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13 Apr

Why don’t wealthy people eat anymore?

Extreme weight-reduction plan is the most recent way for the mega-rich to signal their wealth and standing “I don’t want all this shit,” shrieks Logan Roy, characteristically hot-tempered, within the opening episode of Succession’s second season. The “shit” in query is platter after platter of shucked oysters, fat orange prawns, and lobsters smothered in garlic butter served up on beds of ice. “Pizza! We’ll have pizza,” Logan commands. And so his staff carry away the dishes teeming with crustaceans and unceremoniously dump them into the bins outside. The emergency pizzas are duly ordered and laid out on the dining table because the Roy family get right down to business, but these too remain...
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17 Jan

Can we actually trust beauty reviews anymore?

As brands are named and shamed for creating fake feedback, we query who really advantages from these ‘customer’ responses and how you can spot the real deal It’s getting harder and harder to find out what’s real and what’s not real in the sweetness world. Images are readily photoshopped, selfies are most of the time Facetuned and who hasn’t tried an Instagram filter or five. From the era of printed glossies to the rise of e-commerce web sites, beauty reviews have served an easy yet critical function – to help consumers in making informed buying decisions. Yet two brands, Kylie Skin and Sunday Riley, have recently come under fire for reportedly faking their...
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15 Dec

Buccal fat removal: are we not allowed to have

Everyone seems to be talking about cherub cheeks and buccal fat removal – but why? I already knew what buccal fat was before the discourse around it kicked off this week on social media. I knew because just a few years ago I began googling around to see if the buccal fat removal procedure was something that I could have done to my face. I desired to have cheekbones. I desired to be beautiful. Years of watching tutorials filled with contouring, of industry messaging around being sculpted and lifted, of faces with high outstanding cheekbones being held up because the aspirational standard had taught me that, if I desired to be beautiful, I...
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