Sometimes you just need a little pick-me-up — or, depending on the day, a lotta pick-me-ups. Enter retail therapy. But while Amazon pretty much has a scratch for any itch, it can actually have the opposite of the desired effect. Instead of feeling a dopamine boost from a few good buys, you feel so overwhelmed by...
Bustle/Getty As someone who has been self-tanning for years, I’m always eager to check out new tanning products when they hit the shelves. Lord knows we’ve come a long way since I used to glom on Jergen’s Natural Glow every night in high school and hope for the best. So when self-tan products started marketing...
Anna Connelly appeared in my Instagram feed seemingly out of nowhere a few months ago. The Minneapolis-based mom of an almost 4-year-old daughter is not shy about being political, and her videos immediately caught my eye: She states irrefutable facts in funny ways that help, she says, put everything going on into context but also...
Scary Mommy It was one of those Instagram ads that just pops up when you’re least expecting it — and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. A woman was using some white mitt on her hand to literally slough off the top layer of her skin. And I don’t mean like I could just...