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22 Jul

Youth To The People opens its first store in

Youth To The People opens its first store in
Eight years ago cousins Greg Gonzalez and Joe Cloyes launched Youth To The People with the aim to create a skincare brand focused on progressive science using entirely vegan ingredients. While the brand was the duo's official debut within the skincare world, their journey with all things beauty began many years before the brand’s launch.  Coming from a family with over 40 years of experience in skilled esthetics, each Gonzalez and Cloyes were raised with the facility of at-home beauty treatments instilled in them. Particularly inspired by their grandmother, Eva, the cousins tapped into her passion for creating professional-grade formulas dedicated to prioritising skin health. Since 2015, their method has proved itself to be effective with their Superfood Cleanser quickly becoming...
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18 Jul

Sunbeds are back – and it’s young people who

Sunbeds are back – and it’s young people who
The will to be tanned online is driving a recent generation of individuals to their local sunbed shops, where they film the method for thousands and thousands to see The viewers are preparing with an influencer as she decides what to wear to move to the sunbed shop. She picks loose-fitting clothing, she tells the camera, because she all the time feels sick after a sunbed. Elsewhere, a distinct influencer sprays a “triple-strength” watermelon-flavoured tan accelerator up her nose at her dressing table before putting her hair right into a high pony and packing her sunbed vouchers into her bag. She opens her gel of selection for today’s session, hashtagging the brand within...
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17 Jul

‘Girl dinner’ and our unhealthy obsession with what other

‘Girl dinner’ and our unhealthy obsession with what other
The backlash to the viral TikTok trend highlights what we get mistaken about moderating content related to disordered eating online For those who’ve been on the web recently, it’s likely you’ve heard of ‘girl dinner’. Typically, girl dinners are meals which comprise various bits and pieces: think an artfully arranged mini charcuterie board of crackers, ham, carrots, olives, and a couple of slices of cheese. Others are a bit more chaotic and have meals consisting of chicken nuggets and chocolate milk or Kombucha and Reese’s peanut butter cups. As one user put it, girl dinner is all about “no preparation just vibes”. We’ve all the time been obsessive about knowing other people’s diets, nevertheless...
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8 Jul

Iris van Herpen: ‘Essentially the most beautiful individuals are

Iris van Herpen: ‘Essentially the most beautiful individuals are
Within the wake of Iris van Herpen’s AW23 couture show, the visionary designer speaks to her transformative relationship with beauty and the way she approached the hair and make-up for this collection Iris van Herpen thrives off concepts that involve 3D printing, architecture and recent ideas of beauty. She’s put models in twisted silver face jewellery, and space-age eyeliner, and topped their heads off with futuristic crowns. In other words, she’s not your typical dressmaker – and he or she definitely doesn’t approach beauty in a traditional way. As an alternative, she reinterprets the concept of what beauty is, together with re-examining the feminine form. It’s just a few days before her AW23 couture...
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