Beauty Tips

I try my hardest to live as if it’s Christmas all year long: I always want to spoil people I love; I always want to wear obscene jumpers; I want to fill my vision in twinkling lights, and invite everyone ...

Alexa Chung has long been a fan and regularly wears several at once. Ariana Grande has made a plain silver hair clip a signature, along with her high ponytail. But barrettes with a message are making the humble hair clip ...

For decades, I was turned off by nutty fragrances. Nuttiness is such a trademark of the gourmand fragrance family – all vanilla, chocolate and nut-brittle that make you whiff of Ferrero Rocher – that those of us resolutely outside of ...

I’m going to channel my inner 50s film star for a moment. The type who wears gigantic sunglasses, even in the rain. The type whose name is steeped in rumour because she oozes sheer sass and glamour and no one ...

Vinotherapy is a trend that operates on the most alien of concepts: leftover wine. Spas such as Ella Di Rocco in London offer a number of wine therapy treatments apparently designed to combat premature ageing. Thanks to the polyphenol found ...

Nigella Lawson is a joyful and triumphant salve at all times of year, but the food writer’s recipes and attitude to food are ripe for a Christmas binge. ’Tis the season, after all, of increased emotional labour for women and ...

The days when women are encouraged to cover up their grey hair until they are deemed old enough to allow their roots to show look to be numbered. The image-led social media site Pinterest has revealed that searches of “going ...

There’s a classic halloween episode of the Simpsons in which Homer receives a hair transplant from Snake, a criminal who has recently been executed. Slowly, Homer finds himself morphing into the bloodthirsty, chain-smoking jailbird: the hair is possessed. Homer, the ...

Sometimes it’s hard to party, verb. Sometimes the weight of having to enjoy oneself in a room of virtual strangers, especially at this time of year when darkness falls at four, is just too much. Which is where the party ...

You will all know by now that I’m addicted to a cold blast, that I get giddy from cold-water dips. I once heard that the reason that Pharrell Williams’s face looks so good is because he plunges it into ice ...