Month: November 2022

My Situationship Breakup Hurt More Than Ending My 5-Year Relationship

When the person I’d been seeing for a few months told me that he was getting back together with his ex-girlfriend, effectively ending our situationship, I went a bit light-headed. It did not help that it was at my favourite bar on a Saturday night, I hadn’t had much sleep […]

Expensive Hair Treatments Didn’t Fix My Hair Loss Because It Was PTSD

I have a habit of crying in the shower. The flat I live in lacks internal walls so it is just one long room with separate areas demarcated by rugs and changing colour schemes. Privacy is pretty much impossible, which makes the bathroom the only place I can cry in […]

The Crown Season 5 Is A Little Too Close For Comfort

The Crown Season 5 Is A Little Too Close For Comfort

The House of Windsor is burning. At least on screen, that is. In the fourth episode of season five of The Crown, Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) finds herself outside Windsor Castle in the early hours of dawn, watching the royal residence engulfed in flames and falling in on itself. […]

Lindsay Lohan’s Netflix Christmas Movie Is Her Rom-Com Renaissance

Lindsay Lohan’s Netflix Christmas Movie Is Her Rom-Com Renaissance

Falling For Christmas. Lindsay Lohan as Sierra in Falling For Christmas. Cr. Scott Everett White/Netflix © 2022. Lindsay Lohan knows that we’ve been missing rom-coms — because she’s been missing them, too. “Film got really intense [over the last few years],” she tells Refinery29. “Everything we were watching was portraying […]

How To Nurse A Vulnerability Hangover, According To Brené Brown

How To Nurse A Vulnerability Hangover, According To Brené Brown

A side effect of the human condition is that, every so often, you’ll be overcome with an overwhelming feeling of uncomfortableness and regret after you share something personal with others. It’s a humbling experience, really, the ability to give yourself the ‘ick’.  You might’ve felt it after sharing a particularly […]

What No One Told Me About Using Vitamin C In Skin Care

What No One Told Me About Using Vitamin C In Skin Care

Testing skincare products is an occupational hazard. In the past, I’ve been lucky. I’m relatively non-reactive (I used to claim). But last month, boy, was I humbled. I had polished off the last of my morning serum, the Major Fade Hyper Serum by #PillowtalkDerm, which I highly recommend [but unfortunately isn’t available […]

Stüssy Joins Forces With Dries Van Noten

Belgian fashion label Dries Van Noten teamed up with Stüssy on what might just be the most surprising collaboration of the year.  While perhaps an unexpected crossover of brands, Stüssy x Dries Van Noten — which drops on Nov. 18 at select chapter stores, select Dover Street … Continue reading

This Infrared PEMF Mat Is Now My Entire Personality

Editors’ Picks are the Fashionista team’s true (#notspon) fashion and beauty obsessions, handpicked by professionals who see it all. Any beauty product you see here has been vetted and tested by the editor recommending it. It’s true: A big perk of being a fashion or beauty editor is occasionally … […]