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  • Girl cuts or trims the bush (rose) with a pair of scissors in the garden

    Readers’ favourites
    From the perfect gardening tools to £8 mascara, what you loved most this month

  • A woman's hands around a perfume bottle above a smoke billowing cauldron

    Beauty
    Gamechanging beauty products: 17 skin, hair and wellness essentials the experts can’t live without

    Stylists, dermatologists, aestheticians and nutritionists share the products they return to, time and again
  • Mezzanine bed over kitchen in tiny open plan living space

    Lifestyle
    Mirrors, caddies and skinny shelves: 12 space-saving tricks to make small rooms feel bigger

    From storage beds to floating desks, these expert buys will help you decorate small spaces
  • The Filter, Kimchi main shot. Seven different packets of kimchi.

    The food filter
    ‘Hits that sweet spot between funk and freshness’: the best kimchi, tasted and rated

  • A stylish young woman in denim clothes with a bouquet of mimosa walks along the wall sanctified by the bright spring sun.

    Fashion
    The best spring jackets for women: 14 favourites for every occasion, from barn jackets to blazers

  • Testing the Panda Hybrid bamboo mattress

    Sleep
    The best mattresses: sleep better with our six rigorously tested picks

  • Newborn baby sleeps on striped muslin diaper in wicker basket

    Family
    The best eco-friendly baby products: 11 sustainable substitutes, from reusable nappies to wipes

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Fashion

  • A woman with curly dark hair wearing a pale yellow suit and top, and standing in front of a pink background

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: butter yellow is the colour to be seen in this summer

  • Straw bag with daffodils poking out

    Women’s spring wardrobe essentials: 27 easy-to-wear pieces to see you through the season

  • Composite of Hoka Clifton 9 GORE-TEX, Adidas ADIZERO ADIOS PRO 3, New Balance FuelCell SuperComp Elite v4 running shoes

    The best running shoes for men and women to take you from trail to road to marathon, tried and tested by runners

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    The best mascaras for longer, fuller and fluttery lashes: 10 favourites worn and rated by our beauty expert

Beauty

  • A selection of yellow fruit and veg with patches stuck on them, shot against a yellow background

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Sali Hughes on beauty: vitamin patches are all the rage, but are the effects more than skin deep?

  • Female with red lipstick biting blackberry, close<br>GettyImages-478538881

    The beauty spot
    Berry products: 10 of the best

  • Headshot of a red-haired woman looking straight into camera, with two snails on her face

    Sunscreen and snail slime: what skincare experts do – and don’t do – to their skin

  • Woman shopping in a secondhand marketplace in London.

    Set alerts, use filters and buy less: everything I’ve learned about secondhand shopping

Food

  • Close-up image of 10 different packs of dried spaghetti against an orange background.

    ‘Crunchy inside, flabby on the outside’: Rachel Roddy tests supermarket spaghetti

  • Packs of feta cheese on a blue paper background at a jaunty angle.

    ‘Has the texture of feta, but not much else’: the best (and worst) supermarket feta, tested

  • espresso machines

    The best espresso machines to unleash your inner barista at home, tested

  • Hot cross buns

    ‘Very pale and oddly wrinkly’: the best (and worst) supermarket hot cross buns for Easter, tested

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Home & garden

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    How to garden in spring (and the best tools for the job)

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    The best pressure washers: eight expert picks for cleaning garden furniture and patios

  • Black woman thinking or building a puzzle on a table in the home living room. Smart, focus and planning female thinking of a strategy before connecting pieces on a game to complete the picture

    Beat brain rot: clear your mind with 55 screen-free activities, from birdwatching to colouring books

  • SECATEURS NEW 2 composite

    The best secateurs to save you time and effort when pruning your garden, tested

Sleep

  • Testing the Panda Hybrid bamboo mattress

    The best mattresses in 2025: sleep better with our six rigorously tested picks

  • Otty Original Hybrid mattress

    Otty Original Hybrid mattress review: the best hybrid mattress you can buy – and also one of the cheapest

  • The Simba Hybrid Pro mattress, in an image showing its eight layers.

    Is the Simba Hybrid Pro mattress worth the hype? I slept on it for three months to find out

  • Woman falling backwards on to a bed

    How to choose a mattress: the features worth paying for – and the ones that aren’t

Gift ideas

  • Comp of pics of lego, an adidas trainer and a drawing tablet held by illustrated hands

    The best gifts for teens: 45 present ideas – chosen by teenagers themselves

  • Group of people at a dinner party

    ‘The classiest gift I’ve heard of’: what to bring to a dinner party (that isn’t wine or chocolates)

  • A composite of pictures of a golf ball, a monopoly board and a tin of baked beans all held up by illustrated hands, on an orange background

    The best personalised gift ideas for men, women and kids, from custom monopoly to baby rompers

  • A new Mother holds her daughter up close to her face

    The best gifts for new mums, picked by new mums: 25 genuinely useful ideas

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Lifestyle

  • A composite of four power banks on a red, orange and yellow background

    The best power banks and battery packs for reliable charging on the go, tested

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    The best diffusers for your home: 22 genuinely great-smelling diffusers for every mood and budget

  • Two women unboxing a parcel of shoes at home

    How to buy secondhand clothes online that you’ll actually wear – and the best sites to trawl

  • A selection of rice cookers in their boxes

    From no-show couriers to food banks: my quest to rehome everything we test on the Filter

Tech

  • A composite of four power banks on a red, orange and yellow background

    The best power banks and battery packs for reliable charging on the go, tested

  • A composite of five Apple iPhone 16 smartphones on a red, orange and pink background

    The best iPhones in 2025: which Apple smartphone is right for you, according to our expert

  • Sky Glass Gen 2 showing a TV guide to Lockerbie a search for truth

    Sky Glass gen 2 review: the smart streaming TV levels up

  • Apple iPad Air M3 review showing the home screen stood up on a table.

    Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

Wellness

  • Close up hand of female pulling white sheets in ecstasy , feeling and emotion concept

    From sex toy safety to supply chains: why testing vibrators isn’t as fun as you might think

  • A group of women practise pilates

    From resistance bands to squat-proof leggings: the pilates kit you need – and what you can do without

  • Full shot of an unrecognisable person pouring a freshly prepared cocktail mix into a crystal glass surrounded by various ingredients and out-of-focus lights

    From crew neck knits to alcohol-free ‘tequila’: what you loved most this month

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  • Woman shopping in a secondhand marketplace in London.

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