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    Dyson Airwrap vs. Shark FlexStyle: Which Is Better?

    POPSUGAR Photography | Renee RodriguezPOPSUGAR Photography | Renee Rodriguez While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. I’m pretty savvy when it comes to hair. I can manage a bouncy blowout with a round brush and a hairdryer like a pro, and I can give myself beachy waves in five minutes flat. As someone who tests new beauty tools and products almost every single day, anything in the hair category is by far my favorite. I love learning new styles, tips and tricks, and…

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    Hair Bows Are Trending This Year: Shop the Look

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. There’s nothing like a good hair accessory to dress up a regular old hairstyle. Headbands, claw clips, and barrettes add instant flare to every look, but one accessory has made such an impact this year that it’s made its way into every corner of our lives. TikTok, Pinterest, and Instagram are being flooded with bows as they adorn candle sticks, wine glasses, and every hairstyle imaginable. Hair bows aren’t new, but for many, it’s been quite…

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    Olaplex No. 7 Bonding Oil Review

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Learning to care for my curly, frizzy, thirst-quenched hair has been a process, to say the least. After switching to a silk pillowcase, drying my hair with a microfiber towel on wash days, and practicing curly-hair-styling techniques, I’m deep in the trial-and-error phase of experimenting with new hair products that smooth, protect, and add shine. After trying a couple of hair oils that either smelled too strong, left my strands feeling greasy, or didn’t offer enough…

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    Pat McGrath Labs Dramatique Lip Pencil Review With Photos

    PS Photography | Kyley WarrenPS Photography | Kyley Warren While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Taylor Swift might not be the first celebrity to make red lipstick a staple of her everyday beauty aesthetic, but she does pull it off well. From performing on the Eras Tour stage to exchanging on-field kisses with Travis Kelce, Swift’s red lips are an unmissable fixture within her brand — and remarkably smudge-proof (see literally any photo of her PDA with Kelce for further proof). While…

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    Pritika Swarup’s Beauty Recommendations and Must Haves

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. The Expert Edit features interviews with specialists about the products they swear by in their chosen field. For the latest installment, we spoke to Pritika Swarup, CEO and founder of Prakti Beauty, model, philanthropist, and entrepreneur about her recommendations for the best everyday essentials in the wellness and beauty space. With a background in finance and fashion modeling and a passion for Ayurvedic beauty, launching skin-care brand Prakti was a natural next step for Pritika Swarup.…

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    Best Lip Liners, According to Beauty Editors

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Lip liners have had quite the journey. The concept first came about in the 1920s but really came into the limelight in the ’90s. Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Janet Jackson, Pamela Anderson, and Victoria Beckham (to name a few) all heavily influenced the overlined-lip trend during that decade. While the popularity of lip pencils faded slightly in the 2000s, they have since made a big — and we mean big — comeback this year. Now, you…

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    Y2K Makeup and Hair Products: Shop the Trend

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. They say that history often repeats itself, and — when it comes to the beauty trends taking over our timelines today — truer words have never been spoken. Over the last few years we’ve seen celebrities and influencers repopularize some of the biggest trends from the ’90s and early 2000s that, up until recently, were dismissed for being cringe-y or cheesy. “Y2K beauty,” as it’s called, puts a modern spin on the frosty eyeshadows, ombré lips,…

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    7 TikTok-Famous Heat Styling Tools For Great Hair

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. TikTok has put us on to so many new things — new recipes, music, DIY projects, hair hacks, and, most of all, new products. Every time we open the app, we somehow end up on Amazon shortly after with at least five things in our cart. (True story.) We have the skin-care experts, makeup artists, hairstylists, and incredibly talented beauty enthusiasts who moonlight as such to thank for this — not that we’re complaining or anything.…

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    Dyson Airstrait Straightener Review With Photos

    PS Photography | Jessica HarringtonPS Photography | Jessica Harrington While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Dyson’s hot tool range is officially a family of four. On May 11, 2023, the brand unveiled the Dyson Airstrait Straightener ($399, originally $500), an innovative two-in-one heat styler. The launch is pretty imaginative for two key reasons: it straightens wet hair without the need to rough-dry beforehand, and it works without hot plates. The device took six years to create, and I got my hands on…

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    Every Le Labo Perfume, Reviewed by Personality Type

    While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. When it comes to the fragrance world, few brands have been able to claim that coveted cult status. Le Labo is in that small field of elite perfumers, perhaps most well-known for the scent Santal 33 (if you don’t know it by name, you’d definitely recognize the leather-y sandalwood-heavy smell). The brand was founded in 2006 by L’Oréal alums Fabrice Penot and Eddie Roschi — their first collection launched with 10 fragrances and one candle (which…