Erin Flaherty, Shine staff’s Blog

By Erin Flaherty, Shine staff Last updated: Thu Jul 3, 2008 9:14pm PDT

About This Author

Erin Flaherty is a freelance writer, blogger and former Jane magazine Senior Editor who is obsessed with talking about your love life. She’s waxed philosophic about sex, beauty, fashion, pop culture, travel and art to publications such as New York Magazine, Allure, Elle, Marie Claire, Details, ID, Shape, Page Six Magazine, Men’s Fitness and Ladies’ Home Journal. She’s also been a talking head on VH1, Full Frontal Fashion, E!, a bunch of random news and radio shows, and quoted as an expert in WWD and The New York Times among others. If all of this sounds really serious, please keep in mind that her hobbies include freestyle Frito pie making, traveling the far reaches of the globe to learn about foreign beauty products, holding “beer tastings” at her house and playing with her puppy, Violet. She spends her time between New York City and Providence, Rhode Island, where her true love is finishing grad school at Brown. [Portrait Photography: Emily Nathan]