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.

Enough gloom... Let’s have fun! • Welcome to our July issue and Platinum’s fresh new chapter. We’ve had a glow-up: bolder, brighter, more confident – and even more like the brilliant women we celebrate each month.

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TEN GOOD IDEAS

MOST WANTED • Ready for summer? Find your perfect additions to a season of fun.

In full bloom • She’s warm, hilarious, bracingly honest and lighting up our screens in not one but two unmissable shows this summer. Hannah Waddingham refuses to shrink herself for others, instead changing the world to fit her.

ADELE PARKS Secrets, scandals and second chances • Adele shares her book recommendations

Platinum BOOK CLUB • Start your own Platinum Book Club. This summer, we’ve got a thrilling page-turner you’ll want to discuss at length – if you can put it down! So, gather your people and let’s get reading.

DONNA ASHWORTH Summertime… • Once overwhelmed by the pressure to feel carefree, Donna Ashworth shares how she learned to soften into summer’s quieter joys.

The power of pause • Feeling overwhelmed or off track? Top coach Fiona Setch, author of Paused (£12.99, SPB), explores the quiet power of stopping, and shares five gentle ways to slow down, regain your footing and begin again with clarity this summer.

Veronica Henry • Novelist and journalist Veronica Henry reflects on boundaries, pride and why trusting your subconscious is the key to creativity.

FASHION • With your personal stylist, Nicky-Hambleton Jones

How to steal the fashion scene • Landscape prints are everywhere this summer – style them with confidence, says Nicky Hambleton-Jones.

Dear Nicky... ‘I didn’t think I’d live to be 50 – now I want to celebrate being alive’ • This month, Nicky helps reader Lyndsey Whiteside inject colour and vibrancy into her look, ahead of her milestone 50th birthday.

The summer season in style • Event dressing for summer dos, with Nicky Hambleton-Jones.

‘Buy well, wear forever’ • Meet Zanne Lee, 51, a midlife beauty and style curator, model, and Platinum beauty awards judge.

WIN a two-night countryside spa escape for two • Kettering Park Hotel & Spa, set in the lush Northamptonshire countryside, invites you to indulge and get away from it all.

BEAUTY • With star make-up artist Dottie Monaghan

Sun glow… without the sun • Love the confidence that comes with sun-kissed skin? Here’s how to fake a healthy glow, with Beauty Editor Dottie Monaghan.

The rise of skin boosters: your route to glass skin • Nicky Hambleton-Jones investigates the skin-boosting tweakment promising fresher, smoother skin and that lit-from-within glow without changing the face...