To be honest, I thought that missed periods were a blessing. One less period just meant one less month of annoying pain, but I was so wrong. It took a year of irregular periods for me to realize I was actually suffering from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). While being fertile wasn't the first thing on my mind, my body was trying to speak to me—I just wasn't giving it enough credit and attention.According to the U.S. Department of Health, PCOS affects "one in 10 women of childbearing age."...

At the beginning of the year, I always like to purge my beauty stock. I get rid of the things I don't use, I donate and gift unopened products I know other people will get more use from than I will, and I assess the types of brands, formulas, and retailers I want to continue investing in over the course of the 360-some days to come. Of course, online beauty emporiums like Sephora, Ulta, Dermstore, and Violet Grey will always be shopping mainstays, but in 2021, I'm continuing my emphasis on sma...

Recently, we’ve seen the rise of oversize silhouettes everywhere. Cozy pieces like shackets, relaxed suiting, and baggy denim have been on the rise, so it’s no surprise that looser silhouettes were everywhere on the S/S 21 runways, and the oversize button-down trend was too prominent to ignore. Part of a wave of new, reinvented basics that dominated spring fashion, designers made it clear that the upsized button-down is a wardrobe essential for the season ahead.Already a personal fan of the ...

We'll just say this: Our only expectation for 2021 is to not have any expectations for 2021. If we've learned anything in the past year, it's that the world can, seemingly, flip completely upside down practically overnight. In late 2019 (welp), we definitely thought we felt confident publishing our annual skincare trend prediction story, but who could have known that in a matter of months our skincare and beauty proclivities would be telling a very, very different tale. Masks! Going ham on hand ...