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Edible Gifts Worth Starting in October: Five Jars That Get Better While They Wait — Recipes

Edible Gifts Worth Starting in October: Five Jars That Get Better While They Wait

The best homemade food presents are the ones that need time, not skill. Start them now and by December they will taste like something you bought from a very good shop.

Sofia Marlowe•
Berry Lip Season: How to Find the Shade That Suits You and Make It Last Past Lunch — Face

Berry Lip Season: How to Find the Shade That Suits You and Make It Last Past Lunch

Berry is the easiest colour shift of the autumn — and the one most likely to end up unworn at the back of a drawer. Here is how to pick a shade that flatters you and keep it where you put it.

Clara Ventura•
Your Nails After Gels: What Actually Helps Them Grow Back Strong — Body

Your Nails After Gels: What Actually Helps Them Grow Back Strong

You picked the gels off in a meeting and now your nails are thin, ridged and bendy. Here's the honest recovery plan — what works, what's marketing, and how long it really takes.

Clara Ventura•
Your Perfume Doesn't Have to Be a Signature: Building a Small Scent Wardrobe for Autumn — Style

Your Perfume Doesn't Have to Be a Signature: Building a Small Scent Wardrobe for Autumn

The idea that every woman should have one scent for life is strangely limiting. Here's how to build a four-bottle wardrobe that matches your moods, your weather and the rooms you actually spend time in.

Clara Ventura•
Before the Lines: What Old Palmistry Read in the Shape of a Hand — Esotericism

Before the Lines: What Old Palmistry Read in the Shape of a Hand

Traditional palm readers looked at the hand itself long before they looked at a single line — its squareness, its length, the fingers. Here's what the four classic hand types were said to mean, and why the framework still makes a good mirror.

Elise Navarro•
What to Pack for a Desert Festival: Hot Afternoons, Genuinely Cold Nights — Travel

What to Pack for a Desert Festival: Hot Afternoons, Genuinely Cold Nights

Desert festival season brings a weather problem nobody warns you about: you dress for the heat and freeze by midnight. Here is how to pack one small bag that carries you from blazing afternoon to cold, dusty 2am.

Sofia Marlowe•
How to Organise Your Gmail Inbox So You Stop Dreading Opening It — Money & career

How to Organise Your Gmail Inbox So You Stop Dreading Opening It

Thousands of unread messages, three hundred newsletters and one urgent email buried somewhere in the middle. A calm, repeatable system for taming an inbox — without building forty folders you'll never use.

Nora Bellamy•
Oily Skin Can Glow Without Looking Greasy — Where the Line Actually Is — Face

Oily Skin Can Glow Without Looking Greasy — Where the Line Actually Is

The dewy-skin trend was never designed for people whose faces shine by eleven in the morning. Here's how to get luminosity that reads as healthy, not slippery.

Clara Ventura•
How to Actually See a Meteor Shower: The Cold-Night Ritual Worth Planning For — Leisure

How to Actually See a Meteor Shower: The Cold-Night Ritual Worth Planning For

Most people step outside for four minutes, see nothing and go back in. Here's how to plan an October night under the sky so you actually catch something — and enjoy the waiting.

Sofia Marlowe•
How to Organise Your Life When Every System You've Tried Has Collapsed — Lifestyle

How to Organise Your Life When Every System You've Tried Has Collapsed

Not another app, not another colour-coded planner. A realistic four-part approach to getting a grip on your weeks — built for people whose previous systems lasted eleven days.

Nora Bellamy•
Why We Read Every Word About a Stranger's Marriage Ending — Mind & soul

Why We Read Every Word About a Stranger's Marriage Ending

A new round of revelations about a long-finished famous marriage is everywhere again — and we're all reading. Here's what that appetite is actually about, and how to keep it from seeping into your own living room.

Elise Navarro•
Aries Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: The Art of Winning by Listening — Lifestyle

Aries Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: The Art of Winning by Listening

October puts other people in the frame, and Aries discovers that the fastest route forward runs through agreement rather than force. The second half rewards strategy over speed.

Stella Rowan•
Taurus Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Repairing the Machinery of Your Days — Lifestyle

Taurus Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Repairing the Machinery of Your Days

October asks Taurus to fix the small broken systems that drain the week, then rewards that effort with deeper trust in the second half.

Stella Rowan•
Gemini Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: From Playful Sparks to Serious Study — Lifestyle

Gemini Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: From Playful Sparks to Serious Study

The first half of October hands Gemini permission to create and flirt with possibility; the second half asks what you are willing to learn properly.

Stella Rowan•
Cancer Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Making the Home You Actually Live In — Lifestyle

Cancer Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Making the Home You Actually Live In

October turns Cancer's attention inward, to rooms, roots and family patterns, before handing you the words to finally say what you have been feeling.

Stella Rowan•
Leo Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Say It Plainly, Then Come Home — Lifestyle

Leo Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Say It Plainly, Then Come Home

October sharpens Leo's voice in the first half and then draws you back to your roots, where the real audience has always been.

Stella Rowan•
Virgo Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Pricing Your Own Work Honestly — Lifestyle

Virgo Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Pricing Your Own Work Honestly

October asks Virgo what your time, skill and energy are actually worth, then gives you the words to say it out loud.

Stella Rowan•
Libra Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Your Season, Your Terms — Lifestyle

Libra Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Your Season, Your Terms

October opens with Libra's own birthday light and closes with a practical reckoning about money, worth and what you will no longer give away for free.

Stella Rowan•
Scorpio Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: The Quiet Before Your Own Light — Lifestyle

Scorpio Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: The Quiet Before Your Own Light

October keeps Scorpio backstage for three weeks of honest reckoning, then opens the curtain as your season begins and your intentions get sharper.

Stella Rowan•
Sagittarius Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Choose Your People, Then Choose Your Silence — Lifestyle

Sagittarius Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Choose Your People, Then Choose Your Silence

October fills Sagittarius's calendar with collaborators and possibilities, then asks you to step back and hear what you actually think.

Stella Rowan•
Capricorn Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Visible Now, Supported Later — Lifestyle

Capricorn Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Visible Now, Supported Later

October puts Capricorn's work in front of people who matter, and then shows you how much easier ambition becomes when you stop carrying it alone.

Stella Rowan•
Aquarius Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Wide Horizon, Narrow Aim — Lifestyle

Aquarius Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Wide Horizon, Narrow Aim

October expands Aquarius's sense of what is possible through travel, study and new ideas, then asks you to turn one of them into an actual plan.

Stella Rowan•
Pisces Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Deep Water First, Distant Shore After — Lifestyle

Pisces Monthly Horoscope, October 1–31, 2026: Deep Water First, Distant Shore After

October takes Pisces into questions of trust, money and shared commitment, then lifts your eyes toward something larger and genuinely hopeful.

Stella Rowan•
When Your Makeup Stops Sitting Right: The One Step to Change First — Face

When Your Makeup Stops Sitting Right: The One Step to Change First

Same foundation, same brush, same hand — and yet by midday it looks patchy, powdery or simply not like you. The fix almost never starts with a new product.

Clara Ventura•