Introducing the ten minute boob job

The latest quick beauty fix is the breast enhancement. It claims to increase cup size without going under the knife. But would you risk it? Here, Alice Hart-Davis describes her painful transformation

Five gurus, four weeks, one sceptic

Face all blotchy? Waistline a touch wobbly? Spine unaligned? Rachel Cooke visits the experts who promise the ultimate mind and body makeover

The knife consultant

Cosmetic surgery was once just for the weird and famous. Now it is booming. Julie Bindel meets the woman who promotes the scalpel as a cure for unhappiness

What I see in the mirror

My face isn't dramatically altered by make-up so I don't feel I need a disguise to face the world, says Alison Jackson.

Beauty queen

Advice on acne and the right moisturiser for mature skins from Kathy Phillips.

Face yoga video game to appeal to women

Nintendo, the Japanese computer games company, is preparing to launch Face Training - a game which offers to guide players through what it calls "facial yoga".