Products & Services
Polaroid Instant Camera
In a flash, there’s your photo, hehe.
Beauty & Style
On-the-Spot Acne Treatments
My favorite zit-zapper has been discontinued! Help!
Health
How Much SPF Do You Really Need?
When every product you own brags about SPF coverage, is it too much? Or still not enough?
Money & Work
Recession Skincare
How to take care of your skin — and your wallet — during tough times.
Relationships
Do I Tip For a Free In-Store Make-Up Demonstration?
In a land where no real tipping policy exists, Amalah decides to invent one.
Beauty & Style
Panic! At the Sephora
Has one of the Smackdown’s most beloved make-up brands been discontinued? Say it isn’t so! (HINT: It isn’t so.)
Beauty & Style
When Your Hair Simply. Won’t. Get. Clean.
A reader’s continuing struggle with bad, bad, not-good hair.
Beauty & Style
Philosophy’s Hope in a Jar SPF 20: Dream Cream or Dud in a Tub?
Is Philosophy’s Hope in a Jar SPF 20 an all-in-one Dream Cream or a Dud in a Tub?
Beauty & Style
Am I Allergic to Bare Minerals? Here’s How to Tell.
Amy, I have been reading your blogs on and off for a lot of years now. Sometimes I get a little too addicted to the Internet and have to make myself stop for a while. But I always come back. 🙂 Anyway, I have a…
Pregnancy
Skincare Safety During Pregnancy
Is retinol safe to use when you’re pregnant? How about salicylic acid? We’ve got the 411 on pregnancy safe skin care.
Products & Services
Olay Regenerist 14-Day Skin Intervention: Does It Really Do That…Or Anything?
Review of Olay Regenerist 14-Day Skin Intervention Okay, so I have to admit that I am a sucker for challenges. Especially those of the two-week variety. Activia yogurt! Crest Whitestrips! Change your life in 14 days! It is perhaps more a sign of laziness than…
Products & Services
What’s That Smell: Fragrance in Facial Moisturizers
Dear Amy, You don’t have to post this but if you would get back to me I would really, really appreciate it. After reading your column and being at my wit’s end with my skin I purchased the Philosophy “starter kit”. I have seen a…
Family Fun
Exxon Valdez Head: Oily Hair That Just Won’t Get Clean
Hi Amy, Usually I’m pretty good at figuring out what my body needs–what my skin can handle, what kind of shampoo to buy, etc. After all, I’ve had it forever, right? But disaster has recently struck. In the last three weeks, my hair has gone…
Beauty & Style
Wella Color Preserve: a Reasonably-Priced Salon Shampoo That WORKS? Yes!
Hi Amy, Happy New Year! To kick it off right, I’m shopping for a new moderately-priced salon shampoo. I’m currently using BedHead’s Oatmeal and Honey shampoo and conditioner, but I don’t really love it. I’ve also used Back to Basics and a variety of other…
Beauty & Style
Get the Red Out: Color Correcting Your Complexion
Amy, Ok. First off you are so right about the Philosophy line with Hope in a Bottle and the face wash stuff. It actually has got down on the flakiness I have been seeing this winter. Actually I had a co-worker comment on how pretty…
Products & Services
Price Tag Cage Match: Boots No7 Make-up Base vs. Everything Else
Review of Boots No7 Make-up Base So I was wandering the cosmetics aisles in Target the other day and came across what looked like one of my 2008 wishes come true — a drugstore-brand foundation primer. Specifically, Boots No7 Mattifying Make-Up Base, priced at a…
Products & Services
The Product Whore’s Complete Guide to Samples & Freebies
Hi Amy, I’ve submitted a question before (about my hair and drugstore products vs. high-end products and what to do for parched out split ends), and you posted it! Yay! And it helped SO much, seriously. So you don’t have to post this one, but…
Products & Services
Battle of the Bases: Foundation Primers for Every Skin Type
Ahh, foundation primer. I remember my exact thoughts the first time I looked at the wee sample of Smashbox Photo Finish in my Sephora bag. “This,” I thought, “is a load of horseshit.” And then I tried you, cynically and with a nasty-looking crease in…
Beauty & Style
The Product Graveyard: What to Do With the Stuff That Sucks
Hi Amy! What do you do with products you tried but did not like? Or products that worked for awhile, but not long enough to use all of? My current product graveyard is a drawer- I can’t bring myself to throw out some of these…
Beauty & Style
How Much Washing Can Dry Skin Take?
Here’s the deal: I don’t wash my face if I’m not wearing makeup. I know what you’re saying: “gotta wash off the grime of daily life, blah, blah, blah.” But I have dry skin; sometimes so dry that I apply a drop o’ vaseline to…