There are not many questions for which you can almost guarantee the answer from every respondent, but I believe this to be one.
Ask a man; ‘would you like to go away with a load of women to a beautiful country to soak up the sun, see some sights, have a few beers and try something new?’
I’d wager that more than 90% of replies would be along the lines of, ‘Where do I sign up?’
So why are… Read the full story
Chances are you spent Mothering Sunday last-minute flower shopping or over a prosecco lunch.
But spring is almost over, folks, and it’s time we gave our fathers the recognition they deserve too by showering them with gifts on Sunday 18 June.
However if you’ve had a quick Google – or the audacity to visit a real-life shop – you’ll have noticed that it’s difficult to find your father something unrelated to whisky, vehicles or with shouty capital words on… Read the full story
Whether its geode hair or artful manscaping, it’s tough realising that our best hair-dye or styling attempts will never go viral.
And once you’ve seen this rainbow hair art, you’ll want to give up the bleach for good.
Hair colourist Ursula Goff has become an internet sensation for her colourful and detailed styles.
From flawless rainbow-coloured locks to recreations of paintings in hair form, it’s hard to believe that the pieces aren’t a product of Photoshop – though she maintains they involve nothing of the… Read the full story
Scene kids, rejoice: a Hello Kitty collection is coming and it’s time to get out your Hello Kitty hair clips to complete your look.
Lazy Oaf has teamed up with Hello Kitty to bring us the cutest looks for the summer.
From skirts to pinafores, the two brands have come together to release a 16-piece collection, all featuring Hello Kitty’s adorable face.
The collection, which is limited edition, will be available from 16 June on Lazy Oaf’s store.
Here’s a sneak… Read the full story
If you’ve been hunting for a Father’s Day card that has that little something extra, search no more.
Moonpig have just launched the world’s first range of edible, meat-flavoured greetings cards.
They’re made from rice paper infused with edible scents and ink, and come in two different flavours.
You can choose from BBQ or spicy hot, and meat-free dads needn’t worry as both flavours are suitable for vegetarians.
The BBQ cards are smoked with hickory chips… Read the full story
Take one delicious thing, split it in half, fill it with ice cream, and top it with bacon. Congrats, you have just created a dish that everyone will (justifiably) lose their sh*t over.
Football stadium and maker of gloriously unhealthy food, Kauffman Stadium, in Missouri, has just unveiled something that is simultaneously wonderful and horrifying.
They’ve made an ice cream sandwich. But not an ice cream sandwich as we know it, with a scoop of ice cream between two cookies.
This is an ice cream sandwich made of a… Read the full story
Women have to put up with a lot of sh*t.
Unfair pay, casual sexism, periods. The list could go on, and on.
In the face of big issues like reproductive rights and menstrual hygiene around the world, it can feel silly to get pissy about the little things – the microaggressions, the fact that your boss calls you ‘darling’, people’s refusal to stop referring to us as ‘girls’ and start calling us women, or the endless slew of sexual comments slung our way when we do our daily commute.
These little things build up, take us down, and shape our experiences of womanhood. And yet so many people who don’t experience the little things don’t believe they happen, or fail to understand their impact.
That’s why it’s important to keep calling them out – because it’s the little, everyday acts of… Read the full story
It all began when I was about 11.
Having dark brown hair, I started to notice that my eyebrows were getting bushy, my arm hair was growing thick and fast, and… I had a little, fluffy moustache.
Now, I’m all for women doing what they want with their body hair (I’m pro-muff) but a moustache really isn’t on brand for me.
It isn’t now, and it wasn’t then, so 11-year-old me stole my dad’s razor and shaved it off.
Unsurprisingly, the little… Read the full story
We all know that 90s kids had the best childhoods, but just how much of a 90s kid were you?
Did you spend every single weekend lurking around the pick’n’mix in Woolies? Or were you busying watching Power Rangers early in the morning and digging through the cereal box looking for a toy?
Did you run off at the sight of the eye stinging L’Oreal Kids shampoo? Was every single birthday party you attended in McDonald’s?
Take our quiz and determine just how much of a 90s kid you were.
There’s still a lot of period stigma and shame floating about.
People are told to keep their periods quiet, hidden – stains out of sight and tampons hidden up sleeves.
Our discomfort around periods creates a barrier to tackling all the menstrual issues still going on in the world – a lack of access to menstrual hygiene products, the tampon tax, and minimal education around periods, to name a few.
There’s no way we can fix these problems if every time we bring up periods, we’re told to pipe down.
Artist Zoe… Read the full story
Family members or friends will often step in to help an older, disabled or seriously ill loved ones.
It’s believed there are around 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK, who provide a vital contribution to society – often with no support.
According to lovemoney, the estimated cost of unpaid care in the UK is worth around £132 billion a year – and charities such as Age UK,… Read the full story
On my phone, I have a list of things with which I am bored.
People calling Facebook Failbook (awful). People who think that liking unicorns is in endearing or unusual personality trait. The ‘I follow him – on Twitter, not in real life, that would be weird!’ joke.
The crowning glory of this list, the conversational gambit that makes me dry retch more than any other?
The question of whether or not women can ‘have it all’.
It’s the kind of thing that you’d expect a… Read the full story
While usually Charity Tuesday sees us speak to charities directly to find out what goes on behind the scenes, for today’s Charity Tuesday, we’re speaking with the founder of a social media campaign where all proceeds go to Crohn’s and Colitis UK.
James Conlon founded The Toilet Me & IBD, a worldwide campaign, back in 2015. He was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease, five years ago.
‘I had absolutely no idea what inflammatory bowel disease was,’ James tells Metro.co.uk.
Which is exactly what… Read the full story
When Shelby’s grandmother had a reaction to one of her medications, resulting in her being admitted to hospital, Shelby wanted to do whatever she could to help her grandma feel more comfortable.
21-year-old Shelby Hennick, a veterinary technician from Santa Maria, California, was devastated to find that her grandmother had almost been left paralysed due to a reaction to her medications.
Shelby told Metro.co.uk: ‘She was unable to walk for two days and would fall over.. unfortunately my grandpa is hard of hearing so he wouldn’t know she had fallen until hours… Read the full story
A mother from Bangor, Nothern Ireland, is getting loads of attention online after teaching her young son a lesson about respectful behaviour.
When Zowiie Williams found out her son, Callum, six, had been mean to a little girl called Billy-Rea at school, she was not pleased.
Zowiie told Metro.co.uk: ‘His “girlfriend” was playing duck duck goose with her little girl friends. They didn’t want to let Callum play as it was just girls playing.
‘He felt upset that he was left out & told his boy mate what had happened. His boy mate told him… Read the full story
Most of us have accidentally spent a bit more than we intended to on a pair of new shoes before.
That said, most of us probably haven’t spent the price of a one bedroom flat (outside of London, obviously) on a pair of battered trainers.
To be fair, these aren’t just any trainers. These are the trainers worn by Micheal Jordan in the 1984 summer Olympics basketball game.
The shoes are heavily worn (as you can see from the photo) and Jordan has left his orthopaedic insert in there, which is nice of him. They’re also autographed.
Growing hair on my face has always been my destiny.
It’s in my blood, mostly due to having Greek roots, and I’ve been genetically tasked with shaving my top lip (*quite* badly, at first) since KS3 SATs in primary school, although that wasn’t in the curriculum.
But I’ve had to wait more than half of my life to grow into those bristles and, because my twenties have perfectly eclipsed with ~the~ age of peak beard, to actually look like I know what I’m doing with them.
After an entire puberty of wearing distinctly boutique designer stubble, I vowed to put the trimmer down after graduation to finally confront what I’d spent the past decade taming and fighting from revealing.
As a kid, I used to watch my dad shave in front of the mirror nearly every day. But he still used… Read the full story
Today is the first ever Empathy Day, which aims to use words and stories to build children’s empathy.
It’s common to mistake empathy with sympathy, so what’s the difference between the two?
Both words deal with the relationship someone has to the feelings and experiences of another.
The two terms have roots in the Greek term pathos, which means ‘suffering, feeling’.
Sympathy is a word that entered English in the mid 1500s, and had a broad meaning of ‘agreement or… Read the full story
Musicians used to be seen as the voice of the people – we were knee deep in protest songs and sweary attacks on authority.
But as programmes such as the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent have slowly taken over from sweaty pubs as the route for young singers and bands to hit the limelight, so the message they carry has become milder in tone.
Perhaps it’s time to listen to poets again?
Many of us think of poetry as being dull and sleepy, all daffodils and clouds and boring GCSE homework.
But then we hear Tony Walsh reading This Is The Place in the aftermath of the… Read the full story
Wait a minute: Are we the only ones that had no clue that MAC was an acronym?
For years, we have applied our bronzer in ignorance, never once considering the meaning of the name MAC.
We figured it was just a catchy name some fancy marketing people came up with, potentially to make us think of things like Big Macs or to trick us into calling our foundation MAC-up (feel free to take that genius product name, MAC).
But we… Read the full story
