YES to sunscreen always. Buy no moisturizer without it, buy no foundation without it.

Sunblock, sunblock, sunblock ALL THE TIME. SPF is the only true anti-aging product.

I love you. But I also hate you? I want to be mistaken for a college student! Some guy ma'amed me like 8 times yesterday.

I don't think it's typical to have forehead wrinkles at 34 whether or not there are good genes in play, unless one frowns or is perplexed a whole lot. I feel I'm fairly average, though very thin-skinned, and I didn't start seeing any wrinkles until after 40 ... and I wasn't a sunscreen-wearer. Sunscreen is still a…

I'll second the HELL NO. I'm a 31 year old attorney, and my hair is well below shoulder length. There are plenty of other female attorneys whose hair is even longer, and absolutely no one cares (and law is a notoriously conservative profession).

I despise the rule that women over "insert age" should not have long hair. Luckily, I'm blessed with thick wavy Italian hair, I have 4 kids, and have always rocked my long hair. I'm 52 and it's at my waist. When said kids were little, braids, ponytails, buns, etc. Same for work. I get the most compliments on my…

Why won't the police shut down Hudson University???

I also recommend Glossybox fwiw :)

Um...EVERYWHERE!

WANT.

Definitely Glossy! If you don't want to spend $21 on a box, go with Birchbox for $10, but I recommend spending the extra money for Glossy. You get bigger and better products. Also, Ruelala is having a Glossybox sale right now where you can get Glossy for $15 for one month or $95 for 6 months, so it's a good time to…

Birchbox and Glossybox tend to be heavier on the skincare. All the boxes tend to have a mix, but Birch and Glossy are skewed a little more toward the skincare side, while Ipsy goes heavier on the makeup.

Full Disclosure: I did not care for The Casual Vacancy. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. I do admire Rowling for leaving Harry Potter and going out of her element (and by the way I LOVE her "Robert Galbraith" mysteries). But I will watch this because I want to see what they do with the material. There are…

This is a fabulous new feature and I'm looking forward to your future posts. History and cosmetics are two of my favorite things. Kudos! I appreciate how well researched your work is.

Millihelen needs to get you to write pieces on vintage fashion. I want to read more about things you've learned!

I love makeup, I love history, and I adore this post! Thanks for the awesome article!

YES PLEASE. I'm currently patiently applying daily coats of the purple Sally Hansen stuff that my BFF (who has perfect nails) recommended. I want to have grownup nails too!

I love Millihelen commenters so much. It's all just product recommendations and compliments and flowered leis and I'm just really, really into it

Seconding Dr. Brandt—while he looks like an alien (just google him, he's terrifying), his products are effective—and Dior. Dr. Brandt Dark Spots No More is fantastic and so is Dior Capture Totale (both—there's one for the face, and one for the eye).

I get very frustrated reading reviews of skin care products, because many people don't include the very vital information if their age range, skin type, sensitives and also what goals they'd like to achieve with their skin care, if applicable. A 28 year old with oily acne prone skin is not going to benefit from the…