Oh no no no. That apricot scrub is so bad for you - the shell pieces in there are jagged and will create microtears on your skin. I use it to exfoliate my legs before shaving, but never on my face.

And if you need to exfoliate, go with a gentle chemical exfoliant instead. Better for your skin and or the environment.

I love Reynolds, but I've always gotten the feeling that judges don't like him - even the commentators during the team event were like, "Yeah, he's very shy and it comes through in his performances," which is true (but I find it appealing nonetheless). His elements are much stronger than Plushenko's, but as a…

Don't you know that there can only be one successful woman at a time? Don't worry, next year they'll be tearing down Lupita in favor of whoever the new it girl is.

Child of Russian immigrants here. Our list is so drastically different - I'd say the Russian triple package for success is 1. materialism driven by having parents who grew up under communism, 2. pressure to show up your parents' friends' kids and generally be the best at whatever it is you do well (whether that be…

I actually think Jennifer Lawrence is striking because she doesn't actually have a conventionally "hot" face. She and Amy Adams both sort of look like a slightly more glamorous version of a normal person in your office or gym. I end up wanting to stare at their faces when they're onscreen, whereas someone like Olivia…

Meh. It was fine, but the routine she performed wasn't going to place unless Kostner seriously fucked up (or maybe they didn't count on Lipnitskaya performing so flawlessly during her very first event). The degree of difficulty in Mao Asada's routine was higher than Wagner's, and the difficulty of your various…

Can we just, like, have a quick moment of solidarity? Russian-born, American-raised, and getting really sick of the American media's shit right here.

Sssh. Don't disrupt the Gawker Media anti-Russia circlejerk.

Hey, did you know that it's possible to be critical of Putin/the Russian government/the IOC without falling back onto tired and frankly offensive stereotypes of those wacky Russians with their dashcams and toilets that don't flush? Putin and his billionaire cronies are not representative of the average Russian, and as…

Is there something wrong with having a nice/positive-sounding term for very pale skin when it actually applies to the person, though? I'm all for embracing the skintone you were born with (especially since it sounds like you'll get cancer either way, tanning or bleaching) but for some people, that happens to be very…

I fall between a 2-4, and according to my doctors I'm pretty damn healthy. I'm also 5'2", and I have sort of a broad but compact frame for my size so I don't think I come across as looking super thin. I'd have to drop a lot of weight to be medically underweight, since right now I'm somewhere around 110 and I've just…

You really have - he's been one of my favorite actors for ages. IMO he's up there with Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Giamatti in terms of middle-aged actors who consistently choose great projects and give fantastic performances. Capote, Doubt, The Master, The Savages, Synechdoche New York... just years on years of great…

Dear god, where? Please name restaurants. I haven't had a good steak taco since I moved here from California.

Well, I could conceivably be described as "soft, pale and sweet." Thanks for saying I'm not cute, I guess.

Rihanna doesn't write her own songs, though. This video is still a performance, regardless of how you interpreted the lyrics.

I'm sort of on the fence in this regard, really. I'm a bisexual woman, and performative lesbianism (as well as all lesbian porn ever, aside from Abby Winters videos) does nothing for me. As a hard femme who is mostly into andro and soft butch girls, I'm rarely attracted to the type of women who tend to engage in it…

My ancestors never owned slaves, as everyone in my family lived in Russia up until the 1990s and most of my extended family spent the 20th century getting killed in death camps. Do I owe anyone reparations? Pls advise.

Starting right now, no one whose ancestors did something bad is allowed in the Jezebel comments section. If you're not constantly apologizing, you're not intersectional enough!

I think it's less a judgment on her acting ability and more a reference to the fact that she has appeared in a lot of really poorly-reviewed, awful romantic comedies. She's kind of the poster child for them, at this point - even Kate Hudson had Almost Famous, and Cameron Diaz had Gangs of New York, but Heigl hasn't…