October

10 Best Beauty and Fashion Deals on Amazon This Weekend

By avi maxwel / in amazon, beauty, deals, fashion, Weekend /

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Cheers to the weekend! It may not be an official holiday, but there’s always an excuse to celebrate in the summer. The sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, and life is good. But you know what could make it even better? A summer sale!

Amazon Prime Day may be over, but there are still tons of deals on fashion and beauty on the site. We tracked down the 10 best markdowns you do not want to miss — up to 69% off! This is your sign to treat yourself!

Beauty

e.l.f.

This cult-favorite, affordable primer provides a long-lasting hold to lock your makeup in place, even in the heat! One customer called this product a ‘holy grail primer!’

L’Oréal Paris

This bestselling waterproof mascara is currently on sale for 64% off! With over 94,000 reviews on Amazon, this voluminous mascara is the tried-and-true secret behind full lashes.

MAYBELLINE

This is my favorite liquid eye liner of all time! People always ask me how I’ve mastered the art of the cat eye, and this eye liner is the answer.

Augustinus Bader

The Rich

October

Amazon Prime Day Canada: The Very Best Fashion Deals

By avi maxwel / in amazon, canada, Day, deals, fashion, prime /

Photography via Getty Images

From straight-leg jeans and timeless sunglasses to the perfect slip skirt and classic watch, Amazon Prime Day is the right time to restock your wardrobe with modern essentials.

By Jennifer Berry

Date July 11, 2023

We hope you had a good night’s sleep and a strong morning coffee — Amazon Prime Day is officially here and that means you have some shopping to do. From deals on everything from viral beauty products to must-have fitness gear at up to 50% off, it’s worth carving out a little online shopping time over the July 11-12 time period. And did you know that Amazon Canada has some low-key great style finds, too? We scoured the Prime Day sales to find the best Amazon Prime Canada fashion deals. Here, we round up 10 style staples — including straight-leg blue jeans and timeless aviator sunglasses that flatter everyone — you won’t regret snapping up on Amazon Prime Day 2023.

RELATED: How To Shop Amazon Prime Day 2023

The classic denim: Levi’s Wedgie Jeans

Up to 40% off

There’s a reason Levi’s Wedgie jeans are the best-selling style that fashion lovers keep coming back to — they really are that good.

October

From Arket to Agolde: I Just Tried On 2024’s Best-Selling Jeans

By avi maxwel / in 2024s, Agolde, Arket, BestSelling, Jeans /

The best pairs of jeans are the ones you want to live in and wear again and again – and they get better every time you slip them on. However finding the “perfect style” can be hard, given there are so many different silhouettes, cuts and washes available, plus sizing can vary depending on the brand.

The options are endless, and so to help you with your search, I spent a day changing-room hopping to give you insights on the best jeans you can buy right now. Yes, the options seem endless, but after trying on countless pairs of varying shapes, sizes, and cotton compositions, I’ve realised that the pool of exceptional, stand-out styles is much smaller than you’d think. The age old technique of trial and error has turned me to the classics such as Levi’s, Citizens Of Humanity and Agolde, as well as more contemporary iterations from the likes of Arket, Uniqlo and Ganni. Vintage stores are worth visiting too: Unlike off-the-rack styles, vintage denim offers worn-in appeal, as well as unique details like rivets, stitching and patches that give jeans a beautiful lived-in quality.

My top tip is to always take a change of shoes to the

October

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution | Art and design books

By avi maxwel / in Art, Bloomsbury, books, bring, Charlie, clothes, design, fashion, Philosophy, Porter, review, revolution, style /

When Virginia Woolf invited TS Eliot down for a country weekend in 1920 she concluded with “Please bring no clothes”. This was not a suggestion that “Tom” should arrive in East Sussex naked. Such a possibility was unlikely anyway since at this point the poet was still working as a buttoned-up clerk at Lloyds Bank. Eliot was famously wedded to his three-piece suit to the point where, Woolf joked, he would have worn a four-piece one if such a thing existed. What she meant by “bring no clothes” was that at Monk’s House they did not dress for dinner, change for church (there was no church), or worry about getting their best clothes grubby in the garden. This was Bloomsbury, albeit a rural version, and the clothing conventions to which the rest of upper-middle-class society had returned after the first world war had no place there.

Fashion journalist Charlie Porter is spot-on with his suggestion that the way the circle thought about clothes was part of a wider revolt against the late-Victorian society in which its members had been raised (Woolf was born in 1882, Eliot six years later). Choosing not to wear black tie for dinner or gloves “in

October

Coalition by popular sites meant to battle fake reviews. Who’s not part of it?

By avi maxwel / in battle, Coalition, fake, meant, part, Popular, Reviews, sites, Whos /

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — “I looked at a lot of the reviews online on Google, looked at a bunch on Yelp, just kind of tried to do due diligence on it,” said Las Vegas homeowner Chris Hove, who found out the hard way that reviews he partially relied on to pick his pool builder were fake.

“To do something like that is extremely shady,” Hove said.

After he left his review, he started looking more closely at others.

“I noticed numerous reviews that were very recent that were talking multiple praises, five stars, how great they were, and I thought, ‘this is kind of funny, completely contradicts my experience and my neighbors’ experiences.'”

The internet is littered with fake reviews.

It’s become such a big problem that companies who typically compete are instead coming together to try to ensure customers get a more honest picture when deciding where to spend their money.

The platforms now banding together will battle fake reviews like those we exposed with Greencare Pool Builder in Las Vegas.

The newly formed Coalition for Trusted Reviews will establish best practices for hosting online reviews and work to detect and call out fakes.

Chris Hove says it shouldn’t