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20-05-2025
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If You Have $15 And You're In The Mood For A New Skincare Treat, Check Out These 25 Reviewer-Favorite Finds
L'Oreal illuminating moisturizer infused with glycerine and shea butter — if you're looking to add a lightweight alternative to your thick foundation and want an extra *glow*, then you're gonna adore this! Reviewers say it's basically like if Glossier's Futuredew and Drunk Elephant's Bronzing Drops had a brilliant, beautiful skincare baby. A paraben-free self-tanner with a mousse texture so you can apply the product evenly (unlike thicker lotions that leave distinct lines behind). Use this if you'd rather not look like you spent all winter hibernating in a cave. And an exfoliating mitten lots of folks love for preventing ingrown hairs, reducing KP, and smoothing out their skin before applying tanning lotion. Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Moisturizing Face SPF 60 Serum that'll do its very darndest to protect your skin (without a white cast) no matter how much you're out in the sun this summer. Reviewers rave about using this as a priming moisturizer. Any way to sneak some SPF into your makeup routine is a real win. My pasty self is buying this as we speak. Seriously. Nyx's Lip IV Hydrating Gloss Serum for people who are sick and tired of their lip glosses lacking color, their lip balms lacking interest, and their lipsticks drying out their lips. This acts as a gloss, lip stain, and balm all in one for up to 12 hours of happy, hydrated, and good-lookin' lips! E.l.f.'s Holy Hydration! Thirst Burst Drops, frugal reviewers have excitedly compared to Glow Recipe's $35 Watermelon Dew Drops. If you'd like to see your skin bright and plump with a *chef's kiss* dewy glow, this is gonna be your favorite stuff! It's lightweight enough to wear alone or apply under your makeup. Bless. Elizavecca's carbonated bubble clay mask that'll exfoliate your skin and banish blackheads (according to reviewers). The selfie potential of this face mask alone Gold Bond's firming neck and chest cream — whether you've noticed your neck skin practically hanging on for dear life thanks to that darn gravitational pull or find your décolletage creased in the center from side sleeping, the glycerin and aloe in this formula can give that delicate skin some much-needed hydration, while the salicylic acid can gently exfoliate dead skin cells. Reviewers say patience is worth it with this one, so give your body time to soak it all in and enjoy those results! Cerave eye repair cream, which is cooked up with their famous blend of ceramides (a skincare "secret sauce" if you will) and a healthy dose of hyaluronic acid to boost hydration and niacinamide to help tighten and brighten the appearance of skin. If you're revitalizing your skincare routine, add this to the mix and reduce the appearance of dark circles, under-eye puffiness, *and* fine lines. ~Eye~ love to see it. Or Good Molecules Yerba Mate Wake Up Eye Gel that'll be beloved by people who drink up yerba mate like it's water from the actual fountain of youth. And that's not the only powerful ingredient this gel has to offer! It also boasts three unique forms of hyaluronic acid to moisturize and revitalize the skin under your eyes. There are no dark circles here, my dear! A hyaluronic acid serum — this can save your dry skin thanks to its *intense* hydrating properties that improve a dry complexion's softness, smoothness, and ability to retain moisture. I feel soothed just thinking about it. Etude's Dear Darling Water Tint, with a luxurious vitamin and berry formula, that'll be exactly what you want if you prefer a "no makeup" makeup look that also doesn't FEEL like you have makeup on. This nourishing (and smudge-free!!) mix is comparable to Benefit's Lip Tint and is designed to look super natural. Not only is it super moisturizing, but it doesn't need a harsh wipe or cleanse like other lipsticks, which is a *real* gift to the super thin skin on our lips! The Face Shop's facial foaming cleanser formulated with rice water to help brighten, cleanse, moisturize, and remove your makeup all at once. If you like the idea of having *one* skincare product that does it belongs in your bathroom. A bottle of Bio-Oil, beloved by many a skin-having human, made with a powerful blend of moisturizing oils and vitamins that'll aid in fadin' scars you'd rather have bippity-boppity-boop off your body. A caffeinated butt mask that'll wake up your skincare system if you've been a bit behind on your routine lately. These potent masks are designed to tone and smooth your cheeks with just a 15-minute mask sesh! A tattoo aftercare salve to make both colored and monochrome tattoos look out-of-this-world lovely. This soothes, protects, and enhances the look of your ink, both fresh and faded. A Revlon volcanic stone face roller that'll absorb excess oil on your face as you swipe it away *without* ruining your makeup. Now that this exists, there's no better product to have in your bag when the summer sun brings back your extra oily skin. Oil blotting sheets WISH they were this sexy. Keep your makeup looking great all day with this OG TikTok beauty sensation. Catrice "Instant Awake" Under Eye Brightener (made with a *chef's kiss* mix of hydraulic acid and shea butter), which became a knockout success once reviewers started raving en mass about the product's instant invisible coverage. If you're looking for quick and easy results that suggest you don't even require come to the right brightener. A glazed donut Lanolips lip balm because if it really chaps your hide (my Grandma's favorite phrase, Hi Grandma!) when your lips are chapped during allergy season, then you need to be using a healing combo of lanolin oil and vitamin E to moisturize and nourish that extra thin skin. This is also recommended for cuticles and cracked heels! Olay Super Serum Body Wash (the body wash version of Olay's cult favorite facial Super Serum) — this is so soothing it's basically gonna feel like giving your dry skin a niacinamide-forward bottle of red, with notes of shea butter and a whiff of collagen peptides that'll treat your ~full body~ to 24-hour hydration. Ahhh, drink that all in. PanOxyl Antimicrobial Hydrating Acne Creamy Wash — if you've been hoping their OG foaming wash worked on your sensitive skin, they heard your wish! Not only is this great on sensitive skin, but it'll also help clear up acne-causing bacteria on your whole body! It's designed to clear up existing acne and prevent further breakouts by deep-cleaning your pores. A gift! Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Daily Skin Therapy reviewers with cracked heels, elbows, and knuckles say it works fast without aggravating their sensitive skin. If you want your skin to feel Disney-princess smooth for the first time in forever, then let this stuff give you the 48-hour moisturizing protection you deserve. Rael "Miracle Invisible Spot Cover" Pimple Patches for anyone who thinks the best skincare treat they could possibly give themselves is pimple patches that don't shout, "Look over here at this vacuum-sealed pimple bursting from my face!" These have the same hydrocolloid formula for relieving the redness, swelling, and pus from breakouts *without* the usual show-and-tell. Eos' Shea Butter Vanilla Cashmere body lotion sure to be the TikTok obsession you *too* are about to be obsessed with. This lightweight formula provides a soothing and long-lasting moisture barrier so your skin feels silky. Which is great, as it's what we want lotion to do, but people are also losing it over how great this comparing the scent to $$ brands like Philosophy. Nice. A set of "Golden Glow" under-eye gels made with a 24-karat gold collagen formula that'll ease the look of dark circles and bags under your eyes and make your skin look positively ~golden~.
Metro
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Metro
CIA official's son killed fighting for Putin took childhood rebellion to extreme
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video How does the son of a top CIA official go from non-binary globetrotting eco-anarchist to cannon fodder in Vladimir Putin's army? That's the question being asked after Michael Gloss, 21, died fighting for Russia in Ukraine, three months after his mother, Juliane Gallina, was appointed a deputy director at the USA's foreign intelligence service. Gloss, a former lacrosse player using 'they/he' pronouns in his social media profiles, appeared aligned with the eco-friendly ethos of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. 'Michael had a heightened sense of fairness, and saw those in our community who are unseen and unheard — whether they were people, or animals, plants or streams', his family said in an obituary. 'He wanted the world to be a better place with more fairness, peace and harmony with nature. In his brief life, he built houses in Honduras, he restored buildings in Türkiye destroyed by earthquakes.' At university, Gloss studied the relationship between humans and the environment. He scaled the balcony at a party. He joined a range of protests. He was even arrested for disrupting a Washing DC baseball game during a protest against climate change in July 2022. A month earlier, he joined a rally supporting abortion rights. He shared a photo of himself at the protest with the caption: 'How are you gonna explain to your kids that you did nothing when democracy fell?' Within two years he would die fighting for a dictator. What happened? Like many young Americans following the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality, Gloss adopted an 'all cops are bastards' attitude post-2020.. Identifying himself as an anarchist and anti-fascists, Gloss's social media posts accused the ruling classes of using mainstream media to turn people against each other. Democrats and Republicans were all alike, Gloss believed, bringing 'doom no matter whom'. But the American flag Gloss set on fire in April 2022 didn't just symbolise rebellion against what he saw as his country's malign power – it was a rebellion against his own family. 'He was the ultimate antiestablishment, anti-authority young man the minute he came into the world', his father, Iraq War veteran Larry Gloss told the Washington Post. Gloss's mother and father both served in the US Navy. Juliane Gallina, the first woman to be a Naval Academy brigade commander, spent much of her career working in military intelligence. Since January 2024, she has been the CIA's Deputy Director for Digital Innovation. Gloss's father Larry won a medal for her role in the US-led invasion of Iraq in the 1990s, before heading up a cybersecurity company. His clients include the US government and other NATO countries. If the 21-year-old Gloss were still alive, he might say his parents worked for the 'military industrial complex'. That was the language he used when he finally started posting about the war in Ukraine on social media in 2023. First the mentions were subtle. 'All cops are bastards as far as the eye can see… #abolishNATO #endukrainewar #antifascismo', Gloss captioned a collection of pictures he took of anti-fascist graffiti in Italy in March 2023. By this point, Gloss had dropped out of university to travel around Europe. He went to a folk festival in the Balkans, he got a job in a factory in Turkey. He adopted aliases – like Hamza Ali and Itthobaal – grew his hair long, sported a beard, and started wearing bandanas. Periodically he would post more pictures of anarchist graffiti. 'F**K Nazis', he said while posing next to some on a wall in Istanbul. But Gloss increasingly had a particular image in mind when he imagined 'Nazis'. One of his last posts on Instagram was a meme post showing 'five examples of successful rebranding'. Four were straightforward logo upgrades for Google, Lego, Starbucks and FedEx. The fifth showed the swastika flag of Nazi Germany morphing into Nato, a military alliance formed primarily by countries that defeated the Nazis. 'Zoolenskyy (he is an animal) turned the Ukrainian population into ground meat for military industrial complex money', Gloss said. 'Cozied up to war criminals @whitehouse #clusterbombs Simply bcuz western #capitalist #imperialism cannot profit without the ethnic cleansing of a minority people group.' Russia's President Vladimir Putin has sought to portray Ukraine's government as captured by Nazis, and his own invasion of Ukraine as a mission to 'de-nazify' Ukraine and stop its takeover by Nato. Putin's gas-guzzling anti-LGBT+ and anti-abortion brand of masculinity might have stood in stark contrast with Gloss's own politics, but he appeared to buy the propaganda. 'He started thinking about going to Russia', an acquaintance told iStories, an independent Russian news outlet. 'He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspiracy theory videos.' Exactly why Gloss wanted to go to Russia is uncertain. He claimed various things – he wanted to learn Russian through immersion, he wanted to gain Russian citizenship, he wanted to reduce food prices with an environmental project. Whatever the true reason, Gloss crossed the border from Georgia to Russia in August 2023. He travelled around the country for a while, raising a Soviet flag over a hut he built himself out for branches at a festival near Moscow. By September, Gloss had joined the Russian military, serving alongside Chinese and Nepali mercenaries. By December, he had been sent to the front. By April, his unit was advancing north of Bakhmut. Within days, he was dead. 'Massive blood loss' from an artillery barrage was the official cause on his Russian death certificate. 'It was absolutely news to us that he was involved in any military relationship with Russia', his father said. Despite his mother's role in the CIA, the agency said the circumstance of Gloss's death is 'not a national security issue'. Gloss's obituary was almost a euphemism, with no mention of how or why he died. It said: 'With his noble heart and warrior spirit Michael was forging his own hero's journey when he was tragically killed in Eastern Europe.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: What happened to the third chair at Trump and Zelensky's Vatican meeting? MORE: Royal Navy alerted after Russian warship spotted in the English Channel MORE: Controversial Russian satellite involved in nuclear row is 'spinning out of control'
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CIA deputy director's son KIA after enlisting in Russian military
April 26 (UPI) -- U.S. citizen Michael Gloss, 21, died a year ago in Ukraine while a member of the Russian military and deployed in Ukraine. Gloss was the son of CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Juliane Gallina and Larry Gloss, who is a U.S. Navy veteran, the New York Post reported. Larry Gloss attributed mental illness and a desire to create a water purification system in Russia to his son's enlistment in the Russian military. "One of the manifestations of his mental illness was grandiosity," Gloss said of his son. "He always cared about the environment. He always wanted to take care of those disadvantaged [and] less able." He said Michael Gloss wanted to become a Russian citizen to pursue his desire to create an effective water purification system and viewed enlistment in the Russian military as the fastest way to earn citizenship there. An obituary published on April 4, 2024, said Michael Gloss had a "noble heart and warrior spirit" and "was tragically killed in Eastern Europe," the New York Post reported. After enlisting, he was assigned to Russia's 137th Ryazan Airborne Regiment, where he served alongside mostly Nepalese citizens who also enlisted in the Russian military. A CIA spokesperson on Friday confirmed Michael Gloss died while fighting in Ukraine but did not say for whom he was fighting, NBC News reported. "CIA considers Michael's passing to be a private family matter for the Gloss Family [and] not a national security issue," the spokesperson said in a prepared statement. "The entire CIA family is heartbroken for their loss," the spokesperson said. "Juliane and her husband shared that 'we adored our son and grieve his loss every moment.'" Michael Gloss in social media posts made last year sympathized with Russia in what he called a "Ukraine proxy war." He called news coverage of the Ukraine war "Western propaganda" and said Russia's military was "slaughtering" Ukrainian soldiers. Gallina is a technology and cybersecurity expert who has worked for the CIA for many years and was promoted to her current post last year. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and was the first woman to lead a brigade of midshipmen while enrolled at the academy.
Hindustan Times
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Was Michael Gloss mentally ill? Top CIA official's son killed while fighting for Russia, his father breaks silence
A CIA spokesperson claimed Friday that the son of a top official in the agency passed away last year in April 'while fighting in the conflict in Ukraine.' Michael Gloss, the son of CIA deputy director for digital innovation Juliane Gallina, lost his life, the spokeswoman stated, after a Russian news site stated that the 21-year-old American had enlisted in Russia's military. Gallina and her family 'suffered an unimaginable personal tragedy in the spring of 2024 when her son Michael Gloss, who struggled with mental health issues, died while fighting in the conflict in Ukraine,' according to the CIA spokesperson, NBC reported. However, Gloss's side of the conflict at the time was not mentioned in the statement. 'CIA considers Michael's passing to be a private family matter for the Gloss family — not a national security issue,' the spokesperson said. 'The entire CIA family is heartbroken for their loss.' 'Juliane and her husband shared that 'we adored our son and grieve his loss every moment. We appreciate privacy at this difficult time',' the spokesperson added. Last year, Michael Gloss posted on social media a picture of himself grinning on Red Square in Moscow and said he sympathized with Russia's military operation against what he referred to as 'the Ukraine Proxy war.' He said that news reports about the battle, which he referred to as 'western propaganda,' were hiding the truth about a struggle in which Russian forces were superior to a purportedly corrupt Ukrainian forces. Also Read: Was Virginia Giuffre suicidal? Her viral 2019 tweet resurfaces as angry netizens claim 'she didn't kill herself' Larry Gloss, the father of deceased American, stated that his was an anti-establishment activist who 'would not hurt a flea.' Speaking to The Washington Post, Gloss, a veteran of the Iraq War, that when the officials informed that their son had been killed, he and his family had no information about that he was fighting for Russia. Gloss further said Michael battled mental illness for the majority of his life. Larry Gloss told the Post that his son traveled to Georgia, a former Soviet country, where he participated a conference of the counterculture movement known as 'Rainbow Family.' The following month, he informed his parents that he had entered Russia to meet up with others from the group. His parents did not believe he would enlist in the Russian military, but they were dubious about the decision. After telling his parents that he intended to remain in Russia, Michael joined the Russian military in September 2023, according to iStories, which discovered a record of his enlistment in a Russian database. A Russian soldier in the 137th Airborne Regiment claimed to know Michael, who was deployed to the battlefront in Ukraine in December 2023 and allocated to an assault unit, according to IStories. Russian forces moved to seize the beleaguered fortress of Bakhmut, while the regiment's soldiers were positioned in the Donetsk region northwest of the city of Soledar. Citing the Russian death certificate, Michael's father stated that his son died on April 4, 2024, from severe blood loss sustained while attempting to assist a injured comrade during an artillery fire.
Express Tribune
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Son of CIA deputy director killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine
Michael Gloss, son of CIA deputy director Juliane Gallina, died in Ukraine as a Russian soldier. Photograph: Instagram Listen to article Michael Alexander Gloss, the 21-year-old son of a deputy director at the CIA, was killed in eastern Ukraine in April 2024 while reportedly fighting for Russian forces, according to reports on independent Russian media and NBC News. Gloss, the son of Juliane Gallina, CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, died on April 4, 2024. His family's obituary stated he died while 'traveling in Eastern Europe,' omitting any mention of the war or his ties to Russia. An investigation by Russian outlet Important Stories revealed Gloss had signed a contract with the Russian military in September 2023. Deployed to Ukraine in December, he served in an assault unit near Soledar, a hotspot of intense fighting. Raised in Virginia, Gloss had been active in environmental and gender equality movements during university. His acquaintances described a growing disenchantment with US policies, fueled by anger over America's support for Israel and radical content online. After volunteering in Turkey following the 2023 earthquake, Gloss traveled to Russia, where he joined the military, reportedly hoping to secure citizenship. The CIA confirmed his death in a statement on April 25, noting he had struggled with mental health issues. The agency emphasized that the matter was a private family tragedy, not a national security concern. It remains unclear whether Russian authorities knew of Gloss's family background. Moscow has increasingly recruited foreign nationals to bolster its forces amid battlefield losses in Ukraine. Gloss's story highlights the rare and complex case of an American, particularly the child of a senior US intelligence official, joining the ranks of Russia's military during its ongoing war against Ukraine. The CIA and the Gloss family have requested privacy during this period of mournin
