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Spring 2019

Beauty

Digital Detox Beauty Products

Offline Time.

A digital detox is just what it sounds like: breaking free from electronic devices for a period of time. It’s an opportunity to reduce stress and focus not only on the world around us, but on personal self-care and reconnection. And a great place to start is the beauty cabinet.

South Carolina’s Palmetto Bluff

Travel

South Carolina’s Palmetto Bluff

Look Back, Look Ahead.

A gated 20,000-acre resort, conservancy, and residential community, Palmetto Bluff is found along the Atlantic coastline and on the May River in Bluffton, which borders the state of Georgia.

South Africa's Cape Winelands

Food and Drink

South Africa’s Cape Winelands

Vines of Good Hope.

Carved by the ages, South Africa seems as old as time—a captivating landscape jutting sharply into the colliding path of two mighty oceans.

Personal Essay

Essay

Glowing Up

The Complex Relationship Between Women and Makeup

My personal relationship with beauty will always be complex and imperfect. I cannot ignore the commercial aspect of applying eyeshadow and buying that new blush. But with my makeup on, I feel like a person who is capable, whose highlighted and powdered face indicates that I actually like myself. At 42, this is a magical feeling.

Twenty One Tonnes

Wishlist

Twenty One Tonnes Bulawayo Gourd Basket

Basket connection.

Sold by Los Angeles- and Vancouver-based online boutique Twenty One Tonnes—a trove of quality handcrafted goods from artists located around the world—these pieces are a lovely complement to laid-back West Coast tastes.

Whitney Wolfe Herd Bumble

Business

Whitney Wolfe Herd

After the swarm.

When toxic masculinity threatened both her identity and her career, Whitney Wolfe Herd set out to flip the script for women everywhere. What she created—a little app called Bumble—is buzzing in big ways.