Beauty Tips

HM is to change its UK womenswear sizes after years of complaints from customers that the clothes are smaller than expected. “We are taking the steps to change our womenswear measurements to be in line with UK sizing, for example, ...

Love Island has it all – sun, sex, suspiciously orange men, and now, shopping. Last week, the reality TV show announced that this year it will partner with the high-street fashion brand Missguided, not only to style the contestants, but ...

Is there no end to the evil that is avocado toast? Not content with keeping Generations Y and Z off the property ladder by trapping them in salary-hoovering brunch-addiction and destroying the environment in the Mexican state of Michoacán, where ...

In a fashion fan’s mind, the name Kate Spade immediately transforms into “kate spade”, spelled out in New Baskerville typeface, underscored by “NEW YORK” and surmounted by a nifty little deck-of-cards ace. That was the logo on the labels inside ...

Elizabeth Arden, ruler of a beauty empire with far-flung outposts an over the world, flew from New York this week to see her horse, Tempest, run fourth in the Derby. This small and lively lady of Scottish-Canadian parentage dedicated herself ...

“One of my clients is 99,” says Kelly Antony. “She never wore makeup all her life and now she’s probably one of the most glamorous ladies in the care home.” Antony works as a beautician in care homes across south ...

Masih Alinejad unties her hair, and a sea of corkscrew curls cascades down her shoulders. It looks amazing, but the significance of Masih’s hair isn’t looks – it’s politics. Masih is an Iranian activist who has spent her life fighting ...

Britons are putting themselves at risk of sunburn, long-lasting skin damage and even cancer as a result of their ignorance about how to choose and use suncare protection, England’s senior pharmacists have warned. Amid rising skin cancer rates in the ...

How can older women, even fiendishly brainy, internationally celebrated feminist academics, expect respect from, in particular, younger women, if they spout embarrassing, offensive, outdated claptrap? Many will have heard by now of Germaine Greer’s remarks about rape at the Hay ...

I find myself in the hitherto unprecedented position of agreeing with Michael Gove and, even less plausibly, on the matter of skincare. The environment secretary wants to ban single-use plastic polyester wipes, legislation I would welcome not only because stupid ...