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Being single in London is tough – but not for the reasons you’d think

Now, before you write this off as a literary version of the opening credits to Bridget Jones’ Diary – in which Renée Zellweger delivers a very convincing but somewhat tragic lip sync of ‘All By Myself’ by Eric Carmen – I feel I should offer a disclaimer. I love being single. I know – it’s shocking. I also know that some people won’t even be able to hear that sentiment due to the sheer distance between them in their cohabiting bliss, and me on that shelf cluttered with dust and broken dreams that they’ve mentally put me on, but it’s true. [...]

Badass girls wear red lipstick

Last week the long-awaited exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up’ opened at the V&A. The beautifully curated show charts the life, works and inspiration, love and tragedies of one of history’s most iconic and brave female artists. As the exhibitions’ name points out, it’s an exploration into the way that Frida presented herself to the world. The exhibition showcases many of Frida’s most intimate possessions, cosmetics and medicines, jewellery and clothes, interspersed with compelling self-portraits of the subject, whose look is so distinguished. Kahlo lived a life full of intoxicating colour. From her home, Casa Azul (blue house), to her [...]

How to build your savings even when you don’t earn much money

In case you hadn’t heard, being a millennial sucks. Not only are we destined to work until we die according to this recent Politico report, but we’re also earning less, spending more and doomed to eat avocados forever (a fate worse than death, if you ask me), if stereotypes are anything to go by. As such, the chocolate box future involving white picket fences and bluebirds twittering at the window that Disney promised us is looking less and less likely. After all, this is a post-recession world and we’re all barely living in it. It’s not all bad though. Faced with such depressing statistics, the millennial generation has shown much [...]

Being single in London is tough – but not for the reasons you’d think

Now, before you write this off as a literary version of the opening credits to Bridget Jones’ Diary – in which Renée Zellweger delivers a very convincing but somewhat tragic lip sync of ‘All By Myself’ by Eric Carmen – I feel I should offer a disclaimer. I love being single. I know – it’s shocking. I also know that some people won’t even be able to hear that sentiment due to the sheer distance between them in their cohabiting bliss, and me on that shelf cluttered with dust and broken dreams that they’ve mentally put me on, but it’s true. [...]

Badass girls wear red lipstick

Last week the long-awaited exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up’ opened at the V&A. The beautifully curated show charts the life, works and inspiration, love and tragedies of one of history’s most iconic and brave female artists. As the exhibitions’ name points out, it’s an exploration into the way that Frida presented herself to the world. The exhibition showcases many of Frida’s most intimate possessions, cosmetics and medicines, jewellery and clothes, interspersed with compelling self-portraits of the subject, whose look is so distinguished. Kahlo lived a life full of intoxicating colour. From her home, Casa Azul (blue house), to her [...]

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How to build your savings even when you don’t earn much money

In case you hadn’t heard, being a millennial sucks. Not only are we destined to work until we die according to this recent Politico report, but we’re also earning less, spending more and doomed to eat avocados forever (a fate worse than death, if you ask me), if stereotypes are anything to go by. As such, the chocolate box future involving white picket fences and bluebirds twittering at the window that Disney promised us is looking less and less likely. After all, this is a post-recession world and we’re all barely living in it. It’s not all bad though. Faced with such depressing statistics, the millennial generation has shown much [...]

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