Hair experts say that regular massaging hair rather than keeping hair oiled overnight does wonders. So basic says massage your hair every time you oil it. Even if you don’t oil regularly just a light hand massage in scalp helps you hair to grow.
Interview: Lorraine Candy on being the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine’If it’s some sycophantic twaddle it’s not going in,” says the editor-in-chief of Elle, Lorraine Candy, explaining the rigorous standards she requires for interviews. “You’re paying £3.60 [a copy]. Why would you want some rehashed crap from a round-table interview? We have to have one to [...]
Retirement is a chance to de-stress. It gives one the time to rethink and reorganize priorities. A shift in attention from professional image and ability to family and relationships is a good way start this new phase.
Sometimes it’s as helpful to know what not to buy as what to put in your basketFrom a pool of the decent, the dull and the expectorate immediately, I pick nice wines for you each week, but it’s time to mention a few that would have me reaching for water however hard a day I’d had. [...]
When Tiffany Murray was six, her mother decided to rent their country house as a rehearsal space for rock bands, including Queen, Motörhead and BauhausI stood in the fishpond, naked, as the lorry made the turn up our drive. I was six years old, a rural child, and naked in the fishpond was the norm. [...]
I feel insecure and rejectedAt the start of our two-year relationship, my partner wanted sex all the time. I was battling with an eating disorder, so didn’t always feel the same way. We had sex regularly and it was mostly great, although I do find it painful more often than not. Now, the tables [...]
The author of The New Feminism talks about challenging the resurgence of sexism in her new book, Living Dolls – and not being an angry feministI’m trying to establish just how often the feminist writer Natasha Walter gets angry. Is she ever in a rage before breakfast? “Rarely,” she says. Does she ever rant [...]
• Waistband altitude a metaphor for life, declares Debenhams• Low-slung teen fad switches to armpit huggers by fifth decadeMiddle age, it oft is said, is when your age starts to show around your middle. And for men, it seems, the moment is marked by the inexorable rise in the position of their trouser waistband.A survey [...]
MANAMA (Reuters Life!) – There was a time when Yousif al-Alawi could cast a line straight into the sea and fish from the roof of his old family home.
Why do some birds hop and others walk? Essex, Sussex, Middlesex – but what about Nossex?Why do some birds hop, others walk or run, and others (such as magpies) do both? According to my late Dad, it’s all to do with the size of the bird’s brain. Small ones, such as finches and [...]