Fiorella Valdesolo

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Contributing Editor at WSJ. Magazine

words person. [email protected]. In time you’ll drop dead and I’ll come to your funeral in a red dress.

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Articles

The 'Femininomenon' Leading Pop Music’s New Beauty Era

2 weeks ago | 10magazine.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

After the last golden gramophone was handed out at the 2018 Grammy Awards, it wasn’t the ceremony that was trending on social media. With only one woman (Alessia Cara) earning a major award, it was the hashtag #GrammysSoMale that made headlines. But seven years on, artists like Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, et al are leading a Femininomenon, ushering in a woman-led pop renaissance.
Protein, Cottage Cheese, & Weightlifting Are Inundating Algorithms

4 weeks ago | bustle.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

As 42-year-old influencer Caitlin Murray put it to her 1.8 million Instagram followers last month, “Protein is your church now.” Murray is the woman behind Big Time Adulting, which lampoons midlife and motherhood in equal measure. “Listen up, dumb*ss, because everything you thought you knew about health and fitness has changed now,” Murray says in one video, deadpan and sitting in the driver’s seat of her car. “‘Calories in, calories out’ — what, did you ride your dinosaur here?
The Supplement Industry Is Coming for Your Vagina

1 month ago | allure.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

OB-GYNs are fighting for our vaginal health over on TikTok. In one video, Staci Tanouye, MD, scans a crowded feminine hygiene aisle saying “no” to every single option. Another clip shows Karen Tang, MD reacting to Kourtney Kardashian’s brand Lemme’s vaginal health gummies with “You…don’t need these.
The necktie is back in style for women, and it means business no matter who wears it

1 month ago | theglobeandmail.com | Fiorella Valdesolo
Can This $860 Helmet Fix Your Hair Loss? The Scalp Treatments Gaining Traction Now

1 month ago | wsj.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

How head spas, plasma injections and red-light therapy are promising to fix everything from baldness to dandruffForget the face. The newest beauty treatments are inching way up past your hairline. In January, Hanare, a Japanese head spa that offers deep-cleansing, massage and acupressure scalp treatments opened in Brooklyn. By March, would-be-clients faced a long wait list. In Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, the startup Great Many arrived last summer selling hair growth and restoration treatments.
Is Fat Grafting the New Filler? Plastic Surgeons Explain

2 months ago | marieclaire.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

Hollowers and saggers. That’s how TV plastic surgeon Dr. Paul David slickly explains the two paths of the aging face to Carrie Bradshaw when she finds herself (and her own aging face) unwittingly subject to his scrutiny on an episode of And Just Like That. The surgeon may have been faux, but his interpretation was not; real MDs agree that as the face ages people tend to either lose volume (hollowers) or experience increased laxity (saggers), and yes, sometimes both.
Is Fat the New Filler?

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Hollowers and saggers. That’s how TV plastic surgeon Dr. Paul David slickly explains the two paths of the aging face to Carrie Bradshaw when she finds herself (and her own aging face) unwittingly subject to his scrutiny on an episode of And Just Like That.
The Places That Made Us

2 months ago | furthermag.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

When David and Kavi Moltz first launched their fragrance brand D.S. & Durga, the tagline was Perfume as Armchair Travel. Seventeen years on, the original tagline is gone, but the sentiment remains. For David, a self-taught perfumer who conceptualizes and studiously constructs each fragrance, and Kavi, a trained architect who conjures all of the brand’s design, visual branding, and retail spaces, each scent is its own world, alluding to places great and small, far-flung and familiar.
The New Wedding Trend? A Used Dress.

2 months ago | wsj.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

When Hunter Claire Rogers, 36, head of membership at Soho House in Nashville, was looking for something to wear to her 2024 wedding in Edinburgh, Scotland, she initially hit the local Nashville bridal salons, again and again. “I’m from the South so I felt obligated to try on all these modern looks, but none of them felt exciting or different enough,” said Rogers.
I Got the NAD+ IV Infusion Drip Beloved by Celebs and Finance Bros

2 months ago | allure.com | Fiorella Valdesolo

The first time I heard mention of NAD (pronounced “nad” not “N-A-D” by its evangelists) it was from the mouth of Joe Rogan. Ergo, I eye-rolled and moved on with my life. But then it started popping up in my social feeds. It was being used as a verb (excuse me, you’re what-ing?) on podcasts that I actually like, and it was being name-dropped (or, ahem, NAD-dropped) by humans whose opinions I value.