Cosmopolitan UK - October 2022

132 Pages·2022·109.4 MB·English

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2022
Contents
play 9 glow 17 style
35 move 49 earn 57
relax 65 tom daley
70 would you send
a dating feedback
Good vibrations
Page 115
form? 80 deepfake
porn dispatches 86
beauty’s tech boom 92
your winter skin
hydration handbook
98 rent the runway 104
love 115 heartache
by numbers 118
Lift your lashes
Page 24
the last page 130
Autumn’s
key trends
Page 35
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: ZOE MCCONNELL
STYLING: SASKIA QUIRKE
Grooming: Emma White-Turle at The Wall Group using Daimon Barber on hair and Tatcha for skin.
Tom wears: jumper, YanYan; top, Find Me Now; trousers, Mira Mikati; personalised necklace, Éliou; rings, Tom’s own
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we’re delving into all things beauty, inside and out. MOST FAMOUS NAME E AT TCKLA
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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What’s your
CLAIRE HODGSON
best piece
of beauty Editor-in-Chief
advice? Executive Editor JESS EDWARDS
Creative Director DECLAN FAHY
Workflow Director CARLY LEVY
Digital Editor ZOE SHENTON
Entertainment HEARST UK
Sydney Sweeney’s is to Entertainment Editor Interim CEO SIMON HORNE
DUSTY BAXTER-WRIGHT Finance Director JULIEN LITZELMANN
drink a lot of water. If it’s
Senior Entertainment & Lifestyle Writer Chief People Officer SURINDER SIMMONS
good enough for her, it’s
Director of Operations SOPHIE WILKINSON
DANIELLA SCOTT
good enough for me. Chief International Brand Officer MATT HAYES
Editorial Assistant & Junior Writer
Group Brand Director STEVEN MILES
EMILY GULLA
Director of PR & Communications ALISON FORTH
Features Editorial Business Director CONNIE OSBORNE
Features Director HARRIET HALL Business Strategy Director ROMAIN METRAS
Commissioning Director CATRIONA INNES Editorial Business Manager DAVID FOSTER
Don’t cry when you’ve Features Editor JENNIFER SAVIN D igital Development Director MATT HILL
just fake tanned – unless Sex & Relationships Editor MEGAN WALLACE Hearst Solutions
looking like an orange Features Writer JADE BIGGS Chief Commercial Officer JANE WOLFSON
zebra is the aesthetic Design Head of Partnerships MARK MCCAFFERTY
Head of Clients OLLIE LLOYD
you’re going for! Art Director WILL JACK
Head of Digital Sales RYAN BUCKLEY
Digital Design Editor JAIME LEE Head of Fashion, Beauty & Luxury SARAH TSIRKAS
Art Editor NATHALIE BATES (maternity) Head of Travel DENISE DEGROOT
Art Editor REBECCA BRIDLE Head of Entertainment & Technology KELLY WARNELL
Art Editor JADE COOPER-COLLINS Head of Food & Drink TIM ROSENBERG
Head of Classified & Independents LEE RIMMER
Acting Art Editor PETRA MANLEY-LEACH
SPF is the most Head of Regional LISA BHATTI
Art Editor JESSICA WEBB
important part of any Client Director, Health & Wellness NATASHA BAILEY
Designer SOPHIE BROWN
beauty routine. As soon Client Director, Fashion CHRIS HEALY (maternity cover)
Designer FLORENCE OGRAM Client Director, Beauty LEE BAILEY
as I took this seriously,
Pictures Watches & Jewellery Manager OLIVIA HORROCKS-BURNS
my hyperpigmentation
Photographic Director RACHAEL CLARK Director of Commercial Production WILL VILLE
reduced massively.
Photographic Director EMILY MURPHY Art Director, Branded Content MAIREAD GLEESON
Head of Media Planning LUCY PORTER
Picture Editor SARAH ANDERSON
Media Planning Manager BETH RONAN
Picture Editor SHANA LYNCH
Communications & PR
Picture Researcher SALLY PRICE
Head of PR & Communications BEN BOLTON
Production
PR & Communications Manager CALUM FORBES
My mum always said Group Chief Sub Editor/Production Editor
Shows & Events
never skip blush – once VICTORIA RUDLAND
Head of Events, Ops & Delivery MADOLYN GROVE
you’ve put foundation Deputy Chief Sub Editor MATT BLACKWELL
Events Partnership Director MICHELLE PAGLIARULO
on, you need to add Deputy Chief Sub Editor JAMES BROWN Events Partnership Manager ALICE MATTHEWS
contrast back in. Sub Editor RHIANNON JENKINS Events Partnership Manager CONNIE FFITCH
Sub Editor KIRTEY VERMA Consumer Sales & Marketing
Beauty Chief Consumer Revenue Officer REID HOLLAND
Beauty Director VICTORIA JOWETT Senior Consumer Revenue Director JAMES HILL
Deputy Beauty Editor HANNA IBRAHEEM Head of Subscriptions, Marketing & Circulation
Fashion JUSTINE BOUCHER
If you can manage it, Digital Marketing & CRM Director SEEMA KUMARI
Fashion Director SASKIA QUIRKE
weekly hair washes. It Fashion Editor NATASHA HARDING Hearst Magazines International
means no dry scalp, less President, Hearst Magazines International
Bookings Editor SOPHIE LEEN
time drying and styling, JONATHAN WRIGHT
Shopping Editor MADDY ALFORD
and less money spent Senior Vice President/Global Editorial & Brand Director
on fancy products. Fashion Assistant COURTNEY SMITH KIM ST CLAIR BODDEN
Social & Video Global Editorial & Brand Director CHLOE O’BRIEN
Head of Social SOPHIE BOYDEN Editor-in-Chief, Cosmopolitan (1965-1997)
Video Lead ALEX HERING HELEN GURLEY BROWN
Deputy Social Media Manager KIERA EGAN International Editions
Videographer TYRA CHUCK Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany,
I used to think my thick, Contributors Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
Korea, Mexico, Middle East, Netherlands, Philippines,
curly hair could only be LOTTIE LUMSDEN (Group Talent Director)
Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA
tamed with gel – but OLIVIA BLAIR (Group Talent Editor)
letting it breathe with AMANDA STATHAM (Travel) KEEKS REID (Beauty)
a light curling cream LAUREN NICOLE COPPIN CAMPBELL (Fashion)
was a game changer. ALICE SNAPE (Features) HANNAH AKANDE,
CHLOE BOWEN, LIA MAPPOURA (Content Trainees)
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