Glamour USA (June 2016)
Language: English
Pages: 158
ISBN: 2:00363017
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Overview: Glamour is a magazine that translates style and trends for the real lives of American women. Our award-winning editorial covers the most pressing interests of our 12.4 million readers: from beauty, fashion and health to politics, Hollywood and relationships.
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at all: The flavors of their food, the boldness of their design, and the occasional outlandishness of their clothing all attest to a people who are unafraid of the avant-garde and the defiantly odd. And yet Japan is not a place where you see women walking around in crop tops and short shorts: There you express yourself by what you do wear, not by what you don’t. But there is one arena in which the Japanese shed all modesty, and that is the bath. As anyone who is familiar with the country knows,
the bath, which can sit anywhere from two to 16 people. And the entire time, of course, you’re naked. And in public. It’s the stuff of classic nightmares come to life. Extended periods of public nakedness are difficult for even the most confident among us, but they are excruciating for those of us who, like me, would rather not show our bodies to anyone. By the time I got to the bath—like all ofuro, it was steamingly, almost unbearably hot, so hot that I had to inch into it lest I pass out—I was
simply women enjoying a bath together, and what we shared in that moment was the pleasure of being alive and of being fortunate enough to be sitting in that delicious heat and feeling the water on our skin. I nodded and smiled at the other women, and they nodded and smiled back. I don’t speak enough Japanese to say what I wanted to—“Oh, how wonderful this is; how lucky I am to feel this!”—but I didn’t think I needed to: We all of us already knew. Hanya Yanagihara is the author of A Little Life.
most perfect sexual moment? 17. If I were to give you oral, what exactly would you like me to do? when I feel you getting exasperated when it’s taking me too long to come. I get this guilty feeling of “Why am I taking so long?” and automatically shut down. I can tell you’re annoyed. STACEY: I don’t get annoyed! JENNI: You sigh and stuff. STACEY: I do not! JENNI: Maybe your “cues” are 99 percent in my head. STACEY: More like 100 percent. Next question: Do you think we have less sex than our
body deserves the same TLC as your face. Our current skin-hydrating obsession: Borghese Fango Ristorativo Restorative Mud Mask for Face and Body ($73, borghese.com). On Ratajkowski: Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh turtleneck. Versace briefs. On Jonas: Neil Barrett tank. Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh jacket. Outdoor Voices shorts. Cartier necklace. George Frost bracelet. J ust three years ago the Jonas Brothers were still a boy band, and the world had not seen Emily Ratajkowski morph from background
