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Frame your face with great standout brows | Funmi Fetto

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Some people are born with brows so luscious, if reincarnated they’d come back as a Persian rug. They are the ultimate face framers. Brows that are sparse can be fixed (I love beautician Sherrille Riley – nailsandbrows.me – as does ...

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Ade Samuel: ‘At the start of my career, I received lots of nos’

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The Oscars is such a huge moment but when it comes to styling my clients, it comes down to how best to create a story with clothes. The moment that the new year begins, my team and I begin planning ...

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Oscars red carpet in pictures: from Lady Gaga to Spike Lee

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Matt Fidler Leah Harper Morwenna Ferrier Lauren Cochrane Main image: Best Actress nominee Lady Gaga. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Sun 24 Feb 2019 21.45 EST First published on Sun 24 Feb 2019 19.51 EST

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Marie Kondo, megastars and masturbatory congratulation: my night at the Oscars

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The question was not: would the Oscars be bad this year? For the past six months, and in particular the past six weeks, the question was: would this year’s Oscars be so butt-clenchingly, fist-gnawingly, eye-rollingly, hair-tearingly bad that the whole ...

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Red-carpet fashion at Oscars 2019: ‘A bright pink confetti explosion’

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In the piñata that is Oscars night, it’s not till the party gets started that you find out what is truly happening. When things get wild is when it all comes tumbling out. This feels particularly true if you watch ...

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The hair-raising hipsters of Baghdad – in pictures

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You see these gravity-defying quiffs everywhere in Iraq’s capital: on reception staff in the secure hotels, on waiters in cafes and on the youths who gather in Zawra amusement park on Friday afternoons. Often teamed with drainpipe trousers and a ...

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Jess Glynne’s no-makeup stunt at the Brits was trite, skin-deep feminism

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Ladies, prepare to be inspired, empowered and generally wowed. You see, I did a courageous thing this morning: I left the house without makeup. Strangers stared as I passed by, moved by my bravery. Some even burst into tears. Actually, ...

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New York is right to ban hair discrimination. Now how about the UK? | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

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New York City’s new legal guidance on discrimination based on hairstyle is a thing of beauty. It points out that “there is a widespread and fundamentally racist belief that black hairstyles are not suited for formal settings, and may be ...

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Line up: the season’s best new eyeliners – in pictures

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From pens with serious staying power to liquids that promise a slick finish, our beauty writer picks the best tools for the perfect cat eye Read more from the spring/summer 2019 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement

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The best treatments for body breakouts | Sali Hughes

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A 12-year-old friend is experiencing body breakouts so painful that she’s unable to carry her school backpack as designed. A number of my children’s mates are suffering, not to mention all the adults who write to ask about “bacne”. The ...

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