Where I’ve been and of course the “Bucket List”
It’s 23 degrees celsius on a late Saturday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and I’m squeezing my way through a dense crowd of people on Rye Lane. As I lope across the concrete pavements dotted with chewing gum, I pass shopfronts selling fresh fruit, vegetables, raw meat, fish, phone accessories, […]
If there’s one book that encapsulates the millennial experience, it might be Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love. Or, at least, the experience of white millennial women living in London – the ones who are largely associated with avocado on toast. With the release of the BBC adaptation of […]
When Monica Nguyen was a child, her GP diagnosed her with a cough. But it wasn’t a cough — since she was seven, she’d been living with Tourettes Syndrome. Her diagnosis was in fact a misdiagnosis, something that’s common in her community. Even medical professionals can fall into believing the […]
What does the word ‘clean‘ mean to you? Perhaps, post-pandemic, it’s an extra squeeze of hand sanitiser on the train. Maybe you use it to describe making healthier diet choices. But when it comes to beauty, the term has become a serious buzzword of late. ‘Clean’ is a word used […]
Summer’s here, and for some women who struggle to manage their excessive sweating it can bring a sense of dread. It’s estimated that 30% of people experience the excessive sweating condition known as hyperhidrosis but it’s often considered embarrassing to talk about. Many women say that it seriously impacts their […]
Chances are your skincare routine needs to adjust to the extreme heat and sun exposure during peak summertime. For me, it means swapping out heavy creams for more lightweight formulas or opting for products with skin-cooling ingredients — and I just so happened to find the holy grail of hydrating […]
You’ve probably seen the photographer Sophie Harris-Taylor’s work. Her 2018 project Epidermis, a series of portraits centring and celebrating the beauty of common skin conditions, went viral on Instagram and across the web, while a more recent series explored the lack of support for men transitioning into fatherhood. And then […]
Like many, I was shaking my head in disbelief when an Australian columnist recently lamented they had been “gazumped” by Rebel Wilson for coming out on her own platform on her own terms. The issue? That she ignored the two-day deadline they gave her to comment on her new relationship […]
In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into […]
For some of us, getting dressed in the summer can be a stressful experience. Between baring more skin than you’d normally care to and preparing for cold blasts in the air-conditioned office – not to mention that many of us have to adapt our wardrobes to suit various skin conditions, […]
