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29 Oct

Beauty gap: how the price of living crisis is

As we re-evaluate our spending and kind our purchases into needs and needs, beauty can feel hard to put “I’ve stopped getting acrylics, sunbeds and haircuts. I used to get my nails done every month, and get balayage done. Now I’m giving myself haircuts and doing my very own nails because there’s just no way I can afford it anymore,” says 24-year-old communications consultant Siobhan Fitzsimons. “It’s heartbreaking to be working so hard and in real terms to be earning less money than I did once I first left uni. I’m living in my overdraft, and once I’ve been paid I believe ‘oh I’ll treat myself and get nails done’ after which I...
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8 Apr

Beauty gap: how the fee of living crisis is

As we re-evaluate our spending and type our purchases into needs and desires, beauty can feel hard to position “I’ve stopped getting acrylics, sunbeds and haircuts. I used to get my nails done every month, and get balayage done. Now I’m giving myself haircuts and doing my very own nails because there’s just no way I can afford it anymore,” says 24-year-old communications consultant Siobhan Fitzsimons. “It’s heartbreaking to be working so hard and in real terms to be earning less money than I did after I first left uni. I’m living in my overdraft, and after I’ve been paid I feel ‘oh I’ll treat myself and get nails done’ after which I...
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8 Feb

The way to stop social media ruining your self-esteem

Social media platforms are failing us and protective laws is struggling to maintain up – so how are you going to look after yourself? “She first began saying her face was asymmetrical. She tried to chop her mole off on the side of her nose to amend this. Her teeth had gaps, she hated this, she didn’t have perfect teeth like other people.” Rachel* is the mother of 16-year-old Megan*, who has been in a specialist hospital for anorexia for ten months now. Rachel believes that her daughter’s use of social media platforms like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram was answerable for her developing anorexia. “She thought she had certain syndromes, as when she felt...
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27 Jan

The right way to stop social media ruining your

Social media platforms are failing us and protective laws is struggling to maintain up – so how are you going to look after yourself? “She first began saying her face was asymmetrical. She tried to chop her mole off on the side of her nose to amend this. Her teeth had gaps, she hated this, she didn’t have perfect teeth like other people.” Rachel* is the mother of 16-year-old Megan*, who has been in a specialist hospital for anorexia for ten months now. Rachel believes that her daughter’s use of social media platforms like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram was accountable for her developing anorexia. “She thought she had certain syndromes, as when she felt...
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