A concealer is a necessity in any makeup arsenal, brightening and evening out the skin. Sometimes, however, even a good concealer needs a little help, like the days when I am more tired than usual and a heavier discoloration peaks out around my eyes. This is where a corrector comes in (Lisa Eldridge has recently…
Nutty, chewy and with a chestnut-brown hue, it’s a far cry from the pasta you may be used to serving with your bolognese. But the Northern Pasta Co’s products, from rigatoni to fusilli, are part of a growing wave of the Italian staple being made in the UK. The Cumbria-based company’s sales increased 357% in…
How do I know when someone is staring at me behind my back? Nick Gilbert, Leicester Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply It seems to be a sense that goes far back into prehistory. Then, it was very important to know you were being watched. I experienced it once myself with a jaguar at…
I met my younger self for coffee. She wore a crisp white Agnès B shirt and patent ballet pumps; I wore H&M elastic waisted trousers and the T-shirt I wore to the gym the day before. She ordered … hang on, hang on. First, isn’t this a time-travel no-no? And if it’s OK, I have…
For the bulk of his early career, Mikey Robins sat safely behind a radio desk or on a TV set – often as a panellist on Good News Week or a presenter on Triple J. But in the early 2000s comedy took him somewhere very different: Afghanistan. Robins did a two-week stint there during the…
Why are bananas so cheap to buy in the UK? In a big supermarket, a single banana costs about 15p, but presumably it has been shipped thousands of miles at some expense. Other individually sold fruit – even the stuff grown in the UK – seems to cost two or three times as much. Magdalena,…