The days of meticulously picking your top-eight friends and spending hours learning HTML to decorate your profile are long gone, but they will never be forgotten. One of our favorite things about our ...

According to Steve Wilhite, an inventor on the original team that created the GIF format, the very first GIF was of a plane. That GIF, though, seems to be lost in the mists of time, so here is another ...

Thanks to social media, more people than ever are using makeup as a form of self expression and extension of their creativity. As a result, many have turned to glitter and face gems to help their ...

St. Louis speller Gokul Venkatachalam is rolling through the National Spelling Bee, nailing words like "aggrandizement" and "smellfungus." But he caught our attention not for the words he's spelling, ...

At the 2025 New York City Marathon, runners wore glitter as a confidence-boosting accessory. Here, racers share how a little sparkle got them through the course.

The image went viral almost immediately: Jesús Orta Martínez, Mexico City’s security minister, shrouded in a sparkling shock of hot-pink glitter, his irritation barely concealed. Pink glitter, first ...