It’s National barbecue week guys (29 May – 4 June) and that marks the start of four months of outdoor cooking, hanging in the garden with a vat of Pimm’s/champagne/Aperol spritz while the whiff of grilling food fills the air.
Love them or loathe them (and if you loathe them you’re not doing it right), the season of barbecues is upon us.
For those that love them, the benefits – even beyond the char-grilled… Read the full story
There was plenty of eye candy around in the 90s, and it was actual eye candy, not heavily filtered versions of people.
From Gladiators to pop stars, and even politicians, there was a bevvy of people to swoon over.
Beauty was a lot simpler then, plastic surgery wasn’t that big, there was little gym culture and no one really cared about the size of your lips.
It was a purer time, let’s say.
But who did you fancy, and what did it mean? Here’s what your 90s crush said about you.
Oh bless your basic little socks. Chances are that you weren’t really that interested in lovely Leo until Titanic or Romeo and Juliet came along, and then behold he was everything you ever wanted.
Most likely fancied by a gabble of teenage girls, who plastered little cutouts of his face onto their homework planners.
Now are married to… Read the full story
Pizza has probably saved millions of relationships across the world.
Post-sex pizza, post-argument pizza, post-work pizza – there’s no occasion when eating pizza with your S.O isn’t the right or preferable option.
And JP Lambaise and his wife Julia clearly agree.
Because they’ve just made the largest slice of pizza you’ve ever seen.
The pair run YouTube channel HellthyJunkFood and as well as making things like giant KFC drumsticks and Oreo Tacos, they’ve now just made the biggest piece of pizza possible.
Because not many people have… Read the full story
For the most part, engagement rings pretty much all look the same.
Often men end up schlepping around jewellers for ages trying to find something their prospective fiance will want to wear – even though all the options are much of a muchness.
But Instagram and Pinterest have completely changed the game.
They’re reinventing the humble diamond ring with subtle, modern twists.
Just look at the most-saved engagement ring on Pinterest.
It’s been saved 103,900 times on the site, making it the most popular.
Weekends are never long enough.
Even a three-dayer goes before you’ve really gotten over your Saturday hangover.
Before you know it, you’re back on the tube heading into the office regretting all the time you spent passed out and wishing that you’d had just one extra day of freedom.
However, there might be a simple hack to making the weekend last longer.
David Eagleman, a neuroscientist and professor at Standford University, says that you can make your weekends feel longer if you try something you’ve never done before.
Taking up a new hobby or trying something new can trick your brain into thinking that the days are longer.
‘When you go and experience something novel, it seems to have lasted longer,’ he told The Cut.
‘When you’re a kid, everything is novel and… Read the full story
Afro hair is the most versatile and hair of all.
One minute, it’s in tight curls – the next, it’s in tiny rolls.
It might be relaxed or straightened.
It could be in cornrows or extensions. It could be in weave.
No other hair looks so good is so many different ways.
And yet, black hair is often overlooked by mainstream beauty. It’s still huge news when a black model gets away with her natural hair in fashion shows. And we still don’t see black hair featuring in regular magazines – it’s still something of a… Read the full story
Feminism, like racial diversity and body positivity, seems to be dead trendy right now.
These things shouldn’t be a fad — they’re absolutely crucial and necessary, but they’ve incidentally become marketing gold.
Brands who up until now have had no interest in promoting healthy ideals to women, are jumping on the feminist bandwagon in order to make more money out of our insecurities.
Take Special K’s latest offering, for example.
The brand who qconvinced thousands of women that they needed to eat dry-old cereal twice a day instead of actual meals in order to look good… Read the full story
Forget flamingo floats.
This summer’s must have swimming pool accessory comes in the far tastier form of a pizza lilo.
Instagram has been going mad over floating slices of pepperoni.
But if you think they cost and arm and a leg, think again – because you can pick one up in Primark for a tenner.
Three weeks ago, they started selling hot pink flamingo inflatables for £9 but they’ve now launched the Giant Lilo Pizza Slice which is bound to go down an absolute storm.
In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have any class distinctions.
Everyone who wanted it would have access to great education and jobs.
But many of us believe that Britain is still governed by an age-old class system.
And even though technology has made dating ever more accessible, it seems that some of us think that class still impacts on our love lives.
A mate recently told me that although she was sick of Tinder and Bumble, she didn’t want to join a dating app like Inner Circle (an invitation-only… Read the full story
‘Andermatt has the potential to be the next Verbier.’
That’s what my ski instructor Mata de told me during lunch at the Restaurant Alpsu after a thrilling one-to-one lesson in the Swiss Alps.
If someone told me that before I visited, I would have laughed.
How could this sleepy, lesser-known village compare to the luxurious Swiss ski resort in Valais Canton?
But I quickly changed my mind after experiencing all the… Read the full story
Do you want your hair to be as summer-appropriate as possible?
Do you want to shine like the actual sun?
Do you want your hair to glow when you’re tanned and sparkle if you’re not?
Well then, tangerine is the only way to go.
Tangerine hair is the new colour trend that’s popping up all over Instagram and it looks magnificent on anyone.
And before you say otherwise, this is so much more than orange hair.
I mean, yes, it looks sort of orange but it’s actually multi-tonal. Couldn’t squeeze more warm shades into one hair… Read the full story
Instagram has been amazing for many models’ careers.
It’s upped their profiles, put them in touch with agencies, allowed them to grow cult followings.
We can see more into their personal (and highly curated) lives than ever before.
But the platform also has a lot to answer for. We already know it’s screwing up our ideas about body image. And model Alexis Ren now says that she blames her eating disorder on Instagram.
The 20-year-old American says that her sudden stardom on it led her to struggle… Read the full story
The global emoji keyboard covers a lot of topics.
It’s got everything from avocados to ants, water polo players to volcanoes.
So why the hell doesn’t it already have a period emoji?
After all, a damn-site more of us would use one than we would the floppy disc emoji.
But a new social media campaign is hoping to change all that.
Today – Menstruation Health Day – girls rights group, Plan International, launched a campaign to include an official ‘period emoji’ on the global emoji keyboard.
It’s red rose versus white at a new family attraction this half term and summer holiday.
Warwick Castle has launched the Wars Of The Roses Live, a live jousting, sword-fighting and special effects spectacular.
Visitors pick a side – House Lancaster or York – then go to the respective stands and cheer them on at a new riverside arena as their knights, kings and queens do battle.
The show begins with an eager knight (the future Henry VII) leaping into the arena from the 2,000-strong crowd.
Each major figure is introduced and has their speech, and there’s a good mix of history and action.
Intwined in the tale of one of England’s bitterest battles… Read the full story
It’s no secret that living in a city can be soul crushing.
You scour the web for weeks on end desperate to find a decent-sized flat within your price range, but it never quite works out.
You lower your expectations with every viewing and the estate agents chip away at your spirit until, finally, with two days to go before your current lease runs out, you’re actually glad to sign the contract for that windowless 2x2m studio apartment in Chadwell Heath that smells of fag-ends and damp.
Fortunately, it is possible to turn a… Read the full story
Dogs do some weird things. Some like to chase cars, some eat their owner’s clothes, and some don’t know the meaning of privacy.
But this clingy pug has put all dogs to shame with his bizarre quirk.
Nigel the pug likes to join his owner when he’s on the toilet.
But he doesn’t just gaze upon his owner on the porcelain throne from a distance. Nigel likes to get up close and personal.
Yep, he sits in his owner’s pants.
While he’s on the loo.
What should you put on a wedding gift list?
Most people opt for a blender, or money towards the honeymoon, but one selfless couple decided to use their wedding gift list to make the world a better place.
Billy Steere and Honey Lindo changed the lives of more than 200 people when they after they asked wedding their guests for donations to build a freshwater well in a poverty-stricken village in Uganda.
The couple were inundated with donations, and have now been able to pay… Read the full story
It’s fair to say that blackface is pretty old hat.
Yes, you might hear of the occasional ignorant university student thinking it’s funny to dress up as a character from Cool Runnings, but on the whole it’s unusual.
So imagine the confusion when it emerged that a gay pride event in Durham had hired a white performer who blacks up for her Beyonce tribute act.
Leanne Harper, AKA Beeyonce, was due to perform at the event this bank holiday, but the celebration has since been boycotted by several… Read the full story
If you’ve still not sorted where you’re going on your summer jollies, then why not consider a trip to Yucatan, Mexico?
Not only does it have incredible pink lagoons, but it’s also home to the world’s best-designed hotel, 2017.
The Chablé Resort & Spa, located in Chocholá, has just been awarded the Prix Versailles – an annual award presented by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union of Architects.
Designed by… Read the full story
Anorexia is sometimes seen as a ‘slimmer’s disease’, glamourised as a lifestyle choice, with self-absorbed girls striving for size zero and obsessed with vanity.
But when stories like Pippa McManus’s (a teenager who committed suicide days after leaving a psychiatric unit where she was being treated for anorexia) makes the headlines, the fact that anorexia is a deadly disease becomes a reality.
Anorexia has the highest… Read the full story
