Beauty Tips

The battle between the natural brow – groomed but low-key – and the Instagram brow – defined, polished, dramatic – has been playing out on social media for a while. Personally, I love a bold Instagram brow, since my eyebrows ...

From balaclavas and baby dragons at Gucci to neon lights and a fluro revival at Prada, Observer fashion editor Jo Jones picks her 10 highlights from Milan Fashion Week autumn/winter 2018

A lot happened in 1970, the Beatles disbanded, the US invaded Cambodia, Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight to London, and men in the UK began buying toupées in droves. February 1970 marked the winter of bald men’s discontent, ...

Proud mullet wearers from across Australia have converged on a country pub in NSW’s Hunter Valley to crown a champion of the infamous hairstyle. Hundreds of people made the journey to Kurri Kurri’s Chelmsford Hotel on Saturday for the inaugural ...

I’m in love with a shower cap, and if you make it to the next sentence, I’ll be amazed. I know, shower caps are rubbish and ugly. Practical in notion, hopeless in reality, they not so much shield hair from ...

Lay down your tools, hang up your hairdryer, this season we’re allowing our hair to do whatever the hell it wants – within reason, of course. At Versus Versace they embraced models’ natural hair texture: from voluminous curls to shaggy ...

On a morning beach stomp the other day, a mate told me about Soigné’s eco nail varnishes. Since I stopped biting my nails (a symbol of anxious times) a couple of years ago, I love to paint my short nails ...

1 Rainbow is the new woke dress code With the red carpet blackout sweeping the board at the Baftas as well as the Golden Globes, the colour you wear is now a political statement. The only combination more woke than ...

Most people know of Judy Blame, who died on Monday, aged 58, for his era-defining work styling and art-directing his closest friend and creative ally, Neneh Cherry. Back then, in 1989 Neneh was Britain’s brightest, freshest riposte to the knock-off, ...

A researcher at the Schaffer Library in New York has discovered what is believed to be a lock of George Washington’s hair inside an 18th-century almanac. The strands are thought to have been given to the book’s owner by the ...