Kathleen Baird-Murray

From new brands to clever, functional oils and fragrances, here’s what you need to know about aromatherapy in 2025.

When Kathleen Baird-Murray’s migraines spiralled, Botox offered relief – but could it halt her complicated feelings about tweakments?

When it comes to SPF, what’s true and what’s not? Kathleen Baird-Murray investigates.

British Vogue contributing editor Kathleen Baird-Murray, who has Burmese roots and recently created a fragrance inspired by the country, outlines the crisis on the ground in the wake of a devastating earthquake.

Experienced, smart, and real as they come, is it any wonder skincare’s brightest stars are 40-plus, and proud to be? Kathleen Baird-Murray reports.

Welcome to a new era of collaborative skincare, in which brands are joining forces with aesthetic experts to bring us the best in healthy skin maintenance, says Kathleen Baird-Murray.

Named Catch Me If I Fall, it’s a tribute to the people – and the beauty – of Myanmar.

Ice bathing remains the hottest topic in wellness, but is it really for everyone? Kathleen Baird-Murray takes the plunge.

A confession: sometimes, at a press event, my mind wanders. And the latest launch by new French skincare brand Neur/ae, owned by Sisley Paris, is no exception. The location – the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, a spectacular wow-factor building with a domed glass ceiling – transports me along book after book of leather-bound spines, past the more modern collections of bandes dessinées, down the study tables, complete with individual green lights, now turned into a banqueting table jus…

They say that ignorance is bliss. When it came to the menopause, for so long that seemed to be the collective response to something perceived as so awkward, shameful and debilitating that it was best not talked about at all. But blissful ignorance is no longer a safe place to hide for employers, if the recent Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) directive on menopause is anything to go by. The announcement last week that employers have a responsibility to protect staff struggling with sym…

What is the secret to – if not eternal life, then a long one, that’s also well-lived? Kathleen Baird-Murray asks the experts for their tips for prioritising your health. 1. The goal: 10 extra years of a life you love “We have improved longevity,” says Professor Tim Spector OBE, genetic epidemiologist, author of The New Science of Eating Well, and the scientific co-founder of ZOE, the personalised nutrition company “but we haven’t really improved health span.” There’s a lot that medical science c…

The French fashion house brings sunshine to a beloved scent.

“Long hair after a certain age gives you a presence, it stops the invisible cloak from descending,” writes Kathleen Baird-Murray, a committed “long hair person” at 54.

What happens when there’s no simple skincare fix? Kathleen Baird-Murray consults a team of experts for their advice on tricky to tackle conditions.

A fully committed non-group person, Kathleen Baird-Murray ventured into the company of strangers to experience her first retreat – and returned a convert. She shares her story, and the retreats to book now.

What happened after one Vogue editor gave up moisturiser.

“I know there are new products nearly every day, but if I hadn’t seen a real difference visually in my skin, we wouldn’t have bothered,” Pitt tells Vogue of his Le Domaine line, in an interview at his Miraval estate.

“The pain was excruciating, and in my case, arrived suddenly,” writes Kathleen Baird-Murray, who shares her quest for relief from the notoriously tricky condition.

“As a woman and a mother, you can’t not feel crushed when you see someone weeping like that... weeping for their daughters,” the CNN correspondent, whose dispatches from Afghanistan have made her a star, tells Kathleen Baird-Murray in the January issue.

“Stretch marks have arrived, and we are finally owning them.”