Life + Culture

Russ Simon Beauty Studio

Beauty Redefined Article and Photography by Celebrity Makeup Artist and Lash Guru, Russ Simon is a true leader in the beauty industry. With his unrivaled, time-tested techniques, Russ innovates with every brush stroke.  At the all new Russ Simon Beauty Studio, Russ continues to offer Xtreme & Mink Eyelash Extensions, waxing, full makeup services, and eye brow design in an upscale and modern boutique.   The studio also hosts a collection of his favorite makeup brushes, colors, skincare, and...

Style + Beauty

Color Me Seen

Dee Pineau used to hide in black. Now she helps women see what was always there. Article by Marshall Zweig | Photography by Amy Gillespie For a long time, Dee Pineau didn't want to be noticed. An engineer in corporate America, Dee found herself looking at herself on Zoom during COVID, and thinking, I don't look great.   "I was wearing a lot of black," she says. "I wanted to fade into the background. I was just kind of unhappy with where I was. ‘Don't look at me’." It's a feeling she hears...

Home + Design

The Good Stuff

The furniture Amanda Burgess-Proctor restores has history. So does she. Article by Marshall Zweig | Photography by Amy Gillespie When it's dark outside and the lamps are on, that's when it feels right to Amanda Burgess-Proctor. That's when the 1923 bungalow on 14 Mile returns to what it's always been, the word she goes back to time and time again in our conversation: a home. This is Dee Dee's Fine Vintage, where everything has a past… and some things, Amanda will tell you, have a way of...

Life + Culture

Interesting All The Way Through

Amy builds our magazine like her photographs: seeing what others miss Article by Marshall Zweig The first thing Amy Gillespie looks for when she raises a camera isn't the subject. It's everything behind the subject. “In every shot, there’s a foreground, a middle ground, and a background," she says. "I make sure something is interesting all the way through the frame." She learned it from meeting National Geographic photographer Sam Abell. Abell was known as the quiet photographer; his...