Which Celebrity Brand Are You Hate-Buying?
Help! We are knee-deep in the celebrity beauty brand era, with no end in sight. No one asked for this, but here we are, confronted with every convenient origin story (“No one was making...
The Everything Shower
There are two kinds of showers. There’s the shower—your run-of-the-mill 5-minute bathroom appointment to get clean, and then there’s the everything shower. The everything shower is a shower with an agenda. It has a...
A Guide to Maintaining Your Silk Press
Growing up, I lived for a silk press, with a standing appointment with my hairdresser every two weeks. Then, of course, I got older, went to college, and experimented with different hairstyles (afros, weaves,...
Contouring For Newbies
Turns out, similarly to painting, contouring is all about location—where you place color is equally as important as which color you’re actually working with. If you’re a talented enough painter (or makeup artist) you...
Allison Bornstein, Celebrity Stylist + Wardrobe Specialist
“I was the kind of kid who would wear a Halloween costume to school just for fun, but because I grew up in a place where there isn’t much access to fashion, I didn’t...
How Brooklyn Florist Ryan Norville Found A New Life In Paris
Dear ITG, I was really itchy about New York for quite some time. Since I was maybe 25—I’m 31 now—New York hadn’t felt the same since my teenage years and early twenties. The...
An Ode To My Teenage Make-up Bag
You never forget your first one. Lipstick, that is. Mine was by Revlon – a warm-toned cinnamon-brown hue. It was the mid-1990s, and I was a pre-teen who, admittedly, already owned a pretty impressive...
How Bougie Are The White Lotus Beauty Routines?
The White Lotus is an excellent show about terrible rich people…what’s not to love? There’s the pristine Sicilian backdrop (yeah, yeah everyone really did go to Italy last summer), there’s mystery (two people are...
The Top Shelf Products On Sale For Cyber Month
Black Friday used to be this chaotic day where you’d turn on the morning news after Thanksgiving and see that 1,000 people had camped out in front of Best Buy overnight, and a couple...
Julianne Goldmark, Founder, Emi Jay
“From the youngest age, I wanted to be a mini Martha Stewart. I’d come home from school and make scrapbooks, and I collected stickers and made stationery for myself. In that sense, I always...
