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Go All-Out for Your Next Holiday Party Sparkle with extra sparkle.

By Sarah Spellings

I Love The Holidays!!!!!

A week dedicated to holiday excess.

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All I Want for Christmas Is Something Price Upon Request
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16 Fancy Pajamas You Can Wear to Parties
By Indya Brown
9 People on Wearing Glitter Lipstick in Real Life
By Kathleen Hou
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How This Rockette Gets Her Skin So Good Plus, her stage make-up essentials.
By Daise Bedolla
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Jill Kargman Talks Being on TV And Surviving Breast Cancer On this week’s How I Get It Done podcast episode.
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By Anna Silman
What Can The Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots Teach Us About Sex? In pre-modern times, same-sex intimacy was an accepted part of the culture. 

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Gift of the Day: Earthy Cookware For the budding master chef in your life.
By Diana Tsui
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All I Want This Christmas Is to Bathe in Hermès Bubble, bubble, no toil or trouble.
By Kathleen Hou
over easy
Behold: The Cut’s Holiday Cookie Competition The highs, the lows, and the matcha.
By Madeleine Aggeler

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Style

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The Best-est Party Looks of the Week One awe-inspiring look from every fête that mattered.
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See New York’s Sparkling Holiday Windows Bergdorf Goodman, David Yurman, Tory Burch, Macy’s, and more.
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Go All-Out for Your Next Holiday Party Sparkle with extra sparkle.
By Sarah Spellings
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Gift of the Day: An Alpaca Wool Blanket Give the gift of coziness.
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The Shopper

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A Modernist Apartment With Dazzling Views Nancy and John Novogrod loved their Park Avenue home — until they discovered this classic ’60s gem overlooking the East River.
By Wendy Goodman
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All I Want for Christmas Is a Replica of My Own Head Here’s how much it would cost.
By Emilia Petrarca
they seem cool
The Creative Who Turned Her Wedding Rings Into Gold Teeth She also starred in a Rihanna music video.
By Sarah Spellings and Diana Tsui

Power

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Three Days With the Women of the Migrant Caravan The Cut went to Tijuana and spoke to five women fleeing poverty, domestic abuse, and gang violence in Central America.
By Anna Silman and Sarah McVeigh
reading the signs
Melania Trump’s Blonde Bombshell As ever, the First Lady says one thing and performs its opposite.
By Rhonda Garelick
power
By Stacia Brown
Jazmine Headley and the Danger of Mothering While Black It’s strange to feel heartened when someone who should never have been arrested is released. 
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35 Gifts for Every Type of Employee
By Alison Green
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Hear the Stories of Women Who Traveled With the Caravan This week’s episode of The Cut on Tuesdays podcast.
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How Much Does It Actually Cost to Give Birth?
By Charlotte Cowles
how i get it done
Comedy writer Megan Amram of The Good Place on drinking too much coffee, becoming a L.A. caricature, and how Twitter changed her career

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Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of December 10 Mercury moves back into Sagittarius this week.
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This Candle Is Going to Make Me So Rich Is spending money on a magic money-making candle dumb or genius? 
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It’s Complicated: I Had My First Date at 28 On learning how to start from scratch.
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‘Do I Really Want to Hurt My Baby?’
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scent memories
Natasha Gregson Wagner recently added a new fragrance, La Rose, to the line inspired by her late mother, Natalie Wood. Based on the roses her mom kept in their garden, the realistic scent smells freshly picked thanks to a mix of rose essence, geranium, and heliotrope. The Cut spoke with Wagner about the smell of dog paws, hamburgers, and oil on canvas.
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The Writer Sexting Internationally and Ignoring Alarm Bells This week’s sex diary.
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The Real Sex Lives of Historical Queens In pre-modern times, same-sex intimacy was an accepted part of the culture.
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Culture

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The Grinch Is … Totally Kind of Hot? His heart is an empty hole. 
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I Think About This a Lot: Holiday Edition
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history
Did Mary, Queen of Scots Really Wear All of Those Earrings? Investigating a costume-drama mystery.
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you know what i heard
Is Taylor Swift’s Very Private Boyfriend Ready to Propose?
By Allie Jones
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Is Khloé Really Going to Have Another Baby With Tristan? And more in this week’s celebrity gossip column.
By Allie Jones

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How Did Larry Nassar Deceive So Many for So Long? Everyone believed the predatory trainer who may have just brought down USA Gymnastics.
By Kerry Howley
11/9/2018
We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn’t The making of a white-nationalist poster girl.
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9/27/2018
What a Good Boy In the end, Brett Kavanaugh proved that he’s exactly what Republicans want for the Supreme Court.
By Rebecca Traister
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Serena Williams and the Game That Can’t Be Won (Yet) What rage costs a woman.
By Rebecca Traister
8/19/2018
Tessa Thompson Knows People Can’t Stop Thinking About Her She’d just rather you think about her work than her personal life.
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Sonoya Mizuno Doesn’t Just Want to Dance A conversation with the ballerina-turned–Crazy Rich Asians star about representation and following your gut.
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7/3/2018
Marisa Tomei Knows What She’s Worth A frank conversation on money, beauty, and sticking with work you love.
By Stella Bugbee
6/29/2018
Summer of Rage White men are the minority in the United States — no wonder they get uncomfortable when their power is challenged.
By Rebecca Traister
6/7/2018
Meet Jorja Smith: The Soul Singer Who Turned Down Drake “Maybe I am a bit of a siren.”
By Allison P. Davis
6/4/2018
Time’s Up, Bill Is Bill Clinton the only one who doesn’t realize he needs to join the #MeToo reckoning?
By Rebecca Traister