Maria Del Russo

After recently dyeing my hair back to my natural brown after three gruelling months living as a bleach blonde, my strands were in need of some major TLC. T

My name is Maria Del Russo, and I hold these truths to be self-evident: A cheese plate is a perfectly respectable meal. A pack of shredded cheese is a grea

We'd argue that we take pretty good care of our nails — we certainly love a manicure around these parts. But proper hand-maintenance should go way b

Nobody is perfect — not even a beauty editor. We may preach the gospel of SPF and slather on the stuff with fervour, but sometimes we slip up. We openly

I'm a fairly healthy person — I do what I can to feel good, while still enjoying my life. I wake up at the crack of dawn for yoga and eat a fairly b

My first flirtation with online dating was in early 2011 during my junior year of college. I’d finally broken up with my first (and worst) boyfriend, and

Bar soaps kinda grossed me out for a while. Maybe it was the look of them, dried and cracked on a soap dish. Maybe it was the fact that every single time I

My skin and I haven't always been on great terms. It has pimpled, puffed, flaked, and fried countless times in the 25 years I've been around, and

Even though I spent most of my teenage years training to be a ballet dancer, I'd never use the word “athletic” to describe myself. To me,

This story was originally published on 22nd August 2015. When my dear friend Tara Teschke told me that she was considering embracing the grey hair that sta

I've done a lot of weird shit in the name of beauty, but having the plasma from my own blood injected into my face with a needle might take the cake.

If you're one of the people who finds themselves taking the ultimate plunge during this engagement season, congrats! You might be fielding thrilled te