Topic: advice

The Right Words: Life, Love & Career Advice The Gloss Writers Are Most Grateful For

The Right Words: Life, Love & Career Advice The Gloss Writers Are Most Grateful For

When people offer their guidance in a genuine manner, it can be one of the most valuable gifts you’ll ever receive. Therefore, we’re going to share the best advice we’ve ever received in the categories of “Career,” “Love” and “Self.” These may explain some of the methods to our individual madnesses, but mostly, we just hope one (or more!) of these tidbits helps you, too. More »

How To Throw A Bitchin’ Ass Party

How To Throw A Bitchin' Ass Party

I love throwing parties. Ever since I moved into my first tiny apartment on 121st and Amsterdam, I’ve endeavored to bring people together and make them have as much fun as space and noise ordinances will allow. Since then, I’ve graduated to larger and more elaborate productions, from dance parties in my giant loft apartment I shared with five other people, to full-on dirty basement after hours decadence. I’m far from perfect at it, and I’ve made a ton of mistakes, but I like to think I’ve learned a thing or two since that first crowded party nine years ago during which my male friends decided to play “touch the pipe” with the exposed heating element in my kitchen. Hence, I give you: 14 road tested tips for throwing a party people will remember for the rest of their lives. More »

33% Of Women Think Feminism Is Too Agressive

33% Of Women Think Feminism Is Too Agressive

Every day, The Daily Mail finds a new way to make me sad. They report:

A third [of women] view traditional radical feminism as ‘too aggressive’ towards men, while a quarter no longer view it as a positive label. One in five describe it as ‘old-fashioned’ and simply ‘not relevant’ to their generation.

Look. I am only going to say this one more time.

If you believe men and women deserve to be paid equally for equal work, you are a feminist. As a feminist, here are some things you can still do: More »

How To Keep Your Blow-Out Intact Through A Work-Out

How To Keep Your Blow-Out Intact Through A Work-Out

Do you ever get a blow-out in the morning and then realize that you have to skip your work-out so as not to destroy it? Does it lead into a glorious spiral of skipping work-outs forever, and just lying on the couch eating thin-mint cookies like some sort of 19th century harem lady? That sounds fabulous. I admire that.

However, if you actually feel inconvenienced that you have to skip that work-out, well, I have solved that problem for you! Or rather Gregory Patterson, a stylist at Blow (a New York blow dry bar) has that problem solved. Here are his tips for keeping your blow-out intact: More »

When In The Course Of Dating Someone Should You Stop Sleeping With Other People?

When In The Course Of Dating Someone Should You Stop Sleeping With Other People?

The other night, a friend of mine told me he’d met a girl he really, really, really likes. He doesn’t want to fuck it up, so he asked me for some advice. (I wouldn’t have tried to tell him what to do otherwise, honest.) One of the topics we covered was “when do I need to stop banging other women,” and the answer I gave him was surprisingly conservative, for me. More »

Alvin Valley Tells Us How To Get That Gallery Girl Style

Alvin Valley Tells Us How To Get That Gallery Girl Style

Are you obsessed with Gallery Girls? I am. Not, apparently, because I care about art or “women being really mean to one another.” I just want people to take my picture for Japanese magazines and go out in weird things made out of feathers. I have absolutely no idea how to do that. I have a closet full of clothes that look like I stole them off the set of All About Eve. I have precisely one item of clothing that might qualify as cool and downtown, and it is a pair of high waisted pants that was a gift from Alvin Valley.

Fortunately, Alvin is also a huge fan of gallery girls, and, after listening to me babble about it for while, came up with some great tips on how anyone can get a chic-downtown-to-uptown-in-the-course-of-a-day style. More »

A Real PR Person Tells Us How To Sneak Into Fashion Week Events

A Real PR Person Tells Us How To Sneak Into Fashion Week Events

Part of why I hated covering fashion week last year (and why I’m fleeing the state during most of it this year) was because my name was frequently not on the list when it was supposed to be. This was annoying because I was not there for fun, but work, and it forced me to scramble to make up for lost time/money. Eventually I gave up and just started writing about shows I hadn’t even gotten into, which was actually more fun, to be honest. But let’s say that you, unlike me, still want to go to events you’re not on the list for. Perhaps you’re not even supposed to be on the list! Here are some tips on how to do that, courtesy of a real, live PR person who would prefer to remain anonymous. More »