Alex Beggs

Alex Beggs is a Senior Editor at Bonappetit.com, where she writes about food, booze, old ladies, and show tunes. She moved to New York from Texas in 2006 and only drops "y'all" after her third tequila.

The Extras

How To Find The Perfect Perfume Based On Your High School Scent

Did you wear Clinique Happy? Tommy Girl? Pink Sugar? Meet their modern equivalentsRead more >

The Review

The Latest Innovations In Bathing That Are Worth Your Time

Whether you want to smell like a millionaire’s underwear drawer or scrub away all of your demons—we’ve found just the bath product for youRead more >

The Technique

The Weekend Deep Clean

For your face, for your body, for your apartmentRead more >

The Review

A Pumpkin Spice...Mask?

Peter Thomas Roth’s pumpkin enzyme mask is everything a pumpkin spice latte isn’tRead more >

brow-month

A Complete Taxonomy of Eyebrows

Highbrow, lowbrow, thick brow, thin brow. A celebration of eyebrow shapes in all of their arched glory!Read more >

The Extras

Dopp Kits Are Your New Sidekicks

Throw out that five-pound makeup case, and embrace the travel-size dopp kitRead more >

The Experience

Camping Essentials To Keep You Relatively Clean & Nice-Smelling

Camping is about letting go—but a little waterproof mascara never hurt anybodyRead more >

The Review

Resveratrol: Wine For Your Face

A look at the magic ingredient that makes wine so good for you, and what happens when you jam-pack a face cream full of itRead more >

The Extras

The Best Of Trader Joe's Beauty Products (& Their Snack Counterparts)

Because if you're going to wait in that line, you may as well check multiple things off your "To Buy" listRead more >

The Review

Don't Forget Hand SPF

Because why shouldn't you treat all body parts as if they're just as important as your face?  Read more >

The Review

What Exactly Does New York Smell Like?

Putting Bond No. 9's neighborhood-themed scents to the test in a game we'd like to call "Scratch and Sniff: Chinatown"Read more >

The Extras

How Dry Is Your Face? This Pen Will Tell You

The latest in magic-wand technology for your face is a meter that measures the moisture in your skin, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Kiehl's storeRead more >

The Review

Smell My Hair: The Best-Smelling Shampoos

We judge dozens of hair cleansers by the one thing we all secretly care a lot about: scentRead more >

The Review

The Lip Stain Game

In which one woman attempts to find a color that stays put through cups of coffee, burgers, beer, a burrito...Read more >