Archive - Beauty + Grooming

April 2013

  • Beauty scoop

    April 4, 2013

    ...As winter sets in it’s time to up the ante on your beauty regime – but with so many products to choose from, it's hard to know what really, truly works. We asked five industry gurus to share their...

February 2013

  • Golden rules

    February 7, 2013

    ... We know how we’d like our highlights to look: natural, the colour of a child’s hair, full of varied streaky tones, as if it had just grown that way. Recreating that effortless-looking blonde i...

January 2013

  • Spring beauty buzz

    January 30, 2013

    ...To celebrate the end of January, we asked lifestyle and beauty journalist Summer Litchfield to help us restock our bathroom shelves for the coming spring. She came up with scents to conjure sunshine a...

  • We heart oils

    January 22, 2013

    ...Facial oils have been deployed by Chinese and Indian skincare experts for centuries, yet in Europe we remained resolutely suspicious until very recently. Oils need less stabilisation than creams (whic...

  • You old smoothie

    January 18, 2013

    ...Stubble is, like, so yesterday. Nowadays, it's all about big beards or jutting jaws, with a growing trend towards the latter. Leading the charge for cleaner chins is Murdock, the engagingly old-school...

  • Cleaning up

    January 9, 2013

    ...Our man about town had himself a gruelling little Christmas, involving two dozen sub-genres of alcohol and enough cake to have silenced pre-revolutionary France entirely. In an attempt to turn his rad...

October 2012

  • Going, going goth

    October 26, 2012

    ...Gothic beauty dominated the autumn/winter catwalks, with pale faces and deep berry lips casting a smouldering charm. But if you’re not brave enough to channel full-on Hammer House heroine (or if bei...

September 2012

  • Beauty confidential

    September 26, 2012

    ...I live/work as a freelancer, with fashion-industry experience spanning nearly eight years – including time as a fashion assistant to name stylists on How To Spend It, Vanity Fair and Quintessentiall...

  • Beauty confidential

    September 10, 2012

    ...'Where are you from?' is probably the question I dread answering the most when meeting someone new because, unlike many others, I can’t just wave my hands and go ‘Oh, Seoul, born and bred’. I ha...

  • Soft rocks

    September 9, 2012

    ...It's not every day that a new Crème de la Mer product comes out, so we're excited to share details of the biggest skincare news of the season. Building on the work of Crème de la Mer creator Dr Max ...

August 2012

  • Heads up

    August 14, 2012

    ...With his gold-tipped teeth, great clump of dreadlocks, and HQ above a street-art gallery, Johnnie Sapong isn't quite your archetypal London hairdresser. Which may explain why, paradoxically, his scalp...

April 2012

  • The knowledge

    April 4, 2012

    ...If your bathroom cupboard is full of quarter-used 'meh' products that neither delight nor deliver, it might be time you acquainted yourself with CultBeauty.co.uk. Founded by a pair of beauty-product m...