Beauty

I had to log off social media Saturday afternoon. Well, just Twitter. I haven’t been on Instagram in forever. I was comparing myself to everyone else’s highlight reel and that’s just not helpful right now. Or ever, but especially right now. I’m writing celebrity fashion news for Brit...

‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” The holiday...

One of the toughest things about my move to New York City was leaving behind the hairdresser that I had been with since I was 12. She worked at the shop where my mother had been getting her hair done since forever. My brother got...

I sought out Vivrant Beauty’s owner, Desiree Verdejo—former lawyer turned entrepreneur—a self-described product junkie, to find out what every girl (namely me) needs on her vanity and in her bathroom cabinet....

“It smells like… wealth… in here,” I slowly tried to articulate my nose to my mom and her friend Ms. Cynthia as we walked through Bergdorf Goodman. And it did. The air smelled stale, with hints of the leather handbags, glass cleaner that undoubtedly kept the counters...

One of my most treasured possessions is a book I bought at Shakespeare and Co on my first trip to Paris. Alicia Drake’s Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris follows the rise of two men who would change fashion forever—Karl Lagerfeld...

‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” [inlinetweet prefix=""...

  Hey, yall! Remember me? Really short girl? Big smile? In love with sequins? Since we last talked: our president is still black, I was featured on Refinery29, in their Real Girl's Guide to Transitioning, we celebrated Thanksgiving (hopefully not trampling anyone the next day) and it...