Author: Brandon Fairs

Gluten-Free Baking and Alt Flours: A Primer

Gluten-Free Baking and Alt Flours: A Primer Baking with alternative ingredients can be a little intimidating, especially when it comes to gluten-free flours. Fortunately, there are people like Chloé Charlier of LA’s Breadblok. Charlier has mastered the art of gluten-free bread and pastry. She’s been baking this way her whole life—her family has been gluten-free for […]

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Grieving the Loss of a Life You Wanted

Grieving the Loss of a Life You Wanted Where there’s a plan for our personal lives, you’ll likely find some kind of backwards math: If I’m going to have this number of kids by this age, I need to be married by this age, which means I need to be dating my partner for however-many […]

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Can MDMA-Facilitated Couples Therapy Help People Heal from PTSD?

Hypothesis and Emerging Research Toggle description Some early observations support this concept (or parts of the theory), and there is scientific interest in elucidating exactly what’s at work. Can MDMA-Facilitated Couples Therapy Help People Heal from PTSD? There was a time when people thought post-traumatic stress disorder was a life sentence. They could put you […]

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Clean Swap: A Fashion-Obsessed Podcaster Detoxes Her Beauty Routine

Clean Swap: A Fashion-Obsessed Podcaster Detoxes Her Beauty Routine For Pia Baroncini, Pasadena-based founder of the clothing line LPA, host of the podcast Everything Is the Best, and major makeup fan, the journey to clean beauty took a minute. “You know when the universe is telling you something and you hear it multiple places?” she says. […]

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What goop Staffers Are Wearing (a Lot) Lately

What goop Staffers Are Wearing (a Lot) Lately Sponsored by Cotton In addition to the “How was your weekend?” and “Have you seen the new Selling Sunset/The Politician/Chef’s Table?” questions, most Monday morning conversations between coworkers—at least on the fashion team—revolve around a particularly great dress or cool pair of wide-legs someone’s wearing that day. […]

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10 Easy Steps for the Best At-Home Mani-Pedi

10 Easy Steps for the Best At-Home Mani-Pedi While it’s absolutely possible to get your nails done in a salon at this point, many of us aren’t there yet. The beachy, airy, heavenly clean salon Cote in LA is now open to sell supplies but is not yet offering services: “We want to feel sure […]

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The Ultimate Fall Essentials Refresh

Photo courtesy of Alicia Lund The Ultimate Fall Essentials Refresh While spring does an excellent job of branding itself as the season of starting over, its cooler counterpart, fall, is the time of year for letting go. Since a thorough closet clean-out can leave a sweatshirt-shaped hole in your life, and squeezing the last drop […]

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The Woman behind Our Favorite At-Home Lattes

The Woman behind Our Favorite At-Home Lattes Golde cofounder Trinity Mouzon Wofford The Woman behind Our Favorite At-Home Lattes Trinity Mouzon Wofford grew up in what she calls “crunchy Birkenstock-land” (the Hudson Valley). She’s the friend who offers you something herbal when you say you’ve got a bit of a headache. She’s also the founder of […]

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Ask Jean: Breakouts?

Ask Jean: Breakouts? We want to answer your most pressing questions—or, you know, just the things that you’re curious about. Please keep them coming to: [email protected]. Below, a q for our beauty director, Jean Godfrey-June. Dear Jean, I am thirty-two and am still dealing with acne (mostly along my jawline). Wearing a mask is definitely […]

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Health Tips From Brandon

Summer is over and with fall comes flu season

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