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Where Do The Rich Flock To In The Summer? In Toronto, It’s Lake Muskoka

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This One Product Gave My Hair The Shine It So Desperately Needed

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How Can We Make Tech More Inclusive? This 23-Year-Old Is Fighting For Change

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What Should A Coder Look Like? This New Media Artist Is Challengi...

Even the briefest, most cursory glance at Mattaniah Aytenfsu’s TikTok offers incredible insight into the 27-year-old engineer’s wildly imaginative, bou

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Here’s Why Everyone’s Doing Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra” Choreograph...

“The category is: dance or die.” And so begins Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra” music video, a gloriously chaotic, beautifully anarchic visual accompani

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3 Personal Finance Goals You’ll Actually Keep In 2025

If there’s one invaluable piece of advice my dad has ever imparted, it’s this: “Never live beyond your means.” It’s an axiom that I’ve followed

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For Petites: Finally, A Fashion Collection That Doesn’t Require A...

Floor-dragging hemlines. Comically disproportionate silhouettes. Too-low knee placements (see also: darts, and waistbands, and necklines). Rises so high, t

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Why Makeup Is A Powerful Tool For Shifting Your Aura, According T...

For some, a lipstick is just a lipstick. But for others, it’s a source of strength, creativity, and expression. In our series Power Faces, we’l

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Does The Perfect Beauty Gift Exist? Yes — I Found It.

Anytime anyone asks me what my love language is, I facetiously make the same routine remark: gifts. I’m exceptionally adept at receiving gifts, more so t

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I Tried This New Perfume — & Received So Many Compliments

All of the things you know about New York City are true: it’s crowded, it’s fast-paced, it’s thrumming with energy. And it’s true of the residents

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This Is Why We Need More Diversity In Rom-Coms

“Whose love stories get to be told? Whose happy endings do we get to see?” Those are the questions that drive author Lily Chu to write her immensely po

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A Big Reason Why You Shouldn’t Turn Your Hobby Into A Side Hustle

There was one weekend after my divorce where I found myself utterly alone and without anything to do. I aimlessly scrolled through all the streaming platfo

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Women Athletes Should Never Have To Apologize For Being Competitive

When Alexa Coubal was in eighth grade, a volleyball teammate told her to quit, because she was “too competitive.” Her immediate reaction: “Why are we

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Is The Jelly Bag This Summer’s Hottest Accessory?

There’s something so intrinsically, gloriously pure about summer — a season that, unlike others, continues to uphold all the markers of childhood even

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This Is What Your Oral Care Routine Should Look Like, Based On Yo...

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ACEs Affect Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans — So Why Aren’t We Tal...

Here’s what you may already know: Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs) are stressful or potentially traumatic experiences that happen before the age o

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How To Solve Your Most Pressing Laundry Problems, According To A ...

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What Kind Of A Traveler Are You?

They say, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” but respectfully, we disagree. The joys of jet-setting surely don’t lie in cramming all y

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How This Paper Artist Turned Her Flower-Making Hobby Into A Business

One of the rare, agreed-upon universal truths is that flowers are exquisite beings, and ordinarily, in the presence of such extraordinary beauty, the expec

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It’s 2023 — Why Is There Still So Much Shame Around Peri...

From what I remember of one particular teen magazine in the early aughts, there was a monthly column that comprised submissions from readers who recounted

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How Do I Get Access To Capital? Chase’s Kristina Sicard On The Qu...

Welcome to Refinery29’s Why I Do It, a series where we ask inspirational, successful people 29 questions about what fuels them on and off the clock.

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I Finally Reached All My NYC Dreams — But The Struggle Was Real

Every milestone is worth celebrating, no matter how big or small. That’s why we partnered with Shane Co., purveyors of timeless handcrafted fine jew

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This Product Proves The Coolest Thing You Can Drink This Summer I...

Two months ago, my friend Rose and I traveled to the south of France, where, over the span of two weeks, we traversed the Côte d’Azur, exploring coastal

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9 Ways To Help You Break Out Of Your Eczema Itch-Scratch Cycle

Anyone who has ever experienced atopic dermatitis (AD), the most common type of eczema, is acutely, intimately aware of “the itch,” even if the

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No Doctor Believes In My Period Pain — & Other Ways America’s Hea...

Nearly two years ago, 22-year-old Shelby Doderlein woke up in the middle of the night from severe pain in her left side — this debilitating, hurt-to-the-

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This New Horror Film Will Give You A Fear Of… Smiles

When it comes to horror movies, there isn’t a whole lot that we haven’t seen: mask-wearing killers, extraterrestrial life, monsters that take on every

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Inside The World Of CleanTok — & Why It’s About Way More Th...

I held out on downloading TikTok for as long as I could — a steadfast refusal that I can’t quite explain, other than the fact that I had no interest in

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Running For Joy? Yes, It’s Possible

As a non-runner, the mere thought of running strikes a chord of dread in me. But as it turns out, runners — real runners, like marathon-finishers — can

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How To Arrange Your Dorm Room To Achieve The Best Energy

You don’t need to be a feng shui expert, an interior designer, or a psychologist to instinctively know that a drab, unkempt living space might not usher

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The Difference Between Appreciating & Appropriating Asian Beauty ...

Welcome to Beauty School, where Refinery29 and Ulta Beauty explore a rich, diverse curriculum in order to spark honest — and authentic — conv

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