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Body Shop stans, assemble! We have collated the best the brand has to offer to optimise your bathroom cabinet. But before you start shopping, here are a few ‘did you knows’. This cruelty-free, British brand was the first international cosmetics brand to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first

If you’ve been considering updating your interiors, there really never has been a better time than right now. Think about – with no distractions, weekends are the perfect time to browse all the best furniture sites plus you’re saving money on your commute/morning latte/weekly wine night for that big furniture purchase – just as you’ve

Maybe I’m just getting old or maybe it’s because we’ve spent roughly five months of the past year primarily confined to our houses (I’m praying it’s the latter) but my friends, colleagues and myself all seem to be spending a good portion of our pay checks on grown-up homeware buys. Sure, a fabulous new coat

There’s no better time than a national lockdown to test out the coolest new skincare/makeup/hair trends and snazzy innovations in beauty tech from the comfort of your own home. That said, there’s nothing more frustrating than spending upwards of £100 on a snazzy new hair treatment or at-home facial system, only to find out it

After a year that’s tested way more than just the limits of our Wi-Fi, wellness has taken on an even greater role in our health and wellbeing – delivering a much-needed feel-good factor and, let’s be honest, some even more needed coping strategies for everyday life. And that’s exactly why we’ve chosen to celebrate the

All eyes are on incoming Vice President Kamala Harris and the new First Lady of the United States of America, Dr Jill Biden, today on 20th January as Joe Biden is – at last – sworn in as US President. Though this year’s inauguration looked very different to normal thanks to the pandemic and the 6th

If you’ve been on the Netflix homepage, gone on the internet or spoken to another human this week, chances are, you’ve heard of Bling Empire. The new binge-worthy reality show – hailed as a hybrid of Crazy Rich Asians and Selling Sunset – follows a group of extremely wealthy, cross-generational Asian and Asian-American friends as

Subscription boxes reign supreme as the ultimate gift that keeps on giving – whether that’s for yourself (guilty) or a loved one. Although we’ve already revealed the best beauty subscription boxes and coffee subscription services, we thought it high time we revealed the best subscription boxes with UK delivery, whatever you want to find inside.

If you haven’t heard of Bling Empire by now, it’s the latest reality TV series to drop on Netflix that has got everyone talking. It follows a group of Asian and Asian-American friends who live in LA, are impossibly rich and basically go around LA doing the things that impossibly rich people do. Yes, it’s

For many years, the cosmetics industry as a whole has been primarily targeted towards white people, with treatments marketed as addressing predominantly Caucasian skin concerns. By doing so, there was an underlying assumption that Black people don’t want or need injectable treatments like dermal fillers and Botox and as a result, they were largely left

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life… and organic apple essence just doesn’t quite make the cut anymore. Since hand-sanitiser became the headlining product of 2020, anti-bac and bleach has become an integral part of our lives. Out of necessity, we’ve had to readjust our focus – and our beauty

As we find ourselves in yet another lockdown, many of us are looking for ways to cope with the myriad mental health implications – loneliness, health anxiety, financial insecurity. It’s no wonder then that many of us turn to drinking. In fact, a recent study from Drinkaware found that 26% of us drank more alcohol during

If there’s one thing we can thank Coronavirus for, it’s that we’ve all started to really appreciate the people in our lives – and is there anyone more deserving of our appreciation than our mums? Whether the past (and current) lockdowns have kept you apart or meant you’ve spent more time together than ever before,

Nobody enjoys having a conversation about STDs. We find it embarrassing, there’s so much stigma around them, so we are often nervous about being checked out. However, understanding the link between an STD and the impact they can have on your future fertility could be all the motivation you need. All too often we only

After years dealing with microaggressions working in corporate spaces as a content writer, Escher Walcott took the plunge in 2017 into a freelance career, free from discriminatory judgement in the office that left here feeling anxious and insecure. ‘Your hair looks like pubes’: The microaggressions that have shaped my life as a black woman “You

On a Friday afternoon in the middle of January – when we should all be squirreling away for the end of the working week – there are roughly 580 tweets an hour about Bridgerton. After all, there is so much to say. From the costumes and the characters to the Duke with his… spoon… the

It’s the true-crime BBC drama that’s taken over our screens this new year, one that’s actually based on the events of a murderer who targeted backpackers throughout Asia in the 1970s, along what was called the ‘hippie trail’. While The Serpent might be giving us a dose of lockdown entertainment (of the intense kind, you

It’s exactly one month until February 14 and if you’re feeling a bit glum about the whole thing (cabin fever, lockdown 3.0, yawn, yawn, yawn) Savage X Fenty‘s new Valentine’s Day collection might just perk you RIGHT up. In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. Open my cookie

If there’s anything that’s going to get us through lockdown – or any future periods of self-isolation – it’s Netflix. The streaming giant kept us well and truly entertained through the last two national lockdowns and now, it’s announced its full movie slate of original films for 2021 as well as the fact it’ll be dropping

Is your mascara Leaping Bunny approved? Does your cleanser have the Soil Association stamp of approval? What about the Fairtrade International’s (FLO) trademark? When it comes to our beauty products, there are a few dependable signs that demonstrate the brand values from whether or not they test on animals to whether they use organic ingredients,