Annee

Joined June 2022

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Decoding skincare ingredient labels
I recently reviewed my friend’s skincare products as her eczema seemed to be getting worse. Upon investigation I zeroed in on the culprit — cocamidopropyl betaine, a potential irritant was present in a very high percentage in the face cleanser she was using twice a day. As soon as we eliminated this product from her routine her skin started to heal.
By Annee4 years ago in Blush
Breaking a Generational Phenomenon
Whilst pondering upon a prompt for one of my articles I found what I believe to be a generational phenomenon. This article is hence part one of what will be a two-article dilemma in which I explore human behaviour and search for… answers. I encourage all who read this to comment and share their thoughts, as it could add to this never-ending discussion.
By Annee4 years ago in Humans
Women That Act Out Because of Love
One afternoon, my friend and I decided to watch the film Lady Bird. As I sat there in her dorm room, tears pooling at the mother-daughter relationship on display (despite it being my 30th rewatch), her roommate walked in and announced, “ugh, I hated that movie! The mom was SO mean.” This interpretation of events shocked me–I saw a complicated, depressed woman driven by love to act callously, she saw a mean girl. My friend’s roommate was not alone in this thinking. The character is considered to be immature, emotionally inept, and controlling.
By Annee4 years ago in Viva
Everyone’s a Critic. Top Story - June 2022.
Drake dropped an album night before last night. I should say now that I like it even if nobody is wondering, even if it waters down the following points somehow (covering all bases sort of thing).
By Annee4 years ago in Beat
Spices And Class
“England conquered the world for spices and has the audacity to not use them” as the joke goes. But to say that is to show a famous and ingrained misunderstanding of the history of spice usage on our little island.
By Annee4 years ago in Lifehack
The Mother Queen
CONCEPTION. I first met The Mother Queen in a meditative state. I was 9 months pregnant and imagining what kind of mother I would like to be on the other side of giving birth.
By Annee4 years ago in Families
Fighting the Hidden Norms that Cost us Our Time and Money
I grew up mowing my parent’s large yard. Now I hate all forms of yard work. And yet, almost all single family homes come with large yards. Let’s explore the cost of this and some other norms. Societal expectation we can opt out of to recover large amounts of time and money.
By Annee4 years ago in Lifehack
Logos are not enough
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that many companies have felt compelled to acknowledge that the LGBTQIA+ community exists at all. It is encouraging that it even happens. In fact, that was where I started in my own thinking about acknowledging pride month. Let’s make a logo and be visibly supportive of our fellow humans, but the more we discussed it, the more I realized it wasn’t really the kind of contribution that I wanted to make. It’s too easy. It’s too little. It’s not about colorful logos gracing email signatures for one month out of the year. This is more important. It’s about fostering a culture that acknowledges that our differences are our strengths, our similarities are catalysts, and keeping our focus on what matters for the task at hand.
By Annee4 years ago in Pride
The Culture of “Fighting Back”
If we want to be part of the solution to the challenges of the 21st century — we cannot continue to react or engage with the protest culture. We may have all been led to believe that the toughest problems of our society cannot get solved peacefully — but “fighting back” is not an option anymore.
By Annee4 years ago in Journal
The Digital Age
We humans are all animals. Mammals to be more specific. We’ve spent a very long time pretending that we’re not, that we’re something, well, different. And we are different from other animals because of our abilities to socialize, collectively organise and perhaps most importantly, create and transmit culture. Our brains too, it turns out, have evolved faster than any other animal. But we are still animals. And this is causing us some adaptation challenges in our digital age. Specifically with regard to time and space.
By Annee4 years ago in Humans
Audiobooks and Conventional Reading
As a matter of criticism, hopefully a constructive one, I’ve been recurrently making a comparison between the present time and the old times, say before the industrial advancements, in many aspects and on different levels. Concerning that, it would be reckless not to carefully consider the overall proportion of reading books and people’s interest in doing so, as a crucial and primary device of receiving knowledge and fresh input.
By Annee4 years ago in Geeks
Why Most People Don’t Care About Climate Change
It’s the most pressing problem in the world, but have you ever tried to talk about climate change at a dinner party? You might have been met with gaping mouths, empty stares, and been accused of being full of doom and gloom. Then there are the shoulder shrugs, the head nods, and the feigned interest, “Yeah, that sucks. What about those 49ers huh?”
By Annee4 years ago in Earth