“Marriage is not a business deal,” I repeat often and fervently to my parents. They consistently reply to me in mindless unison: “We just want you to settle down.” Growing up in a traditional Sri Lankan household, the child of immigrants who sacrificed everything to give me and my brother […]
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, LMFT, helped a reader who […]
If you’ve been experiencing Coachella FOMO, have no fear — there’s an even bigger event going on this weekend that you won’t want to miss. On April 30, the very first eclipse of 2022 will arrive to shake things up and ring in the start of eclipse season. The new […]
“Looking for places that do hair transplants for Black women was like finding a pin in a haystack,” shares hairstylist and Brixton salon owner, Andrée Marie. “At one point, I started looking at clinics that showed photos of white men with coarse hair,” she adds laughing. For our Zoom conversation, […]
My first encounter with onscreen lesbian representation was Sophie and Sian’s kiss in Coronation Street. I was only 9 years old at the time but I vividly remember how it made national news – not just after it happened but weeks earlier, as if to prepare the country for something […]
Wayfair is the endless, questionably organised, and generally delight-inducing hub that hides a million treasures — both small and large — for our dwellings. This legendary online warehouse is packed to the brim with essential home goods, valuable non-essentials, and absolutely nutty decor that would make any shopaholic weak in the knees. Or, […]
It’s no secret that shapewear is having a moment. Thanks to brands like Kim Kardashian’s Skims, which launched in 2019 and is currently valued at over £800 million, and Spanx, which secured a multi-million-pound valuation in 2021 after decades in business, the market has boomed to an unprecedented level. This […]
In July 2020, Megan thee Stallion was involved in an intense police stop after attending a celebrity pool party in Los Angeles, leading to the shocking reveal that she had allegedly been shot in the feet by fellow musician Tory Lanez. The news devolved into a legal firestorm for both […]
Last year, as the fashion world time-traveled to the early 2000s, visible thongs, also known as whale tails, started popping up everywhere from street style to the runways. While, over the course of 2021, the once-controversial trend received multiple stamps of approval — including from celebrities like Bella Hadid, Jennifer […]
When I first saw a TikTok about Glance Back, a Chrome extension that functions as a kind of photo diary, I knew I’d download it. Once a day at a random time, Glance Back takes a photo of your face as you open a new tab. While you’d think that, in […]
