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We try before you buy: The Mail’s beauty columnist ELSA MCALONAN tests the best products to prep your lashes By Elsa Mcalonan for the Daily Mail Published: 22:55 GMT, 22 January 2020 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 22 January 2020 The easy-to-use wand separates each lash, with a conditioner. Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Epic Lash Primer  … Read more

What to wear this weekend: FEMAIL picks out brown leather pieces for effortless style this season FEMAIL’s Style Editor shared advice for embracing the brown leather trend  Dinah Van Tulleken said that leather skirts have become wardrobe staples She suggests pairing with black court heels for an appropriate office look By Dinah Van Tulleken For … Read more

Lucy Cavendish (pictured) argues pre-sliced potatoes are a marvellous idea for saving time on cooking  YES By Lucy Cavendish, Working mother of four Shirley Conran famously said: ‘Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom.’ And, in our more harried modern times, I’ve taken her thinking a step further. My mantra is now: ‘Life’s too short … Read more

One button or two? Cropped or oversized? Single or double-breasted? These are important questions to ask yourself this winter, because the blazer is squarely back in fashion. The great thing about this particular trend is that it’s extremely broad, so by ‘blazer’ I mean any jacket not worn as part of a suit. Beyond that … Read more

Tea-time in the Banham household and there are enough fish fingers on the go to feed a small army. With three noisy children in high chairs and another five squeezed round the dining table, at peak volume you could be at an excitable kids’ party. But all eight — aged between 11 months and ten … Read more

Lydia, 29, (pictured) is an account director who has been single for 18 months  LYDIA, 29 Dating Past? I was in a four-year relationship, but we broke up 18 months ago. I’ve got a good group of girlfriends who are all still single — we don’t understand the rush to settle down. Plus, I find … Read more

Was it just me who wondered, this week, if we’d gone back to the 1950s in a time capsule decorated with polka-dot bunting? The confusion is courtesy of the growing movement of British women remodelling themselves to fit that decade’s vision of womanhood. They call themselves Tradwives (traditional wives, get it?). They don’t have paid … Read more

John Lewis is selling the world’s first recyclable mattress – which is filled with hemp. The UK-based department store giant debuted the surprising item by award-winning bedding maker Harrison Spinks.  The 180-year-old company uses hemp instead of foam to fill the mattress and uses wool from its own farm’s sheep in a bid to be … Read more

A bride-to-be has revealed her sister is furious after she cut up her wedding gown to create a stylish new dress after her fiancé cheated – because she couldn’t wear it for her own upcoming nuptials.  An anonymous bride, believed to be from somewhere in the US, took to Reddit to explain that she was … Read more