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Once again, Black Friday is looming on the horizon, bringing with it an onslaught of ridiculous deals, impulse Christmas gift-buying, and bulk packs of products you'd never normally bat an eyelid at. Unfortunately, along with giving us all those discounted games consoles and half-price lingerie, the world's busiest shopping day…
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They say that a change is as good as a rest, and when it comes to getting a new hairstyle, it certainly rings true. A new 'do can go a long way towards making you feel more confident and comfortable in your own skin, and can even help you see…
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The winter months are drawing in, the nights are getting darker and the weather is getting colder. Over the summer, you went out, didn't you? Remember those endless summer nights, the warm air tousling your hair, the evening sun bronzing your skin? Well, stop reminiscing, because those days are well…
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It's amazing how much we have to juggle our social life with exercise and fitness. There have been many guilty occasions where I've shafted the gym and gone to hang out with friends. But all it takes is a few too many beers and not enough time spent on the…
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Up here in the northern hemisphere, winter has truly begun to set in. The mornings are cold, the nights are long, and the more extreme places are seeing snow on a regular basis. As for the most extreme places, however, that's only half the story. Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the USA's northernmost town,…
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Diane De Zoysa, a 60-year-old woman from the UK, has returned home heartbroken this week after spending her life savings on a 26-year-old man she met while on holiday in 2011. Priyanjana De Zoysa, a former hotel worker, started up an intense relationship with the pensioner seven years ago and,…
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We don't often think about how much we take our five senses for granted, but if we were to lose just one of them, it would change our lives forever. Just think about never being able to experience the sight of your loved ones' face, or the sound of music,…
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When it comes to personal health and hygiene, I really think there is nothing more important than looking after your teeth. Nobody wants to grow old and lose their beautiful pearly whites - with false teeth and dentures a grim reality for those of us who don't grasp how important…
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Thanksgiving is a time of peace and love, but as everyone will know, ridiculous family members can sometimes get in the way of this. We've all got that one person in our brood who we can count on for bringing the crazy in the holiday season (god knows some of…
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Millennials are often a topic of debate, more so than any other generation. They're frequently the object of ridicule or the source of a very specific internet-grown sense of humour, but one strange phenomenon is the number of articles blaming the generation for a fluctuations across a wide range of…
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Sometimes, it takes something very weird to motivate us to make a big change. Maybe hearing a beautiful piece of music is what inspires you to learn a musical instrument, or watching a travel documentary might convince you to give up your day job and go backpacking around the world. And…
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Social media is a great platform for activists who want to spread awareness, and when you're scrolling down your Facebook or Twitter feed when you're bored, it truly is amazing the ways in which you can be alerted to social issues you might not have paid a thought to otherwise. One…
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Sophie Michelle is only 21, and yet she's already making over $77,000 a year. How you ask? By whispering on camera for her many thousands of YouTube subscribers. Okay, so it's a little more complicated than that. Sophie, a performing arts student who hails from Cheshire in England, is an ASMR artist. For…
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Back in the 1990s, before the joys of smartphones and social media, kids used to play with these things called "toys". Toys came in all shapes and sizes - from miniature cars to collectible cards to little plastic dolls - but one of them triumphed over all the rest. It…
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Despite the leaps and bounds made by and for the LGBTQ community over the past few years, queer people still find themselves being discriminated against every single day. From verbal harassment to physical abuse to full-on ostracisation, individuals who are seen as "other" by the cisgender, heterosexual majority are put…
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Pornography is an industry which is viewed with contempt and curiosity in equal measure. The modern, tolerant view is that porn is OK. Yet in many households, porn is seen as a vice. But what do women in the industry have to say about their experiences? The #MeToo campaign has…
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With the rise of social media over the past few years, just about anyone and everyone can achieve fame and notoriety on the internet. Beautiful young people market themselves as 'Instagram models', avid travellers and bloggers use the term 'social influencer' as a job title, and full-time mothers attain scores…
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Black Friday is coming up, a day we tend to associate with crowded shopping malls, terrified retail workers and, of course, some killer deals. However, now that we are firmly in the internet age, it isn't always about actually heading out to the store to grab some cheap products -…
