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It’s happening again. I can feel it. This time I fear I won’t be strong enough to resist. The call is all too familiar to me now and I know it’s only a matter of time before I’m watching myself, as if from outside my body, frothing at the mouth, eyes wild, wielding a pair […]

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Here’s what you need to prep for donating your hair » I’ve always had long hair. Besides a traumatic incident the summer before seventh grade when I brought in a photo of medium-length hair to the salon, and ended up with an unflattering above-the-shoulder cut just in time for the first day of school, I’ve long considered Rapunzel-like […]

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The early 2000s were a dark time. Literally. My dirty blonde hair stood out amongst a sea of bleached highlights, but because I couldn’t afford to shell out my hard-earned McDonald’s money on wrapping my hair in tin foil, I did the next best thing: I enlisted my best friends to box-dye my hair blonde. […]

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By Calle Hack/xoVain We’ve all had our Dr. Frankenstein moments of trial and error, experimenting with everything from skin potions to blades and needles, all for the sake of clear skin, lustrous hair, and a more youthful appearance. And sometimes these mad scientist moments turn painful and ugly. In honor of Halloween, gather ’round for […]

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  My preoccupation with looking young began on the morning of my nineteenth birthday. I only half-remember my first legal-drinking-age escapade, which took place that night –prairie fire shots in a bad pub – but I have excellent recall of finding my first grey hair that same morning. Nineteen! It was the first, and still […]

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I hope this isn’t too much information, but I am pants-less right now. I am wearing glorified tights. I am Homer Simpson, yelling at anybody who will listen, and asking them, “Don’t you hate pants?” I don’t, but I love leggings. And thankfully, I’m not alone. On the Fall 2014 runway, we saw leggings in […]

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