“Doing things for yourself is powerful. It’s not selfish.” Kayla Itsines is pretty inspiring when it comes to workouts. The personal trainer and founder of SWEAT is considered the queen of high intensity interval training (HITT) and her 15.2 million Instagram followers are here for her words of wisdom. Sharing the […]
Welcome to Beauty & The Bag, a guide that keeps a close eye on high-value skin, hair and makeup trends aimed at Black consumers and questions whether it’s always worth spending your hard-earned coins. The words ‘budget’, ‘sacrifice’ and ‘cutting back’ have been mentioned more than once in my household […]
Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups that you’re too afraid to ask your partner — or maybe even your besties. Last time, relationship therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare, helped a reader whose Pelvic […]
Like lighting strikes and fingerprints, no two stretch marks are exactly alike. They can appear on your butt or hips or back or breasts or stomach or really anywhere your skin might stretch. The marks, which are technically scars, can reach up vertically or branch out like a tree or […]
Head to TikTok and you’ll find plenty of excellent relationship advice, but spend too much time in the hashtags #relationshipadvice and #relationshipgoals, you’ll discover a plethora of questionable stuff, too. The quick-fire nature of the social media platform doesn’t exactly allow for nuance, and one recent video that threw me […]
Welcome to Beauty In A Tik, where each week we put TikTok’s viral beauty hacks and innovative trends to the test. If I had money for every time a lip enhancing hack went viral on TikTok, I’d be sunning myself on a private beach right now. In the name of […]
When I saw an email subject line that read, ‘glass nails are trending‘, I was a little confused. I’ve heard of seaglass nail art: when you use a greenish-turquoise polish, thin it out, and add a matte top coat, making the nails look like pieces of seaglass washed up on […]
These days it’s hard not to follow any mention of Topshop with a tongue-in-cheek: “RIP.” I’m the first to feel a painful pang when I pass Big Topshop on Oxford Street and spy the old signage juxtaposed with Ikea branding (the Swedish chain bought the space last autumn, less than […]
“Nothing could better signify the fashions of Glasgow than the club culture the city has to offer and the people who get dressed up to enter these spaces,” says 22-year-old photographer Anna-Rose McChesney. A student at Glasgow School of Art, McChesney is discussing the inspiration behind her recent photo series, […]
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we’re tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We’re asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period – and we’re tracking every last penny. This week: “I’m 24 years old and I work full-time […]
