Beauty or Beast?
If the thought of leaving the house without completing your beauty regime or styling your hair brings on a state of anxiety, spare a thought for people from the past, many of whom had to do some pretty strange things in order to maintain their personal appearance… Plucking painful High foreheads were considered beautiful in 15th century Northern Europe, where upper class ladies slowly and painfully plucked their hairlines and scraped back their hair. Wigging out A good example of the perils of extravagance was seen in the European courts in the 18th...

Considering college? Dos and don’ts
Psychology, beauty therapy, carpentry, BTEC, A level, NVQ. When it comes to college courses it’s hard to know where to start. Unfortunately, we can’t tell you what to study at sixth form or college. We can however give you some advice for applying for college courses, in the hope of alleviating some of that stress. Our college and sixth form area allows you to search and browse college courses and providers. Before that though, there are some things to consider. We like to keep it simple here at Hotcourses so we’ve come up with some dos and don’ts for...