Mercey Livingston is a health and wellness writer and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She's written about fitness and wellness for Well+Good, Women's Health, Business Insider, and ...

It finally happened: the Instagram algorithms got me. After months of scrolling past the same targeted ads for long-wear gel nail polish “stickers” that promise to leave you with a salon-quality ...

Just stick, file and cure — in that order.

After churning through one too many SNS manicures in the year leading up to the pandemic, my nails were left thinner and more brittle than they’d ever been. So, when salons across Australia were ...

Manicures used to be part of my “before” life: before I had kids, before the pandemic shuttered nail salons, before I learned about the questionably toxic ingredients in nail polish. I had pretty much ...

I have become an incredibly lazy beauty lover. The pandemic hasn’t done the downward trend any favors. Even getting my hair done is a chore, even though I love the outcome. Suffice it to say, nails ...