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Valentine's Month

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Is It Just Us? Or Are the Single Cat Ladies Happier?

As more single women proudly embrace their lifestyles, we’re reexamining the relevance of the age-old insult once used against them.

By Annabel Iwegbue and Photographed by Rona Liana Ahdout
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5 Makeup Looks to Wear on Your Next Date

By Beth Gillette and Photographs by Kim Sun Hye
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It Seems Like All the Black It Girls Are In Love

By Annabel Iwegbue
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Cosmo Couples: In Love in Barcelona

By Maxwell Losgar and Photographed by Charlotte Yonga
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Found: The Chicest Valentine's Day Nail Ideas

By Jasmine Hyman
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Stay Informed

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How to Properly Post About ICE In Your Area

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How to Protest ICE Safely

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Why People Say TikTok's Censoring Anti-ICE Content

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How to Support Those Impacted By ICE Raids

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2026 Grammys

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The Sound of Now Is Emotional—and That’s the Point

Join Cosmopolitan inside music’s biggest weekend with Universal Music Group.

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Inside the Grammys Afterparty You Didn’t See on TV

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Kelsea Ballerini Looked Golden at the 2026 Grammys

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Our Grammys Faves Look Adorable in These Polaroids

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BTS of Cosmo and Pandora’s Pre-Grammys Dinner

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In love with love?

Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett unpacks dating trends in her new love newsletter.

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February Horoscopes

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Your Aquarius Monthly Horoscope for February 2026

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Your Taurus Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Aries Monthly Horoscope for February 2026

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Your Gemini Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Capricorn Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Virgo Monthly Horoscope for February 2026

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Your Libra Monthly Horoscope for February 2026

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Your Pisces Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Scorpio Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Cancer Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Leo Monthly Horoscope for February

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Your Sagittarius Monthly Horoscope for February

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Gender's New Era

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What I Learned From Trans Fitness Influencers

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Accepting Anger Helped Me Embrace Being Nonbinary

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How I Learned to Love Being a Girl

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What It's Like Finding Pleasure After Gender-Affirming Surgery

Cover Stories

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Sydney Sweeney Knows You’re Going to Have a Lot to Say About This

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The Tale of Taylor and Tay Lautner

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Meet the Cast of Rachel Sennott’s ‘I Love LA’

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Cosmopolitan Cover Star Ariana Greenblatt Logs Off

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Madelyn Cline and KJ Apa Call Bullshit

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Love & Relationships

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The Perfect V-Day Date Does Exist!

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Why So Many People Are Cutting Off Their Parents

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I Thought I Was Asexual—Turns Out, I Was Just Having Bad Sex

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This Is the Worst Day of the Year to Be Single

Editor-Approved Shopping

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Leather Perfumes Get a Bad Rap—but I’m Convinced It’s the Sexiest Perfume Note

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Paige DeSorbo’s $13 Hack for Wearing Painful Shoes

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Can A Pheromone Perfume Help Me Find Love?

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I’m a Tech Editor Who Found February’s Best Deals

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Inside Cosmo Editors’ Beauty Storage Solutions

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Book Exclusives

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Former Bachelor Producer is Sharing Her Side of the Story

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Tomi Adeyemi Reveals Her Next Novel

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Kerri Maniscalco Has Some Big News to Share

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Melissa de La Cruz's ‘Sibylline’ Excerpt Delivers a Special Life-Changing Letter

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Your First Look at Caty Rogan's ‘Kissed by the Gods’

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Read Sasha E. Sloan's First Chapter of ‘The Ruins Beneath Us’

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Read the First Chapter of Bsrat Mezghebe's Debut

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Petra Lord's ‘Queen of Faces’ Excerpt Will Get Your Heart Pumping

Beauty

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The Habit Experts Say is Ruining Your Lips

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5 Easy Ways to Prevent Chapped Lips This Winter

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This Rose Perfume Is My Ultimate Compliment Magnet

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Beachy Waves Were the Main Event at the Grammys

Blind Date

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Madeline Argy Joins Cosmo’s Blind Date

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Chad Michael Murray Joins Cosmo's Blind Date

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JaNa Craig Joins Cosmopolitan's Blind Date

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Giveon Has a Theory About Being Friends With an Ex

Cosmo Quiz

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It Girl Quen Blackwell Takes the Cosmo Quiz

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Margaret Qualley Took the Cosmo Quiz Between Films

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Cole Escola Had Too Much Fun With the Cosmo Quiz

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Actor Chase Sui Wonders Takes the Cosmo Quiz

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Manny Jacinto Gave Me Marriage Advice

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Nicholas Alexander Chavez Gets Into It All

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The Cosmo Centerfold: Anora’s Mark Eydelshteyn

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Caleb McLaughlin Thinks Love Should Be Adventurous