5 beauty lessons you're (genuinely) unlikely to have heard elsewhere

These will change how you 'do' beauty, or your money back*

*Not really

Though I am not longer a working beauty editor (instead I’m a working beauty commsperson? Can that be a word?) I did spend fifteen long but lovely years privileged to be in the company of other editors, experts, founders and passionate beauty stans of all kinds.

The things I learned – about beauty, life, the British class system, among others – while in their ether were numerous and at times unbelievable. I’ve sifted through a decade-and-a-half of conversations and interviews here to bring you genuinely handy and reasonable beauty tips and TRUST me. The ones that I came up with by myself I will absolutely be taking immediate and prompt credit for.

Let’s go!