I follow the kind of diet that would make your mom (and doctors) cringe. I’m what some might call “peckish” and—if you haven’t noticed—chips, cookies, and candy come in bite-sized, bird-friendly portions. My palette is also extreme in that food must be either a) bland, or b) how you think the word neon would taste.…
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At this point there’s a multihyphenate legging in everyone’s closet: high-waist, sweat-wicking, color-blocked, thermo-regulating…. To say the list goes on is an understatement. But how many times can a legging be reinvented? To that, Everlane said, “Just once,” and introduced its first-ever style in January. The Perform Legging is billed as a no-frills essential that…
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Coincidence is a good word to describe the dynamic between narrative and body type in Shrill‘s second season. Annie’s weight is only really alluded to twice, and both times the storylines are nuanced. In one, Annie takes her boyfriend, Ryan (Luka Jones), to meet her parents for the first time; instead of the night centering…
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I’ve always been enchanted by huge, cartoonish eyes. After graduating from Disney princesses, I fixed my obsession on anime characters, whose colorful outfits and huge eyelashes equally spoke to me. Early on in high school, I idolized Zooey Deschanel and her wide-eyed look, and drew Twiggy lashes on my lower lash line when I went…
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When Sex Education—Netflix’s highly binge-worthy comedy about, you guessed it, sex and relationships—premiered last year, it was such a hit that the streaming service says more than 40 million households watched it within the first four weeks. Naturally, a season two had to happen, and it finally premieres today, January 17. Yes, Sex Education is…
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Cheer on Netflix is everything I look for in a show: emotional, compelling, addicting, and so well-made. The six-episode documentary series (from the team behind another favorite, Last Chance U) takes you inside the world of competitive cheerleading at Navarro College, a small junior college in Corsicana, Texas. Perhaps you’re telling yourself that you aren’t…
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