Lack of diversity in the beauty industry; the hidden face of domestic abuse and older people; superfans and their impact on music journalism; Johana Gustawsson and Blood Song.At least 200,000 older people experienced domestic abuse last year – but the over 75s are being overlooked according to Age UK. Caroline Abrahams is the charity director and joins Jane.
Last year, the music journalist Wanna Thompson posted a tweet about the new album of superstar rapper, Nicki Minaj. The tweet went viral and Wanna received thousands of angry replies from superfans of the star. To discuss the impact of superfans’ responses on music journalism, we hear from Hannah Ewens, Vice journalist and author of ‘FanGirls’, and Wanna Thompson, the music journalist at the centre of the Twitter storm.
Funmi Fetto is the Executive Editor and Beauty Director of Glamour magazine. After many years of being asked by friends, family and stranger on the street for advice on beauty products for women of colour, Funmi decided to curate a comprehensive guide, leading to the release of her new book: Palette: The Beauty Bible for Women of Colour. She speaks to Jane about the lack of inclusivity in the beauty industry and her mission to change it.
International bestselling novelist, Johana Gustawsson has just published a new thriller, 'Blood Song'. The investigation takes readers from the terror of Franco’s rule in 1938 to fertility clinics today in Sweden and Spain. Johana draws on her own experiences of IVF and her struggle to conceive to write 'Blood Song'.
BPSOfficial FunmiFetto Shouldn’t be a beauty industry at all - isn’t that just toxic femininity? 😀
FunmiFetto So brilliant. Funmi YES
FunmiFetto If you have a job and do it well you are beautiful If you ask for help you are beautiful sadly we're denied help when we ask for it, I was, and then the local authority turned it against me, and took my sons. it is abhorrent torture 10 years of state intervention after I won case
FunmiFetto The beauty 'industry' is mostly nightmare of junk science. It isn't regulated. They make crazy claims about their products. They set up special interest groups to approve and promote their own products., It's a disgrace. We deserve better.
FunmiFetto An interesting article but others have problems. Try finding foundation for skin needing a warm pinky tone.
FunmiFetto The beauty products mentioned in the article are tested on animals, the most horrendous industry of all, the animals live and die in terror and agony. WHY are animals never mentioned
FunmiFetto Hearing this black woman complain how white the make up industry in Europe is. Imagine a white woman going to nigeria and doing the same, whining how her whiteness is not represented. Go live in nigeria if us white people make you feel so crap. antiwhite