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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 […]

TikTok Thinks Retinol Can Make Hair Grow Faster — Here’s What The Experts Say

TikTok Thinks Retinol Can Make Hair Grow Faster — Here’s What The Experts Say

With an issue as common, complicated, and emotionally charged as hair loss, it’s important to be discerning about a TikTok video that promises a “fix” in under seven seconds. Any doctor, dermatologist, or trichologist (a hair and scalp specialist) will tell you that addressing hair loss and thinning is more […]

Starface Is The Instagram-Worthy Skincare Brand Taking On Your Acne

Starface Is The Instagram-Worthy Skincare Brand Taking On Your Acne

If I say ‘hot new beauty brand’, what do you imagine? Perhaps no-makeup makeup, just a lick of mascara and lip balm? A minimal colour scheme, probably in millennial pink? Perhaps fronted by an impossibly glossy A-list darling with their own painfully cool aesthetic? Well, how about highlighter-yellow packaging, dedicated […]

Help! I’m In A One-Sided Open Relationship

Help! I’m In A One-Sided Open Relationship

Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups that you’re too afraid to ask your partner — or maybe even your besties. Today, relationship therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare, LMFT, helps someone who wants to take their open […]

TikTok Told Me To Wash My Face With A Makeup Brush & It Actually Worked

TikTok Told Me To Wash My Face With A Makeup Brush & It Actually Worked

Welcome to Beauty In A Tik, where each week we put TikTok’s viral beauty hacks and innovative trends to the test. Trying TikTok’s viral beauty hacks every week means I’ve put a fair amount of questionable things on my face. I’m talking lube (apparently it makes an excellent makeup primer), […]