Still stuck on what to buy for everyone on your list? Our favorite insiders share their picks for the best beauty gifts of the season. Ready, set, online shop.
—Fiorella Valdesolo

Who: Nonie Creme, the nail art phenom who plays creative director for hip
lacquer brand Butter London.
What: “For my best girlfriends: Sephora makeup. Each girl gets a [...]

We’ve been obsessed with the French skincare brand Herve Herau and its The Way of Alchemy Cream Gel ever since it bowed at Colette last year. Acquiring a jar of this antiaging miracle worker, however, meant forking over serious coin—or euro, rather—for shipping and handling at international rates. Fortunately, the French wonder has finally hit [...]

We’ve never been bashful about sharing our love for braids in all their various incarnations on this blog—and for good reason. It’s utterly fascinating to us how one pretty basic technique (left, under, right, over) can be translated into so many different looks, all of which happen to be totally humidity-resistant. As summer winds down [...]

When it comes to hair oil, we count ourselves among the converted. It may seem counterintuitive, but oil treatments actually leave our hair less slick than anything else in our vast collection of products and considerably more soft. And the professionals are on board, too. “Hair oils have been used for centuries to scent hair, [...]

The full-service salon is pretty standard these days. Women want quality and convenience in their beautifying ventures, so adding a facial, an eyebrow waxing, or a cosmetic touch-up to a blow-out has become par for the course. The convenience factor at Williamsburg’s Woodley & Bunny has always been its well-edited apothecary, but owners Erin and [...]

Despite electing to shut down the clothing arm of their Williamsburg-based salon-boutique-apothecary triple play earlier this summer, Woodley & Bunny’s beauty business is booming. Sisters and co-owners Erin and Misha Anderson have just launched an e-commerce site for the well-edited selection of products from Sachajuan, Lipstick Queen, and Nuxe, among others, available at their North [...]

Sisters Erin and Misha Anderson are quietly taking over the 400 block of Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg. To date, the two floors of their ever-expanding “collective,” Woodley & Bunny, comprise a hair salon, an apothecary, and a boutique, which is a relatively new addition to their enterprise. To celebrate the clothing store’s eighth month in [...]