Where I’ve been and of course the “Bucket List”
You’re in the thick of an argument, you’ve got your heels dug firmly in the ground and you’re not backing down. But uh-oh — suddenly, amid all the fuss, you feel the damp heat of tears come streaming down your face. It’s confusing and upsetting, like your body isn’t your […]
A new survey has shown that the traditional friends-with-benefits (FWB) model is changing. No longer is it a strictly sex-with-no-strings-attached setup, with the benefits being a lot more than sex for people engaging in a FWB relationship. Relationships, situationships, flings… our perceptions of sexual interactions are becoming more fluid, so […]
Cuffing season is just around the corner, and we need as much help as possible to navigate the murky waters of love. Whether you’re still on the hook-up game or you’ve been partnered up for years, the newest deck by astrologer and R29 horoscope writer Lisa Stardust may be exactly […]
A curious phenomenon has been clocked on social media and it’s called being ‘woman’d’. The term, coined by culture writer Rayne Fisher-Quann, describes the moment when “everyone stops liking a woman at the same time”. Examples include Millie Bobby Brown, who was lauded as a shining young talent before becoming […]
Have you ever stepped into a store with a bountiful amount of clothes? Glorious right? Then you visit the next day, and suddenly all the breezy summer attire has transitioned into cosy autumn apparel. Wait, but what about all the pieces from before? Where did they go? While some are sold at a […]
The word “perm” really seems to rattle some people. For some, it can be a throwback to a time of sizzling your hair to a crisp until it was big and burnt. It evokes images of mullets, Sarah Jessica Parker in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Meg Ryan in her […]
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we’re tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We’re asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period – and we’re tracking every last penny. This week: “I’m a 27-year-old commissioning and contract manager working […]
“The thing about grief,” Ella Risbridger explains, “is that once you’re grieving something or someone, you can’t really get rid of it.” As the author of Midnight Chicken (2019) and The Year Of Miracles (2022), she is trying to get at the heart of her experience of writing after a […]
Anxiety is generally understood as a natural human response to feeling threatened. For some, the experience of this mental health condition can be fleeting; for others, it can be so profoundly distressing that the body might veer into dysfunction. On the whole, Western treatments for anxiety tend to focus on […]
Allow us to introduce you to the Ayurvedic beauty trailblazers who are pioneering ancient Indian approaches to wellbeing and beauty rituals The ancient science of Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest whole-body healing systems, developed more than 3,000 years ago in India. It is based on the belief that […]
