Beauty Tips

A secondhand diamond-encrusted Hermès bag has sold for £162,500 in London, becoming the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction in Europe. The 10-year-old bag, made of Nile crocodile skin and said to be in “grade-two condition” with no obvious ...

Mulberry’s UK sales have been hit in recent weeks as wealthy tourists favour Paris and Milan over London for their luxury shopping sprees. The British designer bags manufacturer said foreign tourists were choosing other European destinations because rival luxury brands ...

Can Marks Spencer become the high street’s sweetheart once again? That the British retailer is in financial trouble, with 100 stores to close in the next four years, is well-documented, as are claims that it has forgotten who its target ...

The perm – beloved of 80s footballers and your nan – is making a comeback. La La Land actor Emma Stone has done it; as has Lola Kirke, younger sister of Girls actor Jemima. Blake Lively seems to be channelling ...

Right, I’m here to tell you what the fashionable summer dress you need to buy this year looks like. I’m about to lay down the law on whether rose prints are more on trend than forget-me-nots, and explain whether a ...

The cosmetics retailer Lush has removed posters highlighting the misconduct of undercover police from the windows of all its stores after saying that shop staff had been intimidated by former officers. The chain told of the posters’ removal on Thursday, ...

This business has taught me that British people don’t much like the feeling of sun protection. If I got an hour’s sun for every time someone asked me if a greaseless facial sunscreen exists, then my summer could be counted ...

At the Marni show Pat McGrath painted on peaked blocks of eye colour, switching between sapphire, turquoise and emerald shadow. The clatter could be heard in Milan, as beauty bloggers sped to their laptops to experiment with oceanic shades. To ...

Darker skin scars more easily. I have scars from mostly fun wounds. Memories etched like island-shaped patches on to my skin. There’s the super-faint shadow, defiant on my right shoulder blade, from a ridiculous accident involving a hot tub, vintage ...

Name: Facial tattoos. Age: As old as ink. Appearance: Like some friends scrawled on your face while you were passed out. They’re not my friends any more. It was a permanent marker! A face tattoo is even more permanent. True, ...