A new year can often prompt you to think about spring cleaning your beauty regime and consider trying something new to look your very best. So what will the next 12 months bring us on the beauty front? Emma Parlons delved a little deeper to discover which trends we may be trying this year and [...]

She’s a pillow-lipped songstress, style bible cover star, and singer of Video Games – a torch song so spine-prickling and doleful it wouldn’t have sounded out of place in an episode of Twin Peaks. But can Lana Del Rey follow-up that success? Certain critics might have predicted/hoped the pretty New Yorker would be a one-hit [...]

Today is the start of the Chinese year of the Dragon. In Eastern philosophy, this mythical creature is the deliverer of good fortune, fertility, master of authority and a symbol of immense power.  A dragon year is a year of big projects, innovative ideas and great outcomes – it promises success, particularly in business. Although the year [...]

In general, I think we all look a great deal better than we did in our 20s. Recently, when moving house, I found some shocking pictures of myself after university. Big frizzy hair, even bigger eyebrows and a terrible habit of wearing overly-baggy clothes. Make-up wasn’t ever high on my list of priorities either, except [...]

BBC4′s Danish thriller Borgen has us hooked. If you haven’t already got your teeth into the story of fictional Danish female prime minister, Birgitte Nyborg – and the complex political world she inhabits – then here are a few reasons why you should… 1. It’s from the same production stable as The Killing/Forbrydelsen, the show which brought us [...]

Apparently by now most of us have forgotten about our new year resolutions and fallen off the diet wagon. However not all of us need to diet as such to lose those extra pounds we put on as we indulged in December. What we really need to do rather than deny ourselves is ask why [...]

Golden Globes Gossip The Golden Globes is the first big awards ceremony of the year and it not only allows us to lust after the gorgeous gowns the A-list wear but also provides a  chance to catch up with who is talking to who and who is on the way out – and this years [...]

I haven’t counted them myself, but I am reliably informed that there are around 250 ‘world class’ ski areas across the planet, a bewildering choice when it comes to booking next year’s fix of snow sports. For many, Europe rules the roost when it comes to vast ski complexes with the Three Valleys, Dolomiti Super [...]

Sport and the Truth About Shopping Picture the scene: it’s Saturday afternoon and you’ve hit the local high street with your boyfriend in search of some new clothes. As you gaze at the shoes, scarves and other paraphernalia you notice a man walking past in a football shirt and instinctively shudder as the haze of [...]

Laser eye treatment has corrected the eye sight of over 5 million people worldwide but there are still many misconceptions about the procedure. People generally know what laser eye surgery is but some are unsure as to what it involves or exactly how it works. If you are thinking about having laser eye treatment it [...]