In Episode 4, Phoebe McDowell, Assistant Editor at BURO 24 joins me for Required Reading. We discuss Jo Ellison's column in the Financial Times about how Congresswoman AOC, Vanity Fair’s December 2020 cover star, uses her love of make up to take on the patriarchy.
Read MoreMy guest on this week's Talking Points is journalist and editor Felicia Pennant. We discuss Emma Dabiri's powerful new Channel 4 Documentary on black hair , hair discrimination and the joys and frustrations of the black hair salon.
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Read MoreIn Episode 4, Phoebe McDowell, Assistant Editor at BURO 24 joins me for Required Reading to discuss Afua Hirsh's piece in The Guardian on ageism within the broadcasting industry - and society at large.
Read MoreIn this week’s show, I and my guest Kathleen Hou, The Cut and New York Magazine’s Beauty Director, discuss why TikTokers are cancelling Hair by Chrissy, fat shaming by instagram and toxic beauty ingredients. The influential make up artist Mali Thomas (and new Global Artist in Residence for Bobbi Brown) joins me to share her journey and thoughts on colorism and representation.
Read MoreOn Episode 3 Kathleen Ho, the Beauty Director of The Cut and New York Magazine joins me for Required Reading. We discuss the WWD feature on California banning toxic ingredients. We question why the industry still lacks regulation.
Read MoreInfluential make up artist and social media star Mali Thomas was recently made Bobbi Brown’s Global Artist in Residence . She talks, colorism, racism, ageism ... and why she will always champion dark skin girls.
Read MoreOn Episode 3 Kathleen Ho, the Beauty Director of The Cut and New York Magazine joins me for Required Reading. When comedian Celeste Barber parodied a semi nude pose of ex Victoria Secret model Candace Swanepoel and posted it on Instagram, the social media giant removed it. Swanepoel’s however wasn’t . Why? We discuss The Guardian’s take on the story.
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Read MoreOn Episode 3 Kathleen Ho, the Beauty Director of The Cut and New York Magazine joins me for Required Reading. This piece in The Vox covers Habit, the salon by Influencer favourite stylist Hair by Chrissy that is obsessed with ‘mermaid hair’ and has recently come under fire for disregarding Covid rules .
Read MoreIn Episode 2, we are with Chloe Hall, the US Elle Beauty Director and Dr Lauren Hamilton, founder of aesthetics clinic , Victor & Garth. We talk Trump’s Hairstyling bill, Tweakments, Racism and Misogyny in the Medical industry and so much more.
Read MoreIn Episode 2 , Required Reading looks at the story in GQ.COM that discusses Trump writing off $70000 on taxes for hairstyling services and how the haircut has become a weapon in politics - and how women such as Alexandra Ocasio Cortez - bear much of the brunt of it.
Read MoreIn Episode 2, our guest for Required Reading is US Elle’s Beauty Director Chloe Hall. She joins us to discuss the US Elle feature on the misogyny faced by attractive women in the medical profession.
Read MoreIn Episode 2 of On Reflection, I speak to Dr Lauren Hamilton, founder of aesthetic clinic. , Victor and Garth about the rise of tweakments, whether it is skewing our view of beauty and why ( as written in Funmi Fetto’s British Vogue article) black women are keeping quiet about it.
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Read MoreIn Episode 2, Required Reading is with Chloe Hall, the US Elle Beauty Director. We discuss this piece from the New York Times which looks at the relationship between Gen Z and the Beauty industry.
Read MoreEpisode 2. In Required Reading , we discuss the US Elle feature on one woman’s experience with medical racism and why the health care system needs a reckoning.
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