Cosmopolitan Feb-15

1. TAKE A JOINT SHOWER …without rushing. V Day is on a Saturday this year (Mixture soaps, $11.50, mixtureusa.com). 2. GO OSCAR WILD He can sing, he can dance…but can host Neil Patrick Harris squeeze more A-listers into a selfie than Ellen DeGeneres did? (Feb. 22, 7 p.m. ET, ABC). 3. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL Overserve your friends on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 17—the more Mardi Gras beads, the better. 4. EXPECT FIREWORKS …when Katy Perry—and possibly kittens!—rock the Super Bowl halftime show, Feb. 1, 6:30 p.m. ET, NBC. 5. DEFROST YOUR LOCKS Ocean waves in winter? Yes, you can, with John Frieda's Beach Blonde collection ($10, target.com). 6. WISH FOR SNOW It's the best excuse for indulging in the new skiwear on Net-a-Porter (Jacket, Emilio Pucci, net-a-porter.com). 7. CONSIDER…

COSMOtivation Inspiration with a Cosmo edge. @Niks_Piks_xx Love this from the @Cosmopolitan December issue. #GrownWomenLikeTo Drink and I like to read #MyCosmo too! #TGIF @SamanthAnn92 First Cosmo of the new year. I'm not the only one who's excited. #CosmoCat @AngryKelsey A really great article from Gabrielle Union in Cosmo about the nude-photo scandal. @AlyLamont Solid start to my Thursday! SHOW US YOUR COSMO! How does Cosmo fit into your life? Instagram or tweet your photo to @Cosmopolitan #MyCosmo. If we feature you in the mag, we'll give you $50! LETTER OF THE MONTH "Thank you so much for 'The Cheerleaders Make Some Noise' article in your December issue. Being a Buffalo resident and Bills fan, I was glad to get both sides of the story and gain a new perspective…

FOR ME, THE MOST THRILLING PART of our Fun Fearless Life Weekend at Lincoln Center was getting to talk to so many of you during lunch breaks and at the party. Many of you explained how you already felt you were in a rut and not going where you want to go fast enough. Others of you expressed anxiety that you haven't found the right career. I know many of you assumed that I knew from the start what I wanted to do for a career. Not true. I too felt stuck or off course at times. In fact, it was only when I was interviewed recently and the questions turned to my childhood that I realized my early years held clues to my later career. At age 9, I…

1 "My first kiss happened on a boat that was parked on land. I stepped back from the kiss and fell into a bush! I had battle wounds. It was an ongoing joke for months." —LAURA C., 23, waitress and writer, from Rockaway Beach, NY 2 "I'm known to wander off. I lose my friends, my phone dies. I had to go into a condo building once to charge my phone. Except I had only shorts and a bikini top on! Super embarrassing." —RENESHA Y., 25, music journalist, from New York, NY 3 "I was in a show playing Cinderella. I ran toward Prince Charming and face-planted on stage. Prince Charming, who was a friend of mine, started laughing instead of helping me." —SAMANTHA B., 25, actor, from Los, Angeles,…

"An hour into our first date, he put on music and proceeded to show me his purple silk thong." —LISA B., 27 "When we went to have sex for the first time and I asked him if he had a condom, he informed me that 'CONDOMS ARE FOR HOOKERS, not nice, pretty girls like you.' I got out of there." —SAMANTHA B., 25 "On our first date, he took me to an outdoor concert and insisted the whole night that he knew I wanted to hook up in the family-size porta-potty." —HANNAH V., 20 "He started telling me a story about how his cat once bit his penis while he was sleeping and he ended up with a serious infection. TMI!" —SIMONE T., 19 "He told me I must be…

WHO The 27-year-old star of Step Up All In WHERE TO CATCH HIM Sexing up (and freaking out) J.Lo as the titular character in the thriller The Boy Next Door and bro-ing down as roadie Rio in the upcoming Jem and the Holograms. JUST DO IT "Who makes the first move shouldn't be gender specific. If you like someone, just go up to them and start a conversation—have fun with it. So many guys are waiting for the girl to make the first move, and so many girls are waiting for the guy to make the first move. Then you just end up by yourself, watching New Girl with popcorn." ON HIS SIGNATURE MOVE "I was never really accepted by the cool kids, but I never had a hard time…