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There is a very short list of people who have genuinely tried everything – every device, every ingredient, every wellness ritual that arrives promising to change your face – and Sarah Jossel is at the top of it. Over a decade as Beauty Director at The Sunday Times Style means she has had her hands on more beauty tech than most of us will meet in a lifetime, and she has come out of it knowing exactly which bits earn their place on the bathroom shelf.

You know that Kindle in your Amazon basket? The one you keep meaning to buy but haven’t yet committed to? Well we have some bad news. Amazon device prices have gone up across the entire own-brand range. Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, eero – by as much as 60%. Overnight. With no announcement, or email, not even a ‘prices are changing’ banner. Fortune(opens in new tab) first reported the increases on 21 August. Amazon has since confirmed them. The culprit isn’t tariffs. It isn’t inflation, or a shiny redesign.

The Oura IPO is coming. Oura is preparing to list on the US stock market as soon as next month, in a deal that could value the smart ring maker at more than $16 billion. Bloomberg first reported the plans on 24 August, saying the company is seeking to raise up to $3 billion, with existing investors expected to sell a significant portion of their stock in the offering. For a product that spent its first decade being explained at dinner parties, that is a striking number.

Let’s be honest about foundation. Somewhere in your bathroom cabinet is a shade that looked perfect under shop lights and then you realised the same bottle contained the what looked like an orange mask at IRL. Possibly two. Possibly a small graveyard of them. Estée Lauder Companies has decided that foundation shade matching isn’t a shade range problem. It isn’t a shopping problem either. It’s a science problem – and the group has gone to a British university to sort it out.

If you can still perform an entire Vine from memory at a dinner party, unprompted, to an audience of people who did not ask – congratulations, you are the target market. Nearly a decade after Twitter switched off the six-second looping video app that gave the internet its most quotable era, its successor has arrived. It has a manifesto, a ban on AI-generated content and a Taco Bell deal.

Lucie Beecham is the co-founder of two of the UK’s most design-led consumer brands: Ripple+, the nicotine-free device that set out to reinvent what a “vape” could be, and Droplet, a modern British House of Scent that has since collaborated with Seth Rogen’s Houseplant. She built both alongside her brother Sam.

Launched today, La Prairie’s Swiss Pristine is a three-product skin barrier collection that pairs micro-encapsulated glacial minerals with a patented biotech active. We’ve read the science so you don’t have to. There is a particular kind of tired that no amount of sleep fixes. La Prairie calls it “modern fatigue”: the cumulative toll of long-haul flights, blue light, out-of-sync body clocks and a to-do list that never quite ends, all of it showing up on your face before it shows up anywhere else.

Looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your couple photo? Whether you’re after something romantic, funny, short, or flirty, this list of 150 Instagram captions for couples has one for every mood and moment – from timeless love quotes and song lyrics to cheeky one-liners made for your next post. Save your favourites, then scroll to the FAQ at the end for quick tips on writing a caption that’s all your own.

Your LED mask, your AI skin scan, the smart mirror that knows your face better than you do – welcome to beauty tech, the fastest-moving corner of the beauty industry. Here’s your complete 2026 guide: what beauty tech actually is, the devices worth your money and the innovations about to land on your shelfie. What Is Beauty Tech?

Fashion tech is having its moment – and not the gimmicky, light-up-trainers kind. From smart rings disguised as fine jewellery to AI that designs entire collections, fashion technology has become one of the most exciting corners of both industries. Here’s everything you need to know about fashion tech in 2026: what it is, why it matters and where it’s heading next. What Is Fashion Tech?