Welcome to The Floor Is Yours, where we spotlight the creators behind the meaningful content on your FYP — because it’s not just about who they are, but the message in what they’re creating. For Ali Waller, TikTok isn’t just a space for memes and viral trends. It’s a way […]
If you’d told me 15 years ago that one day I’d want to get a custom cut to enhance my curly hair, I’d have laughed. I was at secondary school in the ’00s, when ghds were coveted like nothing else, and in a bid to look like Rachel Green I […]
It was Mark Twain who said: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Well, regardless of whether you’re lying or not, if you have a decent memory, living in Britain right now is bewildering. Who can keep up with the mind-bending required to continually separate fact […]
What do you get if you cross a viral New York magazine article, the production powerhouse of Shonda Rhimes and Netflix (see record-smashing Bridgerton), Ozark breakout star Julia Garner and a character study of how one of the world’s foremost female fraudsters swindled New York’s elite out of hundreds of […]
Maddy Reid is a 23-year-old Scot, currently living in London. She is a digital editor and also works as a model. She lives with multiple chronic illnesses. As told to Hannah Turner. DashDividers_1_500x100 I was born with a noticeable physical disability. I wore leg braces and attended a school with a […]
Last year, when the BRIT awards announced it would be scrapping male- and female-led categories in a bid to promote inclusivity, there were concerns from some corners that women – who have traditionally had to fight for their place in the male-dominated industry – would be among those most negatively […]
As a teenager, Tina Craig, the founder of U Beauty, was a sun worshipper. It was the ’80s (a time when there was less awareness about the importance of SPF), and she regularly laid out in the SoCal sunshine without protection. It wasn’t until Craig flew home to Asia between […]
Last September, my partner Renee moved from Singapore to Los Angeles so we could start a life together — a grand and undeniably romantic gesture usually reserved for lovers. Which Renee and I are decidedly not. Renee and I are platonic life partners, a relationship that combines qualities from friendship, […]
The minute Euphoria‘s second season premiered on HBO, people started talking about the nails. “Did you see that chrome manicure on Fezco’s grandma?” a friend texted me after watching the first episode, which opened with a closeup of long, squared, gold-mirrored acrylics wrapped around the barrel of a revolver. In […]
What does it take to be happy with your work situation? Given all the talk about the ‘Great Resignation‘, the end of hustle culture and the legitimate, far-spanning criticisms of work culture in the past few years, it can feel a bit like job satisfaction is just an illusion. There […]
