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If you’re anything like me, you’re doing your makeup the exact same way you’ve done it for years.
Why change a good thing? It’s familiar. It’s quick. You don’t have to think about it.
And no one ever complains, do they? [Read more…] about Lessons from a Hollywood Makeup Artist
We want to do everything right.
We want to be good. We want other people to approve of us, give us jobs, invite us to their parties, introduce us to the handsome single men they know.
We’ve got this vision in our heads of who we want to be. [Read more…] about Why You Should Break the Habit of Being Good
Imagine this:
You’re on the eve of publishing a brutally honest memoir about how you saved your marriage. Oprah loves it. Everyone predicts it will hit the top of the bestseller lists.
Then you’re at a conference … and you see someone across the room. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Blogger Glennon Doyle
It sucks.
He’s so perfect. He’s everything you ever wanted.
And you can’t have him.
Maybe he’s with someone else. Maybe he lives far away. [Read more…] about When You Really, Really Want a Guy You Can’t Have
If you’re going to dance, you’d better do it well.
Otherwise there’s an audience ready to laugh you off the floor.
That’s not much of an incentive to take up dancing, even if studies are showing that it can help you beat the advance of age. [Read more…] about Dance Your Way to Happiness & Health
Everything is “figureoutable.”
No matter what it is—a problem in your life, a situation you’re stuck with, or a dream that remains tantalizingly out of reach—you can figure it out. There is a way. It may not be obvious, and it may take some work, but don’t lose faith. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Entrepreneur Marie Forleo
I grew up believing wealth was a matter of money.
Either you had it, which made you rich.
Or you didn’t have it, which made you a worker bee. [Read more…] about Think Your Way to Wealth
It would be so nice to have the kind of skin that flourishes no matter what you use on it. Bar soap, makeup wipes, whatever is on sale at the drugstore.
But that’s not me.
My skin hates everything. [Read more…] about 3 Skincare Products You Need in Your Bathroom
You think it’s you.
Your marriage isn’t working because of you.
He agrees. You’re the problem. Everything would fine if it weren’t for you.
Is it you? [Read more…] about When You Feel Responsible for Everything That’s Wrong in Your Relationship
Back in college, I was putting away my lunch things when my housemother stopped me. “Are you going to put that can back in the fridge?”
I blinked at her. I looked down at the can. “I only used half of it.”
“Put it in a container, then!” [Read more…] about Are Your Food Storage Containers Safe?
Which is tougher:
Being a mother or being a wife?
Looking after little ones … or looking after one big one?
[Read more…] about Why Single Moms Rock (And Men Should Stand Up and Take Notice)
Nothing wrecks a perfectly good day faster than someone making a nasty comment.
Especially when it happens right when you need confidence the most.
That’s what happened to me. [Read more…] about 4 Words You Need to Survive in a Culture of Nastiness
Imagine this. You’ve just moved to a bustling metropolitan area to go to college, and the only clothes you can afford on your student budget are vintage.
But what vintage!
The vintage shops are packed [Read more…] about Could This Be Your American Dream? The Fortune Lurking in Your Closet
It’s the biggest challenge we face as modern women:
How to have the perfect career, perfect family, perfect home, and perfect body … all while appearing effortlessly sexy.
Celebrity parents do it. [Read more…] about The Secret Science of Feeling Sexy
Alopecia is a word that strikes fear into my heart.
You see, I have a family pattern of thinning hair. And it’s not on the men’s side.
It’s on my mother’s.
[Read more…] about Why Women Lose So Much Hair
