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 dollar. This week: a self-employed clinical mental health therapist who makes $50,000 per year and spends some of it on a…
If you’re like me, you’re probably sick and tired of bundling up in winter layers. Don’t lose hope though, my friends. We’ve made it through the harshest days of the season and sunshine is just around the corner. In other words: Now is the perfect time to invest in transitional outerwear pieces. Whether it’s coveted…
“March comes in like a lion, out like a lamb” might have been about the weather forecast, but it could just as easily describe what’s happening in fragrance right now. With the official start of spring nigh (March 20, for those counting down the last grey days of winter), it seems we’re shelving the heavy, cloying gourmands for scents that skew…
Growing up, Eileen Ivette spent her summers flying to Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, a Pacific coastal seaport city in Colombia where her family is from. Like her, much of the town is Afro-Colombian, and her tío, the “family historian,” filled the months between school semesters with lessons about the community — their history, culture, and…
I always knew I wanted to be a mom. Over the course of my career, I also learned how much I genuinely enjoy working. What I didn’t fully understand was how exhausting it would feel to want both — deeply — at the same time. In one year, I got married, moved from New York…
What’s felt like an endless winter is finally easing — at least on Instagram’s coolest manicurists’ feeds. As we step into March, it seems the brooding colors and intricate argyle patterns that dominated the colder months are slowly but surely giving way to lighter shades and dainty nail art, all in the name of spring. With the new season calling for a refresh, here are 16 of the…
Target is no stranger to partnering on creative collaborations. From Rowing Blazers in 2023, Diane von Furstenberg in 2024, and Kate Spade as well as Woolrich in 2025, the reader-favorite retailer has teamed up with a range of designers and brands on limited-edition collections that almost always instantly sell out. And to get us into…
March opens like a dream you’re half-awake inside. Mars enters Pisces, and suddenly motivation doesn’t look like grinding harder, it looks like following a feeling, a nudge, a quiet “this way.” With Mercury retrograde and Venus finishing her time in Pisces, the pace of life may feel slow, foggy, or oddly emotional. Plans drift, conversations…
Spoilers ahead: There’s a moment in 56 Days when the show’s central con is revealed: Ciara (Dove Cameron) didn’t meet Oliver (Avan Jogia) by chance at the supermarket. She planned it. She’d been watching him, taking photos, keeping notes. She orchestrated the entire encounter to get close to a man she had reason to hate….
Hearing about your friends’ dating lives can be juicy and exciting, whether you’re a teenager in your first blush of romance or a grown woman reminding your group chat about what they deserve. It can also be heartbreaking, discouraging — and particularly if you’re a Latina who lives at several intersections of identity — terrifying. …