KirylV / Shutterstock.com If you got engaged over the holidays, you may now be planning a 2022 wedding — and you should be prepared to spend more than usual for weddings in the coming year. According to wedding industry pros, inflation is affecting the costs of most aspects of a wedding, from the venue to the vendors. Here are the …

Police arrested a man Wednesday after they say he kidnapped a woman at gunpoint in Salt Lake City. (Spaxiax, Shutterstock) Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes SOUTH SALT LAKE — A woman who met up with a man in Salt Lake City to potentially buy a pair of shoes ended up being kidnapped at gunpoint, police say. On Wednesday, a 24-year-old …

After TikTok deemed blonde hair ‘cheugy’, hair lovers everywhere started to look to the early noughties for inspiration and found #inspo in the skunk-striped coif of yesteryear. Slews of us, it seems on social media, are yielding to an urge to try the trend out – which traditionally involves bleaching bold streaks of hair at the front of the hairline …

Written by Marianna Cerini, CNN When Dubai-based Basma Abu Ghazaleh launched her luxury ready-to-wear brand Kage in 2009, she said she could count the number of fellow fashion designers in the region on one hand. “There were couture labels, sure — we’ve always been known for that — but very few high-end contemporary options,” she said in a phone interview. …

See show-stopping bridal looks at the 2022 Winter Bridal Extravaganza Show | Courtesy of Bridal Extravaganza Show Plan every aspect of your upcoming nuptials with bridal fashion, wedding vendors, giveaways, cake tasting, and more at the 2022 Winter Bridal Extravaganza Show at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Downtown on Saturday, January 8 and Sunday, January 9, 2022. Now …

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Retailers TikTok has a way of making even the most ridiculous ideas sound perfectly normal. Using sexual lubricant as a make-up primer? Sure, why not. Dotting eight dots of eyeliner around your eyes to hypnotize men? Anything is fair in the search for love. Applying your foundation with a jade roller instead of a brush? …

The global skin care market pulled in €125bn ($140.9bn) in 2020, according to Global Newswire data presented in WGSN’s Intelligence: Future of Skincare 2024​ report – a figure that aligned well with Euromonitor International’s prediction it was set to grow and hit €152bn in sales by 2025.​ Trend forecaster WGSN said skin care had been “a pandemic bright spot​” for …

COVID has thrown quite the curveball at the wedding industry and Fairey coins 2022 as “the makeup year.” July is the month where inquiries and emails quadrupled for the venue as all the make-up weddings mixed with new weddings, Fairey said. A typical day for her is a juggling game of leading potential clients through venue tours, answering calls, replying to …