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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Lifestyle

From food and drink to health, wellbeing, fashion and everyday city life, this category covers how Brighton lives — spotlighting trends, places and people shaping the city’s distinctive lifestyle.

Remember when we said that the fashion and beauty industry was getting more diverse? Well, Beauty & Pin-Ups have seriously upped in inclusivity game by signing Special Olympics athlete Katie Meade as their spokesmodel. Yay! https://www.instagram.com/p/BDtw913ngKS/ Katie Meade will be the first woman with Down syndrome to be featured as the...
Last year everone from models to reality stars were seen with teeny tiny delicate tattoos. They were the perfect way to get inked without it being obvious or intrusive. Now, however, there’s a brand new tattoo trend dominating Instagram and it’s…different. https://www.instagram.com/p/BDf3nTmxZZ6/ Chester Lee is a tattoo artist from Singapore and...
Always one for trying weird and…weirder things, Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken about a skin treatment that involves her being stung by bees. She told the New York Times “I’ve been stung by bees. It’s a thousands of years old treatment called apitherapy. People use it to get rid of...
It’s Spring! With Spring comes flowers, sunshine and a whole new lot of trends to look forward to. The Spring/Summer 2016 catwalks were filled with new hair styles for you to try as the weather gets warmer. Straight hair: Grab the GHD’s because straight hair is back in this summer....
Charlotte Olympia has firmly established herself as one of the greatest accessory designers Britain, and the world, has to offer. Her retro, art-deco designs have had us swooning for a while now, so you can imagine that when she announced her collaboration with make-up giants MAC, we were extremely...
Loved by everyone from Drew Barrymore to Emily Blunt, Ombre is the biggest hair colour phenomena since those chunky highlights everyone sported in 2005. Of course, with every hair phenomenon, to continue its time in the limelight is has to adapt to current trends, to reinvent itself. So, without...
Urban Decay, the cult beauty giants, are celebrating their twentieth year this year and in celebration of this milestone the company have pulled out all the stops. Mere days after they released a whole new line of shadows and eyeliners, they’ve announced the new face of the brand: Ruby...
It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday, by the way. I’m sure you all knew, but just in case you didn’t Bjournal have put together a few fail-safe last minute gift ideas to really show your mum how much you love and value her. Photo Coasters: What better way to remind your...
After weeks of speculation, MAC cosmetics have finally announced who the face of their new make-up campaign is, and yes you guessed it, it’s a Jenner. Following in her daughters footsteps, Caitlin Jenner have teamed up with the beauty giants to sell a signature lipstick shade called ‘Finally Free’. https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/703323686959321088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In...
We at Bjournal love a quirky trend, and this one is definitely the best we’ve seen so far, if not the most impractical. Those little fluffy pompoms have been everywhere, from phone cases to purses recently but now they are appearing in a completely different place…on your nails. Though...