Tag: lifestyle
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Is anyone cuffing this cuffing season?
Something is in the air… but it’s definitely not love… or the desire to cuff this cuffing season. Usually when summer ends, everyone around you suddenly goes from being happily single to being joint at the hip with their new beau. Nights out turn to nights in, ‘I’ turns into ‘we’ and your timeline is…
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What I want from the last year of my twenties
Birthdays really do divide people. I guess in the same way any hallmark holiday does – whilst some see it as a reason to celebrate and crack open the Prosecco (or Tequila in my case), others see their birthday as a day like no other and require no special attention to be paid to it,…
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The lasting effects of fatphobic 2000s TV
The other day, influencer @gracefvictory posted a video of herself wearing a striped crop top with the overlay text reading: “When every “fashion makeover” show you watched growing up would tell anyone over a size 10 to ‘avoid wearing stripes as it makes you look bigger’ so you did. But now you’re 33, living your…
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The beauty of buying with a conscience
From buying black-owned to not buying from those who don’t support others, why you should consider the products you consume now more than ever. Despite all the atrocity that 2020 has thrown at us, one thing you can’t deny is that it has made us more conscious and aware. The handling of Covid-19 exposed every…
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Why I’m not apologising for being unproductive during lockdown
I used to be an extrovert, but now I’d say I’m more an ‘extroverted introvert’. That means I’m still outgoing, but my environment affects my mood, and I’m an introvert at heart. In my late teens and earlier twenties, Friday night was every night, and I didn’t let work, college or uni get in the…
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A new year doesn’t need a new you
Why new year’s resolutions are toxic, and the only thing new we need for 2020 is a new attitude. Every new year tends to start the same; we drink ourselves into a stupor on New Year’s Eve, and then we wake up on New Year’s Day with contempt for our choices, prompting us to make…
Sincerely, Saskia 