Welcome to The Midlife Beauty Edit.
Hi! I’m Jen, a UK lifestyle journalist, former features writer for the Style pages of The Daily Telegraph, contributing health and beauty editor and freelance writer (work has appeared in The Times, Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and others).
What’s The Midlife Beauty Edit?
I’ve long wanted to write a Substack about the kind of stuff my girlfriends and I talk about when we’re discussing everything from what make-up works in our 40s, 50s and beyond, and what doesn’t, peri/post-menopausal wellbeing (protecting brain health, building strong bones and all that good stuff) and more.
While beauty writing has been my day job for decades—scroll down for the full, blow-dried version of my bio—I am right here in this with you, working things out, trying new products and different approaches and making tweaks as I go.
At a time when we’re riding the rollercoaster of physical and emotional changes, I want The Midlife Beauty Edit to be helpful, but also to feel like a treat every time it lands in your inbox or app.
What will I get when I subscribe?
FREE SUBSCRIBERS receive:
The Weekend Wrap-Up on Saturdays.
PAID SUBSCRIBERS receive:
The Weekend Wrap-Up on Saturdays.
A post each Tuesday, on a specific midlife beauty and wellness topic or trend.
Expert interviews, either as part of the Tuesday post, or, sometimes, as a bonus edition.
Access to the MBE Chat, where we can all hop in and connect, share ideas, product recs, and all that good stuff.
Full access to the MBE archives.
My deepest gratitude for your support of my writing here!
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Browse, click and shop a curated edit of beauty and wellness favourites, updated weekly. This is another way of supporting of my work, and I hope you’ll drop by and find it helpful! (It’s a work in progress, so keep checking back!)
I'm so grateful for each and every subscriber, and so happy you’re here.
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More about Jen
Jenni Baden Howard, is a UK-based writer and freelance journalist. A former beauty editor of The Daily Telegraph, her work has also appeared in The Telegraph Magazine, The Times, Elle, Vogue and Marie Claire, among many more.
As a features writer, she has interviewed Hollywood actresses, models, Royal Ballet principal dancers and more about their health and beauty regimes.
Jen has also been a contributing editor to Boots Magazine, Harvey Nichols Magazine and British Airways First Class magazines, edited one of the UK’s first motherhood and lifestyle blogs and hosted the first ever British parenting podcast (whilst writing for parenting glossies such as Baby London, and contributing to websites like Boden).
As a copywriter and brand consultant, Jen has worked with companies ranging from Oral B and Olay, to Omorovizvca and Dr Hauschka, and has written for spas and wellbeing destinations such as Chewton Glen and Cowshed.
As well as writing The Midlife Beauty Edit, she currently writes a daily beauty news summary, Beauty’s Top Headlines, for Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) in the USA — something which calls for early morning starts and lots of strong British tea.
