More mums are choosing to become their own boss and look after their children at the same time. But does ‘motherism’ – the prejudice that paints ‘non-working’ mums as unsexy slobs – really motivate women to go back to work just to remove the ‘stay-at-home’ label?

Which fitness fads will be big in 2015? How will digital developments change the way we shop for beauty products? Will beauty vloggers loose a bit of their sparkle? And which brands resonate with our quest for body acceptance?

The make-up aisles of today's pharmacies are a bright spectrum of colour – but there's always that one perfect shade of lipstick no company seems to make. Harvard Business School graduate Grace Choi is eliminating this irritation with Mink – a 3D printer just for make-up.

Birchbox is a high end beauty e-tailer which dispatches samples to subscribers for a monthly fee. We consider their innovative product service system in the light of changing definitions of luxury and fluctuating consumer trends.