Can wearing gloves – like the Queen – help protect you against the coronavirus?

After the monarch covered her hands for an investiture on Tuesday, we asked two health experts whether doing so helps keep Covid-19 at bay

The Victoria’s Secret ‘woke’ rebrand is only skin deep

Other lingerie brands have embraced less prescriptive beauty ideals and diversity. Victoria’s Secret is scrambling to keep up, says Priya Elan, the Guardian’s deputy fashion editor

How to clean your makeup brushes

Synthetic or natural, they will last longer if you wash and dry them carefully once a week – without using hot water

The deserving pore: does ‘skin gratitude’ really give you a dewy complexion?

Beauty gurus are adding an unlikely new step to their fulsome skincare regimes: saying thank you to their epidermis

Slip, slop, what? Why putting on sunscreen suddenly seems complicated

Despite concerns over reef health, vitamin D deficiencies and multi-layered skincare routines, tried and tested sunscreen advice holds true

Saving face: eight tips for avoiding ‘hangover skin’ this Christmas

Excess alcohol, lack of sleep and junk food can leave skin looking puffy, dull and dehydrated. Here’s how to mitigate the damage

Am I happier because I’m thinner, or thinner because I’m happier?

Looking in the mirror, I feel happy with my new body shape. But that’s not what body positivity taught me to do

‘Never sleep in your make up’: five ways to avoid spots

If you are careful about what you use on your face and hair, as well as what you eat, it can help to keep your skin healthy

Lizzo: lack of body positivity in media took toll on mental health

Truth Hurts singer says negative and stereotypical images affected her as a child

Fashion addiction: expensive clothes hid my loneliness – then I gave 90% of them away

Grief and pain lay behind my obsession with buying new clothes. Moving in with my fiance forced me to shed the material burden, and the persona I had been hiding behind