
31 Dec
More SHB contributors reflect on the past 12 months in life, and in beauty. SARAH MORGAN, WRITER Five key things, really. 1. According to RuPaul’s Drag Race, you can use lube as a primer. 2. American hair dyes are a bit bloody lively. On a work-trip to LA I went to a mysterious place called Hot Topic and bought Manic Panic hair-dye, which was all but a mythical vegan legend when I was a British teenager. Typical over-zealous American,...
30 Dec
Some SHB contributors reflect on the past 12 months in life, and in beauty. LUCY MANGAN, WRITER & CO-FOUNDER Big year for me, 2015. Big year. Got Netflix. Got an iPhone. Nearly downloaded an app. Worked out what #OITNB meant and watched all of Orange Is the New Black. On Netflix. You’d have thought I’d have been content to stop there, but no. Flushed with success, I embarked on the greatest journey of all – colour. On my face. Specifically,...
29 Dec
Paul Nicholas perms, sweaty polo necks, the wardrobe of a nun and the face of a Smurf. The SHB team confess to yet more style sins. Sali Hughes, Co-founder Yes that is a mullet, thank you for noticing. I’d like to claim it was born from indifference, a youthful insouciance and lack of appreciation for the art of hair and makeup, but I’d be lying. It was as calculated as a serial killer’s road trip, only with more dire consequences....