Black Beauty brands tried and tested

As a black woman, I often find it hard to be able to find products that accommodate my skin tone and my undertones. I have recently experimented with more makeup and finding what actually works for my skin. A lot of the biggest brands still don’t accommodate for darker skin tones, (I don’t feel like every brand needs to accommodate every skin tone, I just support brands that make shades for me.)

I had heard a lot about Fenty Beauty before I had tried it, but when it was first launched in 2016 i

But…You’re dyslexic?

The choice to go to university has been an amazing one, and I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and the chance to get a degree in a subject I am genuinely passionate about. It is interesting, as a dyslexic to choose a degree in the study of languages (Linguistics). Most people understand dyslexia to be a disability with reading and writing, which is correct but the way it has been presented in media is completely inaccurate to the general populations of those that are diagnosed with dy

My Top 5 books for your mental health

These are five books that helped me see perspective through times in which I had uncertainty about how my life would pan out, I hope these help you add perspective too!

One of the most notable books in modern fiction, Plath discusses the experiences of the character Esther Greenwood and her tribulations of being a woman from a lower socioeconomic background, gaining an internship in New York to write for a magazine. Though she feels like she should be happy about her achievements in life, she s

Thirty-one days is not enough.

On a bleak October morning after the haze of the British summer wears off, we hit black history month, or if you’re in America then it’s an icy February morning, coincidentally the shortest month of the year. The month dedicated to celebrating black excellence, history and achievements, but in all honestly a month set aside to gawk at the minority and ‘educate’ students about how amazing the British were in ending slavery.

Black history month does not serve its purpose, which is to educate peop