Alice Hart-Davis (born 1963, Builth Wells) 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.[1]
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.[2]
She has won awards for her writing including P&G beauty: Best Beauty Journalist of a monthly consumer glossy (2010),[3] Johnson & Johnson Beauty Journalist of the Year (2008)[4] 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.[5][6] She lives in Bayswater, London, is married and has three children.