Grazia

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I’VE LOST COUNT of the number of people who say to me: ‘Can you just ask your beauty team what’s the best tanner… sun lotion… mascara…? This issue will answer all your summer beauty questions and equip you with the tools, tricks and hero products to see you through the (hopefully) sunny days ahead. And trust me, our beauty team have taken it seriously – one even tested five self-tanners on different parts of her body. That’s dedication for you. So enjoy the issue – and if you love beauty as much as we do, please join our new Grazia Beauty Club Facebook group, where we’ll be continuing the conversation daily. See you there! @hattie_brett / feedback@graziamagazine.co.uk…

over to you...

SILENCE ISN’T GOLDEN Jess Phillips was spot on with her article (Carrie shouldn’t have to answer for Boris, 8 July). I hated how their neighbours were painted as nosy. I grew up in a house where our neighbours never interfered. They must have heard the screaming, crying, begging and shouting as my mother was beaten and abused by my father. It should not be called ‘domestic’ violence – it’s just violence. And until everyone in society treats it seriously, it will not stop. Name withheld DOING IT ALL I am so delighted to have read Fiona McIntosh’s article (Women who do it all are their own worst enemies, 15 July). I am struggling to hold down a full-time job, look after a stepson and a husband who inwardly I am convinced cannot do…

letter of the week

IT’S GOOD TO TALK I’m in a coffee shop having breakfast before work and I’m crying. And I want to thank you for making me cry. We have to try to improve the shocking statistics (We need to break the silence around baby loss, 15 July). I’ve had one child through IVF (for which I am eternally grateful), but have subsequently had three early miscarriages. Shockingly, I’ve felt it easier to talk about our IVF journey rather than the babies we’ve lost. We need to break the taboo and increase research into baby loss. Only by being open and honest can we hopefully make things (even if just a little) better.…

grazia uk

EDITOR HATTIE BRETT PA/Editorial assistant MELISSA HENRY Acting PA/Editorial assistant ISABELLA D’EMILIO 020 3879 2294 Deputy editor CAROLINE BARRETT Assistant editor CHARLOTTE WILLIAMSON Acting assistant editor EMMA ROWLEY Production director LISA HOWARD Features director EMILY PHILLIPS Acting features director HATTIE CRISELL Celebrity director GUY PEWSEY Creative director CAROLYN ROBERTS Fashion director REBECCA LOWTHORPE Picture director NATHAN HIGHAM-GRADY Beauty & health director JOELY WALKER Managing editor DANIELLE O’CONNELL Acting managing editor SOPHIE PRICE Copy Production editor JENNY CROALL Chief sub editor MARIA O’CONNOR Features 020 3879 2313 Commissioning and special projects editor RHIANNON EVANS Deputy features editor ANNA SILVERMAN News & Entertainment Junior news editor HARRIET KEAN EDITOR-AT-LARGE POLLY VERNON EDITOR-AT-LARGE (cELEbRITy) EMILY MADDICK CONTRIBUTING EDITOR (InvEsTIGATIOns) sTAcEy DOOLEy Lifestyle grazialifestyle@graziamagazine.co.uk Lifestyle editor RACHEL LOOS Website graziadaily.co.uk Digital director REBECCA HOLMAN Director of audience development IAN BETTERIDGE Fashion and beauty editor hAnnAh bAnks-wALkER Social media editor PHOEBE PARKE Digital writer GEORGIA ASPINALL Digital showbusiness and culture writer BONNIE McLAREN Commercial content editor…

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“Yes, we’re sure Insta’s new feature will be a force for good” ‘Are you sure?’ These three words could save us a lot of regret if we learned to consider them before blurting out certain things. Now, Instagram is to start asking users this question before people post comments online that could potentially be hurtful or offensive. They’ve designed the tool in a bid to fight online bullying. An AI-generated question can’t stop people treating each other harshly; bullies will always exist and technology can’t change that. But anything that encourages us to stop and think before saying something offensive can only be a good thing. And if it makes the online world just a bit kinder, then we’re on-board.…

chicken with chippiness? the politics of walking up the road

MY MATE SAYS SHE’S started playing ‘patriarchy chicken’, a game the internet invented that involves women not getting out of the way when entitled men bowl down a pavement, like they own it and the entire world, and just know everyone will step aside to let them pass, for THEY. ARE. KINGS! As a consequence of her political-statement-cum-extreme-sport, my mate is getting battered and sworn at – but (she says) at least she’s making a point. I find myself divided by the concept. On the one hand: I loathe the word ‘patriarchy’! As lazy catch-all pieces of rhetoric go, it’s up there with ‘privilege’, a righteous bit of Twitter-spew that falls apart when you ask the spewer to be a leetle more specific about what they mean in this instance. I…