The friendships forged in the fire of capitalism are some that I look back on most fondly. As a teenager, I worked at a major toy store, where shifts were passed trading gossip from local schools and catching up on the love lives of my fellow retail workers. Graduating into […]
As a kid growing up in the early 2000s, Neena Rouhani used to envy the women who could wear belly chains and scarf tops popular at the time. For the then-nine-year-old, the styles of the era seemed like the epitome of adult sophistication and confidence. That said, they were far […]
Minor spoilers ahead. It only takes about five minutes into the season 2 premiere of Netflix’s Cheer to realise that this is going to be a very different season. When we last saw the Navarro College Bulldogs from Corsicana, Texas, they’d just won the 2019 Cheerleading Nationals (their 14th title), […]
The 2020s have seen some interesting movements in fashion. Some are understandable (looking at you, pearlcore) and others… a little more unexpected (thinking of this very specific Shrek green). And though much of the focus in 2021 revolved around controversial footwear and wildly impractical ’00s accessories, it’s now the humble […]
If you were to take a look inside my bathroom cabinet, you’d find tens of half-used beauty products that are nice enough but not so impressive that I feel compelled to use them to the last drop. One of the most common beauty buys occupying lots of space and not […]
“Create to-do list.” Tick! My life is pinched and sliced into series of lists, printed neatly in Muji notebooks with pretty pens and good intentions or punched unsleepingly into iPhone notes at 3am. I have been known to create a Google Sheet to-do list and conditionally format it to make […]
These days, it’s hard to keep up with the news. It feels like there hasn’t been a ‘quiet’ week since around 2015, before the EU referendum, Brexit, the pandemic and everything else that’s happened in between. So you’d be forgiven for not noticing a news story about the healthcare inequality […]
We’ve found the ones that won’t waste your time The best self-help books – where do you start? There are so many out there that it can make it impossible to choose one. Some claim to be the best self-help books for confidence, others promise that they’re the sacred text […]
*Adds to bookmarks* When you Google “fitness tips”, there are 2,730,000,000 results. Just let that sink in for a second – that’s over two billion. No wonder, then, that getting in shape as a beginner or adopting a new workout routine – like weight training for women, yoga, or running, […]
You are very, very welcome Each year Google releases its Year In Search report, which details the most asked questions from the previous year. And as ever, in 2021 there were quite a few burning beauty questions that people wanted answers to. It’s not really a surprise, whenever we want […]
