Montecristo Magazine

1 week ago | montecristomagazine.com | Amanda Ross

Josie Maran Body ButterModel Josie Maran has spent a lifetime querying makeup artists about clean skin-care products that wouldn’t harm the planet, but she kept coming up empty. In 2007, she finally solved the problem when she launched her eponymous Josie Maran beauty line at Sephora, the retailer’s first clean luxury beauty brand. Her exclusive cold-pressed argan oil became the industry’s first single-ingredient luxury face oil.

1 week ago | montecristomagazine.com | Aileen Lalor

When I tell Lindsay Housman about the time a running-shoe specialist analyzed my daughters’ feet and told them they’d inherited my unprepossessing trotters rather than my husband’s, she laughs. Hettas, the Vancouver-based shoe brand she co-founded, is predicated on the notion that women’s feet are different from men’s, and that they therefore may need different running shoes . So naturally my tween girls’ feet would be somewhat like mine. “I’m a lifelong recreational athlete.

2 weeks ago | montecristomagazine.com | Yasmine Shemesh

The only way through was to write. It was the only way to process the loss and the ensuing disorienting grief—the only way to face it completely. Despite the numbness that blurred out the days around when his father passed away, Miguel Eichelberger remembers that part clearly: “Whatever comes next, whatever I’m feeling—doesn’t matter what—I want to stare nakedly at it, and I want to understand it,” he thought.

3 weeks ago | montecristomagazine.com | Barb Sligl

In head and shoulders,she was like a lion,in back and tail, a snake, and inthe middle,a she-goat, and she breathed adreadful blastof blazing fire. This is the Chimera in The Iliad, as translated by classicist Emily Wilson. Legend says the fire-breathing monster ravaged the people of Lycia, was slain by Bellerophon astride Pegasus, and lives on in metamorphic flames on the steep slopes of southwestern Anatolia in modern-day Turkey.

3 weeks ago | montecristomagazine.com | Paloma Pacheco

In late June 2021, a deadly heat dome swept through Western Canada and the Northwestern United States, killing thousands of people and animals, collapsing infrastructure, and shattering temperature records across the region. British Columbia saw more than 600 heat-related deaths, and several fires sparked across the province. One of those fires, which ignited just outside the village of Lytton, in B.C.’s Interior, was so powerful that it quickly burned 90 per cent of the town to the ground.