Do you think that how heavy you are should determine how much you pay for a salon service? A salon outside of Atlanta, USA, has been accused of doing just that. Customers weighing over 200 pounds were being charged $5 extra for manicures and other nail services. According to the salon this is because larger [...]

Paris Hilton is hitting the headlines again as she is being sued over a dispute regarding her hair extensions. HairTech International, the company behind DreamCatchers brand hair extensions, claims that Paris is in breach of contract. The company is suing her to the tune of $35 million. When Paris cut her hair in 2008, HairTech [...]

Naomi Campbell’s involvement in the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor has thrust the case into the news headlines on a regular basis this summer. The case started back in 2003 but Naomi’s appearance has stirred a global interest. The leggy supermodel admits to being given what she called “dirty stones”, but claims she did [...]

Lara Stone, the Dutch model who married comedian David Walliams earlier this year, has announced she is taking legal action against Playboy Magazine for publishing unauthorised images of her in its June edition. The blonde model stated “It’s not the kind of publication I would ever choose to appear in. Playboy had no right to [...]

The Guinness Book of Records is full of beauty related world records like the person with longest fingernails or hair, right now the American Seattle suburb of Sammamish is the latest to gain an entry in the book. Those with variation of the MC1R gene flocked to the suburb last weekend with one thing on [...]

It can be tough trying to grow your hair out, but there may be more than you can do about it than simply slapping on conditioner. It has been discovered that eating more spicy food could be a first class way of encouraging those tresses to grow. This is all down to capsaicin, the chemical [...]

Airbrushing has become a much talked about topic lately, as magazines and companies airbrush their models to such an extent that they appear doll like. On the other side of the coin, many celebrities have been releasing pictures of themselves airbrush free in order to show how deceptive computer manipulation is. Now Debenhams has joined [...]

A new study has discovered that for couples who are closely romantically linked, emotional cues are not just visual and vocal. It is now thought that people can actually smell their partner’s happiness, fear, and sexual arousal. The study tested 20 heterosexual couples who’d been living together for at least a year. They collected their [...]

Officials from this month’s Crufts Dog Show warned entrants that they’d be keeping an eye out for any dogs who had been given cosmetic help to look better or different. The show rules don’t specifically forbid using makeup on the dogs, but they do “forbid anything that alters an animal’s appearance during dog shows,” reports [...]

Rumour has it that glamour model Katie Price is planning to create a children’s makeup range, using her two-year-old daughter Princess as the cover girl for the range. “Obviously the story would be she nicks my make-up all the time,” Katie’s says in her TV show, saying the range will include: “Edible lipstick, (and a) [...]