Money Diary: A Finance Worker In The City On 77k
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a...
View ArticleAn Unfiltered Photo Diary Of My Mum's Mental Illness & Drug Addiction
One of the greatest ethical conundrums for artists and writers and anyone whose job it is to tell stories of human experience, is learning how to tell the stories of others. How do we navigate that...
View ArticleWe're Calling It: Perms Are Back & More Wearable Than Ever
From Elton John-esque glitz and glamour to Off-White's Princess Di-inspired collection, it's safe to say the '80s are back in full force. On the beauty front, one trend from the decade that we thought...
View ArticleR29 Tries The Trend: Summer Hats
You'll have noticed some rather outrageous straw hats on your Insta feed this summer, starting with a nearly nude Bella Hadid wearing a gargantuan Olmos & Flores hat in Mexico. Looking every inch a...
View ArticleThe Ordinary's New Launch Is Here To Save Your Dehydrated Summer Skin
The skincare boffins at The Ordinary have really stepped up their game this summer.Not long ago, they lifted the lid on their hotly anticipated SPF range, brought out their first ever hair product and...
View ArticleThe Pros & Cons Of Being A Teenage Mum, According To Women Who've Been There
There was a time when teenage pregnancy was viewed with moral panic in the UK, which has the highest rate in western Europe. Scaremongering tabloid headlines and characters like Little Britain's Vicky...
View ArticleStrong & Powerful Or Glam & Gorgeous: How Shower Gel Got Sexist
Women are notoriously required to pay more if they want to buy "feminine" (read: pink) versions of products, and the so-called "pink tax" has become common knowledge in recent years. Brands like Boots...
View ArticleThe Crown's First Season 3 Photos Come With Cryptic Messages
It's still a little early to start counting down to 2019, but these new photos from season 3 of The Crown are certainly making us think about it. After dropping the first picture of Olivia Colman as...
View ArticleCan You Really Fake Confidence 'Til You Make It?
Ask almost anyone about what traits they find attractive in other people, and "confidence" is sure to top the list. It's not exactly a revelation — confidence can get you far in life. But you're only...
View ArticleAmber Heard On The Border Crisis, Growing Up In South Texas & ICE Checkpoints
Photo: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images.Amber Heard, an actress and activist, who grew up in south Texas, writes about her connection to the border crisis and what we can do right now.The US southern border...
View ArticleWhat It Means When Your Ruling Planet Goes Retrograde
Given the current state of the planets — four are already retrograde and two more will join them in backspins of their own in the coming weeks — you'll forgive us for having retrogrades on the brain....
View ArticleWhat It's Really Like To Get Facial Feminisation Surgery
Carlisha Gizelle Brown is a 37-year-old MAC Cosmetics employee who lives in Los Angeles. Last year, she underwent a 10-hour facial feminisation surgery that included rhinoplasty and sanding down her...
View ArticleMeet The 21-Year-Old Leading The Beauty Industry To Activism
Back in 2016, when we were all a whole lot younger and slept a whole lot better at night, Katie Sones was a self-proclaimed directionless college junior working her way through a graphic communications...
View ArticleFeeling Beige? Let's Talk About The Side-Effects Of Antidepressants
"I know it’s not ideal… you take medication to get yourself out of a dark hole but you end up in a display home on an empty street," says comedian/ actress Hannah Gadsby in the award-winning comedy...
View ArticleThe Teacher's Pet Is The Most Shocking True Crime Podcast Yet
A few weeks ago, I decided I was done with true crime podcasts. The amount of time I spend listening to the various ways in which innocent women have been abducted, raped and murdered is awful. And...
View ArticleAn Ode To Now That's What I Call Music & The Dawn Of My Musical Awakening
The last thing I remember before getting irresponsibly drunk at a friend's wedding reception last year is a roomful of thirtysomethings losing their shit to Whigfield's "Saturday Night".If you, too,...
View ArticleHow Ivanka Has Changed The Way She Speaks Over The Years — & What It Means
Ivanka Trump has been in the media for as long as we can remember. (She even appeared on the cover of my very first Seventeen magazine back in 1997.) If only we had known that she would go on to become...
View ArticleGeneration Wealth: How Money & Consumerism Transformed The World
In the award-winning "Like A Girl" ad campaign sponsored by Always, photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield asked young girls and boys to do a certain task (run, fight, throw) like a girl. She...
View ArticlePeople Are Angry About BeautyBlender's New Foundation Range
This week, BeautyBlender, the brains behind the bestselling makeup sponge, took to Instagram to lift the lid on their debut foundation, Bounce.It's a launch that made complete sense and one that...
View ArticleJelly Nails Are The Latest Beauty Trend Taking Over Instagram
A post shared by @polishedbysophia on Jul 11, 2018 at 6:56pm PDT Nails have long been a way to express yourself through beauty. Thanks to their commitment-free nature meaning you can decorate your...
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