Celiece Channet

There was a period in the 2010s when personality quizzes were inescapable. Like One Direction’s boppy tunes, their presence was widespread. Pottermore’s house-sorting, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’s 16 personalities, Buzzfeed’s endless Disney character quizzes and the reemergence of love languages allowed us to neatly label our deposition with catchy names. As […]

Christmastime is about making memories with loved ones and enjoying delicious food, yes, but it is also about the looks. From the start of December until 1st January, every occasion becomes instantly dressier and you find yourself stepping into your sparkliest outfit for just about any event. For those who […]

For many years, I felt like fashion wasn’t for me. I grew up with sensory issues that were not diagnosed as Autistic until my late teens, which often meant that I didn’t dress like everyone else and was sometimes mocked for choosing outfits that accommodated my needs.  Be it the […]

There’s a story we’ve been told about Britain’s falling birth rate. It goes something like this: women are too focused on their careers, having children too late and risking infertility when they do finally get around to attempting to get pregnant.  It is true that women’s fertility does generally decline […]

You might know Annie Thomson (aka @a_day_in_the_life_of_annie on Instagram) for her fun and relatable beauty videos. Whether you’re keen to see how that viral hair product performs IRL or sniffing out Christmas gift recommendations for makeup obsessives, you’ll find it all on Annie’s page. What you might not have expected […]

There is a special level of nirvana that you can only access under certain and very specific conditions: you have to be at your second bottomless brunch of the day, getting pulled by the arm into a conga line so rampant that it leaves the venue and veers out onto […]

“You have a condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS),” confirms my GP.  I’d waited twenty-one years to hear those words. “Do you plan to have any more children in the future?” It always struck me how much emphasis doctors place on the reproductive challenges attributed to PCOS, despite there being […]

Willie T. Stokes, Kevin McCallister and the Grinch. What do these three have in common? They’re among the very few Christmas movie characters I can relate to – because they don’t end their on-screen narrative by falling in love. As a single person, my festive relatables include a sex-addicted alcoholic […]