Fashion

Fashfest 2014: Fast Forward

Josephine Huynh Fashfest 2013 played a pivotal role in the launch and exposure of the festival’s key players, from the designers to the producers and even a stylish spectator. Josephine Huynh chats to four ventures that have catapulted to success.

Fashfest 2014: Styling an icon

Jasmine Highfield Fashfest 2014 is shaping up to be another exhilarating affair of epic proportions highlighting the talent and ingenuity of Canberra’s creative set across four glamour-filled days at Canberra Airport.

Logie Awards 2014 best and worst dressed

NEDAHL STELIO Sheer and lace was the definite trend. But not everyone nailed it. Nedahl Stelio looks at the best and worst dressed on the Logies red carpet.

Beauty

Is it worth it? Botox alternative

NEDAHL STELIO Imagine a serum that could erase the lines under your eyes in 20 minutes. That would have to be magic, right? It's the holy grail of skincare: something that smoothes, softens and gives wrinkles the heave-ho without injecting one's face with a muscle-freezing toxin. Yet that's what this product promises. Does it work? Let's see!

Foundation-free skin at fashion week

Eleanor Pendleton At recent fashion shows make-up artists were calling foundation a dirty word. Find out why.

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Have we reached 'peak beard'? Good, because I'm not trying to be trendy

Christopher Howse As a lifelong beardie, I am longing for these furry newcomers to shave

Wellbeing

Butter is a healthy fat - who says?

Paula Goodyer After decades of being told to avoid butter because of its saturated fat content, why is it being hyped as a health food?

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Five ways to keep running when you're out of routine

Pip Coates Does the sight of your abandoned running shoes in a corner makes you feel a little uncomfortable?

Sweat your way to more youthful skin

Gretchen Reynolds Exercise not only appears to keep skin younger, it may also even reverse skin ageing in people who start exercising late in life, according to surprising new research.

Home & Style

In tune with the times

Megan Backhouse An unlikely oasis has grown out of the recycling ethos.

A brush with better design

Ray Edgar Some surprisingly big names are thinking outside the S-bend.

Zen and now

Megan Backhouse An acclaimed design firm takes an abstract approach to landscape architecture.

Life

The myth that old people don't have sex

MATTY SILVER 7:48am In today's society many people believe old people are not sexual any more. But it's not true, writes Matty Silver.

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Saying yes to the female orgasm

Katherine Feeney There's nothing quite like the bliss of the big O, writes Katherine Feeney.

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The stop it list

SARAH BERRY Four weeks ago today, I was hit by a car.

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