How do you feel about your beauty regime at the minute? After lockdown 1, 2 and 3 do you care if your roots are too long, your nails aren’t glossy or if your eyebrows are unruly? Have you enjoyed not feeling the pressure to look a certain way or have you missed putting together a look, complete with a full face?

For our latest digital issue we explore how our relationship with beauty has, or hasn’t changed.

Mischa Anouk Smith explores whether she ready to resist the post lockdown beauty boom, Ione Gamble questions why we all need to be classed and beautiful, Tahmina Begum turns the camera back on the men who mock women and young girls for their beauty regime and Claire Healy is asking why the girls are making themselves monstrous.

Charlie Craggs writes beautifully about why for her and thousands of trans women like her, beauty is about more than looking good. It’s often about securing their safety.

Elsewhere we look to photography and the lens of Robert Mapplethorpe. Charlotte Jansen dives into the female gaze and looks at the new ways women are photographing themselves and each other.

Aja Barber argues that there’s nothing more beautiful than taking care of women in your supply chain and writer Abiola Oni gives us four short stories dedicated to hair.

We hope that wherever you land on the beauty spectrum you find some inspiration.