15 Signs Harry Styles Isn't Your Boyfriend

1. Your boyfriend did not try out as a solo artist on X Factor. Your boyfriend has never even made an appearance on X Factor. You're confident that if he had, his mom would have it DVRed and definitely would've made you watch it.

2. Simon Cowell has never handpicked him to be part of a boy band supergroup. In fact, your boyfriend was not even on the short list to join One Direction.

3. Your boyfriend has never posted this Instagram photo:

None of his pictures have gotten 1 million likes.

4. Taylor Swift has never written a song about breaking up with your boyfriend. You are almost certain your boyfriend has never had a romantic relationship with Taylor Swift. He has never mentioned meeting her.

5. Your boyfriend did not grow up in Holmes Chapel. When pressed for information on Holmes Chapel, your boyfriend responded, "Is that the church your parents go to?"

6. Your boyfriend has never appeared on an episode of iCarly. Not even as an extra, let alone a credited special guest role.

7. English DJ Lucy Horobin was never rumored to have an affair with your boyfriend. In fact, the Mirror has never published gossip about your boyfriend in any capacity.

8. No one has written fan fiction about your boyfriend and then been in talks for a movie deal. In fact, no one has written any fan fiction about your boyfriend. A quick Google search of your boyfriend's name just brings up his LinkedIn page and his time from a 5K he ran two years ago, but no steamy, fictional sex.

9. Ed Sheeran and your boyfriend are not good friends. You're certain Ed Sheeran does not know who your boyfriend is.

10. Your boyfriend has not gotten a butterfly tattooed on his chest. Although it's possible he may have had this tattoo at one point and gotten it laser-removed, the odds of that being true are highly unlikely.

11. Your boyfriend only has two nipples. Harry Styles has four.

12. Your boyfriend is not the youngest member of One Direction. Your boyfriend is not any member of One Direction.

13. Your boyfriend does not have a penchant for dating older women. The two of you are relatively close in age. If he has ever dated a series of women more than 10 years older than him, he has never admitted it to you.

14. You have never been slammed by millions of fans on Twitter for dating him. No one has tweeted mean things at you just because you are dating your boyfriend. In fact, you are pretty sure you're the only one who wants to date him.

15. You cannot purchase socks with your boyfriend's face on them. There are no clothing items with your boyfriend's face on them. No one has even made one-off shirts with featuring your boyfriend on Etsy.

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What Do You Do When Your Boyfriend Has a Terrible Apartment?

According to a recent survey by Rent.com of 1,000 people across America, 67% of people say that a nice apartment would make them more interested in a romantic partner, while 37% say a rude roommate is a deal breaker. Except for, maybe, in New York City, where a killer apartment can substitute for lack of chemistry and an intolerable living situation can almost be romantic when it’s the abode of a scruffily bearded Brooklyn hipster. I know from experience. Here, my collection of bizarre, unfortunate anecdotes of what happens when love (or, let’s be honest, lust) meets the weird world of New York City real estate:

Taking the Heat

I met a guy at a friend’s birthday, and we really hit it off. We had the same sense of humor, were both training for triathlons, and, most importantly, were both single. I was so excited when he asked me out … and then he dropped the location bomb: He lived in Long Island. I have enough trouble dating guys who live in Brooklyn, so the hour-plus commute seemed like a dealbreaker. But then he said he had a pool. I was sold. I said yes to the first date, and spent most weekends that summer hanging out in his suburban paradise while my Manhattan friends complained about the heat. When the first cold snap of fall hit, I dumped him. Without the need for a pool, it was just too far away.

Related: My Boyfriend Went to Jail, But I'm Still Doing Time

Let’s Get Loud

I was dating an amazing guy. The only issue? He had chickens in his Brooklyn backyard that woke me up every single morning. I asked him to stay at my place, but he had a dog who needed to be walked, so it didn’t make sense for him. Besides, he explained that after awhile I’d get used to the sounds of the chickens. He barely heard them. I don’t know what he was talking about, because even with earplugs, all I could hear was pre-dawn squawking, which by the way is far more annoying than any truck backing up or people screaming on the sidewalk. I tried to make it work, but after my fifth day nearly falling asleep at my desk at work, I had to break it off.

Love Thy Neighbor

I once lived in an awesome Brooklyn apartment with a really weird landlady. When I started dating John, I was surprised he lived right around the corner from my old place. My former landlady used to read my mail, clean my apartment without my permission, and now that I’d moved out, had started drunk texting me about her life. Once I started spending nights at John’s place, I was so afraid to run into her that I’d make us walk two blocks out of our way to avoid her. He thought I was paranoid. Luckily, I never ran into her while we dated, and when we broke up, I was almost sad that I no longer had that "will I see her drama" in my life.

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Love in the Living Room

I had been out on a few dates with this guy when he invited me back to his place. We were out at a bar with his roommates, so we all hopped in a cab to go back to their apartment in Astoria. When we got upstairs I immediately noticed that there was a twin bed in the living room. His roommates headed into the two legitimate bedrooms leaving us alone in his living room/bedroom/closet. Shockingly, he didn't find this embarrassing at all and even offered to put the twin mattress on the floor so we could hook up. No thanks, dude. I obviously didn't want to seem shallow, so I stayed for a little before sneaking out in the morning. I never answered his texts again.

Making Love Last

My sublet was running out and I had two weeks before I could move into my real apartment. I felt guilty, but I absolutely tried to force a relationship with the guy I was dating, even though I wasn’t all that into him. What I was into was his gorgeous Williamsburg loft. By the time the month was over, I had invited myself to live in his place for the two weeks between apartments. And once I’d moved to my new Upper West Side pad? I blamed the annoyingly long commute as the reason it would never work out.

Office Space

I met a cute Brooklyn musician and, after a few dates, headed back to his place to hook up. When I got there, I realized he lived in a loft with six other musicians. There were no rooms, but every guy had their own area divided up with five-foot high office dividers. The guys could easily see over the “walls," but that didn’t stop me from hooking up with him and spending the night. A few times during the evening, I knew some of his roommates were curiously peering over to see what was going on, but at that point, it was too late and too far for me to travel across Brooklyn and fall asleep in my own bed, so I dealt with it.

Roommate Issues

I dated a dude who lived with his female cousin. I didn’t think that was weird, since it was a big apartment that was owned by one of their relatives. But one day early in the relationship, when I was sitting in the kitchen, my therapist walked into the apartment. Turns out, in one of those absurd plot twists that would work in a romantic comedy but is just tragic in real life: My therapist was his cousin. They had different last names and it had never come up, because why would it? I ended up breaking up with both of them.

Three’s a Crowd

My boyfriend had an awesome apartment that was owned by him and his ex-girlfriend. She still lived there, and they had a good enough friendship that they’d decided to live together while they figured out the next steps. Most of the time, he came to my place, but one night, we were way closer to his apartment. His ex was watching a movie when we arrived, and she invited us to sit down on the couch and watch with her. And my boyfriend said yes! Maybe I was being paranoid, but I broke up with him the next day. I couldn’t imagine how they could stay platonic in such a small space, especially when they had the same taste in movies and a very small couch.

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"My Boyfriend Is Great in Bed, But I Always Fantasize About Adding a Girl to Our Fun"

Our sex and relationships columnist, Logan Hill, answers your most personal questions.

"I'm married, and one of my best friends is a guy. A couple of years ago we started sleeping together. We ended the sex and saved the friendship, and everything went back to normal. Recently we slipped up and have slept together a couple of times. Now things are weird and awkward. How do we save the friendship and go back to being just friends?"

It sounds like things are awkward because you’ve blurred the lines of your friendship too much and too often. Every time you blur those lines, it gets harder to remember where they were in the first place.

So why not dump the friend? Some friendships can’t be saved, and that’s OK: We’re not meant to be best friends forever with everyone. And sometimes it’s our best friends who enable our worst behaviors. (See: every Behind the Music ever.) You say you “slipped up” when you had sex with him — so it doesn’t sound healthy.

At the very least, go cold turkey for a while. Why not tell him you need four months or so to reset the friendship and that it can never happen again. Cut off all contact, earn your monogamy chips, and then grab lunch in the spring. It’s normal to drop out of touch with friends for a few months; sometimes it’s necessary.

My big question: Do you worry as much about your husband as you do about your friend with benefits? I’m guessing this isn’t one of those mutually respectful open marriages — or as I like to call them, mythical unicorn marriages — and if it isn’t, you’re playing with fire. A lot of people think that getting caught is the big danger, but the distraction can be just as dangerous: On those nights when you were with your fuck buddy, and on those days when you were obsessing over your affair, you weren’t thinking of your marriage, were you? I’ve had cheating friends talk about how they can’t behave normally with their spouses because they’re so riven with guilt; they talk about how they become distracted at dinner — or in bed — by thoughts of the secret drama they’ve created, and they say all those thoughts pull them further away from the person they loved enough to marry. And for what? Assuming you want to stay married, you may be focusing your attention on repairing a relationship with the wrong guy.

"I like to listen to music while having sex – like I love to listen to Lana Del Rey and get really into the sex I'm having – but my boyfriend says it makes him feel awkward and he can't concentrate. Should I just give up trying to make sex magical for myself?"

First off, I don’t hate Lana Del Rey like a lot of guys, but, even so, let’s be real: She’s more of a video artist, and that album came out in 2010. So if you’ve been putting Lana on repeat during sex for the last three years, it’s entirely reasonable for your boyfriend to lose his mind — and his erection. While you’re imagining yourself as Lana’s film noir femme fatale, he may, in fact, be feeling more like he’s in Clockwork Orange.

Even if Lana isn’t the problem, a sex soundtrack is just a matter of personal preference, and if you like it, don’t give up. Try to get him to meet you halfway: Buy a bottle of something strong and spend a night on iTunes together, crafting a better booty playlist. There are plenty of surefire boudoir balladeers out there — from D’Angelo and The XX to Kendrick Lamar and My Bloody Valentine — who would mix well with Del Rey and might be appropriate for your particular musical kink. Since your boyfriend is easily distracted, maybe he’d enjoy something in a foreign language (Sigur Ros, Serge Gainsbourg, Hector Lavoe, etc.) that he doesn’t understand? Or maybe he agrees with Tom Waits, who once said a romantic night calls for “something that’s not too interruptive, like elevator music,” in which case there’s a whole world of electronica, ambient music and moody film soundtracks that could take you somewhere “magical” too.

If this is truly an irreconcilable difference, you may have to buy him some earplugs. Or treat yourself to a nice pair of bluetooth headphones. (Kidding. Kinda.)

"I'm a straight female who has been in a two-year relationship. My boyfriend is great in bed, but I always fantasize adding a girl to our fun. Is it weird that I get turned on by females?"

Weird? I think necrophiliacs are weird. But this? I’ll put it this way: If you tell your guy that you want to have sex with him and another woman — and why not, if that’s what you want? — then I can think of a million things he might say. Nearly all of them involve some variation on “please” and “how soon?” Zero involve the phrase, “You’re so weird.” This may be the second-most common fantasy of even the most vanilla straight guy, ranking slightly below “Sex. Just any kind of sex.”

Of course, he may be surprised at first, and he may not leap right into it — but that doesn’t mean he’s judging you. He may just need some time to make sure you’re serious — and that it’s good for the relationship. For instance, I’ve had pals say they don’t know how to respond to such an unexpected offer, because they worry women are floating the fantasy in order to test their fidelity; if they seem too excited, they fear it will confirm jealous suspicions that they want to sleep with other women.

What matters most, though, is how you feel. You need to figure out why it feels weird to you. Is it because being with a woman is new and unfamiliar territory to you? It’s not weird to “get turned on by females.” All across the world right now, women are having great sex, bad sex, first dates, lifelong romances, one-night stands, sext sessions and couples’ therapy with other women. If you’re attracted to women, that’s not weird. If you’re attracted to both men and women, that’s not weird. In fact, I think Miley Cyrus made out with, like, eight women, seven guys and three teddy bears on stage last night.

But think it through: Like all sex, only multiplied by another person, a threesome could be hot, awful or something in between. It could heat up your love life, and it could feel “weird” because you worry it might add some unwanted instability to your two-year relationship. You might try it and decide that it’s something you don’t want to do again. That’s fine too. Sometimes, fantasies work in real life. Sometimes, they’re best left as just that: fantasies.

One firm piece of advice: Make up your own mind before you suggest a threesome to your boyfriend. Once you raise the idea, he probably won’t let you forget it.

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My Vacation Boyfriend: New Year's in Buenos Aires

As told to Kara Cutruzzula

In December 2009 I was flying to Buenos Aires to meet some friends and celebrate New Year's Eve. When I lined up to board my flight, I was thrilled to see a group of cute guys line up too, and even more thrilled when they sat across the aisle from me. I was, of course, in my international travel uniform of high ponytail, glasses, no makeup, yoga pants and a hoodie, so an hour before landing I ran to the bathroom, switched to contacts, brushed my teeth, threw on some blush, lipstick and mascara and sashayed back to my seat.

One of the guys — we'll call him Matt — started chatting me up. People are really intrigued by a young woman flying by herself. He was traveling with friends who worked in San Francisco — all tech guys, of course — to celebrate New Year's as well. I mentioned that I was meeting my friends and we were renting an apartment in the beautiful, leafy Palermo Soho district. We exchanged emails and went our separate ways.

I didn’t think I would hear from him because, well, we met on an airplane. But when I arrived at the apartment my friends and I were renting and realized we had a rooftop pool I immediately thought, I’m throwing a party.

I got into the vacation spirit, eating steak and going to see flamenco. A day later I saw my opening: an email from Matt. “What are you up to? Having fun?” I said we’re having a great time, and oh, we’re having a party at this amazing apartment and you should come.

On New Year’s Eve a dozen people came over, a pretty good turnout considering I’d arrived only two days earlier. We made drinks for the guys, put on some hip hop and took ridiculous group photos. It felt like such a wild, spontaneous event. Matt was hot, friendly, funny — and very confident. He was sending out a “don’t worry, this is going to be great” vibe. We headed out to a club for the New Year’s countdown.

At the Club Museum dancing didn’t start until 3 a.m. and went all night. When we walked in he put his hand on the small of my back. He was obviously trying to move things along while I was playfully ducking him to keep up at least a little bit of a chase. Except with a vacation boyfriend, the chase has to be a sprint not a marathon otherwise you’ll run out of time.

All night we kept dancing and then splitting up and circling back together, until he pulled me into a dim corner away from all of our friends. Kissing him was amazing. I felt so wild being in Argentina with some strange, hot guy I’d just met on the plane. We were making out when the clock struck midnight. He kept trying to talk me into getting in a cab with him but I just couldn’t pull the trigger on our first night.

The next day we met for cocktails and a tour of the gorgeous cemeteries in Buenos Aires, but I still didn’t sleep with him. I pictured our romance as a PG-rated rom-com. Saying goodbye was hard, but he lived in San Francisco and I was in LA, so it was what it was.

Two years later, I opened my inbox to a “Remember me?” email. He was coming to LA. It was on. After some nervous primping, we got dinner, drinks, and were making out in the club when he invited me back to his hotel. This time I said yes. He had his hands all over me in the cab and as soon as we got to the hotel he tugged my dress over my head. I started laughing when he took his shirt off because his body was so amazing — he was insanely ripped. He was probably expecting me to swoon, but instead I said something like, "Damn!" and then dissolved into giggles. He started laughing too because this sexy moment that had been building for years suddenly turned ridiculous. But when he took control and playfully pulled my hair while kissing my neck, the night got really hot. It was passionate and steamy and then he lifted me up and held me with my legs wrapped around his waist, my back against the wall. When it was over, we were spent.

Before he left the next morning to catch a flight, he brought me a glass of water, kissed me sweetly and told me to stay in his hotel room as long as I liked.

Since then our relationship has continued in the friends with benefits vein, but it’s never moved further because of the crazy way we met. Vacation boyfriends are beautiful in their fleetingness; they can’t live in the real world.

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17 Harsh Truths About The Older Boyfriend

1. However cool it makes you is exactly how lame it makes him. You might feel like Joan Jett when he picks you up in his Seville outside the high school in front of all your friends, but he is being mercilessly mocked by all of the women in his life for dating a 14-year-old.

2. It’s not super-sweet and romantic of him when he buys you beer and/or gets you a fake. If you’re an inexperienced drinker who feels it after 2 bottles of Mike’s Hard, that benefits him, not you.

3. Among the biggest reasons that he likes you is because you’re young. Yes, he might be into you because you like the same bands and you act “mature for your age.” (Has he ever told you that you have "an old soul?" Puke.) But mostly, it’s the fact that he’s your first. Not necessarily just sexually, but myriad other ways, too: The first guy you watch The Godfather with, the guy who buys you a copy of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of The Moon,” the first one in the passenger’s seat as soon as you get your learner’s permit... Being the older, wiser man is a power trip for him. And that’s all about him, not about you.

4. And if he’s your boss, the said power trip he is getting off on should be overt. Unless it’s just a fun, sexy, baggage-free throw-you-over-your-desk situation where nobody gets hurt at the end.

5. There’s probably a reason no woman his age wants to date him. Don’t stick around long enough to find out why.

6. Defending your relationship will frequently ruin your friendships. You’ll end up alienating the friends who are dropping truth-bombs such as the one above. Next thing you know, he’s your closest friend as well as your boyfriend — which creates a co-dependent dynamic that’s bad for any relationship.

8. Whether or not you tell your parents about him or not, it’s a lose-lose. If not, the sneaking around, lies and secrets will strain your relationship. And if you tell them, you’ll deal with all-out fights.

9. This is probably a pattern for him. No matter how special he insists you are, the chances are that he’s been dating younger girls for years.

10. Yes, he might have sex with you and then bail. I know hearing that is like sticking a fork in your chest and ripping your heart out. It’s true, though.

11. Sleeping with him might be a bigger emotional deal for you than you think. Maybe you’re sure that you won’t be dramatic about it, like “other girls.” But that shit tends to sneak up on you. And it doesn’t mean you’re weak or naïve— it just means that you value yourself. Which is mature, by the way.

12. If he’s married, he’s not going to leave his wife for you. Which is one of those things where, yeah, it could happen, it has happened, but asteroids also hit the Earth occasionally and we all still leave our houses without wearing full-body protective Plexiglass domes. Enough said.

13. He might be running from a bad relationship with a woman his age. If he had a nasty breakup with (or for older men, a nasty divorce from) someone in his demographic, there’s a good shot that’s why he’s with you — someone who, ostensibly, can’t hurt him. But he can hurt you. It’s like a Chain of Pain up in here.

14. It’s great how you guys are on the same emotional level, right! (Wrong.) He’s in a different generation than you; he shouldn’t be a decade behind emotionally. That’s like valuing a 30-year-old because he has the math aptitude of a middle schooler.

15. He gets along so well with your friends! Awesome! (Nope.) See above.

16. It’s probably not going to last. Let me rephrase that: It probably shouldn’t last, because as you get older, you’ll change (which is normal and great so don’t fight it! It’s the emotional version of going from breast buds to boobs!) and want different things.

17. If he ends it because you’re too young, let him. That means he’s actually a decent guy. And maybe somewhere down the road, things will be different for both of you. But the only way for that to happen is to let it end when it’s supposed to.

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My Boyfriend Is Hotter</br> Than Me

…And it sucks. I've suspected it for months, and now that he's met all my friends, I can no longer deny it. A pal even described us as "the funny one who dates the handsome one." Suffice it to say, I wasn't the handsome one.

We met three years ago at San Diego Comic-Con. He lived in San Francisco and was on assignment as a photojournalist, while I was flogging a comic book that I'd written in New York, where I live and work as a fashion editor.

I knew he was nice to look at—tall and gray-eyed—but I was casually appreciative. In classic convention style, we made out at a hilarious fusion restaurant. We lived 3,000 miles apart, and neither one of us was in the market for anything serious. Fourteen months later, he moved into my tiny Brooklyn apartment.

This is how his attractiveness snuck up on me. We'd been dating a year but logged just six weeks face-to-face. He didn't have a New York look that slid neatly into a familiar hierarchy —he's outdoorsy and rangy, sort of ABC-show hot. In fact, he looks like Michael Vartan of Alias fame. It wasn't until later that I discovered his colleagues referred to him as not just Jon but handsome Jon.

By the time my entire peanut gallery had congratulated me with enthusiastic surprise, I was self-conscious. Sure, my eating habits were garbage and I could stand to run around the block, but what the hell? It was hard enough adjusting to cramped living quarters. It didn't help that my new roomie looked rad with his clothes off.

I decided to take control. I would get fit, our comparative hotness would be equalized, and my boyfriend could suck it. I hit the gym six days a week for resistance training, confusing muscles in quick bursts of energy because the internet told me to. I went on the Paleolithic diet, which cuts out sugar, dairy, processed foods, and gluten—basically all the delicious things.

Over three months, I dropped 10 pounds. I could sit in bodycon dresses that I could previously only stand sideways in. I was triumphant but mean. When my poor boyfriend bought ice cream, it was war.

Then during an exhausting fight about nothing (when I was distracted by the cookie he was eating), I had an epiphany. When we'd met, our flavors of crazy jibed beautifully. We trusted each other's tastes and loyalties and were best friends. To begrudge him his hotness was the ugliest I could possibly be. Plus, he's a dude. A dude who thinks every woman between a size 2 and 8 is a 4. So who cares? Besides, we're in it for the long haul, and who knows how we'll age. I could take him. I'm Asian. I'll be inscrutably well-preserved for decades during which he could lose all his hair. The baldness will probably bring out his eyes…bastard.

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My Boyfriend Is Hotter</br> Than Me

…And it sucks. I've suspected it for months, and now that he's met all my friends, I can no longer deny it. A pal even described us as "the funny one who dates the handsome one." Suffice it to say, I wasn't the handsome one.

We met three years ago at San Diego Comic-Con. He lived in San Francisco and was on assignment as a photojournalist, while I was flogging a comic book that I'd written in New York, where I live and work as a fashion editor.

I knew he was nice to look at—tall and gray-eyed—but I was casually appreciative. In classic convention style, we made out at a hilarious fusion restaurant. We lived 3,000 miles apart, and neither one of us was in the market for anything serious. Fourteen months later, he moved into my tiny Brooklyn apartment.

This is how his attractiveness snuck up on me. We'd been dating a year but logged just six weeks face-to-face. He didn't have a New York look that slid neatly into a familiar hierarchy —he's outdoorsy and rangy, sort of ABC-show hot. In fact, he looks like Michael Vartan of Alias fame. It wasn't until later that I discovered his colleagues referred to him as not just Jon but handsome Jon.

By the time my entire peanut gallery had congratulated me with enthusiastic surprise, I was self-conscious. Sure, my eating habits were garbage and I could stand to run around the block, but what the hell? It was hard enough adjusting to cramped living quarters. It didn't help that my new roomie looked rad with his clothes off.

I decided to take control. I would get fit, our comparative hotness would be equalized, and my boyfriend could suck it. I hit the gym six days a week for resistance training, confusing muscles in quick bursts of energy because the internet told me to. I went on the Paleolithic diet, which cuts out sugar, dairy, processed foods, and gluten—basically all the delicious things.

Over three months, I dropped 10 pounds. I could sit in bodycon dresses that I could previously only stand sideways in. I was triumphant but mean. When my poor boyfriend bought ice cream, it was war.

Then during an exhausting fight about nothing (when I was distracted by the cookie he was eating), I had an epiphany. When we'd met, our flavors of crazy jibed beautifully. We trusted each other's tastes and loyalties and were best friends. To begrudge him his hotness was the ugliest I could possibly be. Plus, he's a dude. A dude who thinks every woman between a size 2 and 8 is a 4. So who cares? Besides, we're in it for the long haul, and who knows how we'll age. I could take him. I'm Asian. I'll be inscrutably well-preserved for decades during which he could lose all his hair. The baldness will probably bring out his eyes…bastard.

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Exclusive! Would You Let Your Boyfriend Give You a Blowout?

Or better yet, would your boyfriend actually take the time to learn how to blow your hair out?

Any guy I've ever dated would have said, "Hell no," but maybe your dude is willing to do your 'do?

That's the case with Chris Rios, a stylist at Sally Hershberger Salon, who's dating her dreamy, tatted-up BF Guy Vincent Riggio, a fellow stylist at S.H.

The couple met at the salon (so cute!), started working/flirting with each other, and then found themselves starring in this he-does-her-hair video exclusively for Cosmo.

But here's the deal: Whether or not your man pushes his ego aside and picks up a hair dryer to give you a blowout (after you've twisted his arm to watch this vid with you), we can promise that you'll at least learn a few things about how to do your own hair like a pro.

Who knows, your BF might just be up for it? Plus, having him know how to give you a bombshell blowout might just come in handy before your BFF's wedding.

Want to give him some incentive? Here's a thought: perhaps you can swap one blow for another? Just sayin'.

So, do you think your dude will be ready and willing to do your hair? Tell us in the comments below! 

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I Met My Boyfriend on Chatroulette

It started on February 19, 2012 when I was hanging out in my friend’s dorm room. It was late and her other friend popped open her laptop and suggested we go on Chatroulette just for fun. I had never been on the site, but always thought it was a place where most people only had the intentions of flashing their goods. (Chatroulette is a place where you can interact with random strangers around the globe via Webcam.)

We got started and crossed paths with some pretty, um, interesting people: A super drunk dude with a British accent, and so, so, sooo many weird men dancing (what's up with that?!). Several sudden clicks later, we came to a guy with a guitar named Ben. High off of the craziness we had just endured from previous Chatrouletters, we demanded he play us a song but his microphone wasn’t working. But when he did strum us a tune, he sounded exactly like Darth Vader. Hilarious! Three hours later, we were still talking and laughing with him. At the end of our chat, we all decided to become Facebook friends. Afterwards, I went to bed and didn’t really think too much about him. I just thought it was funny that we were talking to someone for so long.

Two days later, Ben and I began interacting with each other on Facebook. He commented on a picture of mine that I took while I was in California visiting my sister. I soon realized he was from California, near where my sister lives. Less than a week later, we started Facebook messaging about music (I love indie music, he's more into punk rock), movies, traveling, and so much more. I felt like I was talking to a friend I had known for years.

After messaging for hours and hours, he made the first move to take our talking offline. At the end of the conversation, he gave me his number and said, "If you want, you can text me to finish our conversation." Our texting convos turned into phone calls, and then into daily Skype sessions. Although I knew he was so far away (all the way across the country, to be exact), and that I was getting to know him through the Internet, I felt a real connection between us that was more than a friendship. It was about a month since we first met online and Ben said that he had to meet me in-person. He then booked his first flight ever to New York. (I couldn't believe he was flying over 3,000 miles to meet me!)

He came to visit me in the middle of March. I was shaking while waiting to pick him up from the airport. I was at baggage claim when I turned to my right to see the guy I knew through a computer screen come and run over to me for a hug. We embraced and my legs and heart felt like they were about to explode. There were no awkward moments between us.

Since it was his birthday, I took him out to an Indian restaurant (which you could say was our first real date). We laughed, shared a dessert, and bonded over our love for Indian food. I then dropped him off at his hotel and couldn't get him out of my head. Ben spent the week in New York and I showed him around to all of my favorite spots. But two days into his trip, he gave me one of my first real "big girl" kisses on the city sidewalk. It really was perfect, but I was sad he only had five days to spend with me.

We did everything that I dreamed of doing as a city couple: Took walks in the park, held hands for the first time on the High Line, got Billy’s Bakery cupcakes (arguably the best in the city) to eat under the sun, and spent hours talking in restaurants.

Two nights before his flight, we talked for hours and decided we wanted to be together. But then came the inevitable question: What we were going to do about the long distance between us? We both knew that it was going to be hard, but agreed that we couldn’t just forget the feelings that we felt for each other. We agreed to try it out and see how it would work. It was hard to say goodbye that March, but ever since then, we try to travel to each other about every two or three months.

We've now been dating for over a year and I couldn't be happier. We're in love. I just know that if we stay together, one of us is eventually going to have to relocate. Nonetheless, Ben and I are living proof that among the penis pics and guys dancing, real love can indeed be found on Chatroulette!

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How Do You Find a Boyfriend? This Dutch Designer Knitted Hers

April 22, 2013 at 1:47PM By Anna Breslaw |
What is it about foreign cultures that make them more open to creating innovative solutions to romantic loneliness? In Japan, for example, there are "boyfriend pillows" and interactive posters that kiss you back. Meanwhile, stateside, we consider these kinds of things "creepy." Instead, the lonely and single among us go for Ben & Jerry's Phish Food, Sex and The City reruns, and porn. (The closest we get to Japan's innovations, really, is vibrators.) What's actually the better option? Who knows, really?

To that end, Dutch illustrator and designer Noortje de Keijzer decided she needed a man in her life ("I could say that's a joke, but it is partly true") and painstakingly put her needles and thread together to create a "knitted boyfriend," a life-size wool-crafted adult male likeness complete with stubble, nipples and a happy trail. (Perhaps one of the only instances that knitting would actually help you get a boyfriend.)

They come in two models — the dark-skinned "Steve" and light-skinned "Artur" — and you can see a heart-rending series of illustrations by Keijzer detailing their life together. Here's what she said about her project and the inspiration behind it:

My Knitted Boyfriend is a cushion with a story. A cushion with a personality. A cushion to kiss! Or, well… to cuddle, to caress, to hug, and to smile with. Because this man is always happy. And he is flexible as well. He will have a mustache if you prefer mustaches. He will wear glasses if you prefer glasses. He likes to sit on your floor, on your couch or at you dinner table. But most of all he likes to lay down next to you in bed. With your head on his chest and his arms wrapped around you. This way you will never feel alone ever again. With this man you can be sure, he will never leave you.

He also won't take out the trash, and I'm pretty sure he is lacking some essential parts, but I've been on so many bad dates that I can get down with this. You?

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moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

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moving cross country, finding a great partner... or lobbing off all your hair a la Karlie Kloss). But don't fret: It's not an impossible task. It just takes some thought—and great advice.

"A lot of times people don't like what they're doing in their current job, but they haven't defined what they want to be doing in their potential new job," Nicole Williams, career expert and author of Girl On Top, tells Cosmopolitan.com.

She says nabbing your dream job starts with doing some soul-searching: "I ask people to assess components of their current working life, and match them against the career they are looking to get into."

Try asking yourself these questions...

Time: How many hours do you want to work and in what kind of environment? Big company, small, telecommute, work-from-home flexibility (you know, the kind banned at Yahoo!)

Challenge Level: How important is growth potential and being challenged to you? Are you ambitious and ready to lean in, or just looking for a 9 to 5 to fill your time?

Work Environment: Define your best possible scenario in terms of work relationships. Who are you working with and for? What kind of boss would be ideal? Do you have dreams of becoming a boss?

Passion: How important is passion to you? For example, a woman we know races triathlons and feels like she doesn't need to be passionate about her job; her passion is attached to her sport.

6. Money: How much do you need to make? How much money do you want to make?

Steps To Making A Career Change

Stop Delaying

"The longer you are in the job you are thinking of leaving, the further away you are from new opportunity," says Williams. "It doesn't get any easier. Doing it earlier is emotionally, mentally and professionally better."

Be Willing To Sacrifice Something

You may have to start from the bottom (or the middle) and work your way to the top; Either way, be ready to drop a few rungs on the corporate ladder.

"Internships can be a good idea—or be willing to take a pay cut," says Williams. "If this internship, for example, introduces you to influential people and helps develop a skill-set, you'll be able to take these things to leverage them into a bigger position."

Start Saving

"Have a solid idea of the risk and savings in the bank," advises Williams. Even if it means cutting back on luxuries. "If you know the internship is going to last for six months at a minimum, that's the number you need to have in savings, and I normally advise 10 to 20 percent in savings as a risk buffer."

Network

"People love to talk about themselves," says Williams. "Find them on LinkedIn and through people you know, and consult with them."

Williams suggests asking those in similar fields questions like, "I wonder if you'd speak to me about your day-to-day life; What do you love most about the work that you do; What do you wish you would have known going into this career?"

"Those kind of questions are going to give you the information you need and will help you know the people you are going to need to know," she adds.

Now that you are armed with more than just your resume and a fresh manicure, it's time to start hitting the pavement. Happy hunting, gals.

Want more stories from Carson? Follow her on Twitter.

Photo Credit: Getty Images">Whether you're a doctor who dreams of doing hair, or a hairdresser dreaming of climbing the corporate ladder, career expert Nicole Williams has pro tips on how to get started.

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First Vacation with Your New Boyfriend? Read This First.

"For a first time vacation, definitely choose a destination that caters to your mutual interests," says Miller. "Not every guy wants to shop and not every girl wants to go to the World Cup. But if you're both foodies or ski bunnies, there is an ideal destination for everyone." Take it from Megan, 28, who overlooked a few of her boyf’s comments before they headed to her dream locale, Paris. "When we got there, I finally realized not only was he not a big 'Europe' person, he hated all things French! It was bad."

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Is Your Boyfriend About to Propose?

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