People who have used the buy now, pay later (BNPL) service Klarna are being declined when applying for mortgages, Refinery29 has learned. Twenty-six-year-old Nicki (who didn’t want to give her real name) works in publishing, earns £32,000 per year plus bonuses and is based in London. Last year she applied […]
Each time COVID-19 rates dropped over the last year and a half, conversations would inevitably move towards the return to ‘normality’. But with spiking infection rates creating a continuous cycle of national lockdowns, it often felt like the end was moving further and further away. While we all got pretty […]
Summer seems finally to have arrived in the UK – better late than never! But even though we’re all about iced coffee and beach Airbnbs at the moment, it probably won’t be long before our thoughts turn autumnal. Ikea is clearly hoping so, anyway, by announcing a new limited edition […]
FEAR STREET – Cr: Netflix © 2021 Spoilers are ahead. In the first two instalments of Fear Street, a spectre looms in the dark, threatening everything and everyone: Sarah Fier, the rumoured witch who centuries ago cursed Shadyside to know nothing but death and despair as their Sunnyvale neighbours prosper. […]
Camila Cabello is known for keeping it real and refusing to put up with being body-shamed. Now, in a TikTok shared on Friday, the “Havana” singer spoke honestly about embracing her body and not allowing herself to succumb to body-shaming impulses. “I was just running in the park minding my […]
When the original Space Jam premiered in 1996, one of the most exciting parts of the sports adventure was its star-studded soundtrack. The accompanying album featured some of music’s biggest names; Jay-Z, Monica, Barry White, D’Angelo, Busta Rhymes, and Salt-N-Pepa all lended their vocals to the intergalactic fantasy film. Decades […]
On the heels of the Sun in Cancer and Pluto in Capricorn, we enter the week of the 18th through 24th shadowed by the wisdom of opposites. This means we’ve been called to examine what makes us who we are as compared to what we work not to be — […]
St Mary’s Basilica (Bazylika Mariacka) The Cloth Hall (market building right) Taken at sunrise in Krakow, Poland With returning to the office still a way off for many of us, there’s still time to consider working remotely from a different city, if only for a month or so. According to […]
Netflix is always trying to stay ahead of its streaming competitors and their recent announcement proves the company is set on standing out. After rolling out Downloads For You (downloadable movies and tv shows based on your watch history), Fast Laughs (the Tik-Tok-esque feature that gives viewers clips of comedy […]
TikTok has already anointed its iced coffee drink of the summer, and now it’s becoming obsessed with a fruitier cooler. It’s called whipped lemonade and it delivers cocktail-style summer glamour without any of the alcohol (though if you wanted to add a dash of your favourite spirit, you absolutely could). […]
