For beauty lovers, few names elicit such awe and rapture as Charlotte Tilbury. Since launching her eponymous brand in 2013, the celebrity makeup artist has held us under her spell. We’re often bewitched by her perfectly pink-nude pouts (shoutout to the OG Pillow Talk lipstick), silver screen-worthy eyeshadow palettes and […]
When the person I’d been seeing for a few months told me that he was getting back together with his ex-girlfriend, effectively ending our situationship, I went a bit light-headed. It did not help that it was at my favourite bar on a Saturday night, I hadn’t had much sleep […]
I have a habit of crying in the shower. The flat I live in lacks internal walls so it is just one long room with separate areas demarcated by rugs and changing colour schemes. Privacy is pretty much impossible, which makes the bathroom the only place I can cry in […]
The House of Windsor is burning. At least on screen, that is. In the fourth episode of season five of The Crown, Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) finds herself outside Windsor Castle in the early hours of dawn, watching the royal residence engulfed in flames and falling in on itself. […]
Falling For Christmas. Lindsay Lohan as Sierra in Falling For Christmas. Cr. Scott Everett White/Netflix © 2022. Lindsay Lohan knows that we’ve been missing rom-coms — because she’s been missing them, too. “Film got really intense [over the last few years],” she tells Refinery29. “Everything we were watching was portraying […]
A side effect of the human condition is that, every so often, you’ll be overcome with an overwhelming feeling of uncomfortableness and regret after you share something personal with others. It’s a humbling experience, really, the ability to give yourself the ‘ick’. You might’ve felt it after sharing a particularly […]
Testing skincare products is an occupational hazard. In the past, I’ve been lucky. I’m relatively non-reactive (I used to claim). But last month, boy, was I humbled. I had polished off the last of my morning serum, the Major Fade Hyper Serum by #PillowtalkDerm, which I highly recommend [but unfortunately isn’t available […]
At least seven in 10 women around the world say that they have low libido. That’s the vast majority of us having a low sex drive at some point, but the language that surrounds this fact paints it as taboo. We know it, but we keep it to ourselves, furiously […]
Mild spoilers ahead. How Black Panther: Wakanda Forever would approach the absence of the king and powerful warrior T’Challa was always in question following the death of the actor who portrayed him, Chadwick Boseman. But the Marvel sequel unapologetically — and seamlessly — leans into the grief of losing a […]
On Friday, November 4, Drake threw the timeline into a tizzy with the release of Her Loss, a 16-song joint project with friend and fellow rapper 21 Savage. What could have been a conversation about Drake’s lyricism and chemistry with almost everyone in the rap game (the guy knows how […]
