Sometimes I look in the mirror mid-afternoon while working from home, still wearing the giant band T-shirt I slept in the night before, greasy hair in a bun, no makeup on and wonder when precisely I let quarantine turn me into a cousin of Oscar the Grouch. Other days, I shower,...
One of the more optimistic beliefs about going bald is that less hair means less maintenance. This is true in some senses — a decidedly hairless noggin does mean less money and time spent on haircuts and styling. But unless you can live with a head carpeted...
If you read our (absurdly helpful) mani-pedi guide and learned to appreciate having impeccable nails, you may have heard about a thing called nail buffing. The process is quite simple: Rub your nails with a buffer block for more shine. Done! But is nail buffing an important...
Let’s run down the list of cliched experiences that make us, as humans, feel physically good, shall we? There’s massages — check. There’s also, well, sex. Masturbation, too, for that matter. A nice, long stretch feels pretty damn nice, and heck, even a solid hug does the...
Maybe the human body is a miracle of scientific wonder, but I feel like we’ve got some serious design flaws. Sleep is the biggest one for me. Like, we have to be totally unconscious for a third of our total day, and when we return to consciousness, we sometimes...
Let’s say, in a completely, totally, absolutely made-up hypothetical, a man who recently began working from home has taken to working atop his bed, because he lives in a small apartment and his partner takes a lot of very important calls. Let’s also assume that this man, thanks...
Taking my temperature almost every day has helped me alleviate some COVID-19 anxiety, but only because every time I do it, I end up more worried that I’m the walking dead. To wit: The other morning I had to take my temperature three times just to get a...
I like to think I have a fairly moist face, as far as faces go. I moisturize after every shower, which feels like a considerable amount. But compared to my silky cheeks and chin, the area between my eyes — smack-dab in the middle of my otherwise...
Hard seltzer was just the beginning. Now we’ve got hard coconut water, hard herbal tea, hard juice, hard whatever iteration of a refreshing beverage you can think of. Part of this, of course, is the result of our endless quest for new thrills. It’s the same phenomenon responsible...
The yellow, crusty residue taking up permanent residence inside your favorite shirts is due to an unfortunate reaction between sweat and antiperspirant, and you may be surprised to learn that deodorant is just an innocent bystander. Deodorants are designed to do only what their name implies —...
Thanks to the pandemic, I’m spending way more time inside than usual. Which, in turn, means I’m spending way more time staring at screens. Basically, within seconds of waking up, I’m looking at my phone, before transitioning to my laptop all day, only to return to my...
Some of you may hate it, and some of you may rejoice at the news, but it’s happening all the same: Summer is ending. For many across the country, the changing seasons spell shorter days and rapidly dropping temperatures. But that doesn’t mean summer can’t rear it’s...
