Beauty

Breaking news: Vitamin E is great for your skin. As one of the most powerful antioxidants of its class, it helps neutralize free radicals, agents that damage collagen in your skin (among other things) and cause dryness, fine lines, and wrinkles. Vitamin E can also boost your immune system, minimize stroke-induced brain damage and safeguard against […]

“Go home, take a paper bag, cut some eye-holes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest,” candid, ruthless Joan Harris once told a newly hired Peggy Olsen. Contrary to her onscreen persona’s stark advice,

  You know those grandmas who slip you $20s and sneak you cookies? Mine’s not one of them. My Nonna is 4 feet of Italian fury—a 90-year-old spitfire who’s always eager to share wisdom, guilt and pasta. I lived with her for two months when I first moved to Toronto. The strict 11pm bedtime she

This winter, skip the beauty counter and head straight to your kitchen pantry. From moisturizing face masks to DIY exfoliating scrub to party-perfect red lipstick, we have all-natural recipes for the homemade beauty products you’ll need to weather the cold.