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A step-by-step breakdown of Laurent Voisinet's texturised bob from his Neo-Kawaii collection, showing how full-blade cutting, scissor-over-comb and point cutting combine to soften a graphic shape.
Guide
A micro fringe delivers a dramatic new silhouette with very little length lost, yet it demands daily styling and regular trims. The consultation matters more than face-shape rules.
Explainer
Winter can leave hair dry and prone to breakage, yet it is a weak explanation for true root-level shedding. Help clients separate fibre damage from hair loss, and know when to refer.
Review
ASICS’s Gel-Transcend FJ puts a trail shaped sole under a leather city sneaker, though its perforations set clear limits on rain protection. Grip is the real upgrade.
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Officine Générale founder Pierre Mahéo still wears his flannel suit jacket but retired the trousers, too heavy for an office day, revealing how one fabric's weight dictates what actually survives in a wardrobe.
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Wahl’s Vapor Switch pairs 7,000 and 9,000 rpm settings with an adjustable taper lever, giving barbers more control during fades and bulk removal.
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KOT, the new Fischersund x Farmers Market scent, builds hay, suede and woodsmoke into the feeling of an Icelandic cottage gathering that lasts through a sun that never sets.
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GQ UK says Andrew Garfield's shirts break the rules while his suits stay classic. His stylist Warren Alfie Baker explains why the jacket never gets to be the rebel.
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Elordi has grown his undercut into a layered mod mullet for the Wuthering Heights tour, and the texturizing behind it explains why men's grow-outs are trending.
Guide
The 7 Virtues named a giveaway winner for Amber Orchid, but the fragrance's "Harmony Molecule" base and its Sephora-exclusive launch reveal more about the brand's direction than the contest does.
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At Milan Fashion Week, ghd styled two opposite SS27 looks for Missoni and Sportmax: textured, undone waves and curls versus a glass-smooth wet-look bun.
Review
Philosopher's Walk's "Grand Cru" citrus, florals and cedar moss trace to a single ingredient lab, L'Atelier Français des Matières, that also supplies Les Indémodables, Masque Milano and Rogue Perfumery.
Guide
The clipped sides and soft, tousled top K-pop idols wear aren't just a scissor cut. Barbers and stylists rely on specific perms to get hair to sit that way.
Guide
A half buzz looks like the simplest haircut on the menu, but barbers say the hard part is the blend, not the shave, and the upkeep is faster than clients expect.
Report
Winter hair looks dull for two separate reasons, cooler seasonal light and a measurable drop in cuticle-smoothing humidity, and UK hard water quietly compounds both.
Guide
MANACARE, a five-step professional nail and hand care line built for nail technicians, launches October 15 betting that male clients need a system, not a men's-only shelf label.
Review
Sora Dora's extrait Raphael pairs ambroxan, cashmeran and Haitian vetiver under iris and magnolia, a base built to read as coal-dust warmth rather than sweet amber.
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K18's £110 FutureIQ serum asks users for a nightly twelve-week scalp ritual, but its headline hair-count and grey-reduction claims come from an unpublished, undisclosed in-house trial.
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Etat Libre d'Orange's new Jordi Fernandez scent, Uruk Chronicles, pairs juicy fruit with oud and amber, but neither material is what the words suggest, and both behave differently once heat and humidity get involved.
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Perfumer Andreas Wilhelm built Ylem NGC 6302 around the Butterfly Nebula's real extremes, a star near 220,000°C beside gas near absolute zero, and translated that contrast into resins and heat sensitive amber notes.
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Salon International 2026's Artists on Stage lineup is trade show spectacle, not a preview of what happens in a barber's chair.
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Darren Alan Perfumes' September release, Foin Coupé, leans on coumarin, the tonka-derived compound that gives cut hay its sweet, dry smell and anchors the fougère family since 1882.
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Stylists are training in seasonal color theory to pick dyes that flatter a client's actual coloring, moving beyond guessing at requested shades.
Report
Gulf air is dry indoors and outdoors, which changes how hyaluronic acid behaves on skin. Here is what actually works when humidity is scarce.
Explainer
Twice a day during healing, then almost never. The real skill is knowing when to stop, since overcleaning is what actually stalls new piercings.
Review
Patricia de Nicolaï's Harrods exclusive patchouli fragrance is now available beyond one department store, revealing an amber, liqueur-like take on a note she says she has always loved.
Explainer
Washing frequency doesn't touch growth rate, which is set at the follicle. It does control scalp buildup, breakage, and how long your ends survive.
Guide
Colourists are swapping flat, all-over grey coverage for freehand, dimensional blending that treats regrowth as part of the design rather than a flaw to hide.
Review
Montale's new Cedrat Lova opens on Sicilian citron and Calabrian lemon before settling into oud and tobacco, a structure that rewards patience in warm weather.
Guide
Twice daily is a decades-old default, but dermatologists now say the right number depends on skin type, season, and what you put on at night.
Review
Nicolaï's alcohol-free Petit Ange Eau de Senteur, cleared for newborns, arrives as the EU's expanded fragrance-allergen labeling rule closes in on its July 2026 deadline for products aimed at children.
Review
Azman's new Oh My Shisha! extrait marks attar specialist Sultan Pasha's continued move into alcohol-based perfumery, a shift that changes how a fragrance releases on skin, not just how it's packaged.
Review
Esquire's under-$100 fall fragrance picks arrive as tariffs, quiet reformulation and a booming dupe market are redrawing what "affordable" and "designer" even mean this season.
Review
Wella Professionals' new ammonia-free line, Pure Perfection, leans on metal-purifying tech to manage irritation from MEA, the alkalising agent that replaces ammonia, but its real test is what it does over repeated touch-up cycles.
Review
Al Fanak's 2026 cherry fragrance, composed by Nathalie Feisthauer, leans on spice and heavy woods to keep its fruit accord from collapsing into syrup once skin heats it up.
Review
Weil de Weil, the 1971 green chypre revisited in ÇaFleureBon's vintage series, leans on civet and oakmoss, two materials now restricted enough that its original formula cannot legally be rebuilt today.
Review
Crazy Tubéreuse, the house's latest extrait, was composed by dsm-firmenich perfumer Alexandra Monet rather than Céline Ellena, breaking a lineage the brand has kept since 2005.
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Layers, lightener and tight styling can all worsen visible thinning. Here's what stylists are being told to do instead, from the cutting chair to the consultation.
Review
Chanel's Imprimé Lion necklace centers on a rare 20.66-carat unheated Sri Lankan sapphire, and it's also the first high-jewelry collection released since creative director Patrice Leguereau's 2024 death.
Review
A shirt collar poking above a crewneck has become 2026's defining menswear tic, and getting it right is a matter of fabric, fit, and layering order, not just habit.
Guide
A GQ Middle East roundup names nine Saudi labels worth watching, but nearly every one of them threads back to the same state apparatus: Fashion Commission mentorships, PIF-linked retail stakes, and LVMH-adjacent showrooms, that the listicle never names.
Guide
GRAZIA Middle East's tour of Dubai's 14 best salons skews toward hotel-affiliated, Western-expat names and misses a major Bollywood celebrity stylist who just opened shop in the same tower as one of its picks.
Guide
Vogue Arabia's gut-health breakfast list lands against a backdrop where 95% of US adults fall short on fiber: here's the research, and Tim Spector's own kefir-and-coffee breakfast, that context demands.
Article
New Balance's 'Made in USA' retro sneakers meet a 70 percent domestic-value threshold the company set for itself, not the federal government's stricter standard, a gap that has drawn an FTC complaint and two rounds of class-action litigation since the 1990s.
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The polyurethane midsoles in many sought-after 1990s and 2000s sneakers begin breaking down from the moment they are made, a process collectors call shoe cancer, and the sealed, untouched storage prized by deadstock culture often speeds that decay rather than preventing it.
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Warm skin does produce more sebum, but a share of what gets labeled a summer breakout is heat rash from blocked sweat ducts or a yeast infection that mimics acne without being it, and each needs a different treatment than an acne regimen provides.
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Nicole Kidman's fall layered cut and curtain fringe are being sold as an easy, no-perm no-color change, but the look borrows directly from two older references and comes with a maintenance rhythm the coverage skips.
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The word tote predates the current oversized-bag trend by centuries, and L.L. Bean's 1944 canvas Ice Carrier shows why today's big bags slouch: the construction underneath was never meant to hold a shape in the first place.
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This season's push toward brown and other earth toned jeans leaves out a detail of dye chemistry: brown denim is typically dyed in a way that ages more abruptly than indigo, not more gracefully.
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At her civil wedding to Cristiano Ronaldo in Cascais, Georgina Rodríguez wore a sheer, milky white manicure instead of a statement look, a restraint that happened to land on the same shade Pantone named its color of the year for 2026.
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The one concrete line in Ellie Block's career profile, warning new colorists against renting a salon booth too soon, describes a real financial risk, and that risk is scaling fastest in Austin itself, where a national salon suite franchise opened its hundredth U.S. location in March 2025.
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Before a new leadership book borrowed rewilding from ecology to describe corporate change, the word meant two decades of debt, hostile letters, and an outcome nobody in West Sussex could guarantee in advance; the corporate version keeps the vocabulary but not the timeline or the uncertainty.
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A bow can be a visible ornament mounted on a headband, barrette, or clip while the hairstyle is built separately. A still image cannot establish the hidden fastener or how the placement holds through movement and humidity.
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A Korean cosmetics package documents the responsible business, batch, usable period, ingredients, cautions, and regulated function. It cannot establish national popularity, factory freshness, or suitability for a particular person.
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The two-word vocabulary now printed on jean tags, slim straight, straight taper, and the rest, descends from Levi's own internal lot-numbering system, whose origin the company says it can no longer explain, and a 2022 sizing investigation found that even the right name on a label can still leave the actual garment inches off the number stated.
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The copper hair that helped viewers read Sadie Sink as Jean Grey was already her natural, never-colored shade. What the record does not show is that Marvel cast her for it, or that the finished screen image required no styling.
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The modern wedge is often presented as the easier route back into heels. Its defining construction began as a response to material scarcity, while comfort still depends on height, pitch, fit, and the surface underfoot.
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Three days before Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez married quietly in Cascais, nearly two thousand fans packed a Madeira cathedral for a wedding that belonged to two strangers, Fábio Ramos and Fátima Nicole Cunha Teixeira.
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In October 2024, Four Seasons renamed its Grade II* London hotel after Tower Bridge, a landmark five to ten minutes' walk away, trading a specific address for a recognizable skyline while the building itself, and its documented history, stayed exactly where they were.
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In Seoul, denim shorts can readily outlast August, but recent weather records do not support treating late summer as an automatic layering season. The practical transition is forecast-led, not calendar-led.
