Beauticate

This August, I’m heading back to Beauty Expo Australia at the ICC Sydney, and I’d love for you to come too. Tickets are moving fast, especially with the current price drop ending soon, so grab yours before it closes here. Use the code BEAUTICATE20 at checkout for 20% off your tickets! Whether you’re a salon owner, a brand founder, an RN, or just someone who lives and breathes beauty, Beauty Expo is a game changer.

https://anchor.fm/s/e54320e8/podcast/play/121553030/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-16%2F426240905-44100-2-2106f67590bd1.mp3 Over the past year, I've been quietly building a whole new chapter of Beauticate. It's been exciting, fulfilling, creative and, if I'm honest, incredibly stressful at times.

Sleep is an enigma but oh-so-important. If you're anything like me, it doesn’t always come easily. There are nights when your brain just… won’t switch off. You open your notes to jot one thing down and suddenly you’re sliding into a casual doom-scroll until 2am. And then there are those evenings I go to bed early feeling quietly smug, only to wake at 4am thinking about something I said in 2007. This edit isn’t about an ideal routine.

As the weather cools and the light softens, so do the things we reach for. The Beauticate Winter edit is a curated mix of richer textures, warmer tones and more considered layers. From fragrance to fashion and the small rituals in between, these are the autumn pieces the Beauticate team is loving right now. “Winter always makes me gravitate towards pieces that feel a little more structured and tactile. And I love the sharp, sculptural feel of a great blazer. It instantly pulls everything together.

For women in their 40s and 50s dealing with thinning brows, patchy growth, greying hairs or the long-term fallout of a particularly aggressive ’90s waxing phase, working out where to even start can feel overwhelming. And it’s something that makeup artist and beauty therapist Simone Aspinall sees every day.

For women in their 40s and 50s dealing with thinning brows, patchy growth, greying hairs or the long-term fallout of a particularly aggressive ’90s waxing phase, working out where to even start can feel overwhelming. And it’s something that makeup artist and beauty therapist Simone Aspinall sees every day.

Some people talk about purpose. Shentel Lee built an NGO, a community centre and a food bank from her phone. Beauticate's Culture Editor - designer, entrepreneur and one of Tatler Asia's Most Influential women - writes on why giving back stopped being optional, and what it actually looks like when the cameras aren't rolling. I make things. I sell things. And I quietly siphon people’s most precious resource: their attention.

Two Wild Luxury lodges, one extended family, and a reminder that the most meaningful luxury is time together There was a time when “sustainable travel” felt a little earnest. Well-meaning, yes. But also faintly punitive. The kind of holiday where you felt morally upright but secretly missed crisp sheets, good design and a proper wine glass. That era is (thankfully) over. Crane Lodge, a sustainable luxury lodge overlooking Pittwater, designed to blend architecture with native Australian landscape.

IMAGE: INSTAGRAM @hoskelsa ADD SOME GUILT-FREE CALORIES TO YOUR NORI CHIPS WITH THESE DELICATELY SCRUMPTIOUS TUNA TARTARE NORI BITES BY HONESTLY YUM A type of seaweed, sea green, sea vegetable – whatever you want to call it, Nori needs to find a place in your pantry. Typically used as the seaweed that wraps sushi, this healthy snack is loved by Miranda Kerr (we’ll have what she’s having).

If this Dyson V16 review proves anything, it is that I never thought I’d enjoy vacuuming. Let alone want to actually clean the damn thing. Yet suddenly, here I am, one Thursday night, lovingly taking it apart and detailing it with an old toothbrush, and, strangely, not minding one little bit. This is not who I used to be. Vacuum maintenance was always my hard no. The worst job in the house. The scissors. The hair. The gag reflex.