04 May
Lauren Oakey looks back on the frosted lilac snogs of yore. School discos when I was 13 were all about my silver body, black miniskirt, silver cropped jumper with Disco Sindy lurex hair thread and Boots 17 Twilight Teaser lipstick. We all wore it, and I won’t lie, we felt pretty badass. It was bad news, Twilight Teaser. A silver and lilac frosted affair that made you look as if you were in the advanced stages of hypothermia. Boys...
01 May
Food columnist Shelly Preston on why she lost the wine and won back her skin. A couple of months ago I spent a few days in the Cotswolds with one of my most brilliant friends of 17 years. The first thing I noticed when I picked her up was her amazing all-giving glow. Gilly hasn’t touched a drop of alcohol since Sept 2012 and boy does it show. She looks incredible, less tired, more radiant – her old self. I...
29 Apr
Fiona Gibson wanted to be a beauty editor. Never mind that she hadn’t the first clue what one was. It was 1984 and a new teenage magazine, Just Seventeen, had launched. Living in Scotland, I was keen to move to London and be part of it. Trouble was, there didn’t seem to be any jobs going. Like every other budding journo I pored over the media jobs section in Monday’s Guardian until there it was – a Situation Vacant on...