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What Your Love Language Says About Your Relationship Style
My husband and I are not the same. We’re actually not even that similar. He is American and I am British. He’…
How To Decorate When You’re Broke And Your Walls Are Blank
You’re broke and your walls are blank. Your options are to either live in a stolid existence of beige emptiness and refl…
20 Books You Really Need to Re-Read in Your 20s
As we grow older, our life experiences change our perspective on many things. From the foods we like, music we listen to…
Yes, Gross Men, Your Catcalling Is Now Considered A Hate Crime
Hate Crime (noun): A crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice. I’m going to go out on a limb here and assum…
How the Laziest Woman in Britain Became a Weightlifter
For many years – i.e. for approximately 96.5% of my life, or 20 out of 21 years – I was a committed exercise…
Actually, It’s Okay To Be “A Little Bit Vegan”
Dear Author of “You Can’t Be ‘A Little Bit Vegan’,” Hey, so I know you’re the best a…
Style Sparknotes: Your Guide To Big Spring 2016 Trends
I admit, for a sometime-sort-of fashion writer, I try and keep up with the sartorial zeitgeist and, every season, I can&…
10 Huge Red Flags That You’re In A Shitty Relationship
Let’s be real for a second here: You don’t have time for shitty relationships. Being in a shitty relationshi…
The Problems With Women In Combat Arms
Living and working on a military base, I talk to umpteen men and women in uniform every day; hot button military topics …
10 Times Shakespeare Perfectly Understood #MillennialProblems
Ah, Shakespeare, my old friend. We’ve come a long way. We met when I was an angsty young teen, swooning over the s…
How I Gave Up Everything And Moved To The Desert
We were driving home from a friend’s house. It was pitch black outside, because here in the desert there are no st…
You Haven’t Lived In 2015 Until You’ve Done These Halloween Costumes
Not sure if you have noticed from all the cotton-wool cobwebs and inflatable spiders littering your neighborhood, but Ha…
How To Wear Fall Trends, For The Sartorially Clueless
Let me just begin by saying that anyone can wear anything. You put on a pair of pants. you put on a shirt—voila! You are…
How To Hand-Wash Your Beautiful Delicates
I’m still getting to grips with this whole “adulting” thing, but I thought that at least I knew how to…
Darling Wants, Literally Needs: The September Edition
Well, it’s that time of year again folks: Pumpkin spice everything, orange leaves…and September issues. Thos…
Dear Men’s Magazines, Feminism Is Not a Commodity
We’ll start off with my husband. He’s a Marine, so he gets his hair cut a lot. Like, a lot. Ever the diligent sidekick, …
Women’s Magazine Advice Satirized in Motivational Posters
I have a complicated relationship with women’s magazines. On the one hand, I love them. I subscribe to Cosmo, Glamour, H…
Style Sparknotes: Your Guide To The Fall/Winter Runways
What does September mean to you? The return of PSL season (ugh, of course we had to go there), crisper air, back to scho…
Off-Duty Dancer Style Inspired By Misty Copeland
I don’t know if you heard, but Misty Copeland—the first black principal dancer in the history of the American Ball…