In our highly visual, social media world, it’s understandable that many young music artists choose to outsource their every fashion choice to the stylists of the moment. There’s pressure to be seen in the right ‘fit. Beabadoobee’s style, though, is all her own. Oozing creativity and authenticity – just like […]
When I was younger, I was convinced that I chose to remove my body hair of my own free will. I told myself (and others) that I preferred it because having bald armpits, smooth legs and a hair-free bikini line made me feel cleaner and more attractive. I now recognise […]
My boyfriend washes my hair, cooks my dinner, cleans our home and collects the post. He is not some kind of superhero; he is just doing the things I can’t, to keep us both happy and healthy. It wasn’t always this way. We met hiking a mountain. We fell in […]
Christmas present shopping for all the different types of people in your life can get tricky (after all, there are only so many mugs to go around). Things get a whole lot easier, though, when you start dividing people into categories. There’s the hobby-oriented mate who would love a new […]
Of all the beauty trends we buy into, the act of piercing is actually one that our ancestors may have approved of, with origins dating back to 1500 BCE. But unlike shoes, handbags and other trends you can throw on and take off with ease, piercings have always been a […]
The pandemic allowed us to get into the guts of our wardrobes and rediscover garments from a bygone era (aka pre-2020). But two years spent more or less indoors has changed everything from our personal styles to our sizes and gender expression. So what do we do with the clothes […]
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 […]
Updated 8th November, 2021: On 7th November, Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans announced they are launching discrimination action against the NHS, specifically their local Clinical Commissioning Group, Frimley. The CCG’s policy states that female same-sex couples must self-fund 12 rounds of artificial insemination, 6 of which must be IUI in a […]
Growing up, I found it difficult to escape the overwhelming, picture perfect, Instagram-filtered beauty standards that drowned out any semblance of reality. Add to that the dubious use of targeted ads and it’s no wonder many of us invented new ways to hate our bodies. Besides noses, lips and wrinkles, […]
Nearly half (48%) of young women aged 18 to 24 have received a sexual photo they didn’t ask for in the last year. New research by Bumble suggests the UK’s cyberflashing problem has worsened since 2018, when a YouGov poll found that 41% of millennial women had received an unsolicited […]
