T LOunge for December 9th 2025

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Today, we’re thinking pink. It’s TUESDAY and we’ve decided that the day calls for pastels and cool mid-century design. Slide into a banquet and let’s start ordering things that are very bad for us.

Pamela Anderson on Her Year of ‘Happy Surprises’ — in Movies, Romance and So Much More
“Even sitting here I’m thinking, has this really happened, or did I dream all of this?” Anderson tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story
Even though Pamela Anderson has been a redhead since early autumn, she says, “Sometimes I catch myself in the mirror and go, ‘Oh jeez. Who’s that?’” Even her mom told her, “This is going to take some getting used to.”
Not to worry, says Anderson, who made the change for her next role, in Love Is Not the Answer, a comedy directed by Michael Cera. “I’ll be blonde in no time or maybe a different color. Who knows?”
She calls her transformation “another form of freedom” — the latest surprise in a year that was full of them, from her performance in The Last Showgirl and the summer box office hit The Naked Gun to her much written about romance with costar Liam Neeson.

The 50 Best Latin and Spanish-Language Albums of 2025
From heartfelt tributes to tradition to orchestral reminders to embrace the present, here’s what we loved this year
Could this be the most creative decade in the history of Latin music? 2025 certainly helped it feel as though we’re heading in that direction. Far from being hyperbolic, the notion makes sense considering not only the overwhelming dominance of Latin sounds on a global scale, but also the latitude that artists have enjoyed this year when it came to freedom of expression.

Stuck on What to Wear This Party Season? Here Are 5 Looks That Are Guaranteed to Deliver
The only party outfit formulas you need
Party season is officially here (fellow magpies rejoice!), so you’re probably already searching for party outfit ideas for the steady stream of events that are coming your way.
Indeed, when it comes to party dressing, a standard option would be to lean on classic party dresses. From sequins to fringes and feathers, you can’t go wrong when it comes to a timeless evening dress.
However, this season, I’ve also found myself gravitating towards trousers, midi skirts, and co-ords as another versatile option to throw on and go regardless of the occasion. And as a shopping expert, I must admit I browse through hundreds of new-in fashion finds and save-worthy inspiration daily, and I can’t lie. This season, in particular, looks like a great one so far.

Radical Reads, Dark Gems and Big Ideas—The Books Everyone Will Be Talking About This Winter
Your end-of-year book hit list
Your winter reading just got radical. Hot on the heels of our Autumn books list, it’s our last books roundup for 2025, and we’re seeing out the year much as we started. From an epic Booker-Prize shortlistee to a 50-years-young dystopian tale that offers the chance to live forever (at a price), via a dark peek inside Italy’s cinematic dream factory and the dinner party from hell—these are the titles you really want to be reaching for right now.

The Eyeliner Techniques and Products That Make All the Difference for Mature Eyes
A top makeup artist shares her insider knowledge
No matter who you are, makeup should be about having fun and feeling your best. But as we age, we may feel that the products we once used and the techniques we once relied upon no longer suit our skin. Case in point: eyeliner. The skin on the eyelids is known to be thin and more fragile, and it can also change as we get older. But with a little know-how and some brilliant new eye pencils, it’s actually very easy to wear liner at any age.

These are the 10 fashion trends taking over 2026
According to Pinterest Predicts, this is how we’ll be dressing next
Do you ever feel like fashion trends and pop culture are whipping around you at lightning speed, and no matter what you do, you just can’t keep up? (Because you have a job and can’t spend 24/7 online.) If you feel even more out of touch in recent years, it might not just be because you’re getting old: the trend cycle has indeed cranked up the speed. According to Pinterest’s annual trend report, trends are growing 4.4 times faster than they were seven years ago.

Gold almond nails are the most elegant manicure for Christmas and New Year 2025
Good as gold.
Gold nails are unsurprisingly having their moment right now – especially gold almond nails. The slightly tapered shape slims the fingers and gives them a delicate silhouette, making them perfect for the season. If you’re looking for a manicure that looks flawless all December, matches any look and adds an elegant shine, look no further.
It’s the perfect choice for those who want a modern and versatile look without sacrificing practicality. Plus, the shape works with all kinds of designs, from the most discreet to the most creative. Its silhouette creates the perfect canvas for playing with textures, finishes and colours, achieving a manicure that is both elegant and long-lasting.

Exhausted by the emotional labour of Christmas? You may be your family’s ‘kinkeeper’
All I want for Christmas is a day off.
I remember my mother, throughout my childhood, talking on the phone almost daily with my paternal grandparents. She organised meals with them. She bought their birthday and Christmas presents. She reminded my father to call. Time passed, and my parents separated. But by then, my father’s family was already like a second family to my mother. After all, she’d put in the hours. I’ve since learned that all of this has a name: introducing the kinkeeper.

Why You Need To Get A ‘Power Pixie’ Haircut – Meet The Statement Style That Suits Everyone
This striking cut will be everywhere in 2026.
Pixie cuts can be a somewhat divisive hairstyle. They bring full attention to your face, leaving very little to hide behind in terms of length or movement. On the flip side, they can be incredibly flattering, striking, and contrary to common belief, they also offer a range of styling options, especially when you leave room for some height and volume on top. Cue the power pixie.

Best Christmas Fragrances To Wear And Gift This Season
It’s Christmas fragrance time. Roasted chestnuts over a roaring fire, the scent of fresh pine, spicy cinnamon wafting from freshly-baked goods, the magic of the holiday season is heightened through the olfactory.
When selecting a fragrance to capture the Christmas spirit, consider one with notes associated with the festive season. Think warming ginger and clove, sweet vanilla and caramel, woody and fresh fir and cedarwood, or spicy frankincense and myrrh. However, there is another approach – selecting a statement-making scent that becomes the support act when paired with sparkly, feather and party-ready fashion picks, one that will diffuse quiet luxury and confidence in its sillage as you swan from soiree to soiree.

Motherhood Is Filled With Agony. So Are the Best Films of the Year
Filmmakers on the simmering maternal trauma that dominates this year’s awards frontrunners.
This fall, cinemas around the country are echoing with a single, unmistakable sound: the primal scream of mothers pushed to a breaking point.
You can see it in the crevices of Rose Byrne’s exhausted face in the October-release If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, where Byrne plays Linda—a therapist and mother worn down by caring for a school-aged child with a severe eating disorder. The roiling rage is there in Jennifer Lawrence’s unraveling in November’s Die My Love, her desires turning her into an unpredictable beast, wielding a knife and crawling in the grass. It’s even present in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, when the activist Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) chafes against the expectations placed on her once she gives birth.

Lace Nails Are the Sexiest Manicure Trend Taking Over the Winter Season
Like lingerie for your fingertips.
Come winter, I’m always ready to switch up my manicure. To be fair, it’s nothing crazy (I’m wearing a holiday red nail color as I type this). Usually, I swap my classic pink nail polish for moody winter shades like navy and forest green, but this year, there’s a new trend in town that I’m so on board with. Please welcome: lace nails. With intricate, delicate patterns that look just like real lace, they are understated, sexy, and elegant. All this is to say: This manicure is winter’s hottest (in more ways than one!) nail trend.

Kate Winslet: Hollywood’s Weight-Loss Obsession ‘Bothers Me Now More Than Ever’
Winslet—who weathered her fair share of body-shaming at the hands of the tabloid media in the ’90s—is not holding back.
Having lived through (and ultimately conquered) some of the worst fat-shaming of the ’90s and early 2000s, Kate Winslet knows better than most the gauntlet that young women actors face when it comes to body image and Hollywood. And as the use of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic has become more widespread and socially acceptable, she’s not sure she likes what she’s seeing.
For one brief shining moment, there was a campaign to embrace body positivity and some version of “natural” beauty. Now, Winslet despairs, “nobody cares anymore,” she told The Sunday Times in a new interview. “No one’s listening because they’ve become obsessed with chasing an idea of perfection to get more likes on Instagram. It upsets me so much.”

Francesco Vezzoli on Working With Sophia Loren and Lady Gaga, Lunching With Donald Trump, and His New Book, Diva?
Francesco Vezzoli has been making provocative and genre-breaking art—encompassing film and video, embroidery, sculpture, and photography; and often playing with notions of celebrity, glamour, and spectacle—for more than three decades. His new book, Francesco Vezzoli: Diva (Skira), plays with iconic figures from pop culture, religion, and the golden ages of both Italian cinema and Hollywood, with Vezzoli embellishing portraits of Maria Callas, Greta Garbo, Bianca Jagger, Veruschka, and many others with embroidered tears, glittered eyebrows, and bloody noses.

Am I Supposed to Feel Bad About Traveling With a Crying Baby?
A man on a plane TikTok’ed about getting a refund after a baby in a nearby aisle cried for 45 minutes. That man was a dick. A few years back, a lady on a South Korea–to–US flight gave out handwritten notes and care packages—earplugs, gum, candies—to atone for flying with a baby who might cry. That woman was a benevolent fool.
I can’t get my head around either of those standards—neither the “I’m sorry I cannot control the behavior of this defenseless human in my arms” position, nor this new “Why has this baby ruined my day?” schtick.

Japanese Whisky 101: What It Is, the Rules That Define It, and Bottles Bartenders Love
The popular category is still defining itself, but it boasts some of the market’s most coveted bottles.
Whiskeys hail from all over the world and cover dozens of categories, subcategories, and styles, from homegrown products like bourbon to others native to Scotland, Ireland, and India.
Over the past 15 years, Japanese whisky has experienced a meteoric rise and has become a massively successful category across Asia-Pacific and into the U.S. and Europe. The best bottles command high prices, aged stocks are hard to find, and more distilleries are popping up to meet the demand.
Compared to America’s whiskey scene, and especially its U.K. forebears, Japanese whisky is young. The first distillery, Suntory-owned Yamazaki, was established in 1923.

The Best All-Purpose Flour, According to 5 Professional Bakers
From cakes to cookies to bread, this widely available flour delivers the consistency on which bakeries and pastry chefs depend.
Flour might be an ingredient you select at the grocery store based on price and availability, but as professional pastry chefs know, the flour you use has a significant impact on your cakes, cookies, and other baked goods.
For most baking projects, you’re likely going to want all-purpose flour (AP), the most versatile type of flour that is typically made with both high-gluten hard wheat and low-gluten soft wheat. AP flour should have between eight and 12% protein — strong enough to develop the gluten in breads and soft enough to maintain a fluffy, delicate crumb in cakes.

If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?
Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.
Here’s a thought many of us have these days: if only we weren’t on our damn phones all the time, we would surely unlock a better self—one that went on hikes and talked more with our children and felt less rank jealousy about other people’s successes. It’s a nice idea; once a day, at least, I wonder what my life would be like if I smashed my phone into bits and never contacted AppleCare. Would I become a scratch golfer or one of those fathers who does thousand-piece puzzles with his children? Would I direct ambitious films that capture the Zeitgeist? Would I at least read more difficult novels?

How Can Movie Theaters Fill More Seats Again? A Bain Report Shares Suggestions
“Audiences haven’t abandoned theaters; they need a more compelling reason to go,” the consultancy highlights, sharing suggestions for how to bring fans back to the cinema in the post-COVID era.
Cinema attendance and box office have remained below pre-COVID pandemic levels, so what can studios and exhibitors do to put people back in recliners and other movie theater seats? Management consulting firm Bain & Co., in a new research report, shares some suggestions and insights.
The big-picture takeaway from Bain partners Chris Xanthakis, Nicole Magoon, and Daniel Hong: “Successful companies will invest in premiumization, personalization, and partnerships to draw people back to theaters.” After all: “Audiences haven’t abandoned theaters; they need a more compelling reason to go.”

Meet Rivals star Alex Hassell: The actor on playing Rupert Campbell-Black, the most handsome man in Britain
Tatler‘s Annabel Sampson was wined and dined by Alex Hassell ahead of the steamy first showing of Rivals. Now, as the first look of series two is released, revisit the interview
Cast with the glowing approval of Dame Jilly, this Rupert Campbell-Black is tall, dark and devastatingly handsome – albeit a lateral casting choice given RCB (as the die-hard fans call him) is notoriously blue-eyed and fair-haired. Hassell, who was cast from 600 hopefuls, was convinced he wasn’t right for the role: ‘I actually said to my agent, “I shouldn’t bother auditioning,” because I didn’t think I would have a chance of getting the part or would even know how to play it if I did.’ But, spoiler alert, Hassell is magnetic. ‘I’m so pleased – otherwise it would have been terribly awkward, wouldn’t it?’ he says, with more than a flash of 007. ‘Someone said that Rupert was the James Bond of erotica or something. And in my mind, there’s definitely more of Roger Moore… he’s got his tongue firmly in his cheek.’

7 Common Holiday Card Mistakes That Send the Wrong Message
Keep the merry, skip the mistakes.
Holiday cards connect us across distance and time, reminding the people in our lives that we’re thinking of them. But even the loveliest card can lose its charm if it includes a small faux pas or a message that unintentionally misses the mark.
According to Katherine Philpot, SVP of Strategy and GM of Holiday at Minted, many of these missteps are easy to avoid with a bit of thoughtful preparation. Here are the most common holiday card mistakes to avoid, plus expert-backed solutions to ensure your greetings feel polished, personal, and heartfelt.

Why Almonds Are So Good for You—and the Best Way to Eat Them Every Day
Small but mighty, these nuts are nutritional powerhouses.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more versatile nut than the almond. It can be a nutritious snack, then there is almond butter, flour, milk, and more. But there’s more to this mighty nut than that—the benefits of eating almonds are many. They are nutritional powerhouses that can and should be consumed daily. While similar in fat content to other nuts, like macadamia, almonds are slightly lower in carbohydrates. They’re also an excellent source of plant protein, and naturally free of cholesterol and gluten, making them a great choice for just about any dietary preference or health plan. We spoke to two nutritionists to learn more about the health benefits you can get from eating almonds.

11 Christmas Party Themes That Are Festive but Fresh
Party planners share their best ideas for a memorable soirée, from a holiday speakeasy to a winter wonderland celebration.
The holidays inspire hosts everywhere to put on their entertaining hats and make merry memories with their nearest and dearest. And while this annual time spent with friends and family is always special, no matter what your party looks like, why not make it even more memorable with a fun concept and fresh décor? We spoke with professional party planners for their best creative Christmas party themes and their tips on executing them.

How Often Should You Vacuum the Carpet? Here’s Martha’s Recommendation
Say goodbye to the guesswork.
A beautiful home doesn’t require perfection, but it does benefit from a thoughtful routine. And when it comes to carpets and rugs, vacuuming is one of the simplest yet most essential ways to freshen, reduce allergens, and extend the life of your flooring. Take Martha’s core guidance to heart: “Regular vacuuming will help to extend the life of floor coverings,” she shared in her book Martha Stewart’s Organizing.
But what, exactly, does regular mean in this case? Fortunately, Martha also provided clarity on how often you should vacuum your carpets. Once a week? Every day? As frequently as hardwood floors? Here’s what Martha recommends.

This Easy Hike in Acadia National Park Is One of Its Most Scenic—With Peaceful Forest, a Mirror-like Lake, and Mountain Backdrops
The Jordan Pond Path is a favorite among visitors for a reason.
The Jordan Pond Path in Acadia National Park is one of Maine’s most beloved and easy hikes. Famous for its calm waters, views of The Bubbles, and a peaceful forested shoreline, the trail is an inviting introduction to Acadia’s iconic landscapes.
The loop trail is approximately 3.3 miles in length and begins near the historic Jordan Pond House, a popular dining spot known for its afternoon teas and popovers. While the terrain is mostly flat, there are a few sections of uneven ground and raised wooden walkways that add a sense of adventure without being too challenging.

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