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Mascara police: don’t dare tell writer Dolly Alderton she’s over the limit.   I have a confession. I found out the other day that you’re meant to change your mascara every three months. I don’t. I buy a new mascara once a month and have done for ten years. On payday, the first thing I do is transfer my rent to my landlord, the next is to walk down to Boots to buy a L’Oreal Lash Architect in Midnight Black....
Threading, curling, Scouse brows and mascara face. Our man columnist Michael Hogan is deeply confused.   1. How much make-up you’re wearing Is my missus wearing none at all or has she just applied it so skilfully that I can’t tell? It’s a dark art, like witchcraft or “search engine optimisation”. Of course, all men think ‘natural’ is actually ‘none’, which makes for a rude awakening the first time you genuinely see her make-up free and think, “why are your eyes so much…further...
After years of feeling above it, writer Hadley Freeman finally has a supermodel crush. And she’s a Danish badass with birds’ nest hair   When I was a teenager, I never gave a whisker of a thought to models. Later, when I became a fashion writer and spent 14 weeks a year at fashion shows, I still didn’t really give much of a fig. While my colleagues all seemed to be on first-name terms with the models – “Ooh, Anja’s...