In this edition of Ask the Office Guy, Dan has advice for finding out if your S.O.’s an SOB (Remember to take it with a grain of salt, because this tactic is as downright evil as it is effective.)
Got a question for our office guy? E-mail him at theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.
Sometimes in parenting you want need a no-fail, crowd-pleasing “Free Bird” moment.
We’re giving you three. Our DIY bubble party elevates the humble bubble to new levels. It doesn’t matter if you’re mixing it up on a front stoop or throwing down in the backyard — we promise your kids’ minds will be blown.
Odds are you have most of the materials on hand already: dish soap, water, a plastic water bottle, washcloth, rubber band, kiddie pool, and Hula-Hoop. Dress for slippery, wet fun.
They’ll beg for an encore.
Follow your bubble party with a backyard dream day and a DIY bird feeder.
Who doesn’t love a makeover? We have a fresh look, and we hope you’re as jazzed about it as we are.
Join chief correspondent SuChin Pak and style makers such as Alison Pincus of One Kings Lane, Christian Leone of Vaunte, and NBC’s 1st Look’s Ali Fedotowsky for a tour of the new features that make DailyCandy sweeter than ever.
We think you’ll love ’em.
It’s easy to be jealous of Tori Praver: She looks like a goddess even without makeup, is engaged to pro surfer/model Danny Fuller, lives half the year in Hawaii, and helms an eponymous swimwear line.
And yet you can’t help but love her. In today’s video, the easygoing, down-to-earth beauty showed us around her ocean-inspired home and introduced us to her 4-month-old daughter, Ryan.
We’re drooling over her insane art collection (Schnabel, Hirst, what?), the handmade feather mobile in Ryan’s room, and her lush green backyard.
It matches our envy perfectly.
To shop Praver’s latest collection, go to toripraverswimwear.com.
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Some nights you just want to stay inside, watch Clueless, and stuff your face. In this video, SuChin has a few items to make your evening that much sweeter.
This week’s picks are available at samorenyc.com, alderandcoshop.com, and dailycandy.com (we’ll show you how to make the DIY face scrub).
Most people reserve head-to-toe leopard print (socks included) for Halloween.
Lina Plioplyte is an exception.
When the Lithuania-born filmmaker dresses in full-body spots, she gets photographed by The Sartorialist.
In today’s video, we head to the street style superstar’s Brooklyn neighborhood to get the lowdown on her three favorite outfits — and attempt to uncover how she makes her Clarissa Explains It All-meets-Iris Apfel look work.
We’ve watched Plioplyte turn heads while behind the camera at multiple DailyCandy videos in the past, so when a group of high school boys asked for her digits during this shoot, we were hardly fazed.
She’s the cat’s meow.
To see Plioplyte’s work, go to teenagepeanut.com. Want more street style? Cast your vote in our contest to find the most stylish city in the country.
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Wedding season is in full force (we’re sure your wallet is aware). In today’s video, SuChin has a dress, hair accessory, and nail polish that you can wear to all of them.
This week’s picks are available at pritinyc.com, bhldn.com, and jenniferbehr.com. For more of SuChin’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel.
Travel the world. Photograph well-heeled, beautiful people. Chronicle adventures. It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it.
That someone is Yvan Rodic, the brains behind go-to street style blog Face Hunter. In this 5 Questions with SuChin Pak video, we go behind the lens, learning everything from how Rodic chooses his subjects to his opinion on the most stylish city in the world (you’ll be surprised).
Rodic also fills us in on his latest book, Travels with Face Hunter, a picture diary of a year in his fabulous, jet-setting life.
He really took one for the team.
Travels with Face Hunter is available at amazon.com, $17. To read his blog, go to facehunter.blogspot.com. Want to keep watching? Check out our interviews with actress Anna Chlumsky, nutritionist Kimberly Snyder, singer/songwriter Emeli Sandé, and supermodel Coco Rocha.
Don’t dread swimsuit season. Embrace it with two new suits and a cover-up (that also works as a dress), picked by our woman about town.
This week’s finds are available at marahoffman.com, geronimocollection.com, and opheliaswimwear.com.
In the spirit of full disclosure, we have a bit of a thing for Lisa Loeb. “Stay” is our go-to karaoke jam. We were frame junkies long before Warby Parker. And we embrace (and at the same time completely reject) our place in Generation X.
Which is why we geeked out when she visited our NYC office to perform from her latest kids’ book and album, Lisa Loeb’s Songs for Movin’ & Shakin’.
Since she rocked our world in 1994, Loeb has released eight albums, starred in two reality shows, launched an eyewear collection, founded a nonprofit, and become a mom.
Her latest fam-friendly effort combines tunes, activities, and a ten-song CD that are guaranteed to get you and your kiddies off the couch and dancing your pants off.
Who’s the slacker now?
Available at barnesandnoble.com, $15.
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What’s the new little black dress? The little black bag that goes with everything. In this video, SuChin shares three that you’ll want to buy right now.
This week’s picks are available at cloudcloudny.com, gargyle.com, and nastygal.com. (The Nasty Gal bag is restocking in July; sadly, it was so popular it sold out right before this video went up.) For more of SuChin’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel.
Max from across the street got a new swing set. Nora from around the corner plays in a custom-designed tree house.
Your kid? Tell him the grass is greener in his own backyard.
Turn your turf into a kid-friendly oasis with these four easy projects. A plastic container becomes buried treasure. A soda bottle morphs into a sprinkler. Bed sheets pull double duty as a fort. And graham crackers and ice cream make your lawn the most popular one on the block.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, neighbor.
Don’t have a yard? Try turning your living room into a drive-in movie theatre.
Here’s a (laughable) piece of trivia: One of the most recognizable kid actors of our generation later became a fact checker at Zagat.
Actress Anna Chlumsky originally invaded our hearts playing Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl. These days she works alongside a motley White House crew as Veep’s Amy Brookheimer.
In today’s 5 Questions with SuChin Pak, Chlumsky fills in the gap between now and then, from what it was like to be a kid actor to who makes her laugh the hardest on the Veep set. She even tells us what it was like to prom-hop in high school.
You’ll probably notice she’s got a bun in the oven (a little lady due this summer).
A.k.a. her girl.
To watch full episodes of Veep, go to hbo.com. For more interviews, check out our videos with model Coco Rocha, actress/writer Mindy Kaling, nutritionist Kimberly Snyder, and singer Emeli Sandé.
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Summer is almost here, which means a host of fun new beauty issues (sweat and sun, hooray). Sarcasm aside, in today’s video, SuChin has three recommendations for keeping your skin soft and healthy all year long.
This week’s picks are available at australianscent.com and drugstore.com. For more of SuChin’s obsessions, check out her favorite videos on our YouTube channel.
It might be the cheesiest date query ever, but sometimes the answer can be telling. In this Ask the Office Guy, the Foursquare dudes tell us which critter sends their hearts soaring. For more wisdom, check out their answers to “What’s a good new date spot?,” “What’s the best pizza in New York?,” and “How can I get a guy’s attention online?”
Have a question? Email theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.
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What matters more: picture or text? In this Ask the Office Guy, the Foursquare dudes weigh in. For more advice, check out their answers to “What’s a good new date spot?,” “What’s your spirit animal?,” and “What’s the best pizza in New York City?”
Have a question? Email theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.
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’Tis the season for triumphant returns: Arrested Development, Twinkies, and Winona Ryder (our resident movie expert swears it), to name a few.
Also back in business: our Ask the Office Guy video series. For today’s installment, we went to the Foursquare offices and asked the following hard-hitters: What’s a good new date spot (above)? What’s the best way to get noticed online? What’s the best pizza in NYC? And, finally, what’s your spirit animal?
We’re going to different offices every few weeks, so, please, submit your questions. And in case you missed it last month, we got Mashable’s hilarious editorial director to tell us when to follow a new guy on Twitter, online-dating red flags, and who’s single at his office.
We hope you’ll come back for more.
Have a question you want answered? Send it to theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.
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Pies are serious business in the Big Apple. In this video, Foursquare guys tell us their favorite place to get a slice. For more wisdom, check out their answers to “What’s a good new date spot?,” “What’s your spirit animal?,” and “How can I get a guy’s attention online?”
Have a question? Email theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.
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SuChin isn’t joking when she says she loves shoes: Her nickname is sometimes “ShoeChin.” In this video, our correspondent shows off her three favorites for the season.
For more great kicks, check out our editors’ 31 picks. To get your hands on the featured products, go to gucci.com, stevenalan.com, and zara.com.
Cosmetics can hold transformative power (see: any thousand-page slide show of celebs without makeup).
In today’s Pretty Smart video, Jenine Pizza, brand manager at Beauty Addicts, teaches our beauty editor, Jennifer Jackson, basic methods of contouring (a.k.a. using makeup to enhance your bone structure). All you need is bronzer and foundation to achieve a more defined jawline, slimmer nose, and higher cheekbones.
The best part? It takes about a minute max. The results are noticeable, but not over the top (read: no foundation chin straps here).
Getting stared down never felt so good.
To buy any of the products Pizza uses in the video, go to beautyaddicts.com. For more beauty tips, check out our videos on covering a blemish, doing a cat eye look, and tweezing your eyebrows.
Warby Parker is the Cara Delevingne of eyewear brands. In this video, co-founder Neil Blumenthal shows our editor Lauren Lumsden the new sunglasses created just for DailyCandy Collaborations.
To buy the sunglasses, go to dailycandy.com/collaborations.
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