Diane Ackerman 
Women claim to have found the “perfect” face cream that gets them compliments on their skin. The L’Oreal Revitalift Filler+ Hyaluronic Acid Anti Ageing Day Cream with SPF50, usually £24.99, is formulated with micro-filler hyaluronic acid, promising filler-like results without injections – and it’s down to just £10 at Boots. The offer is part of … Read more
This season, Kozaburo Akasaka photographed his lookbook images in and around Canal Street on a cool—and it must be said, hot—cast of characters that includes both friends and people he admires. “Until now I’ve been kind of focusing on the visual representation and styling as things that are more out of this world,” he explained … Read more
It’s hard to explain how different menopause is from what you’re picturing… Because when you’re 11 or 12, you learn about fertility as a simple egg-dropping span of years bookended by the gentle onset of menstruation at the front and its gentle cessation at the back. And your first clue that this is not the … Read more
Very early in life, I perfected one skill: I can carry four pints at once. I put them in a straightforward quadrant; nothing dumb like balancing one on top. I have an incredible hand span, but also very pouchy, sausage-like fingers, qualities not much prized by the checklist of female allure, but extremely useful for … Read more
When it comes to choosing a baby monitor for your little one, there is one brand name that comes up time and time again. The popular CuboAi device is the Bugaboo of monitors and has saved countless parents precious sleep. The device has an innocent “tweeting” sound when the baby awakens, has its mouth and … Read more
My first experience with Dickey at Hair Rules (828 9th Ave #3FL, New York, NY 10019) was years ago when I was a baby beauty editor. For years, he has been a go-to for natural hair both on magazine shoots and for editors in the industry. He even wrote a book all about caring for … Read more
Queen Camilla was the epitome of elegance today as she arrived in Guernsey for her and King Charles’s second day of their whistlestop tour of the Channel Islands. The King and Queen, who were in Jersey on Monday, attended a special sitting of Guernsey’s Parliament today, in what is their first visit to the two … Read more
The best history podcasts actually have a lot to say about the present. After all, as novelist Pearl Buck once poignantly put it: “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” With current global affairs shifting at an ever-quickening pace and an important election on the horizon, there’s never been a better … Read more
The other day, I learned a new-to-me word… I was lying in bed watching My Lady Jane, when one of the words hit me like a truck: detumescence. The main characters were lying in bed, after sleeping together, and the narrator said, “Should she tell Guildford [some bad news] now and perhaps sour this blissful … Read more
Dear Ugly, I’ve had hereditary eye bags under my eyes since I was a kid, and I’ve dealt with people telling me that I look tired since I can remember. I’ve tried every eye cream and concealer under the sun, and nothing has hidden them or “cured” them. My mother recently got a blepharoplasty [eyelid … Read more
