T LOunge for May 13th 2025

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It’s TUESDAY and that calls for a DAZZLING LOunge, wouldn’t you say? We need all the stimulation we can get because the Cannes Film Festival is currently kicking off and there are also royal people out in public, modeling fashion for you. Sit tight.

Janet Jackson Set to Receive Icon Award at 2025 American Music Awards
Celebrating 50 years in the music industry, the “Someone to Call My Lover” artist will also perform for the first time on TV since 2018.
Janet Jackson is set to receive the Icon Award at the 2025 American Music Awards, where she will also perform for the first time on TV since 2018.
Jackson, who has won 11 American Music Awards over the course of her 50 years in the music industry, is also a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, five-time Grammy winner and two-time Emmy winner who has sold more than 180 million albums worldwide. The chart-topper is one of only four artists to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in the 1980s, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s, alongside Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and U2.

David Rooney’s 10 Must-See Cannes Titles
From competition veterans like the Dardenne brothers, Kelly Reichardt, and Joachim Trier to newly promoted auteurs like Ari Aster, Oliver Hermanus, and Carla Simón.
With the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicking off on Tuesday, one key question is what movies not to miss on the Croisette.
From competition veterans like the Dardenne brothers, Kelly Reichardt and Joachim Trier to newly promoted auteurs like Ari Aster, Oliver Hermanus, Carla Simón and Oliver Laxe, THR’s chief film critic rounds up 10 essential premieres

I tested 11 best body sunscreens on three different holidays – these are the formulas that impressed me
Non-greasy and hard-working SPFs that are worth the fuss.
As far as skincare essentials go, body sunscreens is a category that doesn’t get the attention it so clearly deserves. While we’re quick to stock up on face SPFs come rain or shine, the skin below the neck often gets neglected — unless we’re heading off on a beachside holiday, obvs. TBH, even then, many of us are guilty of skipping reapplication, or diving into the water before our suntan lotion has even had a chance to properly absorb.
The truth is, body SPFs deserve a spot in our beauty routines well beyond the beach bag — especially during the warmer months. As we slip into our summer dresses and sandals, our arms, legs, and shoulders are exposed to the sun more than usual. Even if you’re just trotting around the city, making sure your skin is well protected should be a top priority. After all, extended sun exposure can be just as damaging to the body as it is to the face — think: increased risk of skin cancer, hyperpigmentation, premature ageing, and loss of elasticity.

11 best vitamins for hair growth, according to trichologists
Because hair needs a balanced diet too.
More than 11,000 people search for the best vitamins for hair growth every month. Hardly surprising. One look at Kim Kardashian’s bouncy beach waves would have anyone wanting their hair to grow past their shoulders – and that’s before we consider the fact that 50% of women will experience hair loss in their lifetime. Whether that’s caused by auto-immune disorders, COVID-19 hair loss or PCOS.
While using a thickening shampoo, hair mask for hair growth or rosemary hair oil may help with length and volume, implementing a 360 approach to your hair-growth journey is believed to take your results to a whole new level. After all, there’s only so much that topical products can do when applied to the surface of our scalp and hair. Working from the inside out, with biotin for hair growth and the like, is believed to stimulate re-growth and minimise shedding.

My intimate photos were stolen and traded online. Now I’m fighting back
For too long, I felt ashamed for daring to take an image of my body. But it was not my shame to carry.
The first time my intimate images were shared without my consent was when I was fifteen years old. Private photos I had shared with a boy I fancied spread across my school like an uncontrollable bush fire that jumped the school gates and landed in the phones of grown, adult men in my hometown. That was my fault, he said.

21 best face serums of all time, according to editors and derms
For every skin concern there is.
You don’t need to be a skincare veteran to know that adding one of the best face serums to your daily routine will be an absolute game-changer. Sure, you may have your moisturiser, your cleanser and your sunscreen all sorted – but facial serums do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to addressing specific skin concerns. Be it hyperpigmentation, fine lines, blemishes, clogged pores or dehydration.
That said, as a beauty journalist who interviews dermatologists for a living, it’s also my duty to remind you that choosing a formula that doesn’t align with your exact skin type may actually make things worse for your skin in the long run. The last thing you want is to irritate your skin or – heaven forbid – damage your delicate skin barrier.

‘Nightshade nails’ are the most surprising manicure trend for summer
Pastel manicures with their ice cream shades predictably go viral in summer. And yet, only a few weeks into the warmer weather, ‘nightshade nails’ are cropping up everywhere as a surprising, fresh trend. Better still, it’s the chic tonal alternative to lavender milk nails we didn’t know we needed. Until now.
Case in point: Hailey Bieber at the recent Fashion Trust Awards, whose nail colour was reminiscent of the Deadly Nightshade flower. Nail artist Zola Ganzorigt, who created the look, told GLAMOUR that she used OPI You Don’t Know Jacques!, a purple-taupe shade, for the base of Hailey’s long, oval nails. “She wanted her nails to match the YSL dress she wore,” says Zola.

31 best plus-size swimwear pieces for every body, 2025
From curvy bikinis to plus size swimming costumes.
I’ll say this time and time again, but plus-size swimwear shouldn’t be difficult to find. Every single person deserves to feel sunshine on their skin, swim in the waves in comfort, and feel secure in their clothing while being active or enjoying themselves on holiday. Your size shouldn’t make it a never-ending task to find a bikini or swimsuit that makes you feel your best.
We don’t all want the same thing; some of us want bikinis for big busts or a tummy control swimsuit, some of us want a brightly coloured two-piece or full coverage bikini bottoms or skirts for comfort, and some of us want that itty-bitty, teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini because our larger bodies deserve as much sun as everyone else.

Flower sandals are officially summer’s prettiest shoe trend
Like a bouquet on your feet
Flower sandals are one of those shoe styles that immediately grounds you in a season. Beyond just a regular sandal, which you could wear across spring and summer, there’s something about the flower sandal that is reserved for balmy destinations or beautiful wedding venues that make them feel like a holiday encapsulated in footwear. […]
Flower sandals, which may have a Boho slant, were arguably popularised in the ‘90s. Think Carrie Bradshaw’s style in Sex and the City, when a borderline-kitschy style of fashion became mainstream and the lurid became luxe. Flower and butterfly clips after all, were also trending so why not flower sandals?

19 best capri pants to nail breezy summer dressing
Welcome to the pedal pushers renaissance.
It’s finally happening: Capri pants are back in the cultural conversation, and these are the best capri pants worth knowing about.
Like other controversial bottoms of the recent past — low-rise jeans, cargo pants, skinny jeans—they’ve spent a moment in fashion jail. But thanks to some A-list endorsements and a few standout runway shows, the pants trend is on the precipice of another golden age that could rival their ’60s, ’80s, and ’00s heydays. (T2024he 20-year trend cycle wins again).

I chose to be a single mum. Here’s what I wish everyone knew about solo parenting
As Amber Heard reveals she has welcomed twins by herself, one writer shares her journey with solo motherhood.
I’ve always wanted to be a mum and by the time I was 24, I realised that I never saw myself with a partner I would want to have a baby with. Yes, it was quite young to think that, but I just hadn’t met that person who I clicked with. I tried to date with little success, and I just kept coming back to the fact I was happy on my own. […]
When I told people about my plans, it was seen by some as an unusual or unexpected. A few friends were worried about me being on my own, so for a while I did try to continue dating, but it was half-hearted. Sometimes I would feel guilty that my mum would not get to be part of my wedding, but the whole fairytale wedding was never something I wanted and I have always been fiercely independent. I also realised that if I took the time factor out and decided to have a child on my own at a younger age, I had the rest of my life to meet someone for the right reasons and not feel pressured into finding the father of my child.

Rita Hayworth’s Heartbreaking Vanishing Act: “She Looked at Me and Said, ‘Who Are You?’” Her Daughter Tells VF
The Gilda star made America swoon, then the public mocked her as she seemingly fell apart in her prime. The gossip was wrong, but her true secret would stun the world: Hayworth actually had early onset Alzheimer’s.
It was supposed to be Rita Hayworth’s epic return to the silver screen. Instead, the Hollywood icon’s role in the 1972 Western The Wrath of God became the last moviegoers ever saw of her. As she faded away in the years that followed, a heart-wrenching disease would come into greater focus. Hayworth herself would not be spared from the worst of it, but countless others around the world would be helped by her story. It’s a bittersweet legacy, but one that continues to this day.
Hayworth had developed early onset Alzheimer’s, which began manifesting when she was only in her 40s. It robbed Hollywood of one of its most luminous golden age stars well before her time, but the diagnosis and her family’s decision to go public with her condition helped raise awareness about the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease at a time when not even doctors knew much about it.

Who was Greta Garbo, the most popular Hollywood actress of the early 20th century, who disappeared into the abyss?
The highest paid actress of the early Golden era, Greta Garbo lived a reclusive life, ever desperate for privacy and peace. Now, as a new documentary explores her life, Tatler introduces you to the enigma of the early cinema age
From falling in love with directors and co-stars, befriending Cécile de Rothschild and Charlie Chaplin, and repeatedly tightening her social circle, Greta Garbo was the victim of her own stardom. Her retreat from the limelight has even been coined in the phrase ‘Greta Garbo syndrome’. As a documentary about the life of Hollywood legend Greta Garbo is set to be released on May 14th, Tatler looks back at her tumultuous career and asks why she quit acting at the height of her fame.
Born and raised in Stockholm, her younger years were far from Hollywood’s glamour; the youngest of three, she was raised in a flat poor urban district. Her mother worked in a jam factory and her father was a labourer until his death when Garbo was just 14.

The Trio Whose Erotic Photographs Inspired a Generation of Artists
Starting in the 1930s, the three artists behind PaJaMa captured their unconventional relationship in surreal images that still captivate.
FOR ABOUT 20 years, beginning in the late 1930s, the New York-based artist Paul Cadmus, a satirist whose egg tempera paintings included scenes of drunken carousing and other lustful behavior, spent summers by the sea with his lover Jared French and French’s wife, Margaret Hoening French, both also painters. The trio — who called themselves PaJaMa, a combination of the first syllables of their names — were all in their 30s when they started taking highly choreographed, often nude photographs of one another and their circle of friends, family and various romantic partners on the beaches of Nantucket; Provincetown, Mass.; and Fire Island. Although the work has an almost Surrealist quality, it also reflects what the American art historian Angela Miller describes in her 2023 book, “Body Language,” which she co-wrote with the multidisciplinary artist Nick Mauss, as the “delicate negotiations among three people, driven by a complex alchemy of love, desire, longing, resentment and envy.” She observes that the “formal grammar of many PaJaMa photographs turns upon triangles and triangulations,” noting that Jared — the protagonist at the center of the triangle who took issue with Cadmus’s other romantic ties — rarely appears with the other two.

Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’m interested in dark nights of the soul’
As season two of Poker Face is released, Dazed spoke to Natasha Lyonne about her enduring love for Linda Manz and why it doesn’t matter if you don’t get a text back – we are all going to die anyway
You wrote and directed episode two. How was that experience? Are you enjoying that side of filmmaking?
Natasha Lyonne: Speaking as a 70,000-year-old, I have had the opportunity to do it now a whole bunch, on Russian Doll, of course, and Poker Face. I’ve been doing this for some time. I think I’m getting younger! I think it’s always really fun to be part of something from inception, whether it’s as early as Rian [Johnson, the creator] and I just getting together to think on what kind of a show might be fun to make together.
It’s also really fun to kind of pop in. I texted my buddy, Taika Waititi, and I said, ‘I heard you’re doing an [Kazuo] Ishiguro novel. Are there any parts for me?’ And I got to fly out there to New Zealand, and I joined him and Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega in a movie called Klara and the Sun. That’s also really fun, not having to be involved or embedded at all in anything but the gig. I think I do enjoy it all.

First look at Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir series
Coming in 2026, the new live-action expansion of the “Spider-Verse” will center on Cage’s aging PI in 1930s New York.
Cigarette smoke, dames to kill for, crooked cops — latex super suit?
That’s right, Marvel’s taking on a whole new genre — noir — in the new series from Amazon MGM Studios, Spider-Noir. The studio released the first look at star Nicolas Cage in the series during Monday’s annual upfront presentation. Cage stylishly embodies the synthesis of the two modes in the shot by donning the instantly recognizable spidey suit under the classic uniform of a noir protagonist: a trench coat and fedora tipped low.
The official logline of Spider-Noir, which was announced in 2023, notes that the series “tells the story of an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.” Viewers will be able to stream the series in either black and white or color.

8 Ways to Use Up Fruit Scraps, From Jam and Pickles to Kombucha
These are the best ways to repurpose scraps from your favorite seasonal fruits.
The next time you enjoy a piece of fruit, don’t throw away the peel, pit, or core. Fruit scraps are a versatile ingredient to use in your kitchen. They can be transformed into all kinds of goodies, from homemade vinegar and pickles to loose-leaf tea blends. Just about any kind of fruit scraps—including watermelon melon rinds, pineapple cores, apple and pear peels, citrus rinds, and strawberry tops–can be saved and used anew. We spoke with an expert food preserver and a fermented foods professional to get their advice on how to pickle, candy, and ferment our way through all our fruit scraps.

What Is a Griddle and How Do You Cook With One?
It’s the best way to make pancakes, burgers, fajitas, and more.
Cooking pancakes and other breakfast foods on the griddle is a popular pastime, but this versatile appliance can cook up many other meals. Griddles are often used to cook cuisines such as scones, crumpets, and tortillas to meals including seafood, meat, and vegetables. Learn more from our experts about what a griddle is and how to properly cook on one.

Can You Paint Bathroom Tile? How to Pull Off This Low-Maintenance Renovation
It should only be done in smaller bathrooms that receive low foot traffic to avoid the chances of heat and humidity ruining your paint job.
Bathroom tile is permanent and requires very little upkeep beyond routine cleaning, but when you want to remodel the space, tile is difficult to work around. One answer is to give your space a fresh look by painting the tile rather than removing and replacing it. Painted tile can withstand some of the humidity and high temperatures bathrooms often endure if you use the right technique and type of paint. Learn tips from our experts about whether painting bathroom tile is the right project for your home.

North Carolina’s Crystal Coast Is an 85-mile Stretch of Quaint Small Towns, White-sand Beaches, and Plenty of Southern Charm
Here’s what you need to know about planning a trip to North Carolina’s Crystal Coast.
You’ve probably heard of the Outer Banks—maybe you’ve even visited them. But the Southern Outer Banks, also known as the Crystal Coast, is its own distinct region of North Carolina. The 85-mile stretch of coastline and barrier islands reaches from Cape Lookout to the mouth of the New River. Within those boundaries are a number of gorgeous island strips and quaint waterfront communities—the most prominent of which are located on Bogue Banks, a barrier island that encompasses Atlantic Beach, Emerald Isle, Pine Knoll Shores, and Indian Beach and Salter Path. Other popular destinations along the Crystal Coast include Beaufort, Harkers Island, Morehead City, and Swansboro. No matter which part of the region you visit, though, you can expect to find plenty of relaxation and natural beauty.

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