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19 Short Nail Designs To Inspire Your Next Manicure

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Serious Question: Is Nail Polish Dead?

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The Ordinary Is Having A Sale & This Is What A Beauty Editor Would Buy

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Behold, The 30 Scariest Movies Of All Time

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How To Style Your Cowboy Boots For Fall

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36 Best Emmy Awards Red Carpet Looks Of All Time

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From Molten Silver To Olive Green: 9 French Tip Nail Ideas For Fall

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Everyone’s Obsessed With Tretinoin — But I Don’t Have...

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Beauty Standards Make Me Ashamed Of My Features — & AI Makes It W...

“What in the Black Mirror am I looking at?” snorted a friend when I showed her Reem Bot for the first time. Reem is an influencer and journalist create

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17 Hot-Weather Outfits For A Late-Summer Vacation

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The “No Concealer” Trend Forgets That Women of Color Exist

It’s 7 a.m. and I’m scrolling, blurry eyed, through my phone in an effort to wake up. “Under-eye concealer is dead,” a TikToker tells me. I nearly

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No One’s Using Retinol Anymore — Because This Ingredient Is...

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I Just Learned The Hard Truth Behind The Eczema & Tanning Beds Myth

Welcome to Sun Blocked, Refinery29’s global call to action to wake up to the serious dangers of tanning. No lectures or shaming, we promise. Instead, our

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Eid Celebrations Make Me Feel Lonely In My Interracial Relationship

I never feel as lonely as I do on Eid day. The loneliness began around the age of 19. I was dating my now husband, Jack, and nobody knew except my mum. She

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Everyone’s Asking For Bio Sculpture Nails — A Healthy Alternative...

Social media is a brilliant tool for discovering intricate nail art trends or spotting the season’s hottest nail polish colors — and it’s all thanks

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11 Women On The Exact Moment They Broke Up With Their Hairdressers

I am, without a doubt, a chronic people-pleaser. It’s odd, because I wouldn’t say that I’m scared of confrontation, but there’s something in me tha

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5 Hairdressers On The Exact Moment They Broke Up With A Client

Hairdressers are sacred. When you find a good one, you tend to stick to them like glue. For the longest time after I moved to London, I would travel back t

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“Your Skincare Routine Cracks Me Up”: Age-Gap Sisters Talk Beauty

I grew up wishing for the joy — or frustration — of sharing clothes, shoes, secrets and beauty tips with a sister. I had no such luck. Instead, I’m

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I Asked For “Pearl Balayage” Hair Color & It’s Shockingly Low-Mai...

“Beauty writer and woman of many hair colors,” reads my Finsta bio. It’s true: In the last five years I’ve gone from ice-cool blonde to gre

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