Kourtney Kardashian has faced the ire of internet mommy-shamers many times, and she’s always taken it in stride—usually opting to say nothing at all. “Once in a while, I may respond to a negative comment for fun, or if something really does bother me, I definitely have the platform to correct it…but I usually don’t…
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Chrissy Teigen rarely shies away from sharing updates about her personal life on social media—and over the weekend, she let her followers know about the reaction she suffered after flying from Los Angeles to Utah for the wedding of her friends Meghan Mackenzie and Luke Dillon. In a series of tweets, Teigen explained the condition…
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My lips have always been my favorite physical feature. I’ve gone through phases of feeling self-conscious about other parts of myself, but I love my lips. They’re thick, pillowy, and the perfect canvas for color. They’ve even been featured modeling lip art at my previous magazine gig. Ironically, they’re also one of very few things…
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“Dude, your lips are really chapped,” my younger brother said to me a little more than a week ago, his voice a mix of disgust and concern. If he can be counted on for anything, it’s his brutally honest, unfiltered, and sometimes unnecessary commentary. I was immediately embarrassed. But more than that, I was frustrated…
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I was in fifth grade the first time it really sunk in that my full lips were viewed, to some, as undesirable. We were learning about minstrel shows in my performing arts class and the message of the visuals—white faces covered in black tar-like paint with exaggerated cherry red lips—were loud and clear: black features…
Read moreSomething about traveling for me invariably means losing lip balm. There was the time I was outside of Taos, New Mexico, stuck Yelping the nearest Walgreens. Another time I frantically searched the aisles of a tiny health food store in Ojai, California. And maybe most memorably, when I was 19 backpacking through Italy one summer,…
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