Alice Hart-Davis
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Alice Hart-Davis is a British journalist and author. She was brought up in Henley-on-Thames
and attended Headington School before reading history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
. After university she joined Vogue in 1985. She has worked at the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard and now contributes on a freelance basis to numerous national newspapers and magazines, specialising in beauty and health. She has written many articles about approaches to anti-aging treatments and has frankly documented her own experiences in trying non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as Botox. In 2009 she described the problems that she encountered following a new breast enhancement technique using an injectable synthetic substance called Macrolane
.
She has also written extensively about skincare for teenagers and young women and in this context has criticised what she considers to be the false distinction often made between "natural" and "chemical" skincare.
She has won awards for her writing including P&G beauty: Best Beauty Journalist of a monthly consumer glossy (2010), Johnson & Johnson Beauty Journalist of the Year (2008) and the Fellowship for British Hairdressing Newspaper Journalist of the Year (2004). Hart-Davis is herself on the judging panel for several beauty industry awards (British Hairdresser of the Year, British Spa & Beauty Awards and the Smile (Dentistry) Awards).
With her daughter Molly Hindhaugh she has written a guide to beauty for teenagers entitled Be Beautiful: Every Girl's Guide to Hair, Skin and Make-up (Walker Books 2009;ISBN 978-1-4063-1831-9)
In 2010 Hart-Davis developed and launched Good Things, a range of skincare products designed for young women in their teens and twenties, which is sold through Boots.
She is the daughter of the biographer and journalist Duff Hart-Davis
, a niece of the broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis
, a granddaughter of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis and a relative of British Prime Minister David Cameron
.
She lives in Bayswater
, London, is married and has three children.
Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, about 10 miles downstream and north-east from Reading, 10 miles upstream and west from Maidenhead...
and attended Headington School before reading history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St Edmund Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Better known within the University by its nickname, "Teddy Hall", the college has a claim to being "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates in any university"...
. After university she joined Vogue in 1985. She has worked at the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard and now contributes on a freelance basis to numerous national newspapers and magazines, specialising in beauty and health. She has written many articles about approaches to anti-aging treatments and has frankly documented her own experiences in trying non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as Botox. In 2009 she described the problems that she encountered following a new breast enhancement technique using an injectable synthetic substance called Macrolane
Macrolane
Macrolane is a breast and body-contour filler marketed by Q-Med in the UK since early 2008. It claims to be s a less invasive alternative to surgical breast enlargement, offering an increase of one cup size through injections that only take between 30 and 90 minutes - colloquially referred to as...
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She has also written extensively about skincare for teenagers and young women and in this context has criticised what she considers to be the false distinction often made between "natural" and "chemical" skincare.
She has won awards for her writing including P&G beauty: Best Beauty Journalist of a monthly consumer glossy (2010), Johnson & Johnson Beauty Journalist of the Year (2008) and the Fellowship for British Hairdressing Newspaper Journalist of the Year (2004). Hart-Davis is herself on the judging panel for several beauty industry awards (British Hairdresser of the Year, British Spa & Beauty Awards and the Smile (Dentistry) Awards).
With her daughter Molly Hindhaugh she has written a guide to beauty for teenagers entitled Be Beautiful: Every Girl's Guide to Hair, Skin and Make-up (Walker Books 2009;ISBN 978-1-4063-1831-9)
In 2010 Hart-Davis developed and launched Good Things, a range of skincare products designed for young women in their teens and twenties, which is sold through Boots.
She is the daughter of the biographer and journalist Duff Hart-Davis
Duff Hart-Davis
Peter Duff Hart-Davis , generally known as Duff Hart-Davis, is a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who writes for The Independent newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter, the journalist Alice Hart-Davis...
, a niece of the broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis
Adam Hart-Davis
Adam John Hart-Davis is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well-known in the UK for presenting the BBC television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts,...
, a granddaughter of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis and a relative of British Prime Minister David Cameron
David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....
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She lives in Bayswater
Bayswater
Bayswater is an area of west London in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to the west . It is a built-up district located 3 miles west-north-west of Charing Cross, bordering the north of Hyde Park over Kensington Gardens and having a population density of...
, London, is married and has three children.