Travel

Where I’ve been and of course the “Bucket List”

I Found My Ancestral Home In Barbados During Crop Over & It Changed My Life

I Found My Ancestral Home In Barbados During Crop Over & It Changed My Life

“It’s her!” I bellowed as I ran through a crowd full of glistening brown dancing bodies covered in glitter and fevers. I was in Barbados for its Crop Over Festival and I was dragged through the Grand Kadooment Day parade as soca music thundered in my ears and people “jump […]

Salary Story: I Always Find Out What The Maternity Package Is

Salary Story: I Always Find Out What The Maternity Package Is

In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into […]

The Best Beauty Advent Calendars For Christmas 2024 So Far

The Best Beauty Advent Calendars For Christmas 2024 So Far

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16 Autumn Wedding Guest Dresses For Fancy Affairs & Outdoor Ceremonies

16 Autumn Wedding Guest Dresses For Fancy Affairs & Outdoor Ceremonies

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Your Horoscope This Week: 25th To 31st August

Your Horoscope This Week: 25th To 31st August

This final week of August will be somewhat of a doozy because we’re experiencing the final days of Mercury retrograde, and then the post-shadow period begins (which will be felt until mid September). We’re also in the final  stretch of Venus’ transit through Virgo, which ends on the 29th. When […]

Beauty Pie Perfumes Are Criminally Underrated — & We Love These 8

Beauty Pie Perfumes Are Criminally Underrated — & We Love These 8

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Money Diary: A Freelance Content Manager On £45,000

Money Diary: A Freelance Content Manager On £45,000

Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last penny. This week: “I’m a 31-year-old freelance content manager living in south Yorkshire. I moved here with my partner, […]

From Demure Outfits to Quiet Luxury, None Of This Is New

From Demure Outfits to Quiet Luxury, None Of This Is New

Living in 2024 means being exposed to a constant stream of micro-trends, internet aesthetics, and viral videos. This month’s latest is TikTok creator Jools Lebron’s satirical spiel about being “very demure” at work, from her makeup choices to her non-revealing top. In three weeks, the video has gained 40 million […]

Are UK Dating Shows Finally Giving Black Women A Fair Shot At Finding Love?

Are UK Dating Shows Finally Giving Black Women A Fair Shot At Finding Love?

As Love Is Blind UK approaches this weekend’s season finale on Netflix, the question of whether Black women should participate in these kinds of programmes persists. Historically, Black women have been receiving the short end of the stick on British reality dating shows for decades. From Take Me Out to […]