Drew Sidora’s White Crochet Cutout Dress in Jamaica

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Drew Sidora really did look like an angel sitting in her white crochet cutout dress. It’s no shock that it’s sold out, but don’t worry I’m here to answer your prayers by sharing some amazing Style Stealers. Which are so close you can almost see smell touch hear taste them.

But if you need a hint, they are below

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess

Click Here to See Her PatBo Dress

Originally posted at: Drew Sidora’s White Crochet Cutout Dress

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If you’re a skincare fan or just love to scroll TikTok, chances are you’ve heard of slugging. The technique has been around for years and involves applying an occlusive moisturizer to create a barrier on your skin to trap hydration. If it works for your face, it makes sense it would help hydrate other areas, right? Say hello to nail slugging, the latest viral TikTok trend. Unlike vabbing, this one might actually work.

Of course, using ultra-hydrating products and gloves on your hands isn’t new. But like many TikTok trends, it’s being repackaged into something easier with a cute name. It all started when dermatologist @drcharlesmd1 took to TikTok to show how he slugs his own nails. “We all know acrylates [nail product ingredients] can damage nails,” he says. “Slugging the nail cuticle can strengthen nails and protect them from water damage.”

Dr. Puza looks like he’s using petroleum jelly to slug his nails, telling his 1 million followers: “It should be done daily.” TikTokers jumped on the trend. Senior Beauty Editor of Refinery29 UK @jacquelinekilikita made a video showing how she helps heal her dry, picked cuticles. She applies cuticle oil onto her nails and then the occlusive moisturizer on top. In this case, she uses Vaseline ($11.88 for a pack of 3 at Amazon). “The difference is wild,” she says. “I’ve been doing this to my nails for over a week and my nails are in much better shape.”

Nail expert @lovefreshpaint agrees. “If your cuticles are especially dry, try this for a few weeks,” she says, applying CND Solar Oil Nail and Cuticle Conditioner ($8.50 at Ulta Beauty) with Aquaphor Baby Healing Ointment Baby ($9.11 at Amazon) on top. “I do this every night before bed,” she adds.

In each case, the hydrating nail and cuticle oil is trapped onto the skin by the occlusive product (like Aquaphor or Vaseline), helping the hydrator sink into the skin and hydrate that much better. The best part? You can try it with just a few affordable products, many of which you might already have at home. That’s the kind of beauty trend we can get behind.

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When it comes to TikTok beauty favorites, there’s viral and then there’s viral. Out of all the makeup and skincare “dupes” I’ve seen blow up on TikTok, I’ve never seen something as widespread as Peter Thomas Roth’s Instant FirmX Eye Tightener. It happened so quickly, you could have gone to bed early and missed the product that truly took over the platform, with makeup artists, influencers and even dermatologists weighing in. Allow me to explain.

54-year-old TikToker @trinidad1967 was getting ready for work on Wednesday and decided to pop outside into the light to show her followers her favorite skin-smoothing trick for her under-eye bags. “I’m very self-conscious of them,” she says. “And I found this and it works amazing.” She takes a tube of Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Eye Tightener ($38 at Peter Thomas Roth, but somehow on sale at Dermstore with code CHEERS) and applies the clear gel under just one eye. After a few minutes, it dries and the results are incredible.

A whopping 41 million users have watched her video—including the brand, which contacted her and is “sending free supplies and a bunch of product,” per her latest video. (It better be a lifetime supply!)

Peter Thomas Roth.

OK, so what the heck is this stuff? Well, first it’s important to note that the effect is temporary. TikTok-fave derm Dr. Dustin Portela, or @208skindoc, jumped in to give his two cents. “The active ingredient that causes this result is a silicate,” he says. “There are many different types of silicates and they can be used in food and medicine and many other applications. When the product is exposed to air, the silicates start to form a lattice or a network, and they tighten and they do dramatically reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles, but the effect is temporary.”

Dr. Portela goes onto say that there are other versions of this skin-tightening cream on the market but he does like the other ingredients in this one from Peter Thomas Roth. Ingredients such as peptides can have a more subtle — but long-term — benefit.

Facial plastic surgeon Dr. Prem Tripathi, who goes by @drpremtripathi on TikTok, also stitched the video to give his opinion. “This is by far one of the best results I’ve seen that actually mimics a surgical result,” he says. “She’s using it to treat these festoons, which are very very difficult to treat surgically.”

Now, you probably want to get your hands on the stuff. Well, it sold out pretty much everywhere overnight. Luckily Dermstore has it on sale right now.

“Wow, your hair smells really good.” It’s an odd thing for someone
else’s husband to say to you, but it wasn’t the first time I’d heard it.

And when the wife hugged me, too, as we all sat down to our
restaurant meal that evening, she repeated the sentiment: “Your hair does smell
good! What do you use on it?”

Alas, that’s one compliment that will never come my way again. It
wasn’t what I used on my hair – it was when
I used it. Rather than a recitation of my shampoo and conditioner brands, the
appropriate response to my friends would have been, “Of course it smells good.
I washed it, like, 20 minutes ago.”

Perpetually Late

For much of my adult life, at about the moment other people would
be getting in the car to get to an appointment, I was typically stepping out of
the shower, feeding the baby, finishing up an email, or sewing a button on the
blouse I intended to wear.

I never knew what it was like to be the one waiting for the other
party to arrive. I could just swoop in, and the table would be ready, the meeting
underway, or the movie previews ending.

My patient companions were willing to not make a friendship
deal-breaker out of whatever “so much traffic” or “the babysitter was late”
excuse I’d mumble.

My husband complained and from time to time one friend or another
would suggest that I try to be more prompt, but it was my kids who really let
me have it.

They were the ones stuck shivering in January as they waited
outside for their mom to pull up. They had to deal with getting off the
afternoon school bus only to find the house locked up and no one answering the
bell.

They bore the burden of providing an explanation to the teacher or
the coach or the other kid’s mom eager to get the class, game, or party
started. It was rude to be a tardy friend, but it was borderline abusive to be
a chronically late mom.

Why Are We Late?

I wasn’t a procrastinator in general, so I looked for an
explanation to my tardiness. There isn’t a lot of research, but the studies
that exist point to four categories of rationale for those of us challenged in
this way:

We Are Unrealistic

In many instances, our view of time is simply unrealistic. We
don’t realize it takes longer than we think to get ready, drive, finish what we
were working on, etc. We tend to calculate the time needed by relying on the
one instance we made it there without hitting a single red light.

We Are Easily Distracted

Often, we get distracted by background noise. So, this time we
really were on schedule – until the
phone rang, a major news story broke, or the cat looked really cute and wanted
to play.

We Don’t Think Ahead

Many of us aren’t used to thinking ahead. Naturally, it isn’t our
fault that it started raining and we had to find an umbrella, the dog tracked
in mud, or we forgot we had to stop at the gas station.

We Are Inconsiderate

And in many occasions, we are simply inconsiderate of others. Waiting
is boring and a waste of our very precious time, which we secretly view as more
important than other people’s time.

An honest evaluation indicated that my issues hit every button on
some level, so I instructed myself to navigate all four roadblocks.

While people used to try to fool themselves by setting their
clocks 15 minutes ahead, in today’s digital age that’s no longer applicable, so
I had to come up with something else.

It’s never too late to learn! If, like me, you’d like to transform
yourself from Late Kate into Early Shirley, try these strategies:

Get Ready First

Shower and get dressed hours ahead, if possible. That includes
shoes. Then there’s time, if necessary, for repairing a hem, switching purses,
searching for the matching earring or wiping off the first try at eyeliner to
reapply it.

If time still permits, it’s okay to do some work or empty the
dishwasher. Since we underestimate how long things take, experience shows that
time will rarely permit.

Stay in a Bubble

When you are running on a schedule, ignore distractions – turn off the TV, put away the laptop, lock the pets out of the
bedroom, and attend to the phone only to make sure the text or call coming in
isn’t from the person you’re meeting.

Make Your Plans Earlier in the Day

What will traffic look like at that hour? Is the gas tank full?
What’s the weather forecast? Last-minute crises can be avoided with something
promptness-minded people do – “planning.”

Enjoy the Wait

Cell phones have helped with the waiting, providing something to
read, a game to play, or a text conversation to catch up on. Waiting time need
no longer be wasted time. This is the easiest hurdle to remove, because all it
takes is a change in attitude: my time is no more important than anyone else’s.

Although realizing how inconsiderate it is to keep people waiting
was the catalyst that moved me to change my ways, I confess that I’ve been most
successful when I’m the one who must pay for the tardiness.

I have not missed a plane in years, I build in more than enough
time for any type of job interview or meeting with a new client, and I get to
doctors’ appointments at roughly the appointed hour.

I’m still a bit challenged by casual lunch meet-ups and walking
dates, but I think my family and friends would agree that I’m trying to fix me.

If you’re “late to the party” on this self-improvement endeavor,
you can catch up the way I did!

How often are you late to an appointment? How
is that usually received? What is your attitude toward your own (or others’)
tardiness? What do you think is the best remedy? Please share with our
community in the comments below.

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Back in January 2021, we told you about Sephora Collection’s Best Skin Ever Foundation, a medium-coverage, natural-finish foundation with a long-wearing formula. It took off as fans loved the luxe-feeling foundation without the luxe price tag. Well, we have good news. There’s now a matching concealer. Sephora Collection’s Best Skin Ever Full Coverage Multi-Use Concealer also has a whopping 50 shades and a more affordable price compared to its competitors.

While we don’t want to call it a dupe per se, because they are each great on their own, this concealer is similar to Tarte’s iconic Shape Tape — and at literally half the price. It’s full coverage like Shape Tape, with a natural finish (not too matte or too dewy) that truly lasts. It’s not drying either, thanks to hydrating ingredients like algae extract and hyaluronic acid. Use one shade lighter under your eyes, your perfect shade to spot cover red marks and blemishes and a few shades darker to contour.

Sephora Collection.

With 50 shades taking into account undertones, it’s easy to grab a few hues that work well in your routine. The best part? There’s an exact corresponding shade of concealer to a Best Skin Ever Liquid Foundation ($20 at Sephora). So if you know your foundation shade, it’ll be even easier to grab concealer online. We love easy shopping.

In-house brands have been killing it lately. Sephora Collection’s Colorful Face Powders – Blush, Bronze, Highlight, & Contour ($14 at Sephora) went viral on TikTok last year because of the ultra-pigmented but super-soft formula. Don’t sleep on the skincare either. Sephora Collection Brightening Eye Cream with Caffeine and Hyaluronic Acid ($18 at Sephora) is an unscented eye cream to brighten the under-eye area. And then there’s the new Clarifying Toner with Niacinamide and Zinc ($12 at Sephora), which helps reduce the appearance of pores like many skincare products two and three times the price.