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 […]
To mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Marley Hall aka @midwifemarley shares what to do if you have a pre-existing mental health condition and want to have a baby. She’s one of the UK’s leading midwives, so you’re in safe hands (Dakota Corbin/Unsplash) How to prepare for a baby is […]
To mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week we talk to the novelist and screenwriter about her new memoir, After the Storm. With searingly brutal honesty, Emma unpacks her son’s traumatic birth, the PND that almost destroyed everything, and why the myth of women having it all is making us sick […]
If you’re Googling ‘how to clean your sex toys’, chances are, you’ve recently invested in a new sex toy or vibrator and have zero clue how – and when – you need to be rinsing them in hot soapy water. There’s another question – do you rinse them in hot, […]
Renting dresses online has never been so trendy, literally, because now you can rent the best new season designer pieces for a fraction of the cost of buying them. Introducing Selfridges Rental, a new rental service curated by the UK’s favourite department store and powered by HURR. It will work […]
Giving your boobs the right protection is important: shop the best workout bras on the market now Making sure you’re wearing one of the best sports bras is important. Protecting your boobs during your workouts is as essential—heck, maybe even more essential—as wearing the right running trainers. That is, if […]
Cast your mind back to January when your Twitter timeline started to explode with memes about the stock market. No matter who you follow, you couldn’t escape the stock market explainer videos, GIFs of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street and grainy screenshots of Reddit feeds talking about […]
With spring showers (hopefully) coming to an end in the next week or two, it’s time we start planning for outfits that don’t solely consist of trench coats and Wellies. Cut-outs, short hems, and look-at-me colours are big trends this season, which is perfect timing now that more people are […]
