Do Restaurants Love Instagram? It's Complicated
On an early Sunday morning last September, I was on my phone trying to navigate my way to a restaurant in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighbourhood. I wandered, lost, past industrial warehouses and faded walls...
View Article10 Women Share What They're Actually Doing For Lent This Year
Today, known as Ash Wednesday within Christianity, marks the start of the Lenten season, the 40-day long period between now and Easter Sunday. Those who choose to adhere to traditional guidelines will...
View ArticleH&M’s Conscious Collection Features New Sustainable Materials
H&M is continuing its mission to deliver higher-end, eco-minded items you’ll actually want to put on your body. Each season, with its Conscious Exclusive collection, the retailer strives to push...
View ArticleThe Woman Who's Studying Swipes At Bumble
Love may not be an exact science, but that doesn't mean there isn't some science involved, especially when it comes to algorithmically-enabled dating apps.Jessica Carbino, or Dr. Jess, has become...
View ArticleSarah Jessica Parker Cannot Stop Talking About Her Beef With Kim Cattrall
The fact that two members of the Sex and the City squad are not actually besties in real life is a bummer. Fans may never know what really happened between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, but...
View ArticleDecoding The Insider Skincare Terms You'll Always See On Reddit
Welcome to The Upvote, where we reveal the best beauty finds, break down the hottest topics, and tackle the most burning questions from Reddit’s vast beauty community and bring it all straight to you....
View ArticleThe Coolest Beauty Looks You Probably Missed At NYFW
A brief recap of what we learned at Autumn/Winter 2018 New York Fashion Week: Western fringe can work on your manicure, millennial pink is officially out, and athleisure hair is the new tousled beach...
View ArticleHow Black Panther's Costume Designer Created A New Vision Of Africa
Costume designer Ruth E. Carter didn’t sign on to Black Panther with much knowledge about Wakanda. But once she learned about the fictional world that the Black Panther was from, Carter says she was...
View ArticleHow My Adult Acne Affected My Dating Life (& How I Got Over It)
Do you know that scene in The Notebook where Ryan Gosling tells Rachel McAdams that he had actually written to her every day for a year, grabs her face and rain-kisses her with such ferocity that she...
View ArticleIt’s Time For Women To Invest – Here’s How To Get Started
There is a new epidemic that is costing women thousands, if not millions, of pounds every year: chronic underinvestment in the stock market. Around 80% of women do not have an investment portfolio,...
View ArticleCult Fragrance Brand Byredo Is Opening A London Store
Byredo fans, brace yourselves. The cult Swedish fragrance and luxury bag brand is opening a three-storey flagship in London in June 2018. The townhouse, situated on Lexington Street in the heart of...
View ArticleAldi Has Launched A Range Of Super Affordable Homeware (& It's Delightful!)
Affordable homeware is fast becoming a very competitive game. Not so good for brands, but very good for people like us who want our homes to look beautiful but are so broke from paying just to live...
View ArticleCelebrating The Art Form Of African Hair Threading
I first got my hair chemically relaxed when I was 12 years old, after begging my mother to let me do so for at least two years. Surrounded by friends with long, swishy hair at school and constantly...
View ArticleWhat Team Refinery29 Takes To London Fashion Week
Is it just us, or does fashion month seem to come around quicker each season? Whether it's our social media editor updating Instagram with live-from-the-catwalk coverage, our street style photographer...
View ArticleCouple's Secret Proposal Plan Takes A Serendipitous Turn
A post shared by Tori Monaco (@torimonaco) on Dec 25, 2017 at 9:58pm PST What are the chances of two people planning a proposal at the exact same moment without the other knowing? Infinitesimal, yes,...
View ArticleWhy These Three Billboards Appeared Outside Grenfell, London
3 Billboards Outside Grenfell, London Listen to all our voices now; we demand #Justice4Grenfell #3BillboardsOutsideGrenfell A post shared by Justice4Grenfell (@officialj4g) on Feb 15, 2018 at 4:20am...
View ArticleFashion Blogger's Astute Reply When Asked About Iran Goes Viral
A post shared by HODA KATEBI | هدی کاتبی (@hodakatebi) on Apr 17, 2017 at 9:41am PDT An Iranian-American fashion blogger was told she didn't "sound American" and asked about nuclear weapons during a...
View ArticleHow Many Women Are Actually Voting For The Oscar Winners?
With just under a month to go until the actual ceremony, the 2018 Academy Awards already feel momentous.For the first time since 2013, a woman (Greta Gerwig, for Lady Bird) is nominated in the Best...
View ArticleCan Marchesa Survive In A Post-Weinstein World?
Since the Marchesa brand first debuted in 2004, it has often been described by notable fashion critics in the exact same way: as a fairytale, for princesses, and a celebrity red carpet favourite....
View ArticleUnsurprisingly, Trump Is Blaming The Victims For The Florida School Shooting
On Wednesday, Americans were forced to witness another very horrific — yet very familiar — sight: A young man opened fired at Majority Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, killing at least 17...
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