Indie Files

BB creams, lip tints, ceramide balms, bottled essences, sheet masks: The contents of my medicine cabinet say all I need to know about how heavily influence

I don't know the difference between an acid a base because I didn't pay attention in my 8th-grade chemistry lab and I couldn't explain the p

Why was I not scrubbing my scalp earlier?!

They say that, the minute you stop looking, that's when you find “the one” — and I’d been looking for the right bronzer for a very lon

Last year, I brought my mom with me to a dinner party full of friends and colleagues — all twenty-something, single, living in Brooklyn, and into astrolo

Interventions might make for good TV, but anyone sitting on the brown sofa on the other side of the screen can tell you: It's not easy convincing some

Of all the excess I've recently chosen to crop out of the JPEG of my life — stress, cheese, low-rise jeans — there's one thing that's b

There's a man out there who just turned 105 and swears it's because he adds a shot of whiskey to his tea every morning. Which sounds fun and all,

For someone who pays about as much attention to “rules” as Donald Trump in front of a teleprompter, even I have a few strict guidelines I follo

Forget what your first-grade teacher told you: Research has shown that a “clean setting” — as in, a tidy desk — might not always be the mos

Ninety percent of the time, I don’t believe in magic. But every once in awhile, I find the Hermione Granger inside of me swearing that magic is the only

A beauty editor's Sunday morning skin savior.

You know how in epic love stories, even after war, betrayal, or being strangely forbidden by someone's mustached father, the couple always finds their

They've been sacrificed to the gods since ancient times, outfitted us in warm coats and scarves, fed us with their milk and meat, healed our chapped s

The best $14 you can spend on your lashes.

In my opinion, there's a difference between being a grown woman and a Grown Ass Woman. Grown women do the prerequisites: they pay their bills, they ma

When I was in high school, I got the Clinique Moisture Surge gift set for Christmas. The little pink jar of moisturizer was like a little gem of what I con