The rise of tech neck: can looking at your

20 Feb

We are all aware that we need to curb our smartphone addiction. Not only does excessive use worsen our anxiety and the blue light from our screen disrupt our sleep cycles, now there’s another problem: looking down at screens could be responsible for developing neck wrinkles. Dubbed “tech neck,” constantly craning our necks down to look at our screens is reportedly doing us no favours. The skin on our neck is particularly delicate and is constantly fighting against gravity as we move our heads around in daily life. The result of this is often the loss of volume in the underlying tissues. Genetics, sun exposure, excessive smoking and drinking, weight fluctuations, and even hormonal changes can all play a role in...

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17 Aug

The rise of ‘mirrorless’ hair salons

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Unless your job revolves around Zoom calls that are much longer than needed, for most of us, the hairdresser is where we spend the longest time staring back at ourselves in one sitting. Salon and barbershop mirrors are a part of the experience that has become normalised, but we rarely question it – and why would we? Hairdressing is a practice that is physically out of our hands and concerns our appearance, so surely we’d want to keep an eye on how someone is altering our hair, for better or for worse. However, for some people the constant presence of the mirror can be daunting, even distressing, which is leading to a growing number of salons removing them from the...

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5 Mar

2025 Horoscope: It’s the grand finale before the rise

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2025 Horoscope: It’s the grand finale before the rise

Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer and priestess based in Los Angeles. She is the host of the podcast Bitchcraft: Spirituality for Bad People. For more astrology, read her guide to rising signs and moon signs. 2024 led to unmistakable Aquarian fashion: with drones and celestial anomalies spotted across the skies, growing discourse about aliens beneath the ocean, and the glorification of Luigi Mangione, a romanticised murderer with a noble, collective cause. A surrealist cultural and political landscape lies ahead, as Pluto has barely begun his journey through essentially the most unusual of the air signs, preparing to pervade the realms of humanity and technology by shock. 2025 is the yr for locating your mission. While it shouldn’t necessarily involve murdering any...

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27 Nov

A popular culture timeline of the rise (and fall)

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A popular culture timeline of the rise (and fall)

“Nice wig Janice, what’s it manufactured from?”…“Your mum’s chest hair!” This iconic one-liner (from the now-canonical 2004 film, Mean Girls) is indicative of just how far chest hair, be it your mum’s or your individual, is loaded with cultural connotation. In terms of body hair, a sort of ‘all or nothing’ politics abounds and chest hair is not any different. In fact, there was a time when humans were completely covered in body hair but, as our ape-adjacent ancestors migrated to warmer climes, and eventually indoors, we began to shed this coating through a technique of natural selection. Over time, any body hair that did remain became encoded in deep sociocultural associations. Due to chest hair’s correlation to higher levels of testosterone,...

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