Tag: beauty

How Pole Dancer Cami Árboles Learned to Get Out of Her Own Way

How Pole Dancer Cami Árboles Learned to Get Out of Her Own Way

If Cami Árboles could travel through time, she would deliver a pertinent message to her younger self: “Stop gatekeeping yourself.” She could have used this advice as a pre-med student daydreaming about creative projects or when she was talking herself out of taking a pole dancing class. The words could […]

Your Horoscope This Week: 20th March to 26th March, 2022

Your Horoscope This Week: 20th March to 26th March, 2022

It’s the slast week of March and the beginning of Aries season with the Sun moving into Aries on the 20th and, like all things Aries, making itself known. It may be getting hot in here and somewhat warmer outside but that doesn’t mean that the days ahead are free […]

The Biggest Makeup Brand Of Our Teens Is Back – But Have We Outgrown It?

The Biggest Makeup Brand Of Our Teens Is Back – But Have We Outgrown It?

The year is 2003. I’m strutting to my local Boots in low-rise jeans adorned with butterflies, a satin tank top and patent white pumps. I’m allowed to spend my £5 pocket money (earned through household chores) on my first ever makeup products. It’s a no-brainer: I head straight to 17. […]

Has Main Character Energy Gone Too Far?

When news broke that Putin had invaded Ukraine, individuals around the world began questioning how they could help victims of the crisis. Former 90210 actress AnnaLynne McCord had the answer. As she expressed in her (deep breath) spoken word poetry video, if only she had been Putin’s mother, her love […]

Painkillers Are Addictive But I Have No Other Option

Jo, a 34-year-old living in London, was first prescribed co-codamol after suddenly developing back pain. Her doctor insisted she must have hurt herself in some way and so she was given a short prescription for 30 500mg tablets, the dose prescribed for moderate to severe pain, and sent on her […]

Instagram Predicts The Biggest Makeup Trend For Spring

Instagram Predicts The Biggest Makeup Trend For Spring

PARIS, FRANCE – MARCH 07: Heart Evangelista wears earrings, a black V-neck tank-top, a pale blue suede belted long coat, a beige oversized short sleeves coat, a blue matte leather LV embossed monogram print pattern handbag from Louis Vuitton, silver rings, outside Giambattista Valli, during Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear […]

Not Your Mother’s Maternity Clothes: The Pregnancy Fashion Revolution Is Here

Not Your Mother’s Maternity Clothes: The Pregnancy Fashion Revolution Is Here

Brittny Brewer had a strong sense of style before becoming pregnant for the first time in 2017. But throughout her first two pregnancies, Brewer says she ended up “losing” herself fashion-wise. Instead of wearing streetwear-minded, trendy outfits, she found herself living in stretchy leggings and maternity clothes that had little […]

The Cult Bag That Defined The ’00s Is Officially Back

The Cult Bag That Defined The ’00s Is Officially Back

As we make peace with the revival of ’00s fashion — from the controversial low-rise jean to the welcome return of the Fendi Baguette bag, we’re now getting ready to reacquaint ourselves with another old friend: the Balenciaga City Bag. Released back in 2001, it allegedly wasn’t seen as commercially […]

Light Years Ahead: Why We’re Riding Fashion’s Futurism Wave

Light Years Ahead: Why We’re Riding Fashion’s Futurism Wave

In the 1960s, prolific French designer Pierre Cardin famously said “The dresses I prefer are those I invent for a life that does not yet exist.” But our visions of ‘future’ dressing haven’t budged too much in the decades since. Even now, in the age of self-driving cars and space tourism, […]