Alice Hart-Davis

Alice Hart-Davis (born 1963, Builth Wells) is a British journalist, author and skincare developer. She was brought up in Henley-on-Thames and attended Headington School before reading history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She was presented as a debutante in 1981 at Windsor Castle.[1] 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. 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 a number of awards including CEW (UK) Achiever Award(2012),[3] P&G beauty: Best Beauty Journalist of a monthly consumer glossy (2010),[4] and the Johnson & Johnson Beauty Journalist of the Year (2008).[5] 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).

She has written guides to beauty for teenagers with both of her daughters. The first, co-authored with Molly Hindhaugh, is entitled Be Beautiful: Every Girl's Guide to Hair, Skin and Make-up (Walker Books 2009;ISBN 978-1-4063-1831-9) and the second, with Beth Hindhaugh, 100 Ways for Every Girl to Look and Feel Fantastic (Walker Books 2012;ISBN 978-1406337549).

Hart-Davis has also developed Good Things, a range of skincare and bodycare products designed for young women in their teens and twenties, which is sold through Boots, Tesco and Sainsbury.

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.[6][7] She lives in Bayswater, London, is married and has three children.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1019128/What-like-come-debutantes-ball-Five-women-remember.html
  2. ↑ Daily Mail 11 August 2010
  3. ↑ http://www.cewuk.co.uk/event.cfm?action=upcoming_events&page=view&event=146
  4. ↑ Winners of P&G Beauty and Grooming Awards 2010
  5. ↑ Expert profiles - Wonderstuff
  6. ↑ Hart-Davis family website
  7. ↑ Daily Telegraph 5 January 2008

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