I’m A 30-Year-Old Black Woman With No Dating Experience — & That’s Okay
I was 19 when I first learned that, for some, there is a deadline for single women to meet someone and settle down — and it is well before 30 years old. I remember the day vividly. My aunt and I were...
View Article“I Thought ‘I’m Not Someone Who Gets HIV'”: Young Women On Their Diagnosis
“I felt like I was a lesser person. I felt like I was dirty. I felt like I deserved it somehow.” Victoria Roscow, 30 and from Manchester, UK, learned of her positive HIV status three years ago while...
View Article“Angel” Chrome Is The Ethereal Nail Trend That’s About To Sweep Salons
A pattern is unfolding when it comes to the nail trends that are dominating 2025 so far: they’re undeniably minimal. While some beauty trends are all about making a statement, the manicures that have...
View ArticleWe Tried Rhode’s New Lip Pencils — & Here’s Our Honest Opinion
In some ways, lip pencils are the new lip oil — in other words, they’re everywhere right now — and one need only look to your nearest group chat where girlies are dropping the lip combos left, right,...
View Article21 Fashion Must-Haves R29 Editors Are Wearing The Rest Of Winter
It’s that time again to peek behind the curtains (or closet doors) of Refinery29 editors to see what they’ve been wearing for winter (and will continue to wear for at least another month, thanks to...
View ArticleThe 51 Best Presidents’ Day Sales To Shop Now
2025 has been…rough so far, to say the least. So with the first holiday weekend of the year nigh, we’re ready for a break — and some well-earned retail therapy. And while Presidents’ Day is a major...
View ArticleYour Horoscope This Week: February 16 To 22
If you thought you were getting a break from the intense Aquarius energy after the new moon earlier this month, think again. The cosmos is doubling down on its revolutionary, future-forward, zero-BS...
View ArticleA Week In Atlantic Canada On A $62,000 Salary
Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking...
View ArticleIn Yellowjackets Season 3, What’s Eating At You Is Your Anger
For as long as we’ve known them, the women of Yellowjackets have been angry. How could they not be? As teenage soccer players in the ‘90s, their team plane crash-landed in the Canadian wilderness,...
View ArticleLove Is Blind Season 8 Is the Whitest It’s Ever Been
Spoilers for Episodes 1-6 ahead. I’ve seen every season of Love Is Blind and I’ll be the first to say that the Netflix reality series deserves most of its criticism. The show’s premise is kind of ehh,...
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