21
Sep
Category: Beauty
Everyone knows there's a profound connection between our hair and our mental state. There’s that famous line from Fleabag: “Hair is the whole lot…It’s the difference between a very good day and a foul day”, and, as a girl, the very first thing you get told after a breakup is “don’t change your hair!”. Yet, despite the very fact everyone knows this connection exists, the skilled hair industry itself has only just begun to discuss it openly. Enter Adam Reed.
Reed is a hairdressing industry legend with a CV and accompanying list of accolades to envy. In his 30 yr profession he has worked with, amongst others, Madonna (he did her hair within the “Me Against the Music” video), Sophie Dahl,...
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For hundreds of years, there was a stigma surrounding periods: from 73 AD when the primary Latin encyclopedia implied that contact with menstrual blood would mean “crops turn into barren”, “fruit of trees fall off” and “hives of bees die”, to the current day where tampon tax still stubbornly stays casting tampons into the category of “luxury.” Periods are still in lots of cases a taboo, so Moody Month is here to vary that.
Founded by Amy Thomson, Moody Month is a mood and hormone cycle tracker designed to assist women higher understand their bodies, filling the void of female produced, female-focused technology. The tech company built by women, for girls, was created with the concept our moods shouldn't be suppressed or...
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For those without experience or knowledge of body modification, the mere mention of the term could well ignite a sense of fear or dread. Yet in its simplest terms, body modification literally just means altering one’s outward appearance – so whether you wear studs in your ears or not, the term spans the whole lot from the universal procedures of tattooing and ear piercings, through to a variety of much more more extreme, esoteric procedures, for which the resulting aesthetic is commonly considered to be outside of the socially constructed, standardised ‘norms’ of beauty (by narrow-minded folk).
For some, body modification is solely a tool through which to disrupt their appearance, or a vehicle through which to face out, while for...
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