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Paying For It: This 29-Year-Old Says Buy Now, Pay Later Exacerbates Her ADHD

The cost of living is rising. Inflation is at its highest rate for 30 years. And it’s hurting young women, who face historically high housing and living costs. Enter: buy now, pay later (BNPL) – a phenomenon that allows young people to buy things they can’t afford. Thirty-nine percent of R29 readers […]

How To Quit Your Job In The Best Possible Way — From Those Who’ve Been There

How To Quit Your Job In The Best Possible Way — From Those Who’ve Been There

With the Great Resignation looming, and the added pressure of a global pandemic and the rise of hustle culture, many of us are just about ready to set our desks alight and head to the airport for a much-needed holiday.  But because of a fun little thing called consequences, we […]

Paying For It: Why This 27-Year-Old On £85k Uses Buy Now, Pay Later

The cost of living is rising. Inflation is at its highest rate for 30 years. And it’s hurting young women, who face historically high housing and living costs. Enter: buy now, pay later (BNPL) – a phenomenon that allows young people to buy things they can’t afford. Thirty-nine percent of R29 readers […]

5 London Fashion Week Trends To Shop Now

Amid some truly awful weather, London Fashion Week returned, admittedly with a somewhat slimmer schedule. While designers like Matty Bovan, Simone Rocha and Molly Goddard were back to show in person, big hitters like Burberry, Alexander McQueen and JW Anderson were absent (although that did allow extra focus on some […]

I’ve Always Been A Crier – Now I’m On Antidepressants & I Can’t Shed A Tear

On Saturday I am close to tears for the first time in weeks. I can feel them blooming behind my eyes as I watch, of all things, the season one finale of Ugly Betty. “Somewhere” from West Side Story swells as Betty’s sister, Hilda, learns that her fiancé, Santos, has […]

The Ordinary’s First Shampoo & Conditioner Really Are Something

When it comes to easy, affordable and truly effective products, The Ordinary is pretty much unrivalled. This year the brand has expanded its offering to include the Salicylic Acid 2% Anhydrous Solution and relaunched a cult classic (Salicylic Acid 2% Solution, £5.10) to help combat our pandemic-induced skin gripes. But […]

Everyone In Love Is Blind Just Wants Their Parter To Be Obsessed With Them

Everyone In Love Is Blind Just Wants Their Parter To Be Obsessed With Them

This Is What Keeps Me Up At Night is a series dedicated to trending memes, pop culture moments and film/TV scenes that stir the very foundations of our being and stop us from getting a single peaceful night’s sleep.  Must love dogs. Must be a certain height. Must not have […]

The Problem With Inventing Anna, According To Scammer’s Former Friend Rachel Williams

Since it premiered earlier this month, Netflix’s Inventing Anna has reignited our fascination with all things scammer. Based on Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People”, the nine-episode series is a dramatisation of a real-life fraud story that rocked the internet in 2018. […]