Sali Hughes on beauty: finally, a dry skin remedy with a touch of elegance
Buying lard-like tubs of boring moisturiser is not your only option – ungreasy, effective derma body lotions are now available I could write a thesis...
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Estée Lauder in talks on merger with Jean Paul Gaultier owner Puig
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Behind the rise of Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxing’ there are insecure young men who feel they don’t measure up | Jason Okundaye
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Show us your dome! Hot, balding, confident men are bringing sexy back | Rebecca Shaw
From Ed Harris to Stanley Tucci, women everywhere are desiring and dating balding men, fondly stroking their thinning manes The Oscars were this week, and...
A moment that changed me: I applied mucous-tinted mascara – and loved the reaction
I was 12 and it was the first makeup I had ever worn. While people’s responses ranged right up to genuine repulsion, they couldn’t quell...
The best foundations in the UK for every skin type – from glowy to full coverage, tested
Whether you want buildable or barely there, our beauty writer put 19 formulas through their paces – plus, makeup artists on how to apply it...
Hollywood’s idea of beauty once meant polished and slim, not altered and gaunt. This new look is unsettling | Brigid Delaney
When movie stars are no longer people we aspire to look like, does it spell the end of Hollywood’s cultural power? Once upon a time...
Sali Hughes on beauty: from blusher to lipstick – and even eyeshadow – a hint of cool purple adds polish
It’s good news for those of us who aspire to a brisk, windswept British aesthetic over the bronze California beach babe Allow me to be...
Individual grit won’t make men beautiful | Letters
The pressures to fix yourself are produced socially, by algorithms, markets, racism-coded aesthetics and status anxiety, says Dr Bruno De Oliveira Your piece on the...