I remember exactly when I discovered Casefile. I was driving solo to Broken Hill, a bucket-list adventure I didn’t realise would be so physically taxing. Driving six hours a day, alone? I don’t recommend it. Actually, maybe — but you definitely need a good podcast. Casefile had been recommended to […]
Since launching her eponymous fashion brand in 2010, Sally LaPointe has become known for electric, neon-adjacent monochrome looks that pack a punch. That said, for a while now, the New York-based designer had noticed that customers were buying her downtown cool garments in shades of cream and white for an […]
As much as we love dressing up and slipping on our finest party outfits, sometimes, it is impossible to resist the appeal of a loungewear set. These matching looks, which exist somewhere between the sportier athflow trend and more polished co-ords, are an easy shortcut if you are hoping to […]
Welcome to Beauty & The Bag, a guide that keeps a close eye on high-value skin, hair and makeup trends aimed at Black consumers and questions whether it’s always worth spending your hard-earned coins. The words ‘budget’, ‘sacrifice’ and ‘cutting back’ have been mentioned more than once in my household […]
Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups that you’re too afraid to ask your partner — or maybe even your besties. Last time, relationship therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare, helped a reader whose Pelvic […]
Like lighting strikes and fingerprints, no two stretch marks are exactly alike. They can appear on your butt or hips or back or breasts or stomach or really anywhere your skin might stretch. The marks, which are technically scars, can reach up vertically or branch out like a tree or […]
Head to TikTok and you’ll find plenty of excellent relationship advice, but spend too much time in the hashtags #relationshipadvice and #relationshipgoals, you’ll discover a plethora of questionable stuff, too. The quick-fire nature of the social media platform doesn’t exactly allow for nuance, and one recent video that threw me […]
Welcome to Beauty In A Tik, where each week we put TikTok’s viral beauty hacks and innovative trends to the test. If I had money for every time a lip enhancing hack went viral on TikTok, I’d be sunning myself on a private beach right now. In the name of […]
When I saw an email subject line that read, ‘glass nails are trending‘, I was a little confused. I’ve heard of seaglass nail art: when you use a greenish-turquoise polish, thin it out, and add a matte top coat, making the nails look like pieces of seaglass washed up on […]
These days it’s hard not to follow any mention of Topshop with a tongue-in-cheek: “RIP.” I’m the first to feel a painful pang when I pass Big Topshop on Oxford Street and spy the old signage juxtaposed with Ikea branding (the Swedish chain bought the space last autumn, less than […]
