Innholdsfortegnelse for May 12, 2021 i Stylist

stylist advertorial Refocus your mind at our Mental Health Awareness Week event Introducing the Strong Minds Summit: a digital event taking place on 11 May that will empower you to improve your mental wellbeing by immersing yourself in the natural world and nurturing your physical self in partnership with fitbit Mental Health Awareness Week has grown to be one of the biggest awareness weeks across the UK, and this year Stylist’s Strong Women is getting involved once more to connect with our audience. The theme for Mental Health Awareness Week this year is Nature – something everyone has made a powerful reconnection with over the last year, and something that is vital for the nourishment of our physical and mental health. On 11 May, we will be joined by a team of expert wellness practitioners…

real life “My Instagram addiction put me in rehab – this is what I learned” Comedian Bella Younger found fame with parody Instagram account @deliciouslystella, but the pull of influencer culture quickly took over her life Rehab, funnily enough, was never part of my five-year plan. Fame, fortune, success, validation. These were my goals back in 2015. In less than a year, I’d achieved them all. In less than a year I’d also unravelled. My comedy Instagram account, Deliciously Stella, had gone viral, earned international acclaim and made me a bona fide ‘influencer’, able to quit my job as a TV researcher and pursue my dream of being a comedian. I’d been working in food TV and was researching wellness and clean eating in a quest to find the Nigella…

Don’t Miss Next Week’s Issue Of Stylist Get your hands on next week's print issue of Stylist where Jodie Turner-Smith models this season’s most powerful colour and reveals what it was like to play Anne Boleyn, plus the best places to embrace the great outdoors and crowd-pleasing kebabs for barbecue season. Yes, the good news is that you can pick us up again – because Stylist’s print issue is back. Even better, you can now get the magazine delivered direct to your home, which means no missing out on next week’s issue… Want to feel Stylist in your hands again? Click here for a subscription to our printed editions…

feature Maybe, baby: the rise of motherhood ambivalence If it were all down to choice, is deciding to have a baby always a simple yes or no? Of course not, argues Amelia Tait, as she explores the growing honesty around motherhood ambivalence Everything changed when my fiancé caught the flu. For a couple of days, my schedule transformed – wrapped itself around him like sweaty bedsheets – as I brought him food, drink, medicine, wet flannels, anything and everything he needed until he felt better. He was so grateful. It was the gratitude, actually, that did it. As he thanked me profusely for everything I had done, I was hit by a sudden realisation: I don’t want kids. My logic went a bit like this: having a child, I reasoned,…

fashion Are you having a fashion identity crisis? Getting dressed never felt more confusing. Stylist’s Billie Bhatia gets expert help on how to muddle out of your wardrobe rut Three days into wearing the same Nike leggings and a soup-stained sweatshirt, I declared I had lost my fashion mojo. I hasten to add this admission of sartorial guilt wasn’t during the comfort boom of lockdown one, or even two, this was mere weeks ago. Pre-pandemic, I preferred a uniform way of dressing. A skirt, of the tube or slip variety, with a sweatshirt or rollneck would be my grab-and-go style. In warmer months, a chuck-on dress. Both versions of my fashion identity were always finished with trainers – sometimes sneakerhead-level cult buys, sometimes bog-standard Stan Smiths. Now, I am standing…

interiors Gran designs: how your nan’s Interiors got cool Clashing florals, gaudy wallpaper and vintage china – Stylist explores 2021’s most nostalgic homeware trend words: kiran meeda It began in January. I was browsing @dominomag – my go-to Instagram account for all things homeware, along with their 1.3 million other devoted followers – when I spotted it: white, pink and green floral wallpaper pasted on the ceiling of a bathroom, bright enough to make your eyes hurt. An uncharacteristic splash of chintz amidst the marble kitchens and Scandi minimalism that otherwise filled my feed. I began to wonder how I, too, could bring some gaudy florals into my life. A feature wall? Some cushions? Bedding, maybe? More to the point, why was I suddenly into interiors once found only in…

beauty Made by make-up artists A new wave of brands created by globally respected make-up artists has arrived – not sure what to invest in? Here’s our top five words: lucy partington There was a time – long before the arrival of social media – when make-up artists didn’t get half as much credit as they deserved. It wasn’t always as easy as it is now to find out who created the incredible looks seen on catwalks, red carpets and on the covers of magazines. But fast-forward a few years and not only are those people famous in their own right, they’re also dreaming up and launching their own brands. Creating high-performing eyeliners, lipsticks and eyeshadow palettes, along with never-seen-before innovations that they’ve wanted for their own kits for their…