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The fringe is back and on Margot Robbie front row at Chanel for Paris Fashion Week.

Fringes are back. These are the best styles to copy from fashion week

Undone hair and make-up led the trends on the autumn/winter runways.

  • Stephanie Darling

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She’s the hairdresser loved by Dua Lipa. Now, anyone can try her range of products

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate some of the names behind the brands we love.

  • Stephanie Darling
1982 saw the release of  Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir EDT, an intoxicating aroma for men that is still going strong.

These 10 fragrances will take you back to all the key moments in your life

The market is awash with new fragrances, but there’s something special about a nostalgic scent.

  • Stephanie Darling
Hailey Bieber is known for perfecting the natural makeup look.

Everyone is chasing ‘second skin’ make-up. This is the secret

The best foundations for achieving natural-looking skin.

  • Stephanie Darling
Lily Collins is the ultimate brow inspiration.

Farewell to the ‘rigid’ brow: How to get this season’s softer arches

Experts are taking a softer approach to enhancing one of our more important facial features

  • Stephanie Darling
Project Pan is a viral TikTok trend encouraging people to use entire contents of cosmetics products.

How to make your make-up last longer without buying anything new

A viral trend where people show off well-used beauty products, is exploding on social media. Here’s how the experts use every last drop of their beauty products.

  • Jolie Kerr
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For nails, it’s a question of extremes. For day, soft putty shades like beige, porcelain and clotted cream are trending.

From $12 nail polish to a $900 treatment, these are the top beauty trends for 2026

Gaze into the glass-skin ball to see what’s trending in the beauty sphere.

  • Stephanie Darling
Face wraps, beef fat and perms: 2025 was a whirlwind of wild beauty trends.

Salmon sperm facials and the return of the perm: The best, wildest and weirdest beauty trends of 2025

From the benign to the worrying, trends that hit the spotlight this year proved once again that we will pay almost anything in pursuit of beauty, youth and keeping up with K-Pop stars or the Kardashians.

  • Nell Geraets
Always shop for perfume in the morning, when your sense of smell is at its most acute, and don’t rule out anything, even those that sound unappealing, until you’ve smelled them.

If your fragrance feels too heavy for summer, try a perfume oil or this celebrity spritz

A change of season is always a great time to update your perfume collection.

  • Stephanie Darling
Beauty makes a great Christmas gift if you stick to crowd favourites.

Need a gift for a beauty lover? The best finds, starting at $30

If you’re considering a beauty Advent calendar, these are the ones worth buying.

  • Stephanie Darling