Cosmopolitan UK

Cosmopolitan Magazine celebrates fun, glamour and a passion for life. Inspiring young women to be the best they can be with everything from high street fashion must-haves and stunning make-up tips, career news, sex and relationship advice, as well as intimate interviews with your favourite celebs! It's gutsy, intimate and most importantly honest about issues affecting women.

Cosmopolitan UK

From the editor

Drag Racing!

The infinite influence of Will Smith • He’s saved the world from aliens, robots and bad dates (Hitch is a classic, OK?). But did you know just how many friends in (mostly) high places the Fresh Prince has?

Return of the greats • The best-selling, big-hitting authors you know and love are back – with these dazzling new reads

Truth or scare? • Halloween done properly means doing a mini-pee over a scary film. And what’s scarier than these dead-eyed monsters? The fact that their stories are based on real-life events. Good luck sleeping tonight…

Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively’s best burns • Ryan Reynolds, king of Insta-lols, turns 43 this month. To celebrate, we recap his and Blake’s most inspired spouse-shade moments

Ask me anything • Judge Michelle Visage reminisces about life on RuPaul’s Drag Race as the show finally arrives in Britain

glow • BS-FREE BEAUTY THAT WORKS FOR YOU

Beauty lab Flawless foundations • Each month, our beauty team trials the newest products to see what reigns supreme. Here, Laura Capon road-tests the latest foundation launches

Ace your base • From pilling to piling it on, here’s how to fix foundation faux pas

My life in beauty • Self-made billionaire, founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills and shaper of celebrity eyebrows: Anastasia Soare shares her favourite products

Brushing up: a make-up tool 101 • Sound the beauty hall alarm, we’re knee-deep in unicorn-bristle triple-fibre fan brushes that we have no clue how to use. But help is here: we’ve lined up the industry’s finest to preach on the ones you need, the ones you don’t and how we’re using them all wrong...

The MUA Cheat Sheet • Want to take your brushwork to new heights? Let the experts help

Hot right now • This month’s beauty incomings are about to cause you some serious outgoings...

Seed cycling

A beginner’s guide to therapy (because it is a thing you can do) • Think it might be time to talk to someone, but aren’t sure who? Here’s the lowdown on what’s available…

Things it’s totally normal to feel in therapy • Dr Carina Eriksen offers some words of reassurance

Life in my body... with alopecia • Made In Chelsea’s Liv Bentley explains the impact of losing her hair as a teenager…

LIV’S COPING TACTICS

READY FOR ANYTHING

Try before you train... Sports watches • Team Cosmo finds out which are worth your, er, time

Getting OTT ears

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO maxi-piercing • What’s a daith? Should I take my earring out if I get an infection? How do I speed up the healing process? Can you ever have too many piercings? We asked industry experts all your hole-related queries (NO! Not that one, you dirty lot)

Golden rules of OTT ears

PAIN-O-METER • by Clem at Metal Morphosis

Get your COAT • Introducing the new season’s most-wanted cover-ups – and how to style them. Winter, we are ready for you (but please be gentle)

Twinkle toes • There’s a long party season ahead and only the very best festive footwear will cut it…

Winter wardrobe SOS • Winter layers looking more sad than a collapsed Bake Off showstopper? Revive them with these tips from our in-house experts…

AND DON’T FORGET THE ACCESSORIES!

7 DAYS (in a new season wardrobe) • From ’70s vibes to pleats, polka...