I'm going to be honest with you: Writing about beauty has made me a lot pickier about my bodycare routine. It just comes with the territory. I've learned a lot about what ingredients are generally winners and which ones to avoid, but I've also just learned a lot about what my skin does and doesn't tolerate. My skin is actually pretty sensitive and doesn't always react well to harsh or heavy ingredients in body lotions so I decided it was time to go the organic route. Just to clarify, product...

While sneaker brands and designers have left much to be desired in the way of female-centric collaborations, TITAN's commitment to women is broad and longstanding. The Manila-based, basketball-focused brand sponsors women's tournaments, enlists female athletes as endorsers and is using its Air Jordan 2 as an opportunity to spotlight artist and designer Chi Loyzaga Gibbs.Gibbs' connection to basketball is common knowledge in the Philippines as the granddaughter of one of the most celebrated hoop ...

If there's one thing to know about me, it's that I don't think I've had bare nails since I was under 10 years old. I've been religiously painting my nails and getting them done from a very young age. When I was a kid, it was a fun way to bond with my mom, and it quickly turned into something that I just felt incomplete without. Growing up, there was only one nail polish brand in my house: OPI. In fact, I'm pretty sure that to this day, it's the only nail polish my mom will touch with a 10-foo...

Hello, my name is Erin Jahns, and I bleach the hell out of my hair. It's been going on for 19 years (I'm 29, and my first-ever color job was in fifth grade), and despite the amount of turmoil my strands have endured, I plan on being as blonde as physically possible until my dying day. Or, at least, until my hair goes white—we'll see what happens first.But first, some context. As a baby and through most of grade school, I was as blonde as blonde could be. Of course, at the time, I couldn't...