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 […]
The lyrics “I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world” have never felt more true. Between the inescapable hot pink trend and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie as the titular character, Mattel’s favourite doll is everywhere (not that we’re complaining). That extends to the shelves (and websites) of […]
ILLUSTRATED BY SUCHET INUTHAI Welcome to Leo season, cosmic beings! This is a special version of Leo season because Venus, the planet of love and beauty, will be retrograde all season long. Having the Sun, Mercury, and Venus all in Leo right now makes us more prone to seeking attention, […]
Marissa Smith was a lifelong Barbie fan. But nothing could quite match to the frenzy she felt when the first Barbie movie trailer dropped last year. “I started going through this rabbit hole of finding vintage bags and apparel that were Barbie-branded,” she admits. “That really started me on this […]
There are a lot of emotions tied up in our hair. Personally, I’ve been considering chopping off a lot of hair — like six inches — and I just keep putting it off. I have excuses (avoidance tactics), like, I’ll do it in the autumn when it’s less humid. Then […]
There are several ways to describe the outsize, almost alien reaction that stans experience when seeing their idol in person. Way back when it was attached to specific figures, most famously with Beatlemania; nowadays it is concisely memed as “screaming crying throwing up“. The physical and emotional response is immediate […]
Back in May, Jenna Lyons, the former J.Crew designer and new cast member of The Real Housewives of New York, wore an outfit I haven’t stopped thinking about since. At first glance, it was a simple summer outfit idea: a tuxedo-style black blazer, white T-shirt and pumps, and knee-length shorts. […]
When Sadie Sink pops up on my Zoom screen, she looks so different. It’s her hair, which, up to this point, has always been three things: long, red, and wavy. It’s been cemented in my brain since I watched Sink’s performance in the short film that accompanied Taylor Swift’s song […]
The countless dangers of both indoor and outdoor tanning can’t be ignored. The Skin Cancer Foundation reports that just one indoor tanning session before age 35 increases the risk of developing life-threatening melanoma (a type of skin cancer which can spread to other areas of the body) by 75%. Sunbathing […]
Welcome to Beauty In A Tik, where each week we put TikTok’s viral beauty hacks and innovative trends to the test. There are plenty of retro trends I’ve welcomed back with open arms: I’ve got my eye on a gold drinks trolley to jazz up my rather plain apartment and […]
