Woman & Beauty
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Hair Love: Celebrating Natural Textures and Protective Styles
A braid twisted with ancestral wisdom, a headwrap draped in vibrant elegance, coils springing forth with boundless pride – these are not just hairstyles; they are canvases of self-expression. Inspired by the heartwarming story “Hair Love”, I invite you on a journey exploring the profound connection between natural hair, beauty, and identity. Embracing the Crown: Natural Textures & Protective Styles For women of African descent, hair transcends mere aesthetics. It’s a testament to heritage, a symbol of resilience, and an embodiment of the vibrant cultures from which we hail. The embrace of natural textures – kinks, coils, and curls – represents a powerful declaration of self-love. It’s a bold celebration…
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Self-Care Rituals: Nurturing Your Mind, Body, and Spirit
The world of content creation can be exciting and fulfilling, but it can also be incredibly demanding. The constant pressure to produce engaging content, interact with your audience, and stay ahead of trends can lead to burnout and depletion. Self-care is not a luxury for content creators; it’s a necessity to sustain your creativity, energy levels, and overall well-being. Why Self-Care Matters for Content Creators Sparks Creativity: When you’re mentally and physically well-rested, you have space for new ideas to flourish. Enhances Productivity: Self-care helps you stay focused, preventing burnout and maintaining a steady workflow. Promotes Resilience: When things get tough, self-care rituals build emotional resilience so you can weather…
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Confidence Secrets From 4 Women Pushing Back Against Beauty Standards
Shutterstock / Prostock-studio. Beauty standards are engraved into girls from a young age. Our Barbies and dolls come perfectly packaged with their hair, makeup, and nails already done. Most of us played with those toys as we watched our mothers get dolled up for the day. Beauty seems fun and playful until we evolve into teenagers. Then, many of us feel the pressure to conform to trends and change our hair and makeup. The parts of ourselves we once deemed “just fine” have become our biggest insecurities. Our bodies, skin, and hair begin to change while comparison sets in. This, at times, creates a divide between women, mainly because we…
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Men vs women skincare beauty & routine
There is this saying, «You can›t hide bad skin with a beard», which is very true! A few men think that skincare is a «Woman» thing but no, that’s not true. Today, skincare and beauty routines are not exclusive to only one gender. Like women, men too go through distinct skincare concerns. However, there is a lot of difference in the skin of women and men. Both have different skincare needs and concerns. Both of them need to understand these differences. Further, on this basis, personalized skincare routines are developed, which promote optimal skin health by understanding the needs of each individual. Now, just like there are hormonal variations between…
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Young women in China abandon traditional beauty standards to ‘imitate’ Western habits like wearing yoga pants, eating ‘white people’s food’
The phrase “white women aesthetic” recently emerged as a buzzword on the Xiaohongshu social media platform, accompanied by the slogan – “Question white women, understand white women, become white women” which is gaining currency online. The lifestyle switch is characterised by Lululemon yoga pants, Stanley thermos and “white people’s food” which is considered to be healthy. Yoga pants and yoghurt have emerged as a central component of the new lifestyle phenomenon. Photo: QQ.com Women are being drawn to a range of products, from tank tops and yoga pants to backpacks and thermos, indicating a shift towards a more relaxed and comfortable way of life. Central to the food component of…
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Who’s Really To Blame For Society’s Ridiculous Beauty Standards? Men Or Women?
Picture all the problematic, harmful trends that have come and gone in the last 30 years: waif-like figures and heroin chic in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, then, from the 2010s until now, the synthetic amalgamations of the waif-figure plus the “hard body” of the 1980s. While the former had many women and young girls starving and depriving themselves, the latter had influencers urging them to “just work hard at the gym” in order to obtain perfectly flat stomachs and thigh gaps, while at the same time having large boobs and butts (we all know, or should know, this look is greatly facilitated by plastic surgery). This isn’t to…
