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Tryvertising: The beauty of trying before buying

BEAUTY PRODUCTS COME with a price, but not with a warranty. Unlike gadgets and gizmos or appliances and clothes, vanity items, once bought, are considered sold, regardless of whether the lipstick suits your skin tone or the toner causes breakouts.

Super natural

By Noel Vera

DVD Review
The VVitch
Directed by Robert Eggers

Young users ‘guinea pigs’ for new wave of drugs: EU watchdog

PARIS — Young drug users risk ending up as “human guinea pigs” for a new wave of sometimes highly-toxic recreational drugs, the European Union’s (EU) drug monitoring body warned in a report released on Tuesday.

Using art to raise environmental awareness

By Camille Anne M. Arcilla

WATER is supposed to be clear. But when it gets dirty, it becomes a medium of art.

The 10 books you need to read this summer

By Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View

IF YOU are anything like me, you are probably looking forward to delving into several new and recent book releases that could make for pleasant beach reading.

Luxury brands struggle to attract Internet generation

SAN FRANCISCO — Seducing hyper-connected millennials poses an increasing challenge for luxury brands, which find their markets slowing as young, skeptical consumers force them to rethink strategies.

TechnoMarine brand ambassador Xian Lim on ‘living deep’

By Camille Anne M. Arcilla

FOR ACTOR Xian Lim, time management may not be an easy task, but he is still up for that challenge.

‘Tourists go home’: Spain tourism surge brings backlash

PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN — On the walls of the grand old houses of this Balearic port which attracts millions of foreigners every year, a new kind of graffiti has flourished: “Tourists go home.”

What to see this week

6 films to see on the week of June 3-10, 2016

YA novelist Jennifer Niven makes fans cry

By Camille Anne M. Arcilla

WHEN YOUNG ADULT novelist Jennifer Niven went to the Philippines, she cried as much as her Filipino fans did when they finally met.

Have time, will hike

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

Book
Day Hikes and Nature Walks from Manila
By Gideon Lasco

Sexually active? Read this.

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Reporter

Cervical cancer can happen to any woman who is sexually active, and women are becoming sexually active at a younger age. The good news is that it is easily preventable.