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Weird Product Test-Run: Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Nighttime Miracle Moisturizer

Have you heard of Elizabeth Arden's Eight Hour Cream? You probably have: it's a super-rich emollient that you use on everything from your cuticles to your elbows to your eyebrows, and is a total cult product (and one of my personal must-haves). And it's not exactly "weird"; more like "classic"…so what's up with the "Weird Product Test-Run" title of this post?

What's up is that Elizabeth Arden just added a new product to the Eight Hour Cream line: Nighttime Miracle Moisturizer. And it's weird. It's basically an enhanced version of the original, with the same uber-thick texture (plus lavender to calm skin and help you sleep)…and the weird part lies in the fact that it's supposed to go on your face. Because it's one thing to apply a product that heavy-seeming to your nail beds, and another thing entirely to apply it to, like…your chin.

Makeup & Beauty

Goodbye, My Pretty (How To Handle Postpartum Hair Loss)

Oh, my hair.

I have loved it SO MUCH these past few months. I've even been accused several times of having hair extensions (as if I wouldn't excitedly declare CHECK OUT MY EXTENSIONS! were I to actually shell out the money for them)...which is less "accusation" and more "best compliment ever."

I did not have extensions; I had pregnancy.

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How To Wear A Maxi Dress In The Winter

Q. Jordan,

I'm almost 32 weeks pregnant and my baby shower is coming up later this month. My friend thinks maxi dresses look cute on pregnant people, and while I agree I have no idea how to wear one in the winter. I guess I would need a cardigan or light coat (even indoors at the shower), but what would I wear for shoes?  Please help.

-Ronja

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The Golden Hour

Where I took my brand-new hair color out for its debut: on a date night with Kendrick to watch the sun set in a local park, followed by sushi at our favorite spot in Dobbs Ferry.

This, by the way, is what photographers are talking about when they refer to “the golden hour” or “the magic hour” – it’s that moment when the sun is just over the horizon and casts a soft, reddish light that’s more flattering for…well, virtually everything. It enhances landscape colors, diffuses the light hitting the face (which eliminates those harsh shadows created by direct sunlight), and makes everything it hits seem to glow.

Makeup & Beauty

The Grand At-Home Hair Color Experiment

I listen to my mother when it comes to pretty much everything. It’s generally a good idea, because she’s almost always right. “Almost” being the key word here, because I have found the one thing that she was wrong about. (Sorry, mom.)

Remember that post I put up about how I was thinking about trying an at-home hair dye kit? Well, about thirty seconds after I hit “publish” my phone rang, and I knew it was my mom without even looking at the caller ID. I even knew what she was going to say:

“JORDAN DO NOT DYE YOUR OWN HAIR.”