Shopping for jeans never seems to be easy. From choosing between a whole host of cuts, colours, waist heights and washes to working out what styles make you feel the most comfortable, there’s a lot that goes into finding the perfect everyday wardrobe essential. But, if you measure in at […]
If you want to incite some drama at a dinner party, ask people how often they wash their hair. Okay, maybe don’t do that if it feels intrusive. But among the people I know I can tell you, everyone does it differently and there is no universal right or wrong […]
I’ll never forget our meet-cute. She was wearing suspenders. I was rocking a bob weave like “Umbrella”-era Rihanna. I was two-weeks into my gig as a production assistant at a national music station, and I was escorting a VJ hopeful to the biggest audition of her life. We were both […]
Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last penny. This week: “I’m an ops manager in the East Midlands living with my two daughters. I have […]
The first time I had Botox, I swore I’d never look back. I was approaching 30 and my skin was gradually changing in ways I’d never seen before. It started with a smattering of faint forehead creases, which deepened over time and were only ever accentuated by my makeup. You […]
At the end of 2021, I paid £380 for the privilege of a psychiatrist telling me I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This was a huge relief, particularly as the same compulsive, overthinking tendencies that led to the diagnosis had also convinced me that I was making it up. The psychiatrist […]
Moving anywhere is intimidating. Taking stock of everything you’ve accumulated, packing it all up, lugging it to your new place, changing your address, working out where the nearest supermarket is… The list gets all the more intimidating when that move is to a new town or city (or country!) where […]
As anyone who rents knows, “space-saving” is a magical, golden, almost-too-good-to-be-true description. Especially when used in relation to furniture; even more so when you rent in a space-challenged city. Don’t even get me started on when you flat share and are relegated to fitting your bedroom, living space, home office […]
While I wouldn’t put myself in the category of someone who has an intense phobia of flying (e.g. avoiding it at all costs), the cabin of an aeroplane has always been a nightmare playground where my long-held anxiety kicks into overdrive. No matter how much I enjoy a pre-flight Nando’s, […]
In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into […]
