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Miranda Popkey’s novel tackles the complicated issues of female desire, sex and failed relationships through a troubled, unnamed narrator who reports on her conversations with a series of other women.
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Cooking meat outdoors over fire is probably one of the most primal forms of food prep. It’s basically been going right for thousands of years, so does it really need any improvement? Weber thinks so, and once you look at their new Weber Connect Smart Grilling Hub, just announced at CES, you might just agree with them.
Weber partnered with June, a company focused on smart cooking, to create an innocuous device that sits by your dumb backyard grill with cables that attach to sensors inserted in the meat. It looks a little like a low-key medical device, and it performs a function vital to health: monitoring the temperature of whatever you’ve put on the flame.
Here’s the “smart” part—the device talks to a Weber app compatible with most smartphone operating systems, allowing you to walk away and have a beer with friends while still monitoring your meat until it hits that magical healthy temp (145-160°F or so for pork and beef, 165°F for chicken).
The app isn’t just a dumb monitoring device—it notifies the cook when they should flip whatever’s on the grill and can be tweaked to match your idea of the perfect temp, from bloody rare and screaming to charcoal black, if you’re into that. Better still, there are four sensors available, so you could track the chicken, beef, and pork—if it’s one of those get-togethers where you have to accommodate every kind of taste.
Don’t worry if you leave your phone behind or accidentally drop it in the pool, either; the temperature is also displayed on the Connect Smart Grilling Hub.
The Smart Grilling Hub will eventually feature Amazon Alexa support, which will permit even more fine-tuning.
Weber will make the Hub available everywhere in the early part of 2020, and it’s priced at a pretty reasonable $129.99.
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“Clothing? Clothing doesn’t make me powerful.”
Jane Fonda doesn’t have time for superficial prattle. As a fashion reporter, I’ve been conditioned to ask celebrities about their defining style moments, so the Ferrari-red coat Fonda has been wearing to all her Fire Drill Friday demonstrations in Washington, D.C., is toward the top of my list of questions. For three months, the nation has watched, beguiled, as the 82-year-old Grace and Frankie star—glamorously sheathed in the now-iconic piece of outerwear, a pair of plasticuffs secured around her wrists—endures week after week of arrests for protesting the government’s inertia in the face of climate change. But Fonda swears that wool coat is the last piece of clothing she’ll ever buy. “One hundred percent of climate scientists agree that we’re facing a drastic catastrophe,” the actress tells me over the phone from the nation’s capital—her temporary home since last October—an urgent staccato punctuating her every statement. The revolution clearly doesn’t accommodate pleasantries. And Fonda did not move to D.C. to become a style icon.
For the Oscar winner, who spent 20 hours in jail late last year for civil disobedience (“One night, big deal!” she told reporters, unphased), risking arrest in the name of activism is not new. In 1970, a 32-year-old Fonda was famously taken into custody after embarking on a speaking tour around Canadian universities where she publicly denounced the Vietnam War. The National Security Agency had been monitoring Fonda for years and finally detained her on suspicion of drug trafficking. Her mugshot, picturing her epochal hairstyle from the movie Klute (think: chic mullet) and a solidarity fist held up to the lens, quickly became a symbol of the anti-war movement.
You don’t typically see celebrities, much less octogenarians, drop their cozy Los Angeles lifestyles to become full-time demonstrators. (To stay in march-ready shape, Fonda says she works out with a trainer, sleeps nine hours a night, and meditates.) When asked what first ignited her inner revolutionary, Fonda cites the filmography of her father, actor Henry Fonda—12 Angry Men, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wrong Man. “They were films about justice, about fairness, about anti-racism,” she recalls. “I think they fertilized the soil of my soul, if you will.” And what inspires her now? “The young student climate strikers”—particularly 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Time’s 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg (whose name Fonda reverently mentions half a dozen times over the course of our conversation).
“One of the reasons I’ve moved to Washington, D.C., for four months was to get out of my comfort zone and put my body on the line, as Greta Thunberg calls us to do,” Fonda explains. “I want to help wake people up. I want to try to role model with my own body.” According to Fonda, the willingness to kill a night or two behind bars for a cause as pressing as the end of the world should be nothing special. “It needs to become the new norm,” she says. “So I’m very encouraged when I have people coming from Washington, California, Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, and Ohio to join me in civil disobedience, people who’ve never done it before.”
Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Catherine Keener, and Rosanna Arquette are among the big names Fonda has brought out to protest alongside her in D.C. Of course, not everybody is comfortable with such public and physical displays of vulnerability. When posed to consider the potential perils of her style of political resistance, Fonda answers bluntly, “I don’t see any risks. But, I’m white, and I’m famous.”
During our interview in mid-December, Fonda was particularly excited for her Grace and Frankie co-star Lily Tomlin to become her next Fire Drill Friday attendee. “She is joining me on December 27 to engage in civil disobedience and get arrested,” she trumpeted. The on-screen comedy duo, who’ve been pals and colleagues ever since their 9 to 5 days in the ’80s, have an off-screen best friendship you rarely find in Hollywood. “Lily Tomlin is a unique human being with the biggest heart of anyone I have ever met in my whole life,” Fonda gushes earnestly. “I feel so blessed that I am able to work with her every day, and when Grace and Frankie comes to an end, I am going to be so sad that I don’t have an excuse to be with her every day.”
Before her big transcontinental move, Fonda wrapped filming season six, which premieres on Netflix this month. (For those unfamiliar with the show, Fonda and Tomlin play two unlikely friends whose 70-something husbands suddenly declare that they are gay, in love, and planning to get married. Hijinks, hijinks.) “I’m not supposed to talk about it,” she responds when I beg her for next-season spoilers. “But it’s funny. I’ll tell you that. It involves another aspect of women’s bodies and aging. That’s all I’ll say.” Even after so many years, she and Tomlin are still astonished that the series resonates so well, especially with young people. “I think it’s because it’s funny and, secondly, because it doesn’t cause anxiety, which I think we all need right now,” Fonda theorizes. “I also think young people get a kick out of seeing people their grandmother’s age behaving in unexpected ways. And then women love it because it gives them hope. You can come through a terrible, painful, life-altering crisis and not only survive but thrive and grow.”
If Fonda had any advice for how her character, Grace, should overcome a major life calamity, surely it would be to join her on Capitol Hill. “Activism is a great antidote to depression and despair,” she tells me, sagely. “I think a lot of us are carrying despair in our bodies, consciously or unconsciously, because we know what’s happening to the climate.” It’s true: A 2019 Gallup poll reported that 54% of participants ages 18 to 34 worry a “great deal” about global warming—a phenomenon some psychologists have nicknamed “climate grief.” “It’s an existential sadness,” says Fonda, who believes taking action is a form of anxiety-reduction therapy.
This action doesn’t have to involve piling into the back of a squad car. Fonda, who has become a scholar of the effective measures one can take to reduce their carbon footprint, recommends everyone start their New Year by committing to the following four steps: get involved with a local environmental organization, renounce single-use plastic, limit driving and air travel, and cut back on or even eliminate meat. “I mean, it takes more than a football field of water to make one steak,” she exhales. “Water is becoming the new gold.”
This is why Fonda is no longer interested in entertaining questions about clothes. “I’m not going to shop anymore,” she proclaims. “I’m old enough to remember a time when shopping didn’t provide people an identity, but consumerism has become all-encompassing. We need to stop it.” Who among us has not run out and bought an entirely new outfit to wear to a wedding, party, or even just an Instagram post so no one would see you in the same thing twice? Once Greta Thunberg announced her personal ban on new clothes, Fonda followed suit. “I’ve never been a big shopper, to tell you the truth,” she admits. “If I need something new, I’ll either borrow it or buy it secondhand. I still have clothes from 30 and 40 years ago, so I’m going to wear what I already have.”
Fonda is walking the walk: In November, she wore the same black sequin suit to Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards and again three days later to the GCAPP Empower Party in Atlanta. Perhaps if the #nonewclothes trend catches on, wearing the same ensemble to two back-to-back events will become a fashion statement in itself—a simultaneous protest against celebrity- and social media–driven flex culture and an invitation to pause and appreciate the things we already have for longer than it takes to snap a picture and post.
When asked how she remains optimistic, Fonda doesn’t mince words: “I don’t like the alternative.” Addressing the climate crisis is a monumental task, no doubt, and we only have a decade or so to get our act together. But as grim as researchers’ predictions are, solutions are at our fingertips—we simply need to push the government to grasp them. Fonda breaks it down in simple terms: “Scientists tell us that we have the ability, the technology, and the wherewithal to make the transition off of fossil fuels, 50% in the next decade, 100% by the middle of the century.” The money to do it exists, she contends—in the subsidies we reward the fossil fuel industry and in our military budget bloat. “We’ve done enormous, expensive things in the past, but the actions have to take place to force the money,” Fonda says. “None of this is going to happen unless we demand it.”
If, at 82, Fonda has the fiery energy to make those demands—to wear the same red coat every wintry Friday in Washington, to sleep on a jail cell’s concrete floor, to check her lifetime of experience at the revolution’s door, and look to the next generation for guidance—then what’s stopping the rest of us? “Yes, there’s hope,” she concludes. “We can do it.” Even over the phone, I’ve never believed anyone more.
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Photographer: Tiffany Nicholson
Stylist: Tracy Taylor
Hairstylist: Teddy Charles
Makeup Artist: David De Leon
Manicurist: Deborah Lippman
Since 2020 is here, we finally feel like we can safely say it: 2019 was a landmark year for beauty. We saw the rise of experimental and imperfect eye makeup, mostly due to what we like to call the Euphoria Effect. Thanks to the hit HBO show, and its makeup artists and actors, we saw avant-garde eyeliner, impactful eye shadow, and colorful glitter everywhere. We also saw the rise of softly illuminated complexions and peachy-pink lip colors (perhaps this was a response to the dramatic contour and highlighter looks of yesteryear?). There was even a major resurgence in certain ’90s-inspired trends, such as bold blue eye shadow, black pencil eyeliner, and gloss-slick lips.
Where does that leave us for 2020? Well, this is an exciting time for beauty enthusiasts because what we deem trendy now will no doubt develop and evolve to eventually epitomize the entire decade to come. Are you ready? We are. Keep scrolling to see the biggest makeup trend predictions for the coming year, according to five of the top celebrity makeup artists.
Remember that Euphoria Effect we mentioned earlier? Yeah, that’s not going anywhere, according to Sofia Schwarzkopf Tilbury, creative executive of Charlotte Tilbury. “I think the eyes are going to be a huge focus for makeup in 2020. One of my favorite trends that I’ve created recently and seen on lots of red carpets and runways is pops of color on the eye. It’s all about creating gorgeous, exaggerated shapes; using softly blurred and blended blocks of color so they’re not too defined. I love it when I see someone wearing an eye color look that’s not wearing them—more just enhancing their features!”
If there’s one color that you should be expecting to see more of in 2020, it’s blue. That’s according to Kelsey Deenihan, celebrity makeup artist and Lorac artistry advisor. It only makes sense. After all, Pantone recently announced that Classic Blue is the 2020 color the year. It’s a bold shade of blue that’s “suggestive of the sky at dusk,” and inspires feelings of peace and tranquility.
“Blue clearly will be on everyone’s radar in 2020,” she says. She suggests finding fun ways to play with color, such as “taking an unexpected bright shade and creating a sharp winged cat eye.” Personally, we’re partial to the bold blue eye makeup look she created for Millie Bobby Brown.
Pair that pop of blue with a crisp white eyeliner (or a contrasting colorful shade) because celebrity makeup artist Patrick Ta, who works with the likes of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Dua Lipa, Camila Cabello, and Gigi Hadid, predicts nontraditional eyeliner colors will continue to grow more and more popular. “Cream and white eyeliner are going to be huge,” he says. “Especially for those who are afraid of a traditional black liner, this trend will be a great introduction!”
We like how sharp and crisp white eyeliner looks with long, fluttery lashes. Try the trend for yourself in a low-risk, low-commitment way by using NYX White Liquid Eyeliner ($5). Even though it’s only $5, the tip allows for precise application, and the formula is smooth and opaque.
If not white eyeliner, 2020 is going to see a continuation of 2019’s colorful eyeliner trend. “Pastels and neons are also going to be big, especially when worn with contrasting shades,” Ta says. Try pairing pink with red, blue with orange, or any other contrasting combination of color. “Post-Euphoria everyone is feeling a little adventurous, and I’m here for it!“
According to celebrity makeup artist Monika Blunder, who works with the likes of Amanda Seyfried, January Jones, and Gemma Chan, 2020 will also usher in a resurgence of classic makeup looks and products (yup, 2020 will be a year that juxtaposes the traditional with the trendy). “Classics are huge right now, and they will continue to be in 2020! A classic red like Clé de Peau Beauté Lipstick Cashmere in Legend ($65) will never go out of style and will be making a bold appearance in the New Year,” she says.
That’s good to hear because even though we absolutely love experimenting with shape and color, we couldn’t part ways with our classic red lipstick or sharp winged liner if we tried.
Another trend that Tilbury predicts will continue on into 2020 is a softly illuminated complexion. Unlike the strobe looks of yesteryear, this trend is all about a soft, lit-from-within radiance. “Glow will never be out of trend, but for 2020 I feel like highlighting products and complexion boosters are really going to get amped up for the ultimate flawless glow,” she says.
As for which products she recommends using in order to achieve that radiant “I just returned from a two-week vacation in the Maldives” sort of glow, Tilbury says she’s crazy about Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood Flawless Filter. “It’s a customizable complexion booster that you can use on its own, underneath foundation, and as a highlighter… In the New Year, everyone is trying to look fresh and dewy and glowing, and this is such an easy way to achieve that trend!”
“We’re also going to see that glow on the eyes, lips, and cheeks,” Tilbury continues. “For a couple of years, matte lips have been huge, but gloss is really making a comeback. I often finish a lip look with a slick of Lip Lustre ($22) or Superstar Lips Glossy Lipstick ($34) on top to add a plumper-looking, sumptuous finish with a gorgeous mirror-like shine. Everyone has to try it!”
With so many people becoming more aware (and concerned) about what they’re putting on their skin, expect to see a lot of emphasis on skincare-makeup hybrids in 2020—products that offer color pay-off with good-for-skin ingredients. “There’s less attention to color but more on skincare as part of your makeup routine,” Blunder says. “Consumers are more aware of the ingredients and quality of their beauty products. It’s very common for someone to do research ahead of buying or trying anything. For brands, it’s extremely important to note this and only serve clients with the best. Brands like Clé de Peau Beauté do this effectively and reformulate existing products to only incorporate the most sought-after ingredients.”
Now let’s talk about coverage, because although we’ve seen a rise in opaque, ultra-matte makeup formulas in recent years, Ta says 2020 is all about light and airy options. From foundation and concealer to blush, highlighter, and beyond, your 2020 mantra should be something along the lines of the lighter, the better. “I think sheer, more natural products are going to be the focus this season,” he says. “Less is definitely more for spring 2020.”
Deenihan agrees that natural-looking complexions will be en vogue. “I’m seeing a major return to skin that looks like skin—a cleaner, more realistic complexion,” she says. We’re really taking a step back from faux-looking skin that peaked in popularity over the last couple years.”
In 2019, we saw a huge influx of sustainable beauty brands, and we’re here for it. These brands are conscious of their environmental strain, thereby committing to the reduction of unnecessary waste, often housing their products in plastic-free packaging. Some even give back to environmental charities, supporting ocean clean-ups, recycling programs, and other admirable efforts. Deenihan and Ta know that this is more than just a passing trend. As such, they predict sustainability will continue to be a serious topic of discussion in 2020 and beyond.
“Conscientious product development and sustainable sourcing is becoming non-negotiable in the industry, and I’m happy about it,” Deenihan says. “Brands are definitely becoming more aware of the impact they are leaving on the earth and (most!) are doing their best to reduce it. It’s the only way.”
“I am all for green and sustainable beauty,” Ta continues. “It’s been a huge topic at the Patrick Ta Headquarters so look out for a shift from us. But I’m currently loving Honest Beauty and Kosas; they do a really great job at bringing awareness to this global issue, while still keeping their marketing trendy!”
On that note, we’re currently loving Kosas 10 Second Eyeshadow ($28). It’s a liquid formula that has an effect like watercolor paint, drying down to create a gorgeous, imperfect finish. Try the blue shade, called Nitrogen, to take part in the aforementioned blue trend.
