Martine Ho, Founder + Creative Director, Sunnies Face + Sunnies Studios
“I’ve always been very in between being American and Filipino. I was born in Manila, where I live now, but my family moved to the United States when I was six. I grew up...
Chriselle Lim, Creative Director, Phlur + Bümo
“I always knew I wanted to be in fashion, but growing up, there was not much accessibility to it. When I started college, I built a really small community on Xanga where we would...
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...
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...
Hope Smith, Founder, Mutha
“I started modeling at 16 years old. I signed with the agency that was one of the bigger agencies at the time in New York, which was Wilhelmina. My parents had always told me...
Our New Obsessions
So, what did we miss in beautyland? Apparently a hell of a lot. Pat McGrath got into nail care, Revlon may soon be no more, and 20,000 celebrities launched a beauty brand. And through...
Cynthia Cervantes Gumbs, Creative Director
“This is my second career. My first career, I worked in educational reform at various nonprofits that provided services and training to low income schools, specifically teachers and administrators. I worked in every kind...
The Social Media Manager Who Shapes Her Own Brows
The #ITGTopShelfie interview series focuses on the beauty routines of Into The Gloss' lovely, accomplished, and loyal community of readers. Submit your own on Instagram—post your Top Shelfie (tag us @intothegloss!) and include the...
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...
Madison Utendahl, Founder, Utendahl Creative
“I’m a third generation New Yorker. As a child, I wanted to be some sort of a performer. I went through a phase where I thought I was either going to be an actor...
