Maria Del Russo

When navigating the online beauty universe, you tend to stumble across two types of enthusiasts. On one end of the spectrum, you have people who adore

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,

I remember certain things about puberty vividly, like shaving my armpits for the first time while my family waited downstairs impatiently before a trip

The beauty industry has a fraught relationship with freckles. While plenty of designers have started to embrace them on the runways and many celebrities

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

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

As a single girl living in a big city, I mainly find dates on apps. It's easy, it's fast, and I can do most of the legwork while siting on my couch in my

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 I've

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

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, athletes are

Welcome to 2018. If you're just joining us, you may have noticed some changes. Unisex scents rule the fragrance shelves, CoverGirls are no longer just

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

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. When

The calendar may say it's spring, but few of us are actually enjoying warm weather. Once the temperature does start to creep up, though, it'll likely

Though it's been more than a century since Gillette started marketing razors to women, ladies still feel enormous pressure every time they step into the

Breaking the ice on dating apps is pretty low-stakes. Since you're not face-to-face with the object of your affection, if they blow you off, your ego

Chances are, your beauty products are like your children (we're with you on that one). You adore them, and you'd never want to do anything to hurt them,

As a single woman, I get asked a lot of intrusive questions about my love life. "Have you tried dating apps?" (Yes. Every single one.) "Have you

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

You meet someone, sparks fly, and you exchange phone numbers. After some witty banter via text (OMG you love Big Mouth too??), you finally set a first

If you're single, you've likely encountered the kind of person who has seemingly mastered the art of dating. After ending a long-term relationship, this

Whether you're in a long-term, committed relationship, or are just weeks into a new fling, chances are you may have felt a slight twinge of jealousy at

Have you ever noticed that a lot of relationships end after the Christmas? Call it the January comedown, call it breakup season, call it whatever you

A few weeks ago, I met with an astrologist named Colin Bedell who gave me more insight into my psyche in two hours than two therapists over three years

Exfoliating your face is kind of like going to the dentist: It's something you know you're supposed to do regularly, but it's still kind of scary. This is

The holidays are right around the corner, which means, at this very moment, there are likely a bunch of coupled-up people who are silently freaking out

"So do you want to grab a drink next weekend?" You fire off the text message, flip your phone over so you can't watch the screen obsessively, and wait.

There are a lot of things to complain about when someone ghosts you. Whenever a person I dug suddenly dips out of my life, I tend to lament the amount

Last Christmas, I drank so much wine that I was asleep in my bed by 7 p.m. I didn’t mean for that to happen — honestly, I didn’t. But cabernet