These are our most-read fashion stories on life & style this year.

Don’t panic. There’s still time to buy.

Her lustrous locks are the envy of women the world over. But the Duchess of Cambridge's hair is a "nightmare" to style because it is so "long and thick", according to her husband.

From surgery speculation to dramatic hair makeovers, makeup magic and new cult products, we take a look at the biggest moments in beauty from 2014.

It’s time to get your Christmas shop on so here’s a guide for shopping for him - with a few tricks that will work for her too.

We've scoured the world's red carpets to bring you the best frocks and shocks from Hollywood and beyond. Here are this week's must-see looks.

Bedecked with images of Santas, reindeer, snowflakes and happy-looking snowmen, all crafted in the finest polyester, the Christmas suit is the latest item to challenge received ideas about what looks good for the festive season.

Naomi Campbell is as well known for her fiery temper as she is for her supermodel status. But Jo Piazza meets an older, wiser — and calmer — Campbell, who these days is focused on fighting Ebola rather than throwing phones at her assistants.

Cool kids take casual dressing to the next level.

Emma Gleason takes a look back at the top 10 fashion stories from 2014.

We've scoured the world's red carpets to bring you the best frocks and shocks from Hollywood and beyond. Here are this week's must-see looks.

The 18-year-old artist, whose career has gone from strength to strength this year, swapped her trademark dark lipstick for a more ethereal look in Stella magazine.

Stella Maxwell is the new angel of lingerie brand Victoria's Secret, just six years after making her modelling debut - a $40 job in Dunedin.

An Auckland appearance medicine clinic has introduced a cutting-edge "facelift" treatment using the patient's blood - without a knife or surgeon in sight.

Cool kids know what’s up for summer.

Victoria's Secret is not just any old lingerie label, with sales topping the $6 billion mark in 2013, it commands the kind of retail power that is not to be scoffed at.

Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova needs to watch out, there's a very young pretender on her modelling back.

Ten skinny models in push-up bras and pants simper and giggle their way across a billboard. This is what Victoria's Secret thinks represents the 'Perfect Body'.

Cat tattoos - or 'cattoos' as they're affectionately being called - are the latest way to get an indelible memorial of a feline friend on your arm or other body part.

Start a fad wearing a dead cat on your head, claim it's "in" and that lot would instantly succumb, resulting in widespread catacide, writes Bob Jones.

Kendall Jenner is such a b****. That's the tone of her Mean Girls parody video, in which the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and new face of Estee Lauder flicks through a Burn Book about herself, and makes fun of the insults levelled at her."

On my must do list was buy fruit from the supermarket, conditioner from a hair salon - and nip into the pharmacy to get derma fillers injected into my face.

Add some sparkle to your wardrobe for an ab-fab festive season.

Animal welfare has become an important issue for many countries we trade with, writes Mandy Carter. NZ can't afford to ignore increasingly high expectations of how we treat our animals

The barely-there mesh dress that shocked on the AMA red carpet this week was so offensive to the Albanian pop star's parents that they won't leave the house.

The American Music Awards are as much about the fashion as they are about the tunes. Life & Style Editor Nicky Park picks her best and worst of the night.