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“I Was Ridiculed For All The Features I Now Love”: Two Black Women Speak Honestly About Self-Esteem & Body Positivity

“I Was Ridiculed For All The Features I Now Love”: Two Black Women Speak Honestly About Self-Esteem & Body Positivity

Human connection and feeling seen are vital to our sense of self and wellbeing. In a three-part series of virtual heart-to-hearts, as part of Refinery29’s Self-Service partnership with Dove, we’ve connected like-minded women to discuss beauty, body image, identity, visibility and activism in relation to self-esteem, to show the deep […]

The Best-Dressed Celebs At PFW Weren’t Front-Row — They Were At Home

The Best-Dressed Celebs At PFW Weren’t Front-Row — They Were At Home

Typically, the front rows at Paris Fashion Week would provide as much fashion inspiration as the runways. Any other year, Christian Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and more, would be packed with the likes of Rachel Brosnahan, Margot Robbie, Janelle Monae, Lupita Nyong’o, and Emma Chamberlain in the brand’s most standout […]

Bebe Rexha Tells Us The Real Reason She Dyed Her Hair Red

Bebe Rexha Tells Us The Real Reason She Dyed Her Hair Red

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 08: Bebe Rexha attends e1972 during New York Fashion Week on February 08, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images) Since coming onto the scene, we’ve hardly seen Bebe Rexha without her signature platinum-blonde hair. The singer briefly dabbled in baby […]

Sorry, But This Is Not How Air Works

Sorry, But This Is Not How Air Works

As Americans watched the highly anticipated first vice presidential debate on Wednesday, many health experts raised their eyebrows at the plexiglass barriers that was used to protect the vice presidential nominees from one another. That is how they were separating Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence (who we […]

Why Kerry Washington Is Done “Moisturising For The Red Carpet”

Why Kerry Washington Is Done “Moisturising For The Red Carpet”

Kerry Washington usually has a glam squad to thank for her countless stunning red carpet events or television appearances. But lately, she’s proven that she’s got the makeup skills to pull off equally glamorous looks at home. This week, the Little Fires Everywhere actress and producer greeted a group of […]

How Did Gilmore Girls Become About The Gilmore Boys?

In the 20 years since Gilmore Girls first premiered, a fierce debate has dominated much of the show’s discourse — one that, ironically, has little to do with Rory (Alexis Bledel) or Lorelai (Lauren Graham) Gilmore, the mother-daughter team at the centre of the series. Which of Rory’s three main […]

Layers Are Back & Here’s All The Haircut Inspiration You Need

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 […]

Meet Dark Academia, The Bookish Fashion Trend That’s All Over TikTok

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. […]

Money Diary: A Psychology Teacher & PhD Student On 38.5k

Money Diary: A Psychology Teacher & PhD Student On 38.5k

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 […]