This Keeps Me Up At Night is a series dedicated to trending memes, pop culture moments and film/TV scenes that stir the very foundations of our being and stop us from getting a single peaceful night’s sleep. Celebrities are getting engaged and drinking each other’s blood. Elon Musk is a […]
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we tackle the ever-present taboo that is money. We ask real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we track every last penny. Occupation: Communications ManagerIndustry: Medical Technology Age: 33Location: Bronte, Sydney, NSWMy Salary: $110,000 + $10,450 superannuation contributionsNet Worth: $292,803 […]
Please note that this information is general in nature and shouldn’t be construed as financial advice. If you pledged to improve your financial habits in 2022, welcome to the club! But if you’re yet to actually implement anything well into the month of January, that’s ok — we reckon you’re […]
When the Omicron wave hit, it felt eerily similar to March 2020. Back then, travel plans were cancelled, parties were rescheduled, and we huddled inside, avoiding human contact. We stopped doing everything, except going to work. Whether that meant risking our health to work in person or entering a “new […]
When our realities are confined to our homes and yet another year in the pandemic, it’s easy to imagine what life could be like in another universe. So it comes as no surprise that Schiaparelli’s creative director Daniel Roseberry wanted to evoke that feeling in the house’s spring 2022 couture […]
After the end of my first relationship, I couldn’t escape the feeling that the relationship was a fluke. Or, rather, that my ex’s attraction to me was. Was the desire he’d claimed to feel for me ever real? In fact, was I desirable at all? Would I ever feel another […]
Growing up, I never felt like I fit into the Filipino standard of beauty. Slim, light-skinned, and having a high nose bridge was the ideal image I overheard titas obsess over at family gatherings. As a fat, darker Filipina with small eyes, I thought I wasn’t living up to the […]
When it comes to picking a nail polish colour, there’s no right or wrong choice. Still, the stakes can seem high when you’re standing in front of a wall of options, or have your entire collection lined up in front of you, and have to choose a single colour that […]
In November 2020, 30-year-old Jasmine Kelly* stood in the kitchen of her flat and stared at the pregnancy test in her hand. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the UK had recently passed 1 million. England had just entered its second national lockdown, robbing Jasmine – a stand-up comedian […]
Getting ghosted is the absolute worst – ask anyone who’s put in time on the dating apps. It’s not just the snowballing sense of rejection it gives you, but also the lack of respect on the other person’s part. Seriously, they couldn’t even be bothered to send you a text […]
