Beauty Confidential: Your essential guide to getting smoky for summer
As unlikely as it sounds, the smoky eye is proving the look for summer. More typically associated with winter glamour, the look works extremely well with a bold summer wardrobe. And it’s a surprisingly easy trend to create at home.
Travel essentials: Keep your beauty regime going on the move
Our pick of the top travel essentials to keep your skin radiant and feeling fresh on the move.
Olay Professional: Stampede expected as £45 anti-wrinkle range goes on sale
Olay are about to launch their first ever range of professionally-inspired anti-ageing skin care, aptly called Olay Professional. The range sold out in 17 minutes in the U.S.
Father's Day gifts: Indulge your dad with a grooming gift
You don't have to struggle to find the perfect present for Father's Day as we've tracked down grooming gifts galore to make him look, feel and smell like a new man
Top-to-toe body wax: It's not just the price that will make your eyes water
Areas Leah Hardy got pruned included her eyebrows, lip, chin, underarms, full arm, including hands, full leg, including toes a Brazilian or Hollywood bikini wax and, ahem, her bottom.
Beauty confidential: Our pick of the summer skin-savers
We round up a bumper crop of new products that will get you glowing for summer...
Why rose scents are blooming this season...
Rose perfumes are the fragrance equivalent of the little black dress. They’re timeless, wearable day and night, elegant but still alluring.
Blondarexia: Lady Gaga and Jennifer Aniston sport latest bleached hair craze
Blondarexia followers (or should we say sufferers) include Jennifer Aniston, Mischa Barton and Rachel McAdams.
Younger hands: Miracle cream promises to reverse the aging process by 10 years in just six weeks
Even celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Madonna, who are known for defying the ageing process with their taut physiques, have been undone by their hands.
Beauty confidential: Get the lowdown on this summer's hottest trends
Our beauty experts pick the coolest looks and share their best tips and tricks to get you set for summer...
Expert guide: How to get a daytime smokey eyes look
This week, celebrity make-up artist Rozelle Parry’s step-by-step guide to creating a daytime smokey eyes look.
Justin Bieber won't be sued by Marc Jacobs over copycat fragrance bottle
The purple-tinted glass and pink rose lid bore many similarities to Marc Jacobs' much-loved Lola fragrance.
Dita Von Teese reveals her DIY beauty routine
Instead of relying on expensive beauticians, the 38-year-old admitted that she dyes her naturally blonde brows with a men's home hair dye kit.
Could science behind the Blood Type Diet be set to change the future of skincare?
Dr James D'Adamo - who pioneered the eating plan - has launched a beauty regime that promises radiant, soft, younger-looking skin.
Beauty confidential: Fake your way to being a bronzed beauty
Wondering how to pick the right fake tan to suit your skin? We have tested the newest products in a quest for the top tans this summer...
Justin Beiber teases tween fans with launch of new 'Someday' fragrance (but is the bottle a poor girl's Marc Jacobs Lola?)
Just when you thought Justin Beiber's influence on his teenage fans could not get any bigger, he's now deciding what they should smell like.
Beauty Confidential: Make yourself blossom with flower-power beauty
To celebrate the Chelsea Flower Show, we bring you the best in floral beauty products...
Would you pay $300 for a snakeskin manicure?
Terri Silacci, from Monterey, California, uses discarded skins, which are naturally shed by the animals, with a gel manicure for the unusual treatment.
Lady Gaga effect: Violent Lips launches temporary lip tattoos
Call it the Lady Gaga effect, but with make-up becoming increasingly outlandish, it was only a matter of time before lip transfers were developed.
Need a new scent? Try some candy: The confectionery that will leave you smelling like roses
Usually it's a dab of perfume or a spritz of deodorant that makes us smell good, but a new company believes that candy is the way forward when it comes to body fragrance.
Vodka, salt and lemon juice¿ and that¿s just for her hair: Real Housewife Kelly Bensimon¿s bizarre cocktail for glossy tresses
On a Friday night it's more common to be sipping a vodka cocktail than to be applying one to your hair.
Royal Wedding beauty products fit for a Princess
On the eve of the Big Day, Elsa McAlonan looks at the best Royal Wedding beauty buys...
How to create a stylish reading sanctuary in lockdown
Nooks for books can be created anywhere in the home
How vintage Ikea became a hit for fans of flat-pack chic
There’s more to the Swedish interiors giant than Billy bookcases
Traditional design ideas that give a contemporary bathroom a Moroccan feel
Style options distilled from a confluence of African, Arab and Mediterranean cultures
New zen — why interior design is looking to Japan
This season’s hottest trend takes in all things Japanese - from Macaque to Japandi
Five of the world’s best homes for sale for children
Running downstairs is b-o-r-i-n-g when you can slide or use a fireman’s pole instead
Let’s stop turning our homes into boutique hotels
Coronavirus puts into perspective the cult of perfection in interior design
Villa Majorelle: inside an Art Nouveau restoration
This cornucopia of vegetation in ceramic and bronze is the apotheosis of the style
Properties with literary connections
From an 18th-century farmhouse in the US to a traditional Deià-style home in Mallorca
The lilac in literature
The flower is a motif found in writers from Eliot to Proust to Turgenev
The chandelier made from recycled nitrous-oxide canisters
How discarded laughing-gas cylinders were used to create glitter from litter
Bedazzling four-poster beds
Humble, grand or fanciful — these designs have serious bed cred
The big idea behind the ‘tiny house’ movement
It offers a way to avoid mortgage debt and landlord enrichment — and live a scaled-back life
Garden ornaments? Roman statues yes, painted owls no
Vintage is best — chipped, stained and covered with lichen and moss
Inside one of Property Listings’ most-viewed homes for sale
Look behind the doors of a medieval Swiss castle that’s piquing much curiosity
Five of the world’s best homes for sale for self-sufficiency
From greenhouses to screenhouses, these properties will make your green fingers twitch
When bookshelves are more informative than the books
Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character
Rewilding — does it need a rethink?
Returning land and native species to nature grips the imagination. But not everyone is convinced
We’re all virtual gardeners now
In the face of lockdown, go online to tour the world’s best gardens and shop for bulbs
Mindfulness can Reduce Procrastinating While Working from Home
Practicing mindfulness, or the conscious awareness of emotions and sensations can lower rates of procrastination and distress, reports a new study. The
Awesome Family Staycation Ideas You can Use This Summer
Coronavirus pandemic has crushed travel plans and large group gatherings this year, but it doesn't mean you can't mentally escape for some fun with your family.
Mother's Day 2020: More Meaningful, Yet Difficult, During COVID-19 Pandemic
This Mother's Day, there are several limitations due to COVID-19 pandemic on what to do. Here are a few tips to share love and happiness with your Mom for the upcoming Mother's Day 2020.
Moderate Physical Activity Downs Time Spent in Hospital
Middle aged men and women are at lower risk of hospital admissions if they do moderate exercise, a new study suggests. Inactive participants in the
Non-traditional Social Strategies to Feel Connected
Non-traditional social strategies which include guilty pleasures were found to be effective at fulfilling critical social needs as family connections,
How to Make the Most of Your Groceries During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 lockdown is making people to stock foods in bulk at home. Having a tight budget, food shortage and taking fewer trips to the grocery store are
New Study Sheds Light on Human Creativity
Creativity is driven by the right hemisphere in musicians who are comparatively inexperienced at improvisation, revealed a study which was recently published in the journal NeuroImage.
Walking, Home Workouts Appear Safe Alternatives to Gym
Fitness and health experts advised gym freaks to hit the neighbourhood parks and make their home a place to work out with the growing COVID-19 scare. They,
Well Being and Healthier Lifestyle Without Facebook
Facebook usage pattern, well being, lifestyle of users were analyzed in a new survey using an online-questionnaire. The average time spent on facebook was a good hour.
What Do We Do With Our Germ-harboring Smartphones Amid Pandemic?
As the novel coronavirus becomes pandemic, people are focused on stopping the spread of germs through largescale quarantines and everyday best practices like hand washing.