Lifestyle

By Andrea Osborne, from cushion the impact If your desk needs a fast and furious makeover her are six successful tips to help you clean up your act. EMAIL SURGERY – Did you know we only use 20% of our emails correctly? Using emails inefficiently can drain our productivity. So organise them, create different folders for emails to keep all relevant messages together. This will enable you to find what you need a lot more quickly. Use filters so that...

By Charlotte Stringer, Style Editor at STYLIGHT.co.uk This Tuesday saw the return of the most exciting awards show around, the STYLIGHT Fashion Influencer Awards (SFIAs), honouring online fashion influencers, IT girls and boys, and tastemakers from around the globe at a secret location in Berlin. With the likes of supermodel Bar Refaeli, London It girls Zara Martin and Laura Whitmore, and the Made in Chelsea boys in attendance, the most fashionable kids around took their seats for awards. Dutch blogger...

A new study has revealed the top 20 things Brits worry about, with money, dead-end relationships and unfulfilling jobs among the main reason people in the UK say they're unhappy.   A meagre three in ten Brits are ‘happy with their lives', the survey 2,000 people found, with 69 per cent feeling trapped in the same old routine and 40 per cent of people actively unhappy with the way they look. Lifestyle niggles, worrying about their image and even the British weather...

Jack Peat reviews Truth, Lies, Diana at Charing Cross Theatre. On the night princess Diana died I was driving home from a family holiday in France. Most people know where they were when the tragic news started filtering through the media, the memory fixed in our minds in the same way people recall their whereabouts when JF Kennedy was assassinated. And like the gunshot on the grassy knoll that has implicated 82 assassins and 214 people in conspiracy theories, the...

The gloomiest day of the year is here. January 19th marks Blue Monday on the calender, the day when Christmas and New Year seem like distant memories and summer fun seems like a far away dream. But it doesn't all have to be doom and gloom, and if the public get behind a new viral campaign things could be altogether more cheery. Using hashtag #smileforjanuary One Poll CEO John Sewell is encouraging the nation to share their favourite jokes to brighten up the...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_lifestyle Today, Monday 19th January, is the most depressing day of the year. It’s official. I didn’t get a seat on the tube this morning until 9 stops in, which is unheard of, so I can definitely feel the first wave of ‘it’s going to be a bad day’ permeating my brain. It’s also really bloody cold. This theory goes back to 2005 when a UK based psychologist, Cliff Arnall, calculated that a combination of...

With January well and truly under way and New Year's resolutions already starting to crumble, now is the time we really struggle to keep our diets up. New research has revealed boredom, expense and will power are among the top reasons for giving up a diet, with chocolate, alcohol and fizzy drinks the hardest treats for women to give up or cut back on when watching their weight. The study, commissioned by SodaStream, found a whopping 83 per cent only last an...

New research has revealed that nearly three-quarters of men have no idea the lengths their wife or girlfriend goes to look her best. The study found most men are completely oblivious to the extensive beauty routine their other half goes through on a daily basis, with waxing or bleaching of moustaches among the pampering habits which escape men as well as extensive plucking of eyebrows, nose hair and chin whiskers. Wearing push-up bras, false eyelashes and control pants were also tricks ladies...

By Georgette Culley What happened when our  feature writer  went to celebrity hairstylist in Knightsbridge salon? Ever since I can remember I’ve been dying my hair. First, I went bleach blonde, then I went Ginger (yes I actually asked to be ginger), then I went brunette, pink and every colour in between. Needless to say, my hair isn’t in the best condition and is dryer than the Gobi desert. No matter what expensive products I put on it, it still looks shit...