Alice Hart-Davis Explained

Alice Hart-Davis (born 1963) is a British journalist, author and founder of thetweakmentsguide.com.

Early life

Born in Builth Wells, the daughter of the biographer and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, and a granddaughter of publisher and biographer Rupert Hart-Davis,[1] [2] Alice Hart-Davis was brought up in Henley-on-Thames and educated at Headington School before reading history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She is also a niece of the broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis.

Career

After Oxford, Alice worked at The Sunday Telegraphs Sunday Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard, and now contributes as a freelance basis to many newspapers and magazines, specialising in cosmetic procedures, beauty and health. She has written many articles about 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.

Hart-Davis has won several awards, including the CEW (UK) Achiever Award in 2012,[3] P&G beauty: Best Beauty Journalist of a monthly consumer glossy in 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 also 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;) and the second, with Beth Hindhaugh, 100 Ways for Every Girl to Look and Feel Fantastic (Walker Books 2012;). In 2019, she published the book (Silverwood Books 2019;) a guide to non-surgical cosmetic procedures and launched an accompanying website thetweakmentsguide.com.

She lives in Bayswater, London, is married and has three children.

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.hd.org Hart-Davis family website
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20100307054151/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyhistory/3355487/Family-detective-Adam-Hart-Davis.html Daily Telegraph 5 January 2008
  3. Web site: CEW: Events . 16 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121011050410/http://www.cewuk.co.uk/event.cfm?action=upcoming_events&page=view&event=146 . 11 October 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
  4. http://diarywhatsnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/winners-of-p-beauty-and-grooming-awards.html%20Winners%20of%20P&G%20Beauty%20and%20Grooming%20Awards%202010 Winners of P&G Beauty and Grooming Awards 2010
  5. Web site: Expert profiles - Wonderstuff . 27 September 2010 . https://archive.today/20130505130101/http://www.wonderstuff.co.uk/experts/index/4-alice-hart-davis%20Expert%20profiles%20-%20Wonderstuff . 5 May 2013 . dead . dmy-all .