Table of contents for Issue 760 in Grazia

THE POST-CHRISTMAS comedown always hits me hard, which is why I was very happy to hear that awards season kicks off unexpectedly early this year. On page 28, we look at the glitz, gossip and gowns that will cheer us all up – not least because Brits including Jodie Comer, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman are set to sweep the board again. Meanwhile, prepare to hunker down with the first ever winter Love Island – and it’s set to be the friskiest yet, according to the casting directors, who, on page 14, also share secrets of how the contestants are chosen for the villa. See? January won’t be that bleak after all. Happy 2020!…

This year, let’s sing our own praises “Researchers who analysed more than six million scientific studies found male authors describe their work using more celebratory language than women – ‘novel’, ‘unique’, ‘excellent’ – despite there being no evidence to suggest it’s any better. The study, published in the BMJ , said this could explain some of the gender disparities in the academic world, as men’s work is more likely to get noticed. And it could explain much about the wider world, too. In We Should All Be Feminists , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes: ‘We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller’ – so in 2020, let’s make it our resolution to big ourselves up.”…

1. Up GUY RITCHIE Partly because his new film, The Gentleman, is 17 separate shades of glorious. Mostly, because we interviewed him for it, found him to be most hot. 2. Non-mover IDRIS ELBA Who, despite playing Macavity in Cats, the most terrifying musical of all time, declared himself to (possibly) not be a cat person. Audacious. 3. Up ADAM DRIVER Mounting pressure to out him as a diva/ cancel him (after he walked out of a radio interview, and a recent New Yorker profile wasn’t entirely flattering) inspires us to point out he’s really, really hot: so, who cares? 4. New in MIMI NDIWENI We haven’t seen any of Netflix’s The Witcher yet, but we hear excellent things. Pre-emptive googling suggests a cast of great fitness, Mimi being a…

She’s tried body-con, sharp tailoring and laid-back glamour. But one thing Victoria Beckham’s fashion label is yet to manage making is a profit. She’s worked hard to transform her image from the moody Posh Spice into an acclaimed designer. But, last year, Victoria, husband David and other shareholders were forced to pump £13.5m into Victoria Beckham Limited (VBL) after it racked up its 11th year of losses. Sales slid 16% to £35m, after department stores, particularly in Asia, cut orders. The poor trading led to VBL breaching the terms of its £10m bank loans. All this financial pain raises the question – will Victoria still be in fashion by the end of 2020? It’s not unusual for luxury fashion labels to be unprofitable in their first years. Building a brand…

THERE HAS NEVER been a better time to binge your new favourite TV show, Shrill, as the raved-about comedy-drama has finally reached Britain thanks to BBC Three. When everyone around you is talking about shrinking (their waistline, debt, carbon footprint), this is a series that tracks a woman’s journey to take up space. Based on US journalist Lindy West’s memoir, Shrill is fronted by Saturday Night Live favourite Aidy Bryant, and has been praised for its portrayal of a plus-sized woman learning to reject the fatphobia she has encountered all her life – and often imposed on herself. But it’s not only about her body – Annie also attempts to take up space at work, in her relationships and her family unit. What’s so great about the show is that…

WELL ESTABLISHED IN the premier league of Hollywood stylists, London-based Rebecca has made a splash on the red carpet with her never-predictable, modern take on glamour. Lily James and Eleanor Tomlinson are on her roster, as is Gemma Chan, who stole the show at last year’s Oscars in a highlighter-pink Valentino couture gown. ‘Wow moments usually tread a fine line between fashion and flattering,’ says Rebecca. Recently, she’s been working with Little Women star Florence Pugh, on a wardrobe that’s run the gamut from Frankie Shop suiting and Rixo dresses to scene-stealing Valentino eveningwear. ‘I loved her purple haute couture Valentino look for the Governor’s Awards. It was playful, whimsical, quirky and elegant, like her personality,’ says Rebecca. She also loved the peach Chloé dress Florence wore to the Paris…

PHOTOS:SHUTTERSTOCK, JASON LLOYD-EVANS THIS WEEK’S MANIFESTO Check out the menswear departments. For women in the know, men’s fashion weeks are not just for the boys. Bring your leggings out of retirement. ’80-inspired styles are trending now. Reuse. Baum und Pferdgarten’s new suiting collection is made using leftover fabric from previous seasons. Être plus Français. Late Danish actor and style icon Anna Karina proved Parisian is a state of mind. Play on. Louis Vuitton’s new League of Legends capsule is created in partnership with Riot Games. Link up. Byredo’s Ben Gorham has joined forces with jewellery designer Charlotte Chesnais for a seriously cool collab.…

SUSIE LAUoS HAIR AMD MAKE-UP: RUTH WARRIOR The best way to keep your cupboard organised? Don’t fill it with things you don’t need in the first place. We ask the experts their tips for buying with longevity in mind. Heather Gramston , buying manager at Browns Fashion: ‘I like to compile a wishlist ahead of time so I can be quite strategic about new purchases. When I find something I love, I want to be able to enjoy it in the long-term. I think about when I’ll wear it, what it works with in my existing wardrobe and, if I am making an investment purchase, I rationalise it by working out cost-per-wear.’ PRSSy LRPDx, buying manager at Selfridges: ‘I like to invest in pieces that work within my existing capsule…

1. SWIMMING  GRAB A ONE-PIECE AND POOL-READY FLIP-FLOPS 2. STRENGTH TRAINING PATTERNS WON’T HELP TO LIFT WEIGHTS, BUT WILL DO WONDERS FOR YOUR MOOD 3. CARDIO  MAKE YOUR KIT AS HARDWORKING AS YOUR WORKOUT 4. FLEXIBILITY CHOOSE BLOCK COLOURS AND STRETCH-PROOF FABRICS VAARA…

WITH A NEW decade upon us, it’s tempting to go OTT on New Year’s resolutions. However, recent research suggests that setting yourself a bundle of bitesize goals makes for more achievable and sustainable change. Luckily, when it comes to beauty-based intentions, it really is the small and simple things that make a big difference. So pick and choose a few of these feel-good habits, stick to them and reap the rewards. 1. WHAT’S SUP’ Supplements can often be more hype than substance. Here are the ones that we’ll be factoring in this year, and why. ■ Probiotics work to balance the ‘friendly’ bacteria in your gut, ensuring you better absorb the nutrients of a balanced diet. Take regularly in a water-based formula that helps the probiotics to survive your stomach…

PHOTOS: ED MILES, GETTY IMAGES AS VEGANUARY KICKS off, the benefits of going plant-based now can’t be ignored. Whether it’s for environmental, health or animal welfare reasons, the number of vegans in the UK has surged by 700% in the last two years, meaning that 7% of the population now follow a plant-based diet. Yet still, for many of us, going vegan is a huge step. But there’s another option. This year I’m going vegan-ish, which might not go down well with staunch plant-eaters, but Joey O’Hare of Allplants, a vegan food delivery service, says: ‘If everyone in the UK ate plant-based two days a week, we would reduce carbon dioxide equivalent of taking 54% of cars off the road. We’d also save enough water to provide 11 years’ worth…

WHAT MAKES YOU happy? Your job? How much you earn? Recent research, by Danish think tank the Happiness Research Institute, found the answer, in reality, is your home. ‘If you are happy with your home, you are almost certainly happy in life,’ the report stated. It found the home is ‘almost three times more important than what we earn and five times more important than employment status or whether we have children.’ Why? ‘Our homes shape our lives,’ says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Institute, whose report was commissioned by Kingfisher, owner of B&Q. ‘In a world demanding more and more of our attention, our homes are where we can retreat to and seek refuge.’ ‘The home is key because it’s the seed of our identity, a place of our…

Catch up on… The Good Place The show that seems to have comprised the entire mood board for Taylor Swift’s Lover campaign comes graciously to a close with its incoming season. This alternate heaven-scape has been numerously hilarious, infuriating, beguiling and frustrating, featuring among the best and worst acting on TV. It has never, ever been dull. From 10 January, Netflix Watch live… The Deuce Another last exit for Maggie Gyllenhaal as the executive streetwalker in David ‘The Wire’ Simon’s examination of Manhattan sex work in the ’70s and ’80s. Gyllenhaal’s performance is flawless, the script as languid and filmic as anything Simon’s done before. Treat yourself, the quality simply oozes out of this one. 10pm, 2 January, Sky Atlantic Wallow in… The New Pope Jude Law steps back into…

so go in with your eyes open. These are not savings accounts, but an investment: any money you save through P2P, as it is often known, is handed over as a loan to a small business or an individual. The idea is that the rates are higher because the ‘middle man’, ie, a traditional bank, is cut out, but there is also a chance that the small business or person you are lending to could fail to pay the loan back. In that case, you might lose all your money. Some sites have a compensation fund (do check), Pitched as a way to earn more money on your savings than you can get in traditional bank cash accounts, peer-to-peer lenders offer alluring interest rates but can be a risky option,…

ANNA WHITEHOUSE: @MOTHER_PUKKA School run or runway, it’s your path, wear what you want. I pitched up to school last week looking like a Kardashian extra. I’d just done a shoot that required more slap than RuPaul’s make-up team could muster. I got a few quips like ‘Ooh, you look nice. Going somewhere special?’ which I could’ve translated two ways: 1) Passive aggressively hinting that I’d over-gilded the lily. 2) Giving me a compliment. Often, in the quagmire of childcare, I lean towards the former translation, because I’m anxious and questioning everything from the state of my perineum to my ability to herd 20 children to the Science Museum on a school trip. Everyone has cracks in the belief system – no matter how many Post-It notes adorn your mirror…

Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk ■ Post comments on graziadaily.co.uk ■ Tweet us at @GraziaUK ■ Find us on Facebook at Grazia UK ■ Follow us on Instagram @GraziaUK HOMELESSNESS SHAME ‘We need to tackle the hidden homeless epidemic’ (30 Dec) shocked me. Homelessness is devastating and dangerous, especially for children. A friend from uni, who’d lost his home, visited me a few years ago. I gave him clothes and asked him to stay. He only stayed one night, feeling he was in the way. I don’t know what became of him. No one in the UK should be living on the streets in 2020. Shannon DIVIDE AND RULE Perhaps you should have put your features on mental health and homelessness right after It was less an election,…

PHOTOS: GETTY A MONTH AGO, I went to see a nutritionist. It was a work thing – by which I mean, the consequence of my thinking ‘Yeah, feck it, why not?’ about an invite to meet Sonia Wahlroos, the Nordic Nutritionist, as opposed to: me, finally realising a long-standing personal ambition to heal my innards, and (by extension) outtards, via the medium of food. Truth is: I’m not bothered by food. I’m a disastrous cook who finds modern tendencies to fetishise food (shudder rapturously on placing some morsel upon your tongue, brag about how you went to the soft opening of this ah-ma-zing secret new restaurant, Instagram your sandwich) odd, going-on gross. I think of food as a necessary… Oh, ‘evil’ is probably overstating it – but ‘boring’ seems fair.…

FOR TWO DECADES , Kate Moss was the poster girl for the party girl. Her debauched birthday parties would notoriously last for as many hours as the years she had been alive (her 34th, which began at The Dorchester, was actually said to have raged on for almost two days). If you were to see Kate out, she had a permanent cigarette in one hand and a drink casually dangling from the other. But the Kate Moss of 2020 is a woman transformed: no booze, no cigarettes, regular yoga and even green juices. Who could have predicted that Kate, who was once nicknamed ‘The Tank’, would evolve into a Goop-esque beacon of wellness? Yet, as she posed for a new campaign for Dior on the beach in Miami recently, with…

PHOTOS: BACKGRID, GETTY IMAGES, JASON LLOYD-EVANS YOU MAY HAVE heard of the hemline index, economist George Taylor’s 1926 theory that dress and skirt hemlines fluctuate with the economy. During strong periods, hemlines got shorter. When times were hard, they dropped. This may not be water-tight, but it may actually hold some weight. After the economy crashed in 2008, for example, we saw the explosion of midiskirts and dresses on the catwalks and high street. But could jeans have replaced hemlines as a sartorial indicator of our current social and political situation? From Celine and Paco Rabanne to Louis Vuitton and Gucci, the S/S ’20 shows taught us that this year flares are back in a big way. And a slew of celebrities, including Margot Robbie and Harry Styles, have taken…

The best way to avoid ‘a wardrobe full of clothes, but nothing to wear’ syndrome and the cycle of buying disposable fashion that never gets worn is to find your forever style. It’s an idea that Rêve En Vert’s Cora Hilts (above) says is key to her business. ‘We believe in a wardrobe that will stand the test of time, that is not comprised of fast fashion, and that is filled with items you truly love,’ she says. Founder of Eco-Age, and champion of sustainable fashion, Livia Firth almost never has need to sort hers. ‘My wardrobe is full of old clothes, ones I’ve bought over the years and ones inherited from my mum or aunts,’ she says. ‘I upcycle a lot. I have a dress, for example, which I…

ASHLEY GRAHAM accepts that it is her lot in life to have to talk about her body. On the one hand, she’s a model so, sure. But on the other, she is held up as a portrait of womanhood which is other, which needs to be explained, which comes with a caveat… Even though, really, her body is more representative of the majority of women than most of her catwalk colleagues. We are likely all more Graham than Hadid, for example. But I’m not sure a Hadid sister has ever had to explain her presence on a runway or in a brand campaign to a slack-jawed audience in awe that such a thing, such a body, was allowed to happen. Admirably, this isn’t an issue for Graham. ‘I think that,…

PHOTOS: MARCO VITTUR. CERAVE: BOOTS.COM; DR DENNIS GROSS: CULTBEAUTY.CO.UK;MURAD: MURAD.CO.UK, NO7: BOOTS.COM; REN: RENSHARE.COM; FOREO: FOREO.COM Joely Walker, health & beauty director December, you were a blast. But if, like me, your face is contending with the aftermath of a month-long cheese and wine fest, these treatments should get your skin back on track, with smart formulations (hello, salicylic acid) and clinically proven results. Blemishes, kindly jog on. With No7 Laboratories Clearing Skin Paste, £18, you have two options: 1. Use as an overnight mask for a skin clear-out. 2. Apply as an on-the-spot treatment to deal with a flare-up. With salicylic acid and willow bark, REN ClearCalm Non-Drying Spot Treatment, £15, is a nifty treatment that helps reduce redness without drying out the surrounding skin. Foreo Espada Blue Light…

KINDLY READ IT A Year Of Living Kindfully by Anna Black will teach you how to cultivate kindness towards yourself, others and the world we live in. Essential 2020 reading. £12.99, rylandpeters.com THE BEAUTY COCKTAIL Beauty Blend from Bobbi Brown’s new Evolution_18 range contains over 30 fruits and vegetables, plus good fats. A serving a day keeps the dermatologist away. £25 for 15 servings. boots.com MERINO BIOLOGY Merino wool is clever – it will keep you warm in winter and cool in summer, which is why this merino wool chevron sweater is a top wardrobe investment. £230, perfectmoment.com…

Not sure where to start? ‘The little things make a difference and build momentum for doing the larger things,’ says Rebecca. ‘So dust, change the light bulb, organise a drawer... Maintenance repairs also cause stress, so complete just one home repair a week, and within a month you’ll feel calmer and more in control.’ And, adds Victoria, a study in the British Journal Of Sports Medicine found cleaning your home vigorously for 20 minutes nonstop once a week can improve levels of anxiety, stress or depression.…

ARD BIA A Nordic-style conversion in the hip west end of the city, Bookmark this Airbnb for a stylish stay (from £154pn airbnb.ie/rooms/6566742). ARD BIA AT NIMMO Located near the Spanish Arch, this super friendly, food-first restaurant is a brunch essential – OK, make that dinner too (ardbia.com). COFFEEWERK + PRESS A coffee shop and gallery serving up faultless flat whites and great design inspo. Pop upstairs for vinyl grooves (coffeewerkandpress.com). THE TWEED PROJECT Find Irish linen, Donegal tweed and merino wool in the coolest silhouettes in this atelier (thetweedproject.com). GALWAY BAY Layer up and take in the Galway scenery at this amazing waterside spot. Morning mist here is super pretty. SHERIDAN’S CHEESEMONGERS Downstairs, cheese heaven. Upstairs, wine (sheridanscheesemongers.com). LOU BRENNAN SCARVES Paisley + silk + cashmere = a modern…

Turn your anxieties into a logical, rational measurement of probability and set aside the ones that are really unlikely to happen. (I developed this little tool called the prob-o-meter because it measures the probability of your problems. It’s just a scale of 1 to 5: 1 = something highly unlikely to happen, 2 = unlikely, 3 = likely, 4 = highly likely and 5 = inevitable. So, whenever I’m feeling anxious about something that hasn’t happened yet, I stop and think, where does this fall on the prob-o-meter? Because, if it’s a one or a two, I really don’t need to be worrying about it. Or if something’s highly likely to happen, you can start spending that time and energy worrying about it so you are prepared. I call that…

PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK Hashtags can be a great way to highlight key words, add context or tap into a trending topic. However, they can also be a great way to get digital egg on your face. These are the mistakes to avoid: #TooManyHashtags If you start putting a #hashtag on every #noun and #adjective, your #message becomes #unreadable. # Stick to a few, and put them at the end. #NoSpam #AttemptedIrony The internet loves irony, but be careful. If it’s unclear whether your hashtag is meant ironically or earnestly, your whole post could be misunderstood. #PoorPunctuation Capitalising the first letter of each word in a multi-word hashtag makes it easier to parse, but avoid using punctuation, as these will break the hashtag and make you look like a noob. #Don’tDoThis #NotLikeThat…

LET’S END COURT SCAM After reading ‘No one can consent to their murder, our friend Grace certainly did not’ (30 Dec) I signed your petition straight away. Grace Millane was the 59th British woman to be killed since 2010 by a man using ‘rough sex’ as a defence. These killers cruelly shift the blame on to the victim, feeding into wider patterns of victim-blaming and forcing families to listen to discussion of their loved ones’ sexual history when it’s not relevant and can prejudice the jury. English courts need to follow NZ’s lead and not allow such a defence to succeed. I admire Chloe and her friends for their fight for justice for Grace. Shanie Lloyd…

NEW SEASON SWEATY BETTY Buying new gym wear in January is the same as actually working out. TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET’S KEY RING Le Tour Eiffel sur le tapis rouge? Pourquoi pas? OLIVIA MOORE’S KEY-RING TOP A theme emerges! Very different vibe, same air of faintly sexy mystery. REWRITTEN’S TOTTENHAM IN PETROL BLUE Because January is no reason to let your standards slip. OMOS IN 2020 Occasional Moments of Optimism. Allowing myself to think it’ll all be all right in the end after all.…

SHOPPING: SOPHIE HENDERSON. PHOTOS: JASON LLOYD-EVANS THE PARTY’S OVER . January has arrived, meaning it’s time to pack away your sequins, get an early night and start eating your greens again. It’s a bumpy ride back to reality. But, who said the fun had to end? Admittedly, there are fewer opportunities to go out-out every night of the week but, at least where your wardrobe’s concerned, the party spirit can continue. They say dress for the job you want, but this January we’re dressing for the mood we want: happy. If you make one style resolution this year, it should be to embrace happy fashion. Optimism was the key takeaway from the S/S ’20 shows, where twirling, dancing, smiling models in equally upbeat clothes dominated the runway. ‘Tonight is a…

1. THE SECRET INGREDIENT? LAURA DERN If you made a film this year and Laura Dern wasn’t in it, were you even trying? After stealing season two of Big Little Lies, she stood out in two of the year’s best films. In Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story she was Nora, smooth-talking divorce lawyer to Scarlett Johansson’s Nicole, and in his partner Greta Gerwig’s Little Women she played matriarch Marmee. Wildly different roles, certainly, but Dern gave them both intelligence, poise and edge. It’s entirely possible that there’s nothing she can’t do. 2. THE NETFLIX DEBATE IS OVER: NETFLIX WON This time last year there was fierce controversy about whether films principally released on Netflix rather than in cinemas, like Alfonso Cuaron’s brilliant Roma, belonged in the Oscar conversation. This year, two…

I DON’T WISH to offend anyone, but I am wearing the exact same outfit I wore yesterday. Black cashmere rollneck, brown leather midiskirt, ankle boots, hoops; I was feeling it yesterday, so I’ve pulled it on again this morning. Maybe I will tomorrow, too. It shouldn’t feel radical, but strangely it does. Because – barring school uniform, all-night house parties and ‘surprise sleepover’ situations – many of us have learned to regard daily outfit repeating as a sartorial crime. The struggle to keep up an endless parade of fresh ensembles is real. ‘I used to have such an irrational obsession with not repeating outfits,’ my friend Daisy recently admitted, ‘that when a friend asked, “Is it OK if Emma comes for drinks?”, I went and bought a new top. Because…

Depop  The Millennial favourite, Depop, has an impressive 13 million users in 147 countries. It looks a lot like Instagram, display-wise, and is particularly good for selling one-of-a-kind and vintage pieces. eBay Founded in 1995 during the age of dial-up internet, it’s second only to Amazon on the App Store’s top shopping apps. The site is experiencing a big comeback in popularity among fashion editors as resale and circularity become popular topics in the industry. Vinted This fashion and accessories resale app, from Lithuanian founder Milda Mitkute, is free to use and has a following of 25 million ‘Vinties’. Its design means it’s super easy to communicate with buyers and check out fellow sellers’ ratings. Vestiaire Collective Most fashion editors have a wishlist as long as their arm on Vestiaire…

HANDS UP IF you have a teetering stack of clothes in desperate need of repair? 2020 is the year to tackle it. You can find a good seamstress by asking for recommendations in your local area. If it’s more of a simple mend than an alteration, you might be able to go the DIY route using sewing tutorials on loveyourclothes.org.uk. There has also been a new hive of restoration services for shoes and handbags, items that are often the worst for showing signs of wear. THE RESTORY , which operates nationwide and has concierges at Harvey Nichols and Selfridges, offers services like leather restoration, re-stitching and re-edging (from £105) as well as more straightforward repairs like resoling and replacing zips (from £20). You book a collection online, get a quote…

WE’VE ALL BEEN there. The January gym sign-up, begrudgingly leaving the house in seemingly sub-zero temperatures only to wander aimlessly around machines with little clue as to how to actually use them. Default: running machine, count down the seconds, give up by mid-February. ‘If you don’t have a clear plan for your fitness journey, you’ll likely get lost along the way,’ confirms Shane Collins, founder of Kobox and 13 Training. Enter the ‘tribe’ factor. ‘Elements of controlled group training provide a great mix of support systems, accountability, motivation and a healthy dose of competition. Similar to team sports, tribe-style boutique studios provide a community feel where people feel they are a part of something,’ says Jonny Sasati, founder of F45 Chiswick. ‘All these factors increase sustainability for the long haul.’…

THE SPIEL: Originating in traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture has been around for millennia and is universally celebrated for treating an assortment of issues, from headaches to infertility, by rebalancing Qi (life energy) throughout the body. Of late, the age-old practice has seen a huge resurgence in popularity thanks to a focus on facial acupuncture – with over 17,000 #facialacupuncture posts flooding Instagram, and an increasing number of industry devotees. A mind-meets-complexion treatment, sessions focus on aesthetic concerns like acne, dermatitis, scars and fine lines. ‘Inserting tiny, thread-thin needles into the skin relaxes facial tissue, defines, sculpts and encourages renewed circulation,’ explains celebrated cosmetic acupuncturist Sarah Bradden. ‘It focuses on rejuvenating skin and addressing concerns by stimulating skin mechanisms from within the dermis, resulting in a more noticeably invigorated and youthful…

I DON’T CARE whether it’s chickpeas or chia seeds: I want what Rachel Ama’s having. The 27-year-old YouTuber, who runs a vegan-cooking channel with 370,000 subscribers, arrives for our interview looking clear-skinned and glowing – despite it being early on a miserable morning. We’re meeting for coffee (with oat milk, of course) at By CHLOE, the plant-based restaurant at which Rachel recently offered a limited-edition menu. Her BBQ jerk cauliflower was the big hit, she says; her friends kept texting her to complain that it had sold out. This is the secret to Rachel’s success. Vegan food used to be something that meat-eaters rolled their eyes at: virtuous but not appetising. When she gave up animal products herself – appalled by a documentary she’d seen on chicken farming – she…

FOR THOSE OF US OLD enough to remember podium dancers losing their shit to his records in the fragrant Northern nightclubs of the ’90s, the ascendancy of RuPaul Charles to actual cultural royalty has been one of the more pleasing U-turns of the 2010s. RuPaul is the 21st-century Bruce Springsteen, a fitting new twist on the American Dream bespoke for more diverse times. RuPaul bequeathed the entertainment wing downfall of straight, white, obtrusively male hegemony with heels, wigs, lashes and pure showbiz tenacity. A full-blown drag deity, la Ru unbundles the gender/race/sexuality binary by sprinkling a torrential rainstorm of glitter all over it. That 10-year-old kids are fully gripped by the addendum ‘Yas Queen’ is a kind of LGBTQ miracle, ripped from the pages of Ru’s biblical new playbook. Nothing…

When we’re faced with something new, some of us fear failure and think we’re not good enough. To tackle impostor syndrome, you need to externalise the voice of the impostor. Make a list of your achievements, almost like a CV, and keep adding to it continuously. Read over it again and again until your achievements start to stick in your mind. Often, we forget what we’ve accomplished, so writing these things down directly answers back the impostor. Be open about how you’re feeling. This way, people can reassure you and then you’ll see it doesn’t add up. But also accept that you won’t be perfect at everything, that’s human. Learn to be comfortable with your vulnerability. Give yourself permission to fail so you can learn from failure. The next time…

The comparison trap will consume precious time and energy. Give yourself credit for your achievements, rather than diminishing them through comparing to others. Pop the perfection bubble. End-goal thinking can have the effect of sabotaging your real focus, so you see the results but not the journey. Find a compass word. Choose a word that grounds you, keeping you in the present and on track. Make it your mantra when self-doubt creeps in. Live your own dream rather than what you think someone else imagines for you. Set yourself different milestones. Need some expert advice on money, work or anything else? Let us know what you’d like to see on this page at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk…

BOBBI BROWN PHOTO: MARK MANN 62, BEAUTY ENTREPRENEUR THE MAKE-UP LEGEND TALKS ABOUT THE CROWN, FRUIT AND VEG AND LIGHT MASKS The first thing I do when I get home is drop my bags and say hi to the dogs. We have a mixed beagle mutt called Biggie and then there’s my son’s dog, Summer. I clean up the kitchen because my son will have left a mess, and then I find my husband so we can decide whether we’re eating in or out. I would like to cook more, as I feel much better when I do home cooking. I make soups and vegetables in the week or grilled fish. My new brand Evolution_18 was born out of the fact that I absolutely see a difference when people start…