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Have you ever looked at the back of your favorite makeup and wondered, “what is that ingredient and how does it affect my skin?” In our Ingredient Education series, we explore the skincare benefits of some of our most interesting ingredients. Let’s talk about the beauty and skin benefits of Avocado Oil!  A few years ago, the avocado “trend” began, and it has only picked up speed. It is labeled by many as a superfruit – yes, avocados are a fruit...
Olay asked me to try their new Skin Advisor app (available on their website here via mobile or tablet), designed to de-jargon skin type diagnosis and simplify your skincare regime. And being a sucker for sexy new technology, I immediately downloaded for a play. Using a makeup free selfie (no cheating) to identify areas of possible ageing concern (discolouration or wrinkles, for example), as well as areas where skin is ageing well, Skin Advisor mimics how the human brain works...
Comedy writer Sarah Morgan gets microbladed and finally sees what all the fuss is about I’m sort of obsessed with eyebrows. Eyebrows can do so much heavy lifting on a face (see: Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields, John Belushi-when-he-takes-off-his-sunglasses-in-Blues-Brothers, oh god oh god) whereas mine have never been much to write home about, unless you like letters about the patchy moustache favoured by Private Walker in Dad’s Army. Blame genetics, blame ill-thought-out teenage pluckings. They’re sparse. Look: I’ve never really got...