Leonie Helm

Journalist

United Kingdom

Specialist subjects include food, travel, current affairs, beauty and aesthetic medicine.
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Portfolio
Beauty Uncovered
03/01/2022
Reviewing Results - VIVACY Lip Filler Review

As you’re reading this it’s been roughly three months since I tried my first ever aesthetic injectable treatment: filler in my lips. And reader, I love it.

Beauty Uncovered
12/01/2021
Overcoming Self Guilt

The world is changing. With the introduction of social media, previously hush-hush conversations are being had, unchallenged social norms are being brought to the forefront of society, and difference and diversity is being celebrated like never before

Beastmag
06/14/2019
Smoking Goat, Shoreditch -

If you've spent time in Asia, specifically the South East, you will know that good food lurks around every corner, and the easiest way to spot it is to look out for blue plastic stools on street corners.

Foundry Fox
04/24/2018
Marvia Malik makes history as the first transgender news anchor in Pakistan - Foundry Fox

News channel Kohenoor News has made history in Pakistan recently by hiring Marvia Malik as a news anchor, the first transgender person in Pakistan to be hired in such a role. Malik follows in the international footsteps of Padmini Prakash who worked for news show Lotus TV, BBC journalist Apsara Reddy and Britain's Paris Lee who worked with Channel 4 news.

Foundry Fox
02/19/2018
London: The FGM Capital of Europe - Foundry Fox

Over 60,000 girls under 15 are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation in the UK, according to FORWARD (Foundation for Women's Health and Research and Development), a leading anti-FGM organisation. Half of all victims in England undergo the procedure in London.

Bristol 24/7
05/20/2016
Review: Mayfest: Portraits in Motion

Artist and storyteller Volker Gerling has created a piece of cinematic theatre that is truly breathtaking. His unique and evocative approach to recording human life is a beautiful insight into individual, personal moments. Gerling takes 36 black and white photographs of his chosen subjects in 12 seconds, capturing the essence of that person and that moment, and uses these images to create flip books.

Bristol 24/7
05/02/2016
Review: The Ugly One

Marius von Mayenburg's modern satire pinpoints the frivolity and danger in society's obsession with physical beauty. The audience is launched with some considerable force into a world of dangerous narcissism where faces are a marketable commodity that can be bought and sold.