In the many years I’ve been getting my nails done, I’m pretty certain I’ve had every French tip design under the sun. Cat eye for Christmas, heart-tipped for Valentine’s Day, “deep” French to satiate my early Y2K yearning — and I’m currently rocking tiger print. But Instagram’s nail artists never fail to inspire my next…
Highly detailed crescent Moon image with a star field background Mark your calendars: The first New Moon of spring occurs on April 17th, in the fiery sign of Aries, offering a fresh start to our seasonal intentions. Now that the lunar cycle is beginning, we can set our dreams in motion. It’s an excellent time…
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 senior product designer working in technology who makes $98,206 per year and spends it on a Big…
It’s a great day for Christopher John Rogers fans. The New York-based designer has teamed up with Old Navy to deliver a collection filled with those dopamine-inducing designs at prices for the masses. Kimora Lee Simmons and her daughters, Aoki and Ming Lee, are also joining the campaign, starring in undeniably fabulous photos. The glam…
“In the age of social media, fragrance is more important than ever, reminding us of our presence in the here and now,” perfumer Daniela Andrier tells me. We might be a hundred miles apart, and chatting via a patchy video link, but an invisible thread is connecting us; we’re both wearing her latest masterpiece for…
It’s that time of year again. Yes, wedding season is officially upon us. And here in Manhattan, we’ve kicked off the festivities with New York Bridal Fashion Week — the epicenter of all things bridal. Every season, bridal designers from across the country and the globe gather in the Big Apple to showcase the latest…
You spend about a third of your life in your bedroom, and the air quality there could be quietly harming your health. A 2025 study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global, which looked at data from 3,399 U.S. adults, found that higher levels of bedroom allergens were strongly linked to trouble sleeping,…
$850 billion. That’s what retail and e-commerce returns will cost in 2026, generating 8.4 billion pounds of landfill waste — and a surprising share of it involves products that worked perfectly. They just didn’t look the way people expected. About 22% of consumers return items because the product looked different in person than it did…
In parts of coastal North Carolina and Texas, homeowners who were paying one rate for property insurance in 2019 are now paying double, and that’s after adjusting for inflation. A February 2026 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the most thorough federal analysis of homeowners insurance markets in years, confirms what many Americans in…
Cosmic beings, we’re in the final stretch of Mars’s six-week journey through Pisces, which had us feeling more emotional, nostalgic, or even a little delulu at times. Mars in Pisces doesn’t move in straight lines. It drifts, it dreams, it revisits old feelings and unfinished stories, and it reminds us that not all progress is…