Confession is Good for the Soul

beauty,life,politics 11 April 2008 | 0 Comments

I confess I’ve been spending increasingly excessive (and unnecessary) amounts of time in certain forum I will not name. It’s usually not a problem, until a week ago. Someone I personally know opened a thread about plus-sized model Chloe Marshall, who was up for the title of Miss England. I didn’t post anything in this [...]

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The Beautiful Fat Girl – A Fallacy

beauty,life,politics 6 February 2008 | 7 Comments

Even the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty chickens out before putting an obese woman at front and center “Real women have curves”, or so some say. Specially in this Caribbean piece of land, where we are told from a very early age that our heritage includes equal parts of Taínos (the indigenous people who occupied [...]

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Want!

wishlist 9 December 2007 | 1 Comment

These past few days have been a bit of a Self Crisis. If I were turning 45 in the next March 8th, I’d say I was having a bit of a mid-life crisis. What I refuse to admit, though, is that I’m having a Turning 30 Crisis, ‘cuz that is just plain stupid, and I [...]

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Perception of a Weekend: Before (Micro)

life,makeup 6 July 2007 | 0 Comments

First things first – I did my own nails about one or two weeks ago, and they looked fantastic… for two days, that is, until the ol’ nail polish chipped off. And that will happen, why not, I mean: i did only one coat, no top coat, no base coat. Can’t be bothered with those [...]

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