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IF PROOF WERE NEEDED of the restorative power of beauty, 2020 delivered it in spades: not least with the pictures of women rushing to hairdressers post lockdown. Indeed, when we asked you to tell us how this year has shaped your habits, nine out of 10 of you said your beauty routine had been a vital form of self-care through challenging times. So this Beauty Issue is dedicated to feeling good – and it’s fronted by six women who’ve mastered the art of that this year. Hundreds of you posted stories of self-confidence when we launched our first ever social-media casting, asking you to share how you’d owned your beauty. Our panel of experts had the unenviable task of whittling them down to six, who were invited to a socially-distanced…

Thank you, Obama, for bringing the hope “First we were given positive news about the Covid-19 vaccine and now Barack Obama’s book is out – proof that this year is gradually, finally, starting to look up. In A Promised Land , the former President offers his thoughts on how to heal the deep divisions in America and make democracy work for everyone – pertinent timing given the rancorous US election and Trump’s subsequent attempts to undermine confidence in the result. Obama’s message of optimism has never felt so necessary and, as expected, the book is full of it. Let’s hope he can point the way to a more promising future, as he did on his own election day.”…

1. New in MR & MRS BIONTECH A fortnight ago we hadn’t even heard of them, but now we feel nothing but overwhelming gratitude to Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, who worked with Pfizer to deliver a vaccine. 2. New in DOROTHY QUOCK San Franciscan, Chinatown historian, tour leader (pre-Covid, obvs) and out-and-out style icon. Don’t mind us while we obsessively google all her past outfits. 3. Up JASON MOMOA Aquaman in Aquaman, Baba Voss in See, papped last week cruising through Toronto on a Harley-Davidson in a rather enthralling display of nouveau masculinity. 4. New in LYSTRA ADAMS The Real Housewives Of Cheshire’s newest conscript, a former exotic dancer turned model turned entrepreneur. Ground zero on extraordinary ructions already. 5. New in ARIYON BAKARE…

WORDS (EMMA CORRIN FASHION): LAURA ANTONIA JORDAN. PHOTOS: GETTY,SHUTTERSTOCK, PA IMAGES, INSTAGRAM/EMMALOUISECORRIN, MIU MIU It’s not only on screen that Emma Corrin does Princess Diana proud. Because while she might not be the world’s most photographed woman (yet), Emma’s first steps into the limelight have shown her to have the same tongue-in-cheek take on chic. Emma’s star has ascended in the weirdest of times. But she knows that, even in the midst of a global pandemic, perhaps especially now, we hanker after the power and fantasy that fashion can deliver. Her secret weapon is stylist Harry Lambert, who also works with Harry Styles. And there are echoes of Styles’s off-beat look in her own choices; both are fans of Bode and Christopher Kane’s Sex merch. She knows how to have…

AT THE BEGINNING of this month, the High Court ruled that The Sun newspaper had not committed libel in describing Johnny Depp as a ‘wife-beater’ (he denied the allegations). You could be forgiven for thinking that this conclusive statement meant the saga between the two actors was finally over. But in truth, it has barely begun. With a separate ongoing court case, and the immediate fallout, which has the potential to destroy both their careers, Amber is painfully aware that one battle does not win a war. Now, she is taking a deep breath in this calm before the next storm. PHOTOS: BACKGRID, SHUTTERSTOCK ‘Amber has been galvanised by the verdict,’ a friend tells Grazia . ‘But she is a realist, and knows there’s a huge fight ahead of her…

PHOTOS: FLORIAN SOMMET/ FOLIO ID. Good to glow With 30% off everything at aureliaskincare.com, pick up the Glowing Skin Daytime Routine Gift Set. Was £78, now £54.60. Sale starts 27 November. Brush up The clever Philips Sonicare ProtectiveClean 4300 Electric Toothbrush is £50, down from £140. Sale on now at boots.com. Glossy posse Our friends at Glossier are doing 20% off the entire site, and further deals on special bundles. Go to glossier.com. Beauty booty Brands including Anastasia Beverly Hills, Isle of Paradise and Medik8 have big discounts at lookfantastic.com from 25 November. Eye do Be quick to snap up one of Charlotte Tilbury’s brilliant eye kits for £40 (usually £80). Sale starts 26 November at charlottetilbury.com. Do good Armani Beauty is making Black Friday give back by donating 30%…

THE CHESS SET Tournament Classic acacia and walnut chess set, £144.95, officialstaunton.com THE BOARD GAME Monopoly: The Mega Edition, £25.99, johnlewis.com THE COOKBOOK Nigella Lawson’s Cook, Eat, Repeat is as delicious to read as it is to cook from. THE NOVEL Maggie O’Farrell’s beautiful Hamnet won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. THE PODCAST Nice White Parents is an eye-opening look at US state schools from The New York Times. THE ALBUM Fiona Apple’s galvanising Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the perfect lockdown listen.…

WHEN MY DAD and I pulled up outside the hospital, it was the early hours of the morning. He helped me to the door, where a masked nurse explained that he couldn’t come in, even to carry my bag. I don’t recall much about dragging it awkwardly to the lift and pausing for a contraction, but I do remember the worried look on Dad’s face when he kissed me goodbye. It was April, the peak of Covid-19, and I was about to give birth alone. When I chose to conceive a baby solo, using donor sperm, I knew it would be far from easy. But that was before the global pandemic that broke out just as I went on maternity leave, leaving its mark on every aspect of the experience.…

IT WILL BE a festive season like no other this year. But one thing we do know for certain – a bit of joy and cheer is exactly what we need right now. Helping us lift the mood is L.K. Bennett, with a gorgeous winter collection that gives a luxe spin on ’70s classics. Think chic gold tailored trousers, sequin dresses and Italian leather boots, for starters. Plus, Grazia readers get exclusive access to the L.K. Bennett Black Friday sale for a week before it goes live. To get 30% off at lkbennett.com between now and 22 November, simply use code ‘GRAZIA30’ at the online checkout* . Happy shopping! *TERMS & CONDITIONS: ENTER CODE: GRAZIA30 AT THE CHECKOUT AT LKBENNETT.COM. OFFER VALID ON FULL-PRICE ITEMS 17-22 NOVEMBER 2020, AFTER WHICH…

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NEW SEASON SCENTS Tom Ford Soleil Neige EDP, £174 for 50ml, is crisp and light at first spritz, before a warming musk comes along as it settles in for the night. Heaven scent. A comfort blanket in fragrance form, Molton Brown Milk Musk EDP, £120 for 100ml, pairs creamy tonka bean and sweet vanilla with – wait for it – warming milk. Feeling nostalgic? Us too. If florals take your fancy, get acquainted with Giorgio Armani My Way EDP, £76 for 50ml – a mood-boosting little number that showcases tuberose and orange blossom. Oh, Chanel! You never fail to make a scented masterpiece, do you? Take Coco Mademoiselle L’Eau Privée, £95 for 100ml – which leaves behind a delicate trail of rose and jasmine. Rose, jasmine and powdery mimosa –…

Have your say… Email us at feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk ■ Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GraziaUK Even as someone who used to go to illegal raves in the ’90s, I was pretty shocked to read in your speakeasies article an interviewee compare lockdown parties to illegal raves. You can’t compare Covid – where peoples’ lives are at risk – to illegal raves or American prohibition in the 1920s. It just makes me think people like this are incredibly selfish. If they looked at the bigger picture, they would realise that having these parties will just ensure lockdown goes on for longer, which will impact our economy even more, which in turn will lead to more unemployment in the future. People their age were fighting for their lives in WWII and…

PHOTOS: GETTY THE PROBLEM WITH the news being dominated by just two stories, each so epic that, under normal circs, only one would get a look-in (Trump and The Big C-One-Nine, duh) – is: nothing else gets covered. Stories that should light up our bulletins like Christmas are overlooked. Take Poland, which, at the time of writing, was trembling in a state of beautiful, broiling civil unrest, after the ruling right-wing Law & Justice Party (the PiS) discovered its people weren’t going to take an attempt to ban abortion lying down. Poland already had some draconian laws on abortion; on 22 October, its Constitutional Tribunal ruled that terminating a pregnancy on the grounds of severe foetal abnormality would no longer be lawful (leaving everyone’s faves – rape and incest –…

MY LAB HEARD the news about the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine being 90% effective at the same time as everyone else. We cheered and celebrated. It has given us all so much hope. It’s the same type of vaccine that we are working on, so it’s reassured us that we’re going about it in the right way. This year has seen the spotlight land on scientists in a way it never has before. What’s more, a number of brilliant women have been at the forefront of the discovery of the vaccine. BioNTech’s co-founder and chief medical officer, Ozlem Tureci (who, with her husband Ugur Sahin, is the most prominent person behind the Pfizer jab), epitomises a new type of celebrity. After decades of headlines about the gender gap in STEM…

‘Christmas is going to be very different this year.’ That was the message many took from the PM’s statement on 31 October, confirming a second national lockdown in England. Set to be lifted in early December, it’s likely some restrictions will still be in force at Christmas, leaving the idea of a traditional family festivity being re-thought. But for many with difficult relations, that’s a cause for celebration. ‘I’m so relieved not to have to find a date that accommodates my mother-in-law, so we can all have a “lovely” Christmas together,’ says Mel* . ‘She is difficult and inflexible and absolutely no fun to be around. I’m secretly hoping we’re in full lockdown and me, Dan and our boys can get quietly drunk or sick on sweets respectively for the…

PHOTOS: STOCKSY. MEGAN’S NEW PODCAST, YOU COME FIRST, IS OUT NOW, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INTERACTIVEPODCAST APP ENTALE. LISTEN TO THE FIRST EPISODE ON ENTALE OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS IT STARTED WITH A seemingly harmless conversation. ‘Do you know about the website OnlyFans?’ a friend asked me over WhatsApp. ‘My mate at work started on there and she’s made £1,000 in five weeks.’ This was near the beginning of lockdown and, in the seven months since, I’ve found myself getting to know a lot about OnlyFans, mainly because I started an account myself. OnlyFans is a British-run social media site on which ‘creators’ can sell tailored content to ‘fans’ for monthly subscriptions ranging from £3.90 to £39. Created in 2016 by Hertfordshire-based entrepreneur Timothy Stokely, 37, it’s been described…

PHOTOS: STOCKSY. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON JO EMERSONOS WORK, SEE JO-EMERSON.COM. EVERYTHING IS FIGUREOUTABLE AVAILABLE 31 DECEMBER RECENTLY, I FOUND myself trying to second-guess the reaction to a joke I was about to make on Twitter. The stakes were low – the joke involved Liam Gallagher and an Irish celebrity dolphin; it could, in no way, be deemed offensive – but I still felt a niggle of anxiety. ‘Is that funny?’ I asked my husband, after reading my proposed tweet aloud. ‘Yeah, that’s funny,’ he said. He didn’t actually laugh, however; he didn’t even really smile. That settled it: I didn’t tweet it. Later, though, as I scrolled through my timeline, I noticed that someone else had made the same joke, more or less. ‘Someone else tweeted it,’ I said.…

JUST WHEN YOU thought it was safe to go back in the diary… Here we are again, with everything crossed out. We’ve said bye to all the nice stuff. All the plans for drinks and hangs. In lockdown for a second time. It’s got to be done, to stop things spiralling, but I’m missing my people so much it aches. So how are you staying close to loved ones through this next famine of physical proximity? I for one have been wearing my friends. I’ve been wrapping them around me. By that I mean I’ve been wearing clothes my friends have given me. I guess we are all at a point now where we are past pretending. The way we look is the way things are. I’ve even stopped doing…

PHOTOGRAPHS BILLIE SCHEEPERS BACK IN SEPTEMBER, we kick-started our #GraziaOwnYourBeauty Instagram campaign by posing one pertinent question to our @GraziaUK followers: what does beauty mean to you in 2020? We were flooded with incredible responses from around the country – from people sharing their journeys of self-love and self-acceptance to others who were doing away with short-sighted societal standards and those who were simply owning their beauty like never before. Beauty and health director Joely Walker hosted a panel of industry experts and beauty positivity advocates whose mission was to read the hundreds of captions submitted and invite six women to a socially-distanced cover shoot enabling them to tell their stories through the pages of Grazia . On the panel were award-winning hairstylist and founder of her namesake brand Charlotte…

I read ‘Strictly no Insta’ – welcome to the 21st century’s speakeasies (16 Nov, about parties during lockdown), seven days into a 10-day self-isolation. I’m deeply disappointed by the irresponsibility of the people you interviewed, and hope their poor attitude doesn’t encourage others to break the rules. No one is enjoying this second lockdown. I haven’t seen my family in Ireland for nearly a year, and know so many people making major sacrifices to keep others safe. While mortality rates are lower for the young, we aren’t immune to the devastating impacts of the virus, including long-Covid. And an asymptomatic carrier can infect others more susceptible to the disease. All of us who can should be staying at home. The more we do, the sooner we’ll get through this. Christine…

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I WAS 25 AND EDITING Tatler magazine when Charles and Diana got together. Our staff mixed in her circles so we owned the story, getting scoops like interviews with her flatmates. But I didn’t fully process at the time just how young she was. Now, as a mother of a 30-year-old daughter, I think about her being just 19. Imagine marrying into a family that is so retrograde and stuffy at that age, and in that era. Many of the things that Meghan complained about were nothing like what Diana had to deal with. Back then, a lot of the courtiers were intolerable – now they’re far more modern. Not only did Diana have to deal with that, but also the fact her husband had a mistress and wasn’t in…

THERE’S NOT MUCH that rivals the crispness of new sheets or the feel of a brand new pair of pyjamas. And that’s at the best of times, which is not what we’ve been living through in 2020. So, it’s no surprise most of us have spent the year in our PJs, investing in comfort. But if the first lockdown had you reaching for the duvet (possibly to pull over your head), it seems that lockdown 2.0 has transformed early nights from a once-boring prospect into the hottest ticket in town. According to Media Vision Interactive, online searches for pyjamas increased by 95% at the beginning of October, while Google data shows that, since the second lockdown began, there’s been a further 110% rise in searches for women’s pyjamas. Matches Fashion…

WHEN MY FATHER died, I could only tear myself away from his body because they were about to cremate it. Tear blind, I staggered into the undertaker’s lavatory. I let myself be for a while. Then, I went to the mirror and painstakingly reapplied make-up: covering the redness, relocating my eyes. A woman touched my arm and said, ‘You don’t have to. Everyone understands.’ But it wasn’t for them. It wasn’t even for him. It was for me. Ornamentation rituals are the mark of a civilised society. Indeed, there’s an argument to suggest that it was these rituals that gave us our civilised society, homo sapiens advancing over their rivals by bonding over powder, paint and paste. Some 300,000 years on from our first experiments with red ochre, 7,000 since…

IT’S IRONIC THAT Netflix’s recent hit, The Queen’s Gambit, has driven many of us to an activity that is the antithesis of watching TV. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy as an orphaned chess prodigy, it has prompted a mass buying of chessboards. It was halfway through episode one when my husband and I turned to each other with the same thought: what age can you start learning chess? After eight months of working from home, with schools closed for much of that time, our kids have watched a lot of TV. The idea of our six-year-old son engaging in a wholesome activity that trains his brain to focus (on something other than Power Rangers) feels much needed. We’re not the only ones to feel this way. John Lewis has seen a staggering…

When I came out of Love Island , I was shamed for my past work in the sex industry as a stripper and cam girl. But having had time to reflect on it, I’m not ashamed at all – and after giving many talks advocating the sex industry, I realised I was being a hypocrite by celebrating sex work but not engaging in it. That’s why I restarted my OnlyFans account. I’ve had a lot of trolling since – people wonder why I do it when I already have a platform. But actually, I love doing these artistic and elaborate photo shoots. I only post lingerie and bikini pictures, with the occasional topless shoot if the concept is right. I love that creators set their own price and can control…

Give yourself a pep talk Helen Mirren has this cure for silencing her inner critic when faced with anyone who makes her ‘incredibly intimidated’. ‘Sometimes, I lock myself in the loo to give myself a talking to: “You can do it Helen, don’t worry, you can do it!’” Embrace vulnerability A classic Oprah-ism. ‘Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence… Do that and you recognise that you’re just like everyone else and that gives you the confidence to be yourself.’ Fake it till you make it This is Sheryl Sandberg’s approach. ‘Confidence [is a] muscle. You learn to use it or you learn not to. If you are afraid to speak up in a meeting, every time you force yourself to do it, you get better at it.’…

CHARLENE PREMPEH FOUNDER OF AGENCY A VIBE CALLED TECH FOR CHARLENE PREMPEH, the clothes we wear for work can bring people together. She gravitates towards structured pieces and believes that, as well as breaking the ice in meetings, complimenting someone else’s outfit is an important ritual of office life. It’s those precious ‘water cooler moments’, as she calls them, that can’t quite be replicated over Zoom. ‘Those compliments – people can see them as being vacuous, but actually the joy they bring the complimenter and the person being complimented is really nourishing,’ she says. ‘Clothes are very much the part of that ecosystem of how we care for each other in the workspace.’ As someone who has multiple work hats – working on public engagement around the effects of technology…

HOW TO PLAN a beauty issue in 2020? We commissioned a survey* to find out what beauty means to you now, and the results were illuminating. Far from superficial ideals of how to look, beauty has become about confidence and self-expression – with a skincare routine now considered a form of self-care by many. So, from mask-proof make-up looks to at-home hair dyes, let’s delve into what 2020 has meant for beauty. THE SKINCARE SURGE A lengthy lockdown paved the way for a skincare revival. Whether ‘maskne’ (acne caused by wearing a mask) led to a scramble for skin solutions (50% of survey participants experienced skin irritation or breakouts as a result of wearing a mask) or we simply found comfort in spending time and money on our own skin…

AS TOLD TO GUY PEWSEY. SARA PASCOE COMEDIAN, 39 ON WILD INTERIORS, BEDTIME MURDER PODCASTS AND TAKING UP RUNNING I live in north London with my dog and my husband [comedian Steen Raskopoulos, who plays Katherine Ryan’s boyfriend Evan in The Duchess]. That is an incredibly grown-up sentence, but I don’t have a very grown-up life. The flat is very bright and silly. My study has astoundingly beautiful wallpaper from Kitty McCall, in the front room I have exotic bird wallpaper by Divine Savages, and the bedroom has lemurs and leopards and elephants leaping across the walls. It’s the first time I’ve ever owned a property and, after renting for my whole life, I was overexcited at the thought of being able to decorate without upsetting a landlord. My husband’s…