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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Calling all beauty obsessives: L’Oréal Paris and Elie Saab have joined forces on a seriously dreamy makeup collection. Consider this a gentle nudge to clear some space in your beauty stash ASAP, because you’re going to want everything. Over the past few months, the cosmetics giant and world-famous fashion brand […]
The anticipated increase in demand for plastic surgery in the wake of the pandemic is a phenomenon surgeons are calling the “Zoom boom.” Experts are finding that, when we stare at our own reflections all the time through mirrored video conferencing, we become hyper-aware of how tired we look — […]
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’m a 29-year-old marketing manager in the tech […]
Welcome to Beauty & The Beat, R29 Unbothered UK’s new beauty column. Each fortnight, we’re spilling the tea on the latest products made for Black women and gender nonconforming people across hair, makeup and skincare. When I was at school, my teacher confiscated the bottle of lotion I was using […]
“I am feeling anxious,” 30-year-old Mankiran Dhillon, who lives with her parents in Delhi, tells Refinery29. “Nobody was ready for this. Our country had a year to prepare and did nothing but hold huge rallies, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we are on our own.” The rallies Mankiran […]
For Ky, taking testosterone wasn’t ever “a lifelong decision”. At the age of 20, she started to take the hormone to get more masculine features. While she liked the physical effects, she didn’t like all of the social changes. After a few years, Ky started to wish she could be […]
