I was 25 years old when I saw Vogue Italia’s June 2011 issue. On its cover: Candice Huffine, Robyn Lawley, and Tara Lynn—three of the top plus-size models at the time—wearing black lingerie. Inside the magazine: the boudoir-style photoshoot, where model Marquita Pring was also featured. The brazen sexuality was palpable. In all my years…
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Today is the second day of Amazon Prime Day for the first time ever. Yesterday we spent a majority of the day panicking over things selling out and throwing virtually everything into our digital shopping carts. Can you blame us though? It’s easy to just decide you need a fifth Crock-Pot or your first Roomba…
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The highly anticipated Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is almost upon us. Early access begins this Friday (July 12) at 12:30 p.m. ET for all Nordstrom card members, while everyone else has to wait a full week (until July 19 at 12:30 p.m. ET) to get in on the deals, which range from shoes to luxury beauty…
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Every spring, when wedding invitations start dropping through people’s mail slots, we get a flurry of emails from soon-to-be wedding guests asking, “Can you wear white to a wedding?” Popular variations include, “Can you wear an off-white dress a wedding?” and “Can you wear an all-white jumpsuit to a wedding?” Rationales include, “It’s the only…
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It all started with an elephant toothpaste experiment. When Kavya Kopparapu was in fourth grade, a group of female scientists visited her classroom and combined a couple of chemicals that caused foam to shoot out of a beaker. And with that, she was hooked on science. Then, before she started high school, she attended a…
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Summer is all about less. Less stress, less clothing, less work. The only catch-22 is that to do less, you typically have to spend more. Less stress involves more vacation. Less clothing involves more of everything else: more sandals, more hair accessories, more teeny tiny bags. Less work will most likely involve a bottle of…
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