Lifestyle
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Hush: Inexpensive Makeup Dupes
Hush is a site that sells inexpensive beauty products. The category of items they carry is listed at the top of the page and makes the website easy to navigate. Lips, Eyes, Face, Cheeks, Skincare, Brushes & Tools are the categories on the website. Hush is comparable to Wish, Buy in Coins, and Ali Express, only it's geared towards beauty items only. There is also an Android app available for Hush so you can shop from anywhere. This is a great place for bargain shoppers and beauty lovers.
By Amanda Zylstra8 years ago in Blush
10 Things We Need to Stop Saying
There are so many casual expressions and sayings that are actually really sexist, and just plain infuriating. Some of these I've heard people say, and some of them I found while I while researching for this blog. Now mostly, they're directed at women, but there are some that are directed at men. So here are ten sexist phrases/ideas that I wish would just die already.
By Shana Nizeul8 years ago in Viva
My Induction Horror Story
Every pregnant woman will tell you the last few weeks of pregnancy are the longest. You want to meet your baby so badly, and you are so, so, soooo tired of being pregnant! I was huge. I was ready. I was four days away from my due date. We woke up early on October 27, 2009. We had stayed up all night talking about our baby and how nervous/excited we were to meet him and I should have been tired but I wasn't. I was completely full of energy for the first time in months.
By Felicia Hippler8 years ago in Families
Life as a Daughter of Agent Orange, Part 3
I was quite unsure of which path to take this story down after part two; there are so many memories that are scrambling in my head and the emotions of each memory paralyze the nerves in my hands, preventing me from typing this next part. There is a video on Facebook showing a father teaching his little girl the right way to express her emotions, especially when she is upset. Whilst watching the video, I came to realize, if I had been taught as she has now been taught, my life would be completely different. I would not have bottled up over a decade's worth of raw emotions only to have it expressed in harmful ways such as cutting or having suicidal thoughts. I would also like to think that, if my dad had never been exposed to Agent Orange, I would have had a more stable emotional development. Some parts of my story may be shocking.
By Elizabeth Kozlowski8 years ago in Families
My Story
25 years old. Single mom to two amazing children. Trying to figure out life and feeling like a failure. That’s where I’m at with my life; wondering where all my dreams and plans that I had in high school went, wondering where the happy-go-lucky 17-year-old about to start college, majoring in teaching, went and where this 25-year-old adult struggling with depression and anxiety came from. Somewhere along the way, life had other plans for me, and I’m still trying to figure out exactly what those plans are.
By Rachel Smith8 years ago in Families
Innocence Stolen
Growing up from what I can remember, I didn't have a horrible childhood. Both my father and my mother provided my brother and I with all that we as children would need materialistically and emotionally. I remember my mother and I not being super close, that was saved for my brother. Myself, I was a daddy's girl. Both my parents were hard workers and worked quite a lot, my dad more-so than my mother, being he had quite a few old fashioned ideals. My brother and I were close but grew apart as teen years came upon us and incidentally our hormones that made us detest each other. My parents went on to get a divorce in my early teens thus causing a divided home; I with my father and my brother with my mother. My brother would go on to thrive both socially and financially as my mother soon moved out of state once we reached adulthood. My dad ended up remarrying twice and is finally happy. Where did I end up? Jobless for most of my early 20s. In and out of therapy for a good 2 years after a failed suicide attempt around 21 years old. Did you know that severe abuse can cause lapse in memory from the time it happened until after it stopped and sometimes longer? Well if you did know that, you knew more than I did. After my suicide attempt I was put into therapy twice a week for the next 24 months. Upon being in therapy I discovered that I had been blocking out memories of being molested 8 years as a child. My suicide attempt was due to being overwhelmed with the side effects of PTSD. At the time of my attempt I did not know what PTSD was or that it was a thing. All I truly knew was I was having night terrors that were so vivid I would wake and believe I was still living the nightmare due to smells as well as seeing and hearing things; all which were never there after I woke up. I knew before seeking help I had been abused.
By Megan Wheeler8 years ago in Viva
Pregnancy Insomnia
It is hard enough to sleep on the best of days. With stress and the chaos of life weighing on your mind, it can keep you up at night. Perhaps you've never been great with sleep. Perhaps your mind races or you can never get comfortable. But you have coffee in the morning and you move on with your life.
By Samantha Reid8 years ago in Viva
