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So, last time we tackled the notion that having a guy jizz on your face is good for your skin. This time it’s all about rising the crimson tide/having the painters in/getting a visit from Aunt Flo/Being on your fucking period. There’s a lot of stuff going round about periods at the moment, kind […]
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Confessions of an Ex-Beauty Journalist Hello. My name is Amy, I’m 31 and I write content for a living. I help generate the persistent buzz and background noise that persuades people to buy into my various benefactors’ products and brands. My 10-year career is split firmly between The Lipstick Years, where […]
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Is it true that the most important career choice you’ll make is the man that you marry? Inspired by this declaration from Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, chief executive of the Girls’ Day School Trust, Helen Fraser, announced recently that she believes ‘ambition’ in relationships should be taught to girls at school from a young age. […]
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The female orgasm gets a raw deal in musical popular culture. In a world saturated by cock-centric hip hop, songs like Akinyele’s ‘Put it in my Mouth’ aren’t exactly flying the flag for fanny fun time, despite the rousing refrain (what ever you choose to lick/pussy or dick/ people of the world/ […]
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It’s June, John Lewis has stocked up on golf clubs and power drills and the internet is telling me to buy the Godfather Trilogy, a Silverstone driving experience or a day at a whiskey distillery for my pa. That’ right, Father’s Day cometh. Why is it that retailers, advertisers and the […]
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The world of video gaming has always been fraught with controversy. Does GTA encourage casual street crime? Are our menfolk getting fat and useless because their tree-climbing days have been redirected into Call of Duty 3 and LAN parties? And what about that dude from Japan who married a virtual wife? Yep, with technological advancement […]
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I’m reading Cosmo, as per usual. It’s pretty boring this month. Tbh, anything with OMG WEDDINGS on the front is never going to fill me with hope. But I’m drawn in by ‘Bikini heaven’ and ‘Byebye Fat Days’ so I give the thing a cursory glance. After a post-colonialist look at ‘tribal prints’ that […]
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Durex UK posted this on their Facebook page on Wednesday, with the caption “Poor woman…(or maybe lucky one)?” Maybe I’ve had a complete sense of humour failure, rendering me with a complete inability to see a picture of an injured women with plasters on her face as anything but a woman who’s high […]
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I recently took a trip to Scotland to do a whisky-tasting tour of the distilleries on the island of Islay. If you like whisky, Islay is Kind Of A Big Deal. It is to whisky what Parma is to ham. What Greggs is to sausage rolls, if you will. And surprisingly, despite […]
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I’m on yet another unpaid internship (three weeks at a national magazine, if you’re wondering). Lying in my shared dorm I read that women are more likely to work unpaid, for longer, than men. That Saturday I meet up with the editor of my student magazine. She’s working for free for […]
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Closer is obsessed with slimming. It is an obsession which manifests itself more overtly than possibly any women’s magazine ever, excluding those in France (France loves thin and hates cellulite, which seems a little conflicted for a country that invented the deep-fried Camembert) If the BBC were on the lookout for a ‘Diet Correspondent’, […]
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