Beauty Trends

Fuzzy nails

Dare to don furry nail art?

Kathleen Lee-Joe Like caviar and bubble nails that went before it, this textured trend is as deeply impractical as it is cool looking.

Party Pout

Molten metal lips are the latest trend to try

Kathleen Lee-Joe A look for Christmas parties, not just your Cosplay conventions.

Take Notes

What does a gender-free fragrance smell like?

Kathleen Lee-Joe There are no defining factors to what we consider 'masculine' and 'feminine' scents, chemically speaking – everything is driven by beauty marketing.

#DogBuns

Stop! #DogBuns are a health risk for your dog

Kathleen Lee-Joe Don't do it. Your puppy deserves better.

Brows That Wow

The new on-fleek brows

Kathleen Lee-Joe Frida Kahlo. Cara Delevinge. That lady who goes by 'Mother of Dragons'. As far as we're concerned, strong women and strong brows go hand in hand.

Beauty For Bros

Do men really still need man-branded beauty products?

Kathleen Lee-Joe Embarrassed to use your ChapStick in public, guys? Thanks to Dude Stick, you no longer have to excuse yourself to apply it in the bathroom!

Singular Scents

A beginner's guide to single note fragrances

We know how our skin and body react to certain smells; what sits well on us, and what doesn't. Enter the world of single note fragrances.

Model Ability

This Aussie teen is challenging how we see disability and beauty

Brisbane girl Madeline Stuart has taken up modelling to change how society sees people with Down syndrome.

Split-dye hair

Would you dare to wear split-dyed hair?

Kathleen Lee-Joe #SplitHair is now a thing. Ditch ombré in favour of Instagrammy two-tone tresses.

CATTOOS

Korean cat ladies are getting illegal tattoos of their cats

Kathleen Lee-Joe Tattooing is illegal in South Korea, making this the cutest possible way to break the law.

Bizarro Beauty

The weird new beauty trend that is 'blurring'

Kathleen Lee-Joe Makeup mavens! With these products, you too can look like a Monet.

Eight unexpected makeup trends that actually work IRL

We probably won't try face-on-face painting, twirled moustaches or feathered nose adornments anytime soon, but these eight are definitely worth adopting.

NSFW eye makeup you may actually consider

Kathleen Lee-Joe After years of embracing ‘no makeup’ makeup, we’re finally getting something bigger and brighter for our buck.

Side flips

How to master the side flip

Kathleen Lee-Joe Get down, flip it and reverse it with this timeless hairstyle.

Beauty Fads

Your skin doesn’t need to be put on a ‘diet’

Kathleen Lee-Joe The 5:2 skin diet is just another hype-driven scheme, urging women to overthink our beauty regimes instead of just doing what we feel is normal.

Fashion Month

8 unexpected makeup trends that actually work IRL

Kathleen Lee-Joe Thoroughly unique, subtly alluring, totally achievable makeup looks from Paris, Milan, London and New York.

Just Add Water

The hair trend every lazy girl can get behind

Kathleen Lee-Joe Wet ponytails have just been given the fist bump of approval by Stella McCartney.

Eighties Hair

Wait, is crimped hair cool again?

Kathleen Lee-Joe You read that right. The ‘80s and ‘90s mainstay, beloved by Lizzie McGuire and vintage Tyra Banks, is making a comeback.

Puffy Eyes

Why Korean women are playing up their under-eye bulges

Kathleen Lee-Joe They call it ‘aegyo-sal’, which roughly translates to ‘eye smiles’ or ‘cute, charming and winsome baby-eye fat’.

Global Beauty

Watch: This is what beauty looks like in 37 countries

Kathleen Lee-Joe Though the mainstream media tends to promote a fairly homogenous look, ‘pretty’ differs wildly depending on where you are in the world.

100 years of Iranian beauty in onevideo

Kathleen Lee-Joe A visual tour through the changing roles and rights of women in Iran.

Unisex beauty

6 beauty products borrowed from the boys

They're simple, streamlined, do the job, and lack that cloyingly sweet scent so popular in women's. (Seriously, who wants their legs to smell like coconut and mango?)

Urine therapy

Should you be putting urine on your face?

Kathleen Lee Joe "It's urine therapy darling; it's not to be sniffed at."

Unicorn beards

2015 is year of the rainbow beard

Kathleen Lee Joe Wait until Jared Leto gets a load of this …

New in beauty

10 beauty products to try in 2015

Kathleen Lee-Joe These products are to 2015 what organic coconut oil was to 2014. Clear space in your medicine cabinet ...

Unnatural makeup

There’s much to love about unnatural makeup

Kathleen Lee-Joe Women are constantly told that the key to wearing makeup is to look like you’re not wearing any makeup at all – yet frankly, we think that’s a tad boring.

Gifting scents

How to buy fragrance for someone else

Kathleen Lee-Joe Buying perfume is pretty intimate business, but you needn’t be intimidated.

Beyonce beauty

Beyonce dropped a line of nail wraps inspired by Beyonce

The queen of stealth does it again.

Pastel pits

Would you dye your pits bright blue?

Kathleen Lee-Joe Or is pink more your style? Dyeing your armpit hair could just be the next big thing in beauty.

Full frontal beauty

The pornification of beauty language

Kathleen Lee-Joe Apparently, post-coital skin is now the end goal of our beauty routines.

Advanced nail art

This Advanced Style nail art is simply the best

Kathleen Lee-Joe We spotted the fancy mani over on Instagram and thought it too good not to share.

Beauty match-maker

Get face-matched with a beauty blogger

Kathleen Lee-Joe This online search tool allows users to find beauty bloggers and vloggers who share similar features to themselves.

60 the new 20?

A shout out to the women changing the beauty industry

Gone are the days when actress Isabella Rossellini was dropped by Lancome at age 40, reportedly for being too old.

TV nails

Nails inspired by OITNB, Broad City and more

Kathleen Lee-Joe Combining our two favourite things.

Micro fringes

Can anyone pull off micro bangs?

Kathleen Lee-Joe There was a phase in the ‘90s where everyone wanted bangs like Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice – choppy, slicked and super short. Of course, it took a face like Winona’s to pull them off. We didn’t realise this until the damage had already been done.

TV style icons

Which Twin Peaks character is your style match?

Kathleen Lee-Joe Beyond the cinematography and David Lynch’s trippy meta-narratives, the thing that had us spellbound was Twin Peak’s femme fatales and their retro-kitsch style.

Pigtail resurgence

Can grown women wear pigtails?

Kathleen Lee-Joe Like rompers and overalls, this particular look sits in that curious category of trends that are tricky to pull off past the age of 10.

Organic beauty

Why organic skincare may not be better for you

Kathleen Lee-Joe Going organic certainly sounds more holistic and Goop-approved, but are the products as effective as their mainstream counterparts? And what exactly makes a product organic anyway?

Competitive beauty

What exactly goes on at the Nail Art Olympics?

Kathleen Lee-Joe The Nail Olympics (‘Nailympia’) happened in London last week. And we think we just died and went to nail-art heaven.

French beauties

25 French beauty icons to make your muse

Kathleen Lee-Joe We raise our Champers to the Gallic gals doing effortless Franco-sophistication in 2014. (And yes, the list goes beyond Jane Birkin’s daughters.)

Beauty nostalgia

Which beauty products make you feel nostalgic?

Kathleen Lee-Joe Return to a period when half-up, half-down hairstyles fixed with a thousand claw clips, cloyingly sweet vanilla-scented body spray and multiple shades of mascara were the height of sophistication.

Runway to reality

15 Fashion Week beauty trends that work IRL

Kathleen Lee-Joe Sure, it’s exciting to see faux freckles, powder-blue brows and words spelt out with hair on the runway – but those looks probably aren’t going to work for Sunday brunch or that Monday morning meeting.

Botox warning

Botox may 'stunt emotional growth' in young people

Catherine Rodie Clinical practitioners in the UK have warned that Botox may 'stunt emotional growth' in young people.

Oh boy

Forget the man bun, your boyfriend needs a man bob now

Rachel Clun We've learned to love the man bun, thanks largely to Jared Leto and his ombre locks, but now it's time to accept the latest male hair trend: the man bob.

High brow

How to get your best brows ever

Lucy Corry Good brows are a game-changer. They frame the face, define the eyes and generally make you look more awake. Here are a few of our favourite brow shapers.

Gluten-free beauty

Are gluten-free beauty products only for the gullible?

Kathleen Lee-Joe There may be more to a gluten-free lifestyle than just cutting bread out of your diet.

Cult classic

When scrunchies actually work

Kathleen Lee-Joe Reconsidering our position on the much-maligned hair adornment.

Lupita's way

Lupita Nyong'o's beauty tips for dark skin and natural hair

Kathleen Lee-Joe And despite looking stunningly, shiningly, well-put-together on the regular, her approach to beauty is refreshingly low-maintenance.

Futuristic beauty

Could electronic make-up be the future of beauty?

Rachel Clun Virtual makeup and 3D printed eye-shadow. It has to be seen to be believed.

Must-watch beauty

The only beauty tutorials you need to watch on YouTube

Kathleen Lee-Joe Anyone with a laptop, internet connection and face can make a YouTube beauty tutorial, but these keen vloggers have well and truly earned their clicks.

Beauty secrets

How to master this Korean beauty secret

Kathleen Lee-Joe Watch Korean dramas or tune into SBS PopAsia on any given Sunday morning and you’ll know the look I’m talking about.

Shampoo-free

Would you ditch shampoo for good?

Cathy Bussey Welcome to the 'no poo' movement, you guys.

Trend alert

Japan's delicious new beauty trend: sushi nail art

Kathleen Lee-Joe Try not to eat your fingers while wearing these yummy-looking nail art designs.

Beauty horrors

When contouring goes horribly wrong

Kathleen Lee-Joe The art of contouring is some complicated beauty business.

Get shorty

20 awesome hairstyles for short hair

Kathleen Lee-Joe Who says Rapunzel should have all the fun? We asked the internet for cool styling tricks for the short-haired set and, as always, the internet delivered.