Beauty

Everything you Need to Know About Exfoliating

Looking for a fresh start? When the dead of winter starts to make us feel a bit, well, lifeless, it can be hard to find ways to breathe life into your skin. The best approach to smoothing, refreshing, and rejuvenating your skin—and who couldn’t use some of those three things right about now?—is to find […]

How to Get Fuller Lips (Without Filler!)

Those of us who weren’t blessed with Gigi Hadid-esque lips will go to great lengths to get them (I should know — I’ve tried it all, including filler.) After years of experimenting, this old theater makeup trick is still the most effective technique I know to make thin lips looks full. This is how Lucille […]

The Hot Hair Tools Our Beauty Experts Can’t Live Without

My hot hair tool use has gone through many phases: the sleek straight flat irons of college, va va voom hot rollers of my twenties, the more recent medium barreled curling iron beach waves, and countless other looks in between. The only constant? Finding the perfect hot tool for my hair type has been the […]

How to Get Your Healthiest Skin Ever in 2017

So, here at The Decoder, we do lots of chatting about pretty products—as we very well should. But, since I’m a firm believer that the painting will only look as good as the canvas it’s on, today I want to talk about how to get skin that is not only beautiful, but downright healthy. Keeping […]

We’re Obsessed With Cristina Lynch’s Mexican Inspired Style

We first met Cristina Lynch when she hosted a Mi Golondrina trunk show in Austin, and we instantly fell in love with the designer’s handcrafted Mexican dresses. She has incredible personal style, which (like her designs) reflects her Mexican heritage through a modern lens. Talking with Cristina, you get a sense that her perspective is rooted in […]

Are You Brushing Your Hair All Wrong?

I never thought a beauty tool could truly be “life-changing” until I met my magic brush. If you have thick tangle-prone hair like I do, you can probably relate to this: I used to spend ten frustrating, painful minutes a day combing through my hair after every shower. By the end of it my arms […]

Our 10 Best Updo Tutorials for New Year’s Eve

Okay, so you’ve already got your amazing party dress, but have you figured out how you’ll wear your hair for this NYE? We’ve gone through our entire beauty tutorial catalog to find the ten best updo tutorials we’ve ever published. Browse the looks for your favorite and don’t be boring with your hair this weekend– because if […]

The 8 Best Long Lasting Lipsticks To Get You Through NYE

I don’t know about you, but when it comes to festive winter dressing… I’m often at a loss. And, no winter festivity is harder to dress for than New Year’s Eve, am I right? Unlike a casual holiday cocktail party, NYE is a night where you’re expected to go all-out with your wardrobe—even if the […]

The Half-Up Pompadour

We couldn’t help but notice that model Jenna Filardi, winner of our latest Camille Styles instagram model search, bears a striking resemblance to actress Natalie Portman. We asked Erica Rae to create a red-carpet style to match Jenna’s Hollywood looks, and she surprised us with this fabulous updo. “My pompadour obsession started when I first saw celebrities rock this look […]

The Best Scented Candles According to our Experts

Okay, so maybe a scented candle isn’t the most original gift, but c’mon: have you ever met a person who didn’t love receiving one? Especially when said candle has the coolest packaging, is made of clean-burning soy wax, and lasts for 60 (or more) hours. We polled our beauty council members to find out which scented […]

Beauty Prep for Your Prettiest Holiday Ever

If you’re anything like me, holiday madness is already in full swing, and let’s just say that “updating my beauty routine” is pretty far down the ‘ole to-do list. But one glance at my calendar reminds me that I’ve got a few highly anticipated occasions on the horizon (our annual holiday dinner party, nights out […]

How to Wear Glitter Like a Grown Up

I’ll be honest: when I heard that my assigning editors wanted me to write a story on glitter makeup, I was a little skeptical. Maybe I’m still scarred by the memories of the scented glitter body gel that me and my friends used to apply before middle-school dances (does anyone else remember that gross, goopy […]