’ve Known and Loved
If it’s bright, deeply pigmented and under $10, I’ll usually give it a spin. After searching high and low for quality formulas in current colors, I’ve gathered some of my personal favourite inexpensive lippies. Reap the benefits of my quest.
This Shit Rules: Loverboi Fresh
Hey boi, here’s an array of homemade products and some very necessary queer/hippie extras that keep me feeling so fresh and so clean clean. Let’s be fresh together forever. Xo.
This Shit Rules: My Skin Is Sensitive and My Hair Doesn’t Make Sense
My skin and my sense of humor are very dry. My skin is sensitive, but I am not. I’m half-Jewish, and so is my hair, which means it requires a lot of taming. Also I like eyeliner.
This Shit Rules: Goo For Scaly-Snake-Monster Season
It’s winter. Or as my skin likes to call it, Scaly-Snake-Monster Season. I imagine, of course, that people flee from me as I walk down New York City streets because, right about two weeks ago, I transformed into essentially a giant humanoid alligator.
This Shit Rules: Fabulous (and Squeaky Clean) as F*ck
This is the stuff that makes it possible for me to face another day in the cruel, harsh, unforgiving world.
This Shit Rules: Honey and Almonds and Coconut Oil
Coconut oil, a ton of Burt’s Bees, and the best hair oil (for my head) on this earth.
This Shit Rules: My Mostly Vegan Face, Pits, Skin and Lips
“I may eat dairy and eggs again now, but I’m sticking with these perfect vegan products, suitable for carnivores or vegans or anyone in between.”
This Shit Rules: Keep It Simple, Keep It Clean
About half the year, I’m obsessed with beauty products and rituals and slathering things all over my body in the hopes that they’ll be the latest miracle product to change my life. The other half of the time, I’m the laziest motherfucker around.
Happy Holigays: Two Sparkly, Sexy Makeup Looks for Monolids
Here are two fun makeup looks for your holigay festivities, my fellow monolid-blessed beauties. One glam, one funky, both very wearable and easy to recreate. Now get your boldest eyeliner out, because it’s time to sparkle!
This Shit Rules: Moisture For Your Ashy Bits
My knees look like I’ve been crawling around in the fireplace. My lips are so dry you could peel off a layer and roll a joint in it. I’m itchy as hell y’all, but thankfully, I have an arsenal of products to keep me whet as a whistle.
Give Thanks: Pumpkin Spice Smokey Eye
Pumpkin everything is the highlight of my autumn, but as you may well know it’s also the center of a lot of unnecessary girl hate. Demonizing girls for liking pumpkin flavored things is silly, so let’s snuggle up by the fireplace celebrate with a pumpkin spice smokey eye.
6 Blue Lipsticks Road-Tested for the Ice Queen In You
Something truly wonderful is happening. Cosmetic companies are expanding their lipstick colors beyond the standard red-orange-pink-purple-burgundy spectrum and into the land of black, yellow, green and blue lipstick.
This Shit Rules: A Lazy Person’s Guide To Looking Good
It’s more likely that an extra 10 mins in the AM will realistically be spent sleeping, if not figuring out what to wear once I roll out of bed. That’s not to say that I don’t have a slew of products that help a lazy Lydia look as though I put in a smidge of effort, even though I probably didn’t.
Top Ten Products For Human Bloodhounds Who Need Everything To Smell Good
If you have an unusually sensitive sense of smell, as I do, perhaps you also have an intimate relationship with febreeze to-go and maintain a scented artillery at all times.
Winter Is Coming: How to Change Up Your Skincare for the Season
It’s peak Pumpkin Spice Latte season but early forecasts predict Polar Vortex 2: Electric Boogaloo and the time to address seasonal dry skin issues is now, not the middle of December when your car is buried under five feet of snow and your plans for the day are “huddle in a ball and hate everything.”
PHOTOESSAY: Stunning Portraits From Portland’s Vev Studios Showcase Every Woman’s Beauty
Co-founder and photographer Gia Goodrich aims to empower women to feel beautiful no matter their gender expression or personal identity.