When was the last time you took a break? And we’re not talking about the “break” you think you had – the one which saw you busy 70 per cent of the time and glued to a screen the other 30 per cent – but a real break? After dating app Bumble recently gave its …
It might seem as though the lockdown would be no match for boxing champion Ramla Ali, the first Muslim woman to win an English boxing title; a refugee who survived war-torn Somalia; and, of course, one of the 15 Forces for Change hand-picked to star on the cover of British Vogue’s September 2019 issue, guest …
At one point, every celebrity on earth was into cupping. There was Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga and Victoria Beckham – most of whom were doing it as far back as the early Noughties – as well as a whole host of famous athletes, including Anthony Joshua. Even Kim Kardashian tried it to treat …
After a long, exhausting year, studies show we’re more stressed than we’ve ever been, and since many of us aren’t taking a real break, it’s high time we turned to some small, day-to-day activities to help us summon calm incrementally, rather than in one big holiday-sized go. Mindfulness is one such tool, which has been …
A rare positive to emerge from the past year is a wave of hi-tech wellness innovations for use at home. Welcome to the future! Clear the air Dyson Purifier Hot & Cool Formaldehyde £599.99DysonShop Now Dyson’s commitment to improving at-home air quality has gone up a level. Along with purifiers updated to capture 99.95 per …
British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, famously survived on just four hours of sleep a night, Donald Trump proclaims the same and if you’ve ever read a Business Insider “Day In The Life” you’ll know that to be a Fortune 500 business leader, ergo a successful (that’s not to say likeable) person, you must wake up …
Just when you’d wrapped your head around the dreaded “maskne”, a new mask-related problem has rolled into town – and it goes by the name of “mask mouth”. A blanket term that refers to the state of our oral health now we’re wearing protective face masks over our mouths and noses most of the time, …
There’s a gadget for everything nowadays: we use them to knead our bread; clean our teeth; dry our hair. The best do such a good job, we wonder how we ever got by without them. And the name to know now? The Theragun, the fitness tool that’s taking the industry by storm. While the Theragun …
As the fight for racial justice takes place against the backdrop of the global pandemic, the need for regenerative self-care services that centre Black women has never been more apparent. Since 2018, Atlanta-based breathwork practitioner Jasmine Marie has been helping Black women heal from the trauma that disproportionately impacts their everyday with Black Girls Breathing, …
During this strange year we’ve all weathered, when the present moment has often seemed too heavy to process, looking to the past has been something of an emotional fire blanket. A comforter, a guide to less stormy seas. Which partly explains a burgeoning interest in a 1970s approach to wellness, as we surge forth into …