Layers may conjure images of feathery mullets and your mum’s ’80s curly perm but in 2020 they’ve undergone something of a transformation. No longer the type of haircut your hairdresser might push for to “take away some bulk”, layers are a trend in their own right, becoming one of the […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by rachel 🗝 (@caffeaulait) on Aug 5, 2020 at 10:08am PDT When lockdown was announced in March, students left their classrooms, not knowing when they would come back. While many have now returned to school, the future of formal education remains unknown. […]
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 am a 27-year-old psychology teaching associate at a […]
Earlier this year, I ran into an old colleague. When we worked together, years prior, we’d been friends – not best friends, but we’d never fought. The exchange was pleasant enough so when I left, I went to message them to say it was nice to catch up – only to […]
Heartbreak doesn’t just hurt, it often feels impossible. So many questions come along with the pain: How can I move on? How do I get through this? Will it ever get better? It will, promise. Anyone who’s come out the other side of a breakup knows that. But if you’re […]
If you’re trying to get pregnant, or even planning to try to get pregnant, you might make the assumption that being ‘super-fertile’ is a good thing. It suggests that having lots of babies comes naturally, right? Sadly it’s not quite that simple. Super-fertility (or ‘hyperfertility’ as you may also see […]
From checkerboard nails to yin and yang print nails, autumn 2020 isn’t exactly short of manicure trends to try. But that hasn’t stopped Instagram’s biggest nail artists from dreaming up the cutest (and most apt) nail art of the season. Enter: raindrop nails. View this post on Instagram A post […]
It’s officially cuffing season: The time of year when singles start coupling up, in the hopes of finding a partner to keep them company through the cruel winter months. But this year, cuffing season and the COVID-19 pandemic converge — and the pressure is on to lock down a quarantine boo […]
I have a distinct memory of the first time I squeezed a spot. I was about ten years old, standing on a stool and peering up at my face in the bathroom mirror, agitating a dark bump on my nose. After some prodding and poking I attempted to squeeze it, […]
The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were not the first time British people have taken to the streets to protest for their civil rights. If you don’t know this, it’s because Black British history is not properly taught in our schools. The British Black Panther movement was founded in […]
