Beauty Tips

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Eyes or lips? At Chanel’s couture show, loosely inspired by David Bowie and 18th-century fashion, makeup artist Lucia Pica threw out the rule that says you can’t have both. There is something glorious about looking “done”, the audacious sister of ...

I started in modelling around 2011 at a time when the fashion industry was really interested in androgyny, but there weren’t any conversations going on about trans models, apart from maybe Lea T, modelling for Givenchy. She was the exception ...

Styling Melanie Wilkinson, photography David Newby Main image: This season’s new perfumes in pictures. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian Tue 19 Feb 2019 10.00 EST

Let me presume for a moment that, like me, you are broadly disinclined to spend 15 to 20 minutes meticulously shaping your eyebrows into perfectly symmetrical, Instagram-worthy arcs, that you don’t so much need your eyebrows to be “on fleek” ...

“Make yourself at home,” the midwife said, as I hove into the birthing room like a galleon in full sail. Immediately, I ripped off my shirt, dropped my trousers, stepped out of my knickers and lay, utterly naked, across the ...