February 2, 2024 – Air Mail Look

Featuring

Wellness

Listen Up!

Hearing profoundly affects our happiness, memory, and social connections. It’s all too often ignored, but optimizing yours has never looked better

Skin Care

A Replacement for Retinol?

Our cosmetic chemist breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about bakuchiol

Sex & Relationships

Kiss or Break Up

What do you do when the little annoyances of companionship become absolutely unbearable?

Travel & Food

Hollywood Ending

With drugs in the dressing room and paparazzi in the parking lot, Fred Segal–Ron Herman was the epicenter of California cool for decades. So who turned off the heat?

By Brennan Kilbane

Disappearing Act Despite all the talk of body positivity, the skinny aesthetic persists. Now, with Ozempic, it’s more insistent than ever

By Linda Wells

Read On

Lessons in Ecstasy Could a personal trainer turned “orgasm coach” heal your bedroom woes? Fasten your seat belts!

By Abbey Richards

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Don’t Shoot Me The chipmunk cheeks, the bulbous chin, the lips that look ready to pop. When filler injections go too far, doctors say, they can be dissolved. Turns out, it’s a little more complicated

By Jolene Edgar

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Hollywood Ending With drugs in the dressing room and paparazzi in the parking lot, Fred Segal–Ron Herman was the epicenter of California cool for decades. So who turned off the heat?

By Gracie Hadland

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Show Some Love

Oh, Valentine’s Day! Your syrupy greeting cards, your red lace thongs, your roses-and-baby’s-breath bouquets—sometimes you’re hard to love. There’s a better way! The LOOK team chose delicacies we’d actually like to give and receive: a red face mask, an enduring lipstick, and a fragrance that invites a long embrace. They’re pretty irresistible.

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Anders Overgaard/Trunk Archive (model)

Adults Only You can keep your baby bump, your breast pump, and your spit-up embroidered clothes. For some, the child-free life is filled with pleasure

By Hannah Betts

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Get in the Water! Taking a bath does so much more than clean your body—the health benefits could fill a deep tub

By Jane Larkworthy

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Listen Up! Hearing profoundly affects our happiness, memory, and social connections. It’s all too often ignored, but optimizing yours has never looked better

By Harriet Walker

Read On

“To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.” —Oscar Wilde

The Getaway Scar I never really believed in the transformative power of makeup—until my daughter proved me wrong

By Danielle Pergament

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Kiss or Break Up What do you do when the little annoyances of companionship become absolutely unbearable?

By Julieanne Smolinski

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Relax The Hands of God In its past life, the 11th floor of the Hotel Chelsea hosted artist lofts that bottled Manhattan’s natural light. This month…

Apply Seeing Red? We don’t need to tell you that Korean beauty products reign supreme for innovation and graceful, smooth…

Charge Give Me the Gun I overdid it on the glutes. Training session after training session of hip thrusts, squats, dead lifts, and bridges made it so…

Roll Don’t Sweat It It’s hard to get excited about a deodorant when all you really want is something unexciting. But Nez, a line of stick deodorants…

Visit Snap Happy You know it’s bad when the U.S. Department of State rejects your passport photo. It happened to me not too long ago…

Accessorize Container Score Want to feel more organized and stylish in one fell swoop? Allow me to introduce you to Diptyque’s new bathroom accessories…

Relax The Hands of God In its past life, the 11th floor of the Hotel Chelsea hosted artist lofts that bottled Manhattan’s natural light. This month…

Apply Seeing Red? We don’t need to tell you that Korean beauty products reign supreme for innovation and graceful, smooth…

Charge Give Me the Gun I overdid it on the glutes. Training session after training session of hip thrusts, squats, dead lifts, and bridges made it so…

Roll Don’t Sweat It It’s hard to get excited about a deodorant when all you really want is something unexciting. But Nez, a line of stick deodorants…

Visit Snap Happy You know it’s bad when the U.S. Department of State rejects your passport photo. It happened to me not too long ago…

Accessorize Container Score Want to feel more organized and stylish in one fell swoop? Allow me to introduce you to Diptyque’s new bathroom accessories…

Dairy, Free! New research suggests that butter and cheese are not as demonic as we once thought

By Ashley Baker

Read On

A Replacement for Retinol? Our cosmetic chemist breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about bakuchiol

By Javon Ford

Read On

Getting into Bed with Noah Beck

The TikToker and Fashion Week regular shares his nighttime routine in exquisite detail

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Look

Listen Up!

A Replacement for Retinol?

Kiss or Break Up

Hollywood Ending

Touch and Glow

Disappearing Act Despite all the talk of body positivity, the skinny aesthetic persists. Now, with Ozempic, it’s more insistent than ever

Lessons in Ecstasy Could a personal trainer turned “orgasm coach” heal your bedroom woes? Fasten your seat belts!

Don’t Shoot Me The chipmunk cheeks, the bulbous chin, the lips that look ready to pop. When filler injections go too far, doctors say, they can be dissolved. Turns out, it’s a little more complicated

Hollywood Ending With drugs in the dressing room and paparazzi in the parking lot, Fred Segal–Ron Herman was the epicenter of California cool for decades. So who turned off the heat?

Show Some Love

Adults Only You can keep your baby bump, your breast pump, and your spit-up embroidered clothes. For some, the child-free life is filled with pleasure

Get in the Water! Taking a bath does so much more than clean your body—the health benefits could fill a deep tub

Listen Up! Hearing profoundly affects our happiness, memory, and social connections. It’s all too often ignored, but optimizing yours has never looked better

“To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.” —Oscar Wilde

The Getaway Scar I never really believed in the transformative power of makeup—until my daughter proved me wrong

Kiss or Break Up What do you do when the little annoyances of companionship become absolutely unbearable?

Dairy, Free! New research suggests that butter and cheese are not as demonic as we once thought

A Replacement for Retinol? Our cosmetic chemist breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about bakuchiol

Getting into Bed with Noah Beck

The TikToker and Fashion Week regular shares his nighttime routine in exquisite detail

Air Mail is Edited By

Air Mail Look is edited by

Executive Editor

Creative Director

Managing Editor

Chief Technology Officer

Photo Director

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Editor at Large

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Research and Legal Editor

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OUR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER ARE

Shop General Manager and Brand Partnerships

Advertising Director

European Sales Director

Financial & Business Operations

Account Manager

Chief Strategy Adviser

Merchant

Editor

E-Commerce Manager

E-Commerce Associate