Want to Smell Like Donuts? Beauty Brands Think You Do

But in 2023, we moved from food-inspired aesthetics to actually wanting to look like food, with trends like cinnamon cookie butter hair, blueberry milk nails, and glazed doughnut skin. Today, anything goes: Velveeta hair dye, dill-pickle-flavored lube, and Hellman’s parfum de mayonnaise—the rule seems to be the more unhinged, the better. For millennials and zillennials,…

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LG M4 TV Review: A Beautiful Wireless OLED

The color palette is wide-ranging and realistic, and the LG manages to look vivid and energetic even in low-light scenes. Edge definition is smoothly realized, and depth of field is quite prodigious at times. Even the most testing motion is handled without alarms, and in the moments of highest crisis the M4 keeps artifacts and…

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WiiM Amp Pro Review: Name a Better Network Amp, We’ll Wait

The Amp Pro also plays nicely with Alexa Cast, Google Cast, Spotify Connect, and TIDAL Connect, in addition to being Roon Ready and DLNA-compliant. It can access an absolute stack of music streaming services, internet radio providers, and what-have-you accessible via the WiiM Home app that’s free for iOS and Android. The app itself can…

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Most Satisfying New Pickup Trucks

The pickup trucks below are the compact, midsized, and full-sized models that most satisfy our members, according to their responses in our latest Annual Auto Surveys. They’re ranked in order of their owner satisfaction rating, starting with the best, by category. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, and not every truck is recommended because…

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Under-the-Bed Storage Options to Help Banish Clutter

Decide What You Want Under the Bed“Consider what you want vs. need to store underneath—the frequency of use, accessibility, and space constraints,” says Jeanie Engelbach, professional organizer and founder of Apartmentjeanie. “If the plan is to extend the storage capacity of your wardrobe, then you want category-specific storage rather than bigger containers that hold more.”…

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5 Home Organizing Mistakes and What to Do Instead

Parting with items is never easy, but the reality is, not everything you own deserves to remain in your home.  “The biggest organizational mistake I see is when people have more stuff than space to house it,” says Elese Denis, founder of Denis Organization. The fix here is to reduce the amount of clutter and…

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Best Bassinets of 2025

What Features Should You Keep in Mind When Buying a Bassinet?According to CR’s Muratore, you’ll want to consider the stability of a bassinet before you purchase one. If it’s set up at a store, she says, push down on the sides, as if you were a toddler attempting to reach into it, and see if…

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New TV Technology Coming in 2025

In typical fashion, in 2025 companies will be touting tech advances to improve both picture and sound in TVs. Most though, will be iterative improvements, such as LG’s G5 OLED TVs, which use a new brightness booster technology that replaces the Micro Lens Array (MLA) tech used in previous flagship models. Samsung’s top sets get…

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Best Gas Clothes Dryers of 2025

Gas dryers represent 21 percent of the dryer market in the Northeast, 25 percent in the Midwest, 21 percent in the South, and 33 percent in the West, according to OpenBrand’s consumer-reported survey. Gas dryer demand on coasts is typically higher, considering states like Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, and Rhode Island pay some of the…

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