The forecast for Memorial Day weekend here in New York was pretty depressing when we checked earlier this week, but we’re happy to report that meteorologists seem to be retracting their previous calls for thunderstorms. There will be sun, so best to ready a few bottles of the latest sunblocks. Fortunately, the options have never [...]

Snowy evenings like last night aside, there’s something about winter in New York that can be bleak. The bare trees, dark skies, and biting cold make going outdoors pretty miserable—and the city’s collective preference for slate, charcoal, and black doesn’t help matters. We’ve found that incorporating unexpected makeup elements can help counterbalance the drabness—a hot [...]

With Met coverage occupying much of our blog space over the past 24 hours, we completely forgot to mention that yesterday was Melanoma Monday. In fact, May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Despite its grim implications, the unofficial holiday actually marked a happy occasion, that being the return of the Skin Cancer Foundation’s Road to [...]

In addition to celebrating our nation’s birthday, this weekend’s three straight days of blue skies, warm temperatures, and no humidity meant that a little sun worshipping was in order. I beach in South Jersey, so I braved the traffic on the Garden State late Thursday night with the promise of the first real summer weekend [...]

As we’re already a week into Skin Cancer Awareness Month, we thought now would be a good time to talk about Neutrogena’s annual partnership with the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). Its Choose Skin Health campaign will be running through July and encourages Americans to regularly perform skin self-examinations and protect themselves from the sun. [...]

FEVERFEW/(fee-vuhr-fyoo)/n./ 1. A short perennial that is native to southeastern Europe and gives off a strong and bitter odor; /n./ 2. A member of the sunflower family, also called Tanacetum parthenium, used for centuries in European folk medicine as a remedy for headaches, arthritis, and fever; /n./ 3. An increasingly popular anti-inflammatory ingredient that has [...]