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Social Media Has Always Been An Outlet For Grieving. The Pandemic Made It An Essential One.

Social Media Has Always Been An Outlet For Grieving. The Pandemic Made It An Essential One.

When my grandfather passed away in 2009, I posted a status on MySpace that read, “rip grandfather <3”. Looking back, it seems cringey and performative — it’s not like he could see my status, and I wasn’t friends with anyone in my family on the platform (as a 13-year-old, I […]

I Changed My Name When I Got Married, & I’ve Felt Weird About It Ever Since

I Changed My Name When I Got Married, & I’ve Felt Weird About It Ever Since

Two years ago, I got married and took my husband’s last name, adopting my original surname as my middle name and dropping my birth-given middle name altogether. My husband seemed mostly apathetic about me doing this. He was flattered that I wanted to take his surname, but wouldn’t have been […]

I Tried TikTok’s One-Minute Messy Bun Hack & I’ll Never Wear My Hair Down Again

Welcome to Beauty In A Tik, where each week we put TikTok’s viral beauty hacks and innovative trends to the test. By now you know that TikTok’s beauty hacks are game-changing. There’s the viral five-minute face lifting trick (which takes slack skin and makes it supple), heatless hairstyling (using socks […]

I Tried £180 Worth Of Trinny London Makeup. Here Are My Honest Thoughts

I Tried £180 Worth Of Trinny London Makeup. Here Are My Honest Thoughts

Trinny Woodall is a household name. You most probably know the television presenter and host as one half of What Not To Wear‘s Trinny and Susannah, where it’s fair to say that fashion was her main forte. More recently, Trinny has branched out into beauty with her namesake makeup brand, […]

Why Wasn’t I Warned How Much My Brain Would Change During Pregnancy?

Emma Jane Unsworth is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter whose novel Animals is now a major motion picture. In her first nonfiction work, After The Storm, Emma takes a humour-filled but unflinching look at how the birth of her first child in late 2016 led to her developing postnatal depression, […]