A daughter’s perspective on life and loss; dying femininity and how beauty truly prevails from within. In 2006, a month after my father had died from his year-long bout with kidney cancer, my mom was diagnosed with a Stage 4 brain tumor called a glioblastoma. For the next year and a half, I watched […]
Learning to embrace my God-given Filipino looks in a white world. In 1994, I was on a mission to look like Aaliyah. The problem was, I’m not black. The notion of Asian beauty escaped me, so I was in search of something better. My caramel skin—sometimes mocha in the summer—is generally considered dark for a Filipino. […]
The Jugalow For our Spring Cleaning challenge, many of us tried to purge things that, let’s be real, are difficult to abruptly eliminate. It might seem easy to delete tens of thousands of emails or suddenly Mary Poppins the crap out of your house, but these things are really about built-in habits — and some […]
High Street Market After being ridiculously proud of ourselves with the New You challenge in January, we thought we’d do it again: this time for Spring Cleaning (i.e. What should we clean in or out of our lives for a month?). Our closets? Bodies? Inboxes? We’re sooo excited. Follow along and choose one for yourself, […]
Parade Full disclosure: It took me all of my teens and 20s to learn to focus on myself in relationships. The turning point was actually getting involved with someone who was in a 12-step program then subsequently joining my own because I wanted what he had—total zen, acceptance and autonomy. (Guys, we don’t even argue. […]
On January 1, five determined staffers of The Makeup Blogger repudiated New Year’s Resolutions, instead committing to self-assigned New You challenges by giving up (or taking on) a habit for 31 days straight. Some of us went with eliminating food choices, while others sought to change their relationship with technology. Sounds simple and even a […]
Vogue Italia/Mario Sorrenti I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. — Susan Orlean The very fact that you clicked on this article tells me you fall into one of two categories: 1) You’re committed to figuring out how to get […]
