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#ThisIsBeauty Is The New Movement With A Surprising Backstory. Top Story - December 2017.
If there's one community you'd expect to be all about the idea of beauty being a codified, standardized trait, it'd be the beauty pageant community. With so many movies and television shows mocking how allegedly similar all the pageant contestants are, one would expect most pageanteers to really focus on looks.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart8 years ago in Viva
Melanie Martinez vs. Timothy Heller: Who's Telling The Truth?
Melanie Martinez. An American singer, songwriter, music video director, and photographer. Born in Astoria, Queens and raised in Baldwin, New York on Long Island, who subsequently rose to prominence in 2012 after appearing on the American television vocal talent show The Voice.
By Alvin Ellis8 years ago in Viva
My First Attempt at Bath Bombs
My sister came home one day and told us the recipe she has for her bath bombs. I was eager to get some done for a girl at work because she was so stressed out. I wanted to use Frankincense. It is commonly used in a lot of incense burning along with sandalwood and it is one of my favorite musky scents. I like floral scents, too, so I thought it would be nice to try and mix it with lavender. She requested blue-colored soaps and I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to try it out when my sister was still here.
By Heather Wilkins8 years ago in Blush
The Call
I can remember the day clear as glass. It was a beautiful day, it was filled with happiness, family, laughter and jokes. It was a day that you take a picture put it in a frame and remember it for the rest of your life. It was a day that you think nothing could ruin it. But God had a different plan for you to remember that day. The phone call. The call that you get as your walking in the door pealing off your shoes, as your crawling under the warm sheets still laughing and smiling. The phone rings and the first thought in your head they're calling to say goodnight and they made it home. But the tone is all wrong, it sends chills down your spine, and squeezes the breath out of your body when they say “He didn’t make it, it was an accident.” You drop the phone in disbelief, you have no words. But you run through every emotion like a rollercoaster so fast you can’t slow down to just think or breath. You start with denial “There is no way, I just said goodbye to him!” On to anger “Why is this happening? Why did he do this?” To a shattered heart “I can’t do it without him, I love him, he is my best friend.” You struggle for weeks on how to feel, what’s really happening and what to think. When it finally comes down to laying in bed emotionless, staring into a dark hole with no thoughts and no feelings. When finally a couple of months go by you seem to be getting better, life is getting back to normal but you catch yourself feeling happy again and it angers you. You shouldn’t be happy, your best friend just died, your hurt, your lost. And you go back down the slippery slope you finally finished with. But six months have come and gone, you finally realize they wouldn’t want you to be sad anymore, they don’t want you to suffer or miss out on happiness. They will always watch over you, they are always with you like that small breeze that brushes your face, or the small shimmer of sun that shines through on a cold breezy day or even that small hand on your shoulder you feel. They want to look down and see you laughing, smiling and happy. Because they know when it’s your time they will greet you with a smiling face and open arms. And everything will be perfect again, you will realize it was worth waiting for. You’ll forget the struggle you went through, all the hurt and suffering. It’ll be like your first time meeting all over again. You will laugh, joke and be happy together again. And you will never have to say goodbye ever again. Life will be filled with all of the loved ones that have moved onto heaven.
By Ice-Camelia Almack8 years ago in Families
The Worth of a Horse
There are many reasons as to why animals can teach us lessons better than us humans can amongst ourselves. Although it could vary from person to person; especially if you’re not an animal person. I have been around animals my whole life, and I have learned more lessons from them than I have lessons at school or anywhere else.
By Karla Parrish8 years ago in Petlife
It Is Your Right to Be Birth Informed
British Columbia. Canada. On November 9, 2017, I found out that we were expecting our first little bean. While our journey to become parents has not been long, my career of choice has always been motherhood, ever since I was a little girl. While up until this point I have had minimal involvement in birth advocacy, I have taken it upon myself to spend the last few years educating myself in preparation.
By Deidre Rawlings8 years ago in Families
