Cosmopolitan

Famous for its upbeat style, Cosmopolitan magazine focuses on the young career woman and candid discussion of contemporary male/female relationships. Since its founding in 1886, Cosmopolitan has been reporting on modern social trends. Get Cosmopolitan digital magazine subscription today.

May/June issue by the numbers • What it took to make this mag.

Ed letter • Meet the Cosmo beauty team, the skin-, hair-, and makeup-obsessed editors behind the Holy Grail Beauty Awards on page 36 and online. Their ~extensive~ judging process involved A LOT of experimentation, and honestly, these heroines kind of need a nap. Here, all the sacrifices they made to their lives and reputations to bring you, dear readers, the 167 best products out there right now.

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So here’s what you’ve been up to in the “real” “world” • A brief check-in with the class of 2020, one year later.

A ranking of every piece of terrible advice you’ve gotten in the past year • It’s all coming from a caring place. (I think.)

Pandemmy edition • Because you don’t come out of *waves hands* all this without a few secrets to spill.

Just a list of new books that’ll feed your wanderlust

In defense of reading the Wikipedia page of a movie before watching it • Join me, won’t you?

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW a disabled person on a major reality show? • It’s time for TV to start showing our *actual* reality.

A very juicy oral history of “Lady Marmalade” • Including and especially its music video, which debuted 20 freaking years ago. (I know.)

Build your own campy, female-driven murder show • Bc sometimes you want to imagine yourself walking through Central Park in a red wig contemplating your onscreen husband’s potential guilt.

Just a list of nostalgic trends I’m still waiting to see • Okay, so, style is pretty cyclical. Looking at you, current cultural obsessions with ’70s flares, ’80s sequins, and ’90s chokers. And now that we’re also catching up to ourselves with a Y2K resurgence (hi, baguette bags!), the question is, why haven’t some of the most ~epic~ designs of yore reentered the chat? Browsing through some fads from ye olden days, it really feels like we’ve been missing some statement-making opportunities. Ahem, designers, please do take notes.

Give this jewelry a hand! And, um, a nose and a mouth? • Put some eyes on your ears and some lips on your fingers. (Okay, you get it, I’ll stop.)

Scarves are/are not tops—discuss • In which we debate the summer trend and all the malfunctions that may come with it.

Hear me out: après-swim. Hell yeah, right? • Get that post-pool aesthetic with these gorge summery finds.

I’m just as surprised as you are that pleated jeans are cute now • The ’80s called, and they’ve finally updated their denim.

So there are fashion designers for dogs, and *I* want to wear their clothes • Sorry, but they’re just that cool???

HOLY GRAIL BEAUTY AWARDS • The 167 be-all, end-all products and treatments that our editors *really* want you to try right now.

SKIN • Breakouts? Dryness? Redness? Dark spots? We gotchu.

PRO TREATMENTS

HAIR • To guarantee a good hair day every day.

MAKE-UP • Remember when people said makeup was over? Lol, we’re rolling our eyes too.

BODY • Bc your below-the-chin skin deserves its *own* multistep routine.

NAILS • Everything you need to become an accidental mani-pedi influencer.

TOOLS • Aka our most prized possessions.

How to smell like a fancy perfume person • The rules and recs for ~elevating~ your scent game.

Just a list of things that went down when you tried to become someone who organizes

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