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I’d been wearing my new dress for about ten minutes when I remembered to text my Uncle Bill. I didn’t necessarily owe him a text, nor do we text regularly. But my dress smelled just like he and my aunt’s old house did back in the nineties—think: perfume and tobacco—which made me realize he and […]

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Essena O’Neill, a teenage model with over 800,000 followers on Instagram, made waves earlier this week when she converted her account on the photo-sharing platform from one of bikini shots and sunsets to one of revealing honesty. Deleting thousands of old posts, she began captioning her flattering pictures with the stories behind the shots, encouraging […]

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This weekend, news broke that Playboy has officially reached the end of an era: as of 2016, the magazine will no longer publish nude photos, which will come two years after it banned nudity from its website, too. “The political and sexual climate of 1953…bears almost no resemblance to today,” said Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott […]

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Now that fashion weeks for spring 2016 have wrapped, I’ve decided I can’t keep quiet anymore. Models need to slow the hell down. Most march down the runway on such a tear it’s impossible to grab images for social media. The thrilling exception this season? Dolce & Gabbana where many of the girls carried iPhones […]

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Imagine shopping for beauty products before the Internet existed. You’d be pacing the aisle of the drugstore, trying to decide which mascara deserves your money. What could you use to inform your purchase? There’s your own past experience with a product, but perhaps you wanted to try something new. Maybe you’d heard good (or bad) […]

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If there’s anything the press loves more than celebrities, it’s pregnant celebrities—what they’re eating, wearing, how much weight they’ve gained and how quickly they lose the baby weight. Celebrities usually respond in kind with happy photo shoots for People Magazine or by sharing their workouts and diets. What is often absent, however, is honest conversation […]

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I am an (almost) 30-year-old grown-ass woman, and I’ve already started back to school shopping. And I call it back-to-school shopping not because I’m going back to school, but because the prefix makes shopping sound better. Going back to school connotes purpose—it’s a fresh start. Despite the 20 and 30-degree temperatures that end up defining […]

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A quick scan of the headlines from the past week paint a bleak picture of what it’s like to be a young worker in today’s job economy. Everyone from Mary Kate & Ashley’s Dualstar interns to ex-Amazon employees are revealing the long hours, meagre wages and mistreatment they’ve suffered in the name of success in […]

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It’s a great time to be a teen girl. The beauty world has rebirthed the majesty of sparkly lip gloss, glitter, and yes, even blue eyeshadow (which actually matches the season’s blue nail polish trend). You can buy shimmering body oil as a grown-ass woman (by Tom Ford, no less) and wear temporary tattoos without apology (and at […]

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The end of summer is so strange, isn’t it? Once you graduate and start working a nine-to-five job, summer doesn’t really hold much meaning other than, like, the weather. Your hours are the same, your job is the same; seasons just kind of blend into one another and you keep track of them by monitoring […]

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As a beauty writer, nothing irritates me more these days than the booming popularity of beauty DIYs. It’s not that I’m judging anyone for trying to save some money (hey, I’m on a budget too) or that I’m too lazy (okay fine, it’s partly that). I’ve had more than my fair share of beauty experiments […]

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First off, I applaud Kiran Gandhi’s decision to run the London Marathon without a tampon. Her reasoning made sense: it would have been uncomfortable to run with a tampon in, and she could use the opportunity to raise awareness about women without access to sanitary care and fight the stigma against menstruation. That said, I […]

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