Why I’ll be long-haired for life: Short hair is fine for celebs, but not for me any more

July 1, 2017, 12:49 am

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This article is part of Hair Care, our month-long investigation and exploration into our relationships with hair and the cultural implications that come with it.

I can still remember the moment. I’d gone to the hairdresser on a Saturday afternoon, and wanted a shorter crop than the pixie cut I already had.

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A trim, a short back and sides, for want of a better phrase. I imagined Kylie in her short-haired days, or Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (forgive me that one, I was studying French at the time).

What I left with was basically the same amount of hair – same shape, I’d say, too – on my head, as a tennis ball. Short back and sides? It was just short all over.

I was going out to a pub with mates for… Read the full story

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Attention, men: The DudeRobe is here to keep your fragile masculinity nice and cosy

July 1, 2017, 1:29 am

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Oh, hey dudes, bro-ing around, cracking open cold ones, and ensuring everyone knows you are manly, manly men. What’s up?

You know those times when you’ve just hopped in the shower, slathered yourself in Lynx shower gel, patted your giant balls dry, but aren’t quite ready to get dressed and go about your day?

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Those times you feel like lounging for a while and contemplating all the joys being a man in a man’s world can bring?

The answer would be a dressing gown.

But as we all know, dressing gowns are for girls, and are therefore… Read the full story

A Miss Universe hopeful covered in moles is challenging beauty norms

July 1, 2017, 1:44 am

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Evita Patsey Edgar, a 20-year-old from the State of Sabah, North-eastern Malaysia, has auditioned to compete in next year’s Miss Universe competition.

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In the process, she’s opened up about a childhood fraught with bullying.

Today, the unique pattern of moles, covering her face and body, are considered beguilingly beautiful. They could even offer her a competitive edge against more conventional beauty queens.

Indeed, the beauty industry is changing and we have started to witness other, hugely successful models with similarly unusual skin conditions, such as Chantelle Brown-Young.

The industry is gradually recognising the need to broaden their conception of beauty.

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18 things you will understand if you get very annoyed easily and are quick to temper

July 1, 2017, 2:00 am

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If you’re the kind of person who gets told to calm down a lot, who makes people sweat when they receive an email from you or who people don’t like to give bad news to, then this well may resonate with you.

I, for one, can be ridiculously quick to temper or anger over the slightest of things and it is not something that I am proud of and it’s something that brings me – and those around me – a little bit of turmoil.

Like many people, catch me with something annoying on ‘one of those days’ and you are liable to be snapped at. I am… Read the full story

Quiz: How 90s was your childhood?

July 1, 2017, 2:00 am

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If you were lucky enough to be raised in the 90s, then you already had one of the best childhoods possible.

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But just how 90s was your childhood?

Did you know all the important dance routines like Saturday Night and Tragedy? Did you have the typical 90s books on your book shelf like Goosebumps and Funnybones?

What about your lunchbox? Was it filled with Penguin Dippers? Did you nibble a Cheesestring as you watched The Simpsons on BBC2?

Take this quiz and determine just how typically 90s your childhood really was.

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How long does it take the contraceptive pill to work after starting on it?

July 1, 2017, 2:07 am

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So you’ve committed to remaining baby-free (for the time being, anyway) and started on a contraceptive pill – how long until you can start banging with wild abandon?

It’s not instantaneous, to be clear. You won’t be entirely protected from pregnancy from the moment that first pill from the foil packet meets your tongue.

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That means it’s not safe to immediately go condom-less (with a partner whose STI check has come back clear, obviously. The pill does not protect from STIs). You’ll have to wait a while.

When you first… Read the full story

Chefs and wine experts have read our minds and say we should drink Champagne with red meat

July 1, 2017, 2:18 am

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Now you tell us.

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Oenophiles usually abide by some steadfast unwritten rules, like pairing sweet wines with puddings, port with mature cheeses, and only drinking red wine with red meat.

But lately, top chefs have been turning the wine world on its head, suggesting you can drink Champagne with red meat (the horror!).

This month, Champagne is taking centre stage at Newmarket races with a collaboration between Moët & Chandon and Jockey Club Catering, where bottles of fizz will be served not just as an aperitif, but alongside a main course… Read the full story

Our love of sheer tops and freeing the nipple may be fueling a rise in designer nipple surgery

July 1, 2017, 2:43 am

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If you haven’t noticed, nipples are in right now.

All the cool people are wandering around in sheer bralettes and see-through tops, nipples front and centre. High-street brands are selling tops with heart and flower designs at nipple height. You can even get fake nipples, to give your nips a boost when you can’t be arsed to go braless.

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And that’s great, because nipples are great.

The free the nipple movement is an important moment… Read the full story

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Apparently everyone’s going to be having sex at 7.37pm on Saturday

July 1, 2017, 3:12 am

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Oi, clear your schedule for tonight, Saturday 1 July. Get food a little earlier. Make sure your housemates are out.

At 7.37pm, everyone’s going to be having sex, apparently.

Apparently everyone's going to be having sex at 7.37pm tonight

A new survey from Lovehoney suggests that at 7.37pm on Saturday 1 July (we repeat: that’s tonight), we’ll all be overcome with lust and desire to rub our genitals on someone else’s genitals.

They quizzed 2,000 people to find what they claim is the most likely time we’ll be having sex all year.

Lovehoney claims the specific time and… Read the full story

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July 1, 2017, 3:24 am

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Londoners take pride living in one of the UK’s toughest cities, and now new research is backing up our claims to Martyrdom.

We work long hours, spend every penny we earn on rent and are constantly plagued by financial stress, all so we can tell people how bloody great it is living in London, working long hours, spending all our money on rent and being hounded by loan sharks.

But now, new research has shown just how financially unstable our lives are up and down the country.

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London, Birmingham, Ipswich and Dundee… Read the full story

19 horrific struggles of dating in the summer

July 1, 2017, 4:34 am

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If winter is relationship season – a time for snuggling under blankets with cups of hot chocolate – summer is sad, miserable dating season.

19 horrific struggles of dating in the summer

Everyone’s trying to bone. If you’re single, there’s all this pressure to have a summer hookup. If you’re coupled up, you’re supposed to have an amazing, Instagrammable summer on the beach.

But regardless of your relationship status, all romantic/sexual stuff in the summer is, frankly, sh*t. No matter what people’s Instagrams may tell you.

Summer dating is full of sweat and despair. It is the worst. It is the opposite of… Read the full story

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July 1, 2017, 5:42 am

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The outlook is favourable in Doncaster.

Recent research from credit comparison site Totally Money found that Londoners aren’t just milking it when they say they’re stressed. The UK capital is the worst place in the country for financial stability, working excessive overtime in a stagnant job market.

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But those looking for an easier life should look north to Doncaster, which has now been crowned the least financially stressful city in the country by the firm’s study.

The… Read the full story

Mum shares her struggle to have sex after childbirth left her vagina ‘broken’

July 1, 2017, 6:17 am

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Childbirth, if you didn’t know, is not easy.

But once you’re done popping out a sprog, the fun isn’t over. Mums can end up with torn perineums, wrecked ability to pee, and a damaged sex life.

Small prices to pay for the joy of bringing life into the world, right?

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All the not-so-pleasant after-effects of birth aren’t something we tend to talk about.

Usually we’re more focused on cooing over the new tiny human in the world – meaning that new mums going through struggles can feel like the only ones wetting themselves, feeling… Read the full story

I ditched the boys for a spa weekend and here’s why you should too

July 1, 2017, 10:00 pm

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I have never been to a spa.

The notion of devoting an entire weekend to one has never once even crossed my mind.

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I’ve used ‘spa facilities’ during my extremely brief stint at the gym (much more than the actual gym facilities themselves), but I’ve never had a ‘spa treatment’ per se, or any professional time one-on-one limb squeezing.

So it was strange to hop on a weekend train to Shropshire in sweltering heat to have a ‘lava shell’ treatment instead of cracking… Read the full story

Why 80 years on Amelia Earhart is still a role model for young women

July 1, 2017, 10:00 pm

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Amelia Earhart’s story is often overshadowed by her unexplained disappearance on July 2, 1937, 80 years ago today. However, she is more than just an enigmatic mystery.

Not long after taking her first flight as a passenger in 1920 – the same year that women gained the right to vote in the US – Amelia developed a determined passion that led to her taking lessons to become a pilot the following year.

The First World War had given females the opportunity to take on roles outside of the home and in 1922 the newly qualified flyer broke the women’s altitude record when she dared to fly to 14,000ft.

Only… Read the full story

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12 signs that you’re a control freak

July 1, 2017, 11:00 pm

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I hold my hands up to it – I’m a total control freak.

I would rather overwhelm myself with too much stuff to do than delegate responsibility to anyone else.

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The only thing I don’t have under tight control is my tendency towards controlling.

Over the years I’ve tried to break the habit, and mostly failed – which is unusual, as my self-control is usually flawless.

If you’re not sure if you’re a control freak, here are some signs to look out for.

You believe that you are always the best person for the job

I don’t mean this in an egotistical way – just that you don’t trust anyone else to get the job done.

You have trust issues

A fair chunk of being a control freak boils down to trust issues. In THEORY you have faith… Read the full story

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July 2, 2017, 12:33 am

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Vegetables are healthy. Therefore, foods made from vegetables should be the healthier options…right?

Well, not in the case of vegetable crisps.

Vegetable crisps are apparently more unhealthy for us than Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Turns out the shrivelled up bits of root veg you get at posh, adult parties so that people don’t go around breathing cheese and onion into people’s faces might actually be more unhealthy than regular crisps.

Registered nutritionalist Charlotte Sitling-Reed has carried out a study weighing up the nutritional value of crisps and she’s found that many standard bags of vegetable crisps contains two-thirds of vegetables – the rest of the… Read the full story

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July 2, 2017, 12:35 am

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Genitals, genitals everywhere.

Knowing what to wear to a festival can be tricky, but usually people do tend to opt for some kind of clothing.

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But modesty took a back seat when 30 extremely confident Danes took part in a naked fun-run at Roskilde festival in Roskilde, Denmark.

The Roskilde Festival offers exhibitionists everywhere the freedom to run around in the buff during the annual Naked Run.

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July 2, 2017, 1:01 am

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This is Natalie Hage.

She’s a plus sized model and admin of Tess Holliday’s Instagram movement effyourbeautystandards.

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Recently, she was flying to a photo shoot when she started being fat shamed by the guy next to her. And she wasn’t having any of it.

He was texting a pal and Natalie caught a glimpse of what he was writing – which turned out to be about her.

‘The texts were about me and I’m almost positive he took photos of me,’ she wrote on Instagram.

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Adwoa Aboah wants celebrities to be more honest about their battles with depression

July 2, 2017, 1:29 am

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The taboo around mental health is rapidly evaporating.

But when it comes to celebrities openly talking about their own struggles with depression and substance abuse, it still remains off-topic.

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Sure, there have been a few stars who’ve opened up about performance anxiety and exhaustion…but on the whole, celebrities deal with their problems out of the public eye.

It’s understandable but hardly helpful in tackling how mental health is dealt with and talked about.

Which is why model Adwoa Aboah is calling on fellow… Read the full story