During any other year, the whole ‘cuffing season’ thing wouldn’t make me bat an eyelid, but this time it’s different and the stakes are higher.
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What is ‘good hair’ anyway? It depends who you’re asking. If we’re basing it on the mainstream, and let’s be honest - typically white - hair product ads and magazines spreads, it would probably mean hair which has volume, shine and a smooth and silky texture.
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The tampon tax — just one item on a long list of anti-women policies that should have been left behind in the Stone Ages — has finally been abolished. Its a long overdue step — and while we have our attention on female reproductive organs, can we have a quick chat about contraception?
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Anyone who has any recollection of the 2000s will remember the media circus that surrounded Britney Spears. Now the release of the New York Times’ documentary Framing Britney Spears has served as a stark reminder as to just how bad it was, not just for her but for any young woman in entertainment who didn’t play by the rules.
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It’s difficult to imagine a living person more integral to the cultural psyche than Oprah Winfrey. If the US had a monarchy, Oprah Winfrey would be its Queen — with an endorsement from her akin to a kind of showbiz knighthood.
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An Australian police commissioner has single-handedly solved every woman’s concerns surrounding safety and sexual violence with one innovative suggestion. A consent app. Why didn’t we think of it before?
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I think about Harry Styles a lot. More specifically I think about masculinity and how he’s become one of the main players credited for making it possible to share blouses and platform disco boots with your boyfriend without it being a big deal.
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“Who IS she? Who IS she? Where did you find her?” You probably already have the mental image right now. A tiny shrill blonde in a bikini, with arms flailing and fury etched across her face. It was a reality TV moment that would go down in history, viral before memes were even a thing.
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With black and ethnic minority workers facing a Covid unemployment crisis, many of us want to do more to support black businesses but have little more than word of mouth to point us in the right direction. This is where online marketplace Wakuda comes in.
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Just so we’re clear, my sigh of relief was as loud as everybody else on bated breath, after what felt like 40 days and 40 nights of electoral vote counting.
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How often should you be checking your breasts for lumps and what exactly should you be looking out for?
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Half an hour into rolling around in the grass, I realised that my date didn’t speak English. We had met at a random bar in Leicester Square the night before and somehow I’d failed to understand that when he’d said he was Italian he had really meant Italian – as in born and raised, just moved to London, not a word of English spoken Italian.
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The life of the ‘Hottentot Venus’ still feels familiar for those used to being gawked at.
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As the legendary Ms Patti Labelle presented the Billboard Woman of the Year Award to Ariana Grande late last year, she referred to Grande as “that little white black girl” – a statement that was met with a resounding “yasss” from black Twitter stans who were already way ahead of the soul icon.
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Joe Wicks. The nation’s hero. Here to rescue children from a sedentary lifestyle during the coronavirus lockdown, and give parents a blissful thirty minutes of respite each morning.
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The past week has seen an outpouring of grief and outrage following the death of George Floyd - an unarmed black man - by a police officer in Minnesota.
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Do you know your love language? If your answer is “no” or “what does that even mean?” then you can find out right here. There are five love languages, each of which outline a different method that people gravitate to when it comes to the ways they like to demonstrate or receive love.
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Self-isolating for the indeterminable future - though necessary - is a less than ideal situation for anyone.
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Whether you're a drag queen or a doctor, everybody's makeup bag has a story to tell. Compact Report takes a look inside people's cosmetic toolkits to see what they say about our lives—broken palettes and all. This week, 25-year-old online marketing executive Natasha Mwansa, from London, takes us inside her makeup bag.
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Last week marked the beginning of Ramadan, a religious festival which Muslim communities all over the world observe as a month of prayer, fasting and spending time with family.
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I remember watching Kanye West perform “All Day” at the 2015 Brit Awards. The powerful image of so many unapologetically amped black men in black hoodies – so many of whom are heavyweight names in the UK grime and rap scene – was something to behold.
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I'd timed my first listen of CTRL just right. It was four in the morning and I was being driven to Denpasar Airport to catch an early morning flight to Singapore. The streets were dark and empty but enchanting in their foreign nature - a perfect backdrop for the contemplative mood SZA's newest offering was about to spin me into.
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