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Kathleen Hou

New York

Beauty Director at ELLE

beauty director at @ellemagazine. formerly at @thecut.

Articles

  • 18 hours ago | elle.com | Kathleen Hou

    Since bursting into our lives and becoming a household name in 2022, Julia Fox has become a never-ending source of perfect quotes. Of effort: “75 percent of life is just showing up for yourself and the things that count.” On ambition: “I think to get anywhere you want in life, you have to be a little bit delusional.” “Getting old is fucking hot,” she declared in another video.

  • 1 week ago | elle.com | Kathleen Hou

    In ELLE’s series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke with Courteney Cox. For years, Cox brought happiness into people’s homes through her longtime role as Monica on Friends. More recently, she’s been doing it as the founder of the home care brand Homecourt, which takes an elevated approach to everyday products, such as your dishwashing detergent and cleaning spray.

  • 2 weeks ago | elle.com | Kathleen Hou

    If the Inuit are said to have 50 words for snow, then there are just about as many words and phrases for the pursuit of youth in beauty: Anti-aging, dewy, glowy, tight, bouncy, smoothing, firming, volume, lifting, filling, collagen, anti-wrinkle, texturizing, poreless, softening, rejuvenating, elasticity. But lately, a somewhat surprising word has reemerged: Fat. There have been some clues that a certain type of soft fullness, especially in the face, is having a moment.

  • 2 weeks ago | elle.com | Kathleen Hou

    When I was a girl, I wanted to smell like a woman. I sought out perfumes that had Lady or Woman in the name and scents that were deemed classics by magazines. As a teenager, I once wore one of these legendary fragrances to church, and my mother was so horrified by how strong and grown up it smelled that she banned me from wearing perfume on Sundays. Now, as a woman, I want to smell like a girl (and I wear fragrance on any day of the week that I desire).

  • 3 weeks ago | elle.com | Kathleen Hou

    There’s a $65 candle inspired by a unique feeling (and it’s not love). Scented with bamboo and thyme blossom, it’s meant to capture the euphoric sensation of arriving home after a long day and flinging off your bra—move over, Baies, it’s all about Braless. That elusive feeling is difficult enough to evoke in a candle, but a surgery?

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