Nail Trends
How to make a manicure last ten days
The polish is rarely the problem. Six changes to the ninety seconds before it goes on.
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Nail Trends
The four nail colours defining this season
Warm oxblood, grey-lilac, butter yellow — and the sheer pink that still outsells all of them.
Skincare
Retinol, explained without the panic
What the ingredient actually does, how long it takes, and why most people quit in week three.
Fragrance
Inside the workshop of a Parisian perfumer
Forty years, two rooms and a filing cabinet of formulas nobody else can read.
Colour of the Month
Plum Noir
Burgundy with a swirl of velvet brown — the deepest shade in this year’s palette, and the one that carries a hand from October to February.
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Five fragrances for the turn of the season
Colour forecasting is mostly listening. The shades that arrive in salons in spring were decided in a room eighteen months earlier, and
French tips, but softer
Three authors on one post, which is the byline-stacking case worth looking at.
