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Based on my experience as an esthetician who trained in Korea (also licensed in the United States), founder of and curator of Peach & Lily, and a K-beauty expert, I’ll share everything I know about the background, beginnings, and story behind Korean beauty below. Instead, there’s an emphasis on gently nurturing the skin toward your desired results, whatever they may be, with consistency and a highly personalized skin care routine. I often liken to it working out....

There are two types of maskne that can occur when wearing face masks: contact friction and breakouts. They can occur at the same time and on the same person (meaning: not mutually exclusive skin concerns). But they do have unique triggers, and, therefore, they have different treatments. And unfortunately, the area that a mask covers—nose, mouth, and chin—are areas that tend to break out more anyway. So if you are an acne-prone individual, take extra precautions to keep skin clear....

Mirror work is a practice designed to cultivate self-compassion, and it only requires a bit of your time, a mirror, and some positive affirmations. Here’s how to do it, plus tips for getting started. The practice was created by transformational teacher and self-love expert Louise Hay, who authored Heal Your Body, as well as Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life. As Hay writes in Mirror Work, she believed “doing mirror work is one of the most loving gifts you can give yourself....

So when I began seeing more and more mushroom coffee products emerging, I was certainly intrigued—after all, plenty of nutritionists and functional medicine doctors recommend taking adaptogenic mushrooms for their scope of potential benefits. To get a better sense of this mushroom moment, I chatted with experts and gave these products a try for myself. More recently, according to information from Four Sigmatic, mushrooms were used as a coffee substitute in Finland (where their founders are from), during World War II when coffee beans weren’t available....

Whenever we left the house, I made sure to take my keys and purse, just in case we got separated. But that night, when I went to grab my purse off its knob in the hallway, a voice inside told me not to take it. Each building in our large complex was lit up by one streetlight, and they were separated by dark pathways. As we got farther from our place, my roommate noticed there were three men trailing behind us....

Gluten-free doesn’t have to equal limitation; it can mean an expanded palate and an opportunity for greater variety for the whole family. When transitioning your pantry and lifestyle to accommodate a gluten intolerance and/or sensitivity (whether your own or a family member’s), a few helpful tips can make it easy for everyone involved. Gluten is a protein found in many grains, primarily wheat byproducts and varietals like semolina, spelt, farro, kamut, einkorn, and durum....

The way the very common act of queefing affects people varies, but it’s not unusual to feel embarrassed or frozen in the moment as you try to understand how it happened. I mean, what do you do or say? Should you feel ashamed? (Never!) Do they only happen during sex? Because the passageway of your vaginal canal has ridges, curves, and grooves, air doesn’t always seamlessly enter and exit. That means queefs can happen “in any situation where air is pushed or trapped in the vagina and is expelled,” explains Roskin, “like when an object is inserted in the vagina and removed or when the body changes positions....