Enter your ~fall fashion~ era with our October/November issue. Kylie Cantrall shares how she basically manifested joining the cast of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Plus: Curate your spooky szn aesthetic, plan the cutest date, our curly hair crash course, a fabulous Friendsgiving and the secrets to serious self-care. Best served hot with your pumpkin beverage of choice.
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girlslife.com • WHAT’S TRENDING THIS OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER…
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Fall Reads Giveaway • Your October is about to be booked. Enter to win these terrific titles every day on girlslife.com.
Fall Fun and Freebies • Time to (pumpkin) spice things up before the year is over. Your November must-do’s, straight ahead…
Here’s what happened when we gave Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso our BFF quiz • The actresses play besties Agatha and Sophie in Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil (out Oct. 21), but their real-life friendship might be even more magical—and their answers absolutely prove it.
A FALL TBR FOR YOUR FAVORITE LITERARY TROPE • POV: You just finished your bestie’s latest #BookTok rec and you’re looking for a new novel. Just choose your book mood and snag a page-turner that matches your reader-girl aesthetic.
How to have a perfect Halloween • (according to everything pop culture ever taught us)
Lilia Buckingham is all in on spooky season
YOU’RE A WHOLE MOOD
A HERO COMES ALONG • When you’re making your fall shopping list, be sure each of these key pieces is represented, k? You’ll be set ’til spring.
Building your beauty toolkit
FEAR FACTOR: BEAUTY EDITION • Your biggest hair/nail/makeup phobias? Yeah, they’re about to become your new go-to’s. Watch and learn…
Just curly girl things
THESE ARE the best acne treatments (ever) • LET’S CLEAR SOMETHING UP (AHEM, YOUR SKIN).
Your dreamiest first date? Right this way… • {You have the amazing bae. The cutest fit. The perfect place. But you’re still nervous that, tbh, it’s all going to be a little awkward. Time to toss those worries and actually, you know, enjoy that one-on-one time with your S.O.}
So, *this* is how you flirt… • Is bae picking up on your subtle signals? Follow along to reveal how you hint at your heart.
This is a sign to get over your crush
Dear Carol
Psst: WE’VE GOT THE SECRETS TO YOUR STRONGEST FRIENDSHIP
THAT ANNOYING Sister Sitch? CONSIDER IT SOLVED • You heart your sis, quirks and all, but she can pluck your last nerve like literally no one else. We’re digging in on how to fix these common quarrels.
Say byeee to Bad Days
Confessions OF A RECOVERING PERFECTIONIST • LET’S START BASING OUR SELF-WORTH ON WHO WE ARE, NOT WHAT WE DO.
Are you burned out? • Learn how to spot the signs before you start to struggle.
Kylie calling Cantrall’s future is …and she’s picking up.
Are you a go-with-the-crowd GIRL? • WHEN IT COMES TO BEING ON YOUR OWN, DO YOU SPREAD THOSE WINGS? OR ARE YOU MORE LIKELY TO FOLLOW YOUR CREW? ANSWER THESE Q’S FOR THE BIG REVEAL.
LET’S GET MANIFESTING
PLEASE DON’T CALL ME • ALENA ANALEIGH WAS JUST 13 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WAS ACCEPTED TO MEDICAL SCHOOL THIS YEAR. AS AMAZING AS THAT IS, THERE’S WAY MORE TO THIS INSANELY IMPRESSIVE FUTURE DOC THAN JUST BEING SMART.
Brighter days are ahead • Nearly half of high schoolers reported feeling sad or hopeless in the past year. Here’s why so many are struggling—and how you can get help.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR BOOB QUESTIONS, ANSWERED • Your boobs are like a pair of besties you’ll spend your life with—breast friends, if you...