Topic: design

Video: How To Apply Nail Strips

We’re big fans of Birchbox, a startup that sends women deliveries of high-end beauty samples every month. (Makeup in the mail? Yes, please!). In addition to their monthly subscription service, they also have an online shop and info-packed magazine, blog, and YouTube channel. We like their helpful videos so much that we’ll be featuring one here on TheGloss each week.

Since most people don’t moonlight as pro nail artists, it’s no wonder than nail strips are all the rage. The easiest way ever to get cool, funky designs on your digits, these genius appliques also last a lot longer than regular polish manicures. Best of all — they’re simple to apply. Watch this helpful Birchbox video for a step-by-step tutorial. More »

Gallery: Check Out This Wackypants Wearable Art By Nick Cave

Not the amazing, spooky singer Nick Cave. The artist Nick Cave, who is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Perhaps as a reaction to all the boring “sexy [ ]” costumes that dominate Halloween each year, he’s designed a whole bunch of wearable art pieces, each more bizarrely awesome than the last. Consider this your antidote to yesterday’s JWoww gallery. More »

Sofia Barattieri di San Pietro’s Home in Elle Decor

Sofia Barattieri di San Pietro's London home

Ever wonder what a fashion insider’s home looks like? More »

Melissa McCarthy Of ‘Bridesmaids’ Is Designing Her Own Emmy Dress

She’s a badass on so very many levels. More »

Room Of The Day: Into The Great Wide Open

Having a room that can serve as an indoor and an outdoor space isn’t a luxury that many of us will ever have… More »

Party Favors: Happy People Tend Not To Cheat

Sexual liberation and its possibly surprising influence on infidelity. -DoubleX

The hugely influential Dieter Rams gets some museum respect. -ShelterPop

NEWS: women still like bankers, firemen. -YourTango

Grammar and Courtney Stodden. -The Frisky

A discussion: back-to-school clothes. -The Hairpin

Adele‘s figure is out of sight for British Vogue. -Styleite

Ridiculously great: customize your own blazer! -Refinery29

Model-turned-actress Jamie King rounds up some favorite flats. -StyleList

10 Twitter must-follows for NYFW. -The High Low

Kate Middleton‘s Burberry trench inspiration. -Betty Confidential

…While Sarah Jessica Parker went simple and restrained in a gray trench. -The Budget Babe

Beauty ideas: berry lips with bold retro liner. -Birchbox

‘Everything in moderation’ may not be so sound. -YouBeauty

This Might Be The Coolest Chair I’ve Ever Seen

Take a load off on everyone’s favorite friend, an octopus! More »

Design Inspiration: Lovely Living Rooms

If you’ve ever walked into someone’s apartment and thought, “this living room is effing awesome,” perhaps you’ve wondered how you yourself could go about having such a lovely parlour. More »

Black Walls: How Do You Feel?

Black walls used to be the sole province of the angry teen. More »

What We're Reading:

This Will Drive Your Man Wild Before Sex
Source: The Stir
6 Ways Sex Can Make You More Attractive
Source: YourTango
3 Ways He Can Tell You're Faking An Orgasm
Source: YourTango
Why Kissing Matters During Foreplay
Source: YourTango
Woman Divorces Soldier Who Lost Legs Because She Wants A Normal Life
Source: The Stir

‘Flower Pump’ Vase Expresses Your Creepy Emotional Side, Tastefully

Do you ever wish you could keep your white magnolias in a still-beating human heart? You could stick them in the severed ventricles so it looked like the heart was pumping flowers, see? The perfect accent to your vintage kitchen table, which is a coffin. More »

Designer Collaborations: See All Of Missoni’s Homewares For Target

Missoni’s full collaboration with Target is floating around the internet and if you can’t wait until September 13th to snap up some of the collection’s bright, graphic (natch) homewares, here’s a gallery: from plates and runners to picture frames, bowls and bikes. …Okay, bikes aren’t really homewares per se but… look! It’s a Missoni bike! More »

When we question the credibility of rape accusers. -DoubleX

The science of sunscreen. -The Hairpin

An open letter to my rebound guy. -College Candy

When does the age gap go too far? -YourTango

Maximize the beauty/skin effects of food. -YouBeauty

Necessary: 3 easy (and crucial) summer buns for this heat wave. -Refinery29

Affordable and lovely neutral nails. -Birchbox

Drew Barrymore is summer in an outfit (shorts, stripes and bright shoes). -The Budget Babe

But there’s also maxi dresses, rompers, straw fedoras. -Betty Confidential

Versace has taken the online criticism over their denim processing to heart. -The High Low

This weekend, people took part in the world’s largest fashion show. -Styleite

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