Platinum

Platinum is the magazine for women in the prime of their lives - and having the time of their lives, too. Platinum is for those women who are up-to-date in both style and attitude and interested in exploring the world around them. In the pages of Platinum, readers will find everything from in-depth reads to the latest from the world of well-being. Platinum magazine inspires you to live your best possible life with fun-loving, informative, uplifting, and motivational articles and features inside every issue. Rekindle your confidence with expert beauty, skincare, and fashion advice, learn how to curb your financial worries, maintain your fitness goals and so much more with Platinum as your ultimate lifestyle guide. Platinum magazine encourages you to try new styles, recipes, exercises plus much more and pushes you outside of your comfort so that you can make the most of your life and celebrate the incredible woman that you are every day. Discover the lifestyle magazine that is redefining the lives of women aged 55 and over and start living your best and most fabulous life every day.

Join the revolution • If this issue has one message, it is this: it really is never too late. In fact, it may only just be beginning.

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TEN GOOD IDEAS

MOST WANTED • Embrace the blues! As summer fades, all the beautiful blue hues endure.

10 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT… Oprah Winfrey • She is still asking hard questions, doing the work and showing up as the most honest person in the room at 72. Oprah Winfrey has never offered us polished perfection and has instead embraced living a messy, magnificent life without apology.

ADELE PARKS

Platinum BOOK CLUB • Platinum is bringing back the joy of gathering: one brilliant book, a few favourite people and the kind of conversation that makes an ordinary evening feel like an event.

Lee Child • The 100-million copy bestselling author has decided to stop chasing the next best thing and start changing lives – one book at a time.

DONNA ASHWORTH Resting is a sport • Our columnist makes the glorious case for treating rest not as laziness, but as a vital life skill worth training for.

FASHION • With your personal stylist, Nicky Hambleton-Jones

‘Knot’ your average summer trend • This month I’m hooked on crochet, says Nicky Hambleton-Jones.

Dear Nicky... ‘I don’t want to dress like a dowdy old lady’ • This month, Nicky helps reader Jenny Chapman find a style that reflects the vibrant, artistic person she is without looking ‘mutton dressed as lamb’.

The 10-piece holiday wardrobe • Pack lighter and dress better with fabulous outfits to wear every day, thanks to Nicky Hambleton-Jones’ foolproof summer capsule.

‘My style isn’t defined by age’ • Meet Bernadette Gledhill, 71. In 2022, her world was turned upside down when she lost her husband of 40 years to pancreatic cancer.

BEAUTY • With star make-up artist, Dottie Monaghan

The hairy truth • Thinning hair where we want it, too much where we don’t. Beauty Editor Dottie Monaghan tackles the midlife hair rebellion.

Glutathione: The antioxidant injection everyone’s talking about • Nicky heads to Harley Street for a new treatment that underpins not only great skin, but overall health.

Platinum Beauty Awards 2026 • Platinum Beauty Editor Dottie Monaghan and her panel of expert judges are busy reviewing the results to bring you the best products for this year’s Beauty Awards.

WIN a two-night secluded escape on the Isle of Skye • One reader and their guest can explore the quieter side of Skye with a luxury two-night stay at Coruisk House.

HEALTH • Wellbeing wisdom with Health Editor Rachel Dobson

HEALTH NEWS

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