Born at Builth Wells, the daughter of the biographer and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, and a granddaughter of Rupert Hart-Davis, Alice Hart-Davis was brought up in Henley-on-Thames and educated at Headington School before reading history at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Street Edmund Hall.
In 1981 she was presented as a debutante at Windsor Castle. After Oxford, Hart-Davis joined Vogue magazine in 1985. She later worked at the The Sunday Telegraph"s 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 beauty and health.
She has written 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. 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).
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;). Hart-Davis has also developed Good Things, a range of skincare and bodycare products designed for women in their teens and twenties, which is sold through Boots, Tesco, and Sainsbury.
She lives in Bayswater, London, is married and has three children.
