Zahra 'Sooty' Hosseini's Fashion And Sci-Fi Inspired Call To Prayer
It's not often that a fashion show stops you in your tracks, taking you away to an altogether more emotional and reflective place. That's what Zahra 'Sooty' Hosseini's fashion performance, which...
View ArticleZoolandia: Why This Fashion Season Is All About Animals
From Burberry's Beasts to the Mulberry Squirrel, fashion is embracing creature comforts this Autumn. The relationship between fashion and nature has always been far more than a fling, but lately animal...
View ArticleDistractive Or Attractive?
Having spent many years in the image, style and fashion business - I'm attuned to visual cues. For instance, when some individuals focus on needing their personal style to be seen as creative, often...
View ArticleMake-Up Tips To Combat Allergy Face This Summer
Summer is a favourite time of year for many. It means picnics in the park, skimpy outfits, and outdoor festivals, but for the 13 million people in the UK that suffer from hay fever, it can mean months...
View ArticleI Slept In My Makeup For Two Days And This Is What Happened!
So, before we get to my experience of wearing makeup for two days straight, let me start off by saying that my initial idea was to attempt this for four days. However, I am not going to lie, I did...
View ArticleIf We're Striving For Equality, Shouldn't Men Wear Engagement Rings Too?
Photo Credit: Pixabay When my now husband dropped down onto bended knee on that cold, crisp morning three years ago, I thought my heart would burst with happiness. I had been offering up not so subtle...
View ArticleHow Much Has Men's Clothing Impacted Female Fashion?
In May this year, a Kickstarter page was created for a product called the RompHim -- a playsuit (or 'romper' as they are otherwise known) for men. The description posted on the page reads: "Concerts?...
View ArticleHomemade Beauty And Sustainability
PIXABAY Homemade beauty products are growing in popularity as consumers are becoming more conscious of the skincare products that they use and the ingredients that they contain. The environmental...
View ArticleA Guide To Men's Hair-Styling Products From Shampoo To Styling
Men are spending more on grooming than they have done historically, however this can be a lottery. Tesco, Boots and Superdrug may have rows and rows of brightly coloured inexpensive male grooming...
View ArticleHow To Design Fashion Which Sells...
How do you get a slice of a global industry valued at £23 trillion? From designers through to savvy entrepreneurs, it's not only the charismatic appeal of the fashion industry that continues to draw...
View ArticleHow To Create The Perfect Smartwatch (Unsolicited Advice For Swiss Watch Makers)
The smartwatch age is upon us. Rumours of its demise have been greatly exaggerated, and despite two years of negative headlines it seems that smart wrist devices are here to stay. But the Swiss watch...
View ArticleWhy Vegan Leather Is On The Rise
Findings by Grand View Research estimated that the global vegan leather industry is to be worth $85 billion by 2025. Just to compare, global sports footwear is currently valued at $90.4 billion....
View ArticleRedefining Female Innovation: Sustainable Fashion
It's funny how one can be so engrained in a journey that it takes someone else to point out how far you've come. I recently had my portrait taken by photographer Amelia Troubridge as part of a...
View ArticleWhy I've Binned All My Eau de Toilette - and You Should Too
That's it - I've binned all these fragrances and more because they just aren't worth the money I paid for them anymoreImage credit: Judith Lewis Fragrance is something that is often as individual as...
View ArticleModern Masculinity: Where Are We Going?
What does it mean to be masculine? Notions of masculinity are instilled upon us before we are even ready to leave the womb: our blue baby-grows are emblazoned with "Daddy's Champion" and football...
View ArticleFrom Hungover Grooms To High Maintenance Brides - Life Of A Professional...
For many women, weddings mean stress. How do you seat family members that don't get on with one another? What do you do with that bridesmaid who never responds to hen-do emails and how do you sleep at...
View ArticleBrands Should Celebrate Older Consumers
Olena Yakobchuk via 123RF images Saying a product promotes "anti-ageing" is no longer acceptable. In the battle against ageism this is something of a landmark victory. Age UK says that ageism, or age...
View ArticleWhy, As A Black Woman, I'm Proud To Have Modelled For The Braid Bar
I found myself in the worst quandary. As someone who cares about representation in the media, modelling for the Braid Bar didn't initially sit well with me. Up until recently, my response to any brand...
View ArticleFitbit Ionic: Five Things You Might Have Missed
Fitbit's new smartwatch is finally official, and set for our wrists this Christmas. There's a lot riding on the Fitbit Ionic - not least Fitbit's fragile share price, and investors are keenly waiting...
View ArticleThis Is Where Noel Fielding Got His Shirt
The arrival of Channel 4's incarnation of The Great British Bake Off sparked much discussion. Was it as good as the previous one? Were there too many adverts? Most importantly however, the internet...
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