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20 best travel shoe bags: Fast and organized packing

20 best travel shoe bags: Fast and organized packing

The best travel shoe bags can help your shoes last longer, but they also help keep your other clothing and belongings clean. After all, you wouldn’t want to stuff your everyday sneakers in with your sweaters and undergarments. By using a shoe bag set instead, you can keep potentially germ-ridden shoes separate yet still carry them within your travel bag …

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8 styles that will definitely take off this year

8 styles that will definitely take off this year

Last week, we discovered the beauty trends set to take over this year, but what should we expect from the fashion world? While fashion trends tend to move fast, there are a few that you can get ahead of now before they take off. Fashion expert Melissa Garcia joined the 3rd hour of TODAY last week to share the trends …

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Why you don’t need to use a bunch of skin care products.

Why you don’t need to use a bunch of skin care products.

My skin wants for nothing. It is lavished daily with all the buzziest beauty ingredients: ceramides and peptides, antioxidants and antimicrobials. Exfoliating enzymes, epidermal growth factor, stem cells, and squalene oil. Pre-, pro-, and post-biotics, plus a pore-clearing cleanser that balances my pH level. Collagen, of course, and hydrating humectants: glycerin, hyaluronic acid, lactic acid. Finally, a face oil—one that’s …

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Millennial Money: How to have the wedding you want for less

Millennial Money: How to have the wedding you want for less

If you focus your spending on what you and your guests will actually notice, and skip expensive things no one really cares about, you’ll have a beautiful wedding without the debt. This one goes out to all you lovebirds who got engaged over the holidays and are now left planning a wedding with zero event-planning experience. Somehow you’re expected to …

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How To Shine Your Shoes

How To Shine Your Shoes

Once a common practice for decades, then a novelty, the (almost) forgotten art of shoe-shining is making a steady comeback. The reason? Kevin Tuohy, founding partner of The Shoeshine Guild, a San Francisco-based drop-off service, thinks it’s because more men are becoming fashionably aware. Tuohy, a professional shoe-shiner of 20 years, has seen it all — and can trace trends …

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Trends That Will Be Popular This Year

Trends That Will Be Popular This Year

Insider spoke with stylists and designers about what they think the next big fashion trends will be. They said 2022 will bring more wide-leg pants and loose denim to replace skinny jeans.  Others highlighted bright colors and sustainable clothing options that are on the rise.  Loading Something is loading. With a new year comes new fashion trends. Insider spoke to …

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Carolina Herrera Launches Herrera Beauty, The Brand’s First Makeup Line

Carolina Herrera Launches Herrera Beauty, The Brand’s First Makeup Line

Carolina Herrera’s perfume has been a beauty industry must-have for years. Good Girl — which debuted in 2016 — is famous for its luxe, stiletto-shaped bottle and, of course, it’s addictively sensual scents. But now, the glamorous vanity staple has some competition with the launch of the label’s first-ever makeup collection aptly entitled Herrera Beauty. Per the brand, it was …

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Customer sues NYC shoe store Santoni North America over $7,000 shoes

Customer sues NYC shoe store Santoni North America over ,000 shoes

A luxe Madison Avenue shoe shop tried to walk all over a well-heeled customer — asking nearly $7,000 for a custom order it repeatedly made incorrectly, the patron charges in a lawsuit. Justin Mills wanted a pair of handmade, $4,400 Italian shoes in the fall of 2019, before the pandemic struck, from Santoni North America, but never got what he …

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