by Hillary Quinn | Feb 18, 2020
As a veteran beauty editor, not much makes me blink these days. You tell me this moisturizer will banish years of wrinkles, a magical eyeshadow is going to hide my heavy-lidded-ness, and the latest self-tanner won’t make me smell like burnt toast? I say, yeah…right....
by Hillary Quinn | Jul 15, 2019
“I’m looking for a foundation that will give me the appearance of pore-less, flawless skin,” I hear myself saying to a twentysomething beauty advisor at Sephora recently. Truth? Uttering those words makes me feel vulnerable. It also makes me feel like a fraud. As a...
by Hillary Quinn | May 29, 2019
I was this close—thiiiiiis close—to having an empty nest, when my dog-crazy 17-year-old daughter came across a little white rescue mutt with a pink bow in its hair on Petfinder.com. For the uninitiated: The bow tactic is used to lure impressionable, loved-starved...
by Hillary Quinn | Mar 20, 2019
I can’t decide what bothers me more these days: trying to find a foundation that will cover the sun spots on my cheeks, or feeling jealous when I see the flawless complexion of a freshly spackled millennial. In all honesty, I think the former intensifies the latter....
by Hillary Quinn | Jan 2, 2019
“Just so you know, I’ll need you to sleep over on my first night,” I tell my friend Kim, upon signing the lease of my post-separation rental house, a mini-me version of the dream home my ex and I built over a decade ago. It’s not that I...