I have tattoos scrawled across my entire body, stretching from my fingers to my toes. My hair is long enough to touch my shoulders, where it commonly shrouds my pierced ears, except for on the days when I decide to wear it up in a bun. I...
A Hot Date Grab your trimmer and whatever guard leaves your facial hair about 3-5mm long. You’re going for heavy stubble, because — according to a 2016 study in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology — that’s what the majority of women found most attractive for one-night stands...
If Your Resolution Is to Exercise More The idea of getting on the treadmill or going to a CrossFit class first thing after you wake up can seem daunting, but it’s not impossible. Leaving your workout clothes right by your bed is a great, unmissable reminder when...
Being near the pantry is one of the best and worst things about working from home. On the one hand, endless chips are great. On the other hand, endless chips have consequences. But with advice from hypnotist Lori Hammond, who specializes in weight loss, we can all...
Your partner could be incredible, flawless, perfection incarnate — and still annoy the hell out of you after too much time together. This has become readily apparent since the coronavirus forced us to hunker down in our homes with our significant others for months on end and,...
Over the last month of increased #BlackLivesMatter protests in the name of ending police brutality and racism, it has largely felt like a dam has burst, with a huge surge in the number of people supporting the movement and its goals. And while that’s a good start,...
For all the complaining about how much time we’re all spending indoors, you have to admit, it comes with some advantages. For one, it’s not like you’re going to get caught in the rain any time soon. For another, considering wrinkles and other skin afflictions are, in...
Having your mailbox perpetually flooded with letters addressed to someone other than yourself is a reality that almost everyone deals with at some point in life. When I first moved into my most recent apartment, I was receiving so many letters to so many different people that...
Sixty years ago, if you weren’t going to work in a suit, tie and perfectly clean shaven, then clearly, you were a hippie. In many offices these days, however, especially ones in creative fields, showing up in anything other than jeans, a T-shirt and a five o’clock...
One of the extreme new realities of life under quarantine is the idea of (semi-)permanently working from home. For some of us, that transition’s been an easy one: Wake up, get dressed (maybe), work in the peace and comfort of a makeshift (or if you’re lucky, a...
Needless to say, life in quarantine can be a bit redundant. If your schedule is anything like mine, you wake up, maybe mosey over to your couch, where you work, eat, nod off a bunch of times and scroll through the internet until your thumbs go numb...
Under most normal circumstances, wearing pants is an advisable, if not imperative facet of daily life. But any semblance of normalcy was abandoned when the coronavirus struck and stay-at-home orders were implemented, and whether we need to wear pants while enduring the confines of our homes was...
