September 5, 2025 – Air Mail Look

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Sex & Relationships

Take the Love Test

These probing questions reveal a lot about a relationship. Can yours withstand them?

Sex & Relationships

Meet the Orgasm Whisperer

Could sexual pleasure be the secret to clear, firm, glowing skin? One self-proclaimed expert says, “Yes, yes, yes”

Diet & Fitness

What’s In Your Products?

The Yuka app tries to simplify beauty choices with a score from excellent to bad. Is it reliable?

By Linda Wells

“I Was Grotesque” The Morning Joe co-host shares how painful reactions from everyday beauty and household products affected her mood, patience, and ability to do her job

By Mika Brzezinski

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Burn, Baby Burn Four simple ways to optimize your exercise and eviscerate more fat

By Peta Bee

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Meet the Orgasm Whisperer Could sexual pleasure be the secret to clear, firm, glowing skin? One self-proclaimed expert says, “Yes, yes, yes”

By Chelsea Frank

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Packing Heat If you thought Louis Vuitton bags were collectors’ items, just wait until you see their new lipstick

By Linda Wells

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“Am I Pretty?” New beauty-rating apps use AI to coldly assess users’ facial features. How do we make them go away?

By Maria Lally

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“The search for perfume goes no other way than that of obsession.” —Colette

Apply Stable Genius It’s not often that I encounter a foundation that doesn’t feel like a chore—or a mistake waiting to happen. But No Makeup Makeup…

Clean Take It All Off After a summer of sunscreens, your skin is undoubtedly begging for a brisk exfoliation—and Summer Fridays is up to the task…

Soothe Masked Ball If you find it hard to get excited about a sheet mask, maybe that’s because you haven’t met the right sheet mask. Allow me…

Draw Look Up! A good eyeliner is hard to find. They’re either too smudgy and end up raccooning before you’re out the door. Or…

Glow Golden Moment Fluctuating hormones are a fact of life, but their effects on the skin…

Spritz Rome Sweet Rome The tuberoses in the garden of the Hotel de Russie, a bowl of cacio e pepe at Roscioli—I never imagined…

Apply Stable Genius It’s not often that I encounter a foundation that doesn’t feel like a chore—or a mistake waiting to happen. But No Makeup Makeup…

Clean Take It All Off After a summer of sunscreens, your skin is undoubtedly begging for a brisk exfoliation—and Summer Fridays is up to the task…

Soothe Masked Ball If you find it hard to get excited about a sheet mask, maybe that’s because you haven’t met the right sheet mask. Allow me…

Draw Look Up! A good eyeliner is hard to find. They’re either too smudgy and end up raccooning before you’re out the door. Or…

Glow Golden Moment Fluctuating hormones are a fact of life, but their effects on the skin…

Spritz Rome Sweet Rome The tuberoses in the garden of the Hotel de Russie, a bowl of cacio e pepe at Roscioli—I never imagined…

Hot Shot Supermodels, high heels, big jewelry, bigger hair—we’re in the grip of 90s nostalgia, and Pamela Hanson’s photographs celebrate the best of a charmed life

By Linda Wells

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*Top*, Cathy McNew and Tara Yodit Abate; above, Patty Sylvia and Paul Coster.

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Take the Love Test These probing questions reveal a lot about a relationship. Can yours withstand them?

By Abbey Caldwell

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Chasing Waterfalls Hot, smelly, and possibly curative, the waters at a Tuscan spa make idleness feel productive

By April Long

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Bobbi Brown’s Good Life The makeup master, entrepreneur, and author relies on Sofwave, a massage chair, dancing, and a self-acceptance mantra

By Holly Parmelee

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Start Your Engines

Who needs a Trapper Keeper when you can have an embossed leather envelope? Why bother with scented markers when there are liquid lipsticks and mysterious amber fragrances? These fall supplies give you a fresh new outlook on your skin, hair, and wardrobe. Might as well go to the head of the class.

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Kourken Pakchanian/Condé Nast/Getty Images (model)

Fashion Scents The new Balenciaga fragrances are a confident, sophisticated foil to the sugar-sweet body mists crowding our nasal passages

By April Long

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The Queen of Creams Pond’s Cold Cream was the makeup remover of choice for Marilyn Monroe, but unlike the actress, its star power has waned. What have we been missing?

By Merritt Johnson

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Completely Mad! Is rage really such a bad thing? Here’s how to channel it effectively

By Sam Parker

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What’s In Your Products? The Yuka app tries to simplify beauty choices with a score from excellent to bad. Is it reliable?

By Javon Ford

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

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Getting Into Bed With Paloma Elsesser

The model shares her nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

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Read It and Weep

Movies and ads have always entertained the fantasy of a bookworm tossing aside her glasses and shaking out her hair (previously held in place with a pencil) to become a seductress. Hanes followed that script in the late 1960s to promote its new stockings, called Mystrece. It promises to transform the wearer physically—as if you dipped your legs in liquid chiffon, which is both delectable and head-scratching—and so fundamentally that she becomes “unforgettable, disarming, and a not-so-quiet sensation.” That’s one powerful pair of nylons. Is Mystrece pronounced “mistress” or “my stress”? Hanes may have wanted it both ways, with the mistress wearing just her stockings and a stack of books, impervious to the stress of runs and tears. As Melanie Griffith’s character said in Working Girl, “I have a head for business and a bod for sin.” *—Linda Wells*

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Take the Love Test

Meet the Orgasm Whisperer

What’s In Your Products?

Plump Me Up

“I Was Grotesque” The Morning Joe co-host shares how painful reactions from everyday beauty and household products affected her mood, patience, and ability to do her job

Burn, Baby Burn Four simple ways to optimize your exercise and eviscerate more fat

Meet the Orgasm Whisperer Could sexual pleasure be the secret to clear, firm, glowing skin? One self-proclaimed expert says, “Yes, yes, yes”

Packing Heat If you thought Louis Vuitton bags were collectors’ items, just wait until you see their new lipstick

“Am I Pretty?” New beauty-rating apps use AI to coldly assess users’ facial features. How do we make them go away?

“The search for perfume goes no other way than that of obsession.” —Colette

Hot Shot Supermodels, high heels, big jewelry, bigger hair—we’re in the grip of 90s nostalgia, and Pamela Hanson’s photographs celebrate the best of a charmed life

Take the Love Test These probing questions reveal a lot about a relationship. Can yours withstand them?

Chasing Waterfalls Hot, smelly, and possibly curative, the waters at a Tuscan spa make idleness feel productive

Bobbi Brown’s Good Life The makeup master, entrepreneur, and author relies on Sofwave, a massage chair, dancing, and a self-acceptance mantra

Start Your Engines

Who needs a Trapper Keeper when you can have an embossed leather envelope? Why bother with scented markers when there are liquid lipsticks and mysterious amber fragrances? These fall supplies give you a fresh new outlook on your skin, hair, and wardrobe. Might as well go to the head of the class.

Fashion Scents The new Balenciaga fragrances are a confident, sophisticated foil to the sugar-sweet body mists crowding our nasal passages

The Queen of Creams Pond’s Cold Cream was the makeup remover of choice for Marilyn Monroe, but unlike the actress, its star power has waned. What have we been missing?

Completely Mad! Is rage really such a bad thing? Here’s how to channel it effectively

What’s In Your Products? The Yuka app tries to simplify beauty choices with a score from excellent to bad. Is it reliable?

Getting Into Bed With Paloma Elsesser

The model shares her nighttime routine

Read It and Weep

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Chief Technology Officer

Photo Director

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Editors at Large

OUR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER ARE

Business Development Director

Shop General Manager and Brand Partnerships

European Sales Director

Financial & Business Operations

Account Manager

Chief Strategy Adviser

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Shop Editor

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