When I was growing up, back in the good old '90s and '00s, beautiful people seemed to come in a much wider variety. There wasn't one facial template that represented what it meant to be attractive. There wasn't one body. One formula. Women could look completely different from one another and still be recognised as … Continue reading Looksmaxxing: Can You Optimise Your Way to Love? 🪞
Open almost any discussion about modern dating and you'll eventually encounter the same advice: Men should "play the field", date widely, sleep with different women, gain experience, learn what you want. Women, meanwhile, receive a very different message - know what you're looking for, but don't have too many partners. Be experienced enough to be … Continue reading Does Dating More Make Us Wiser in Love? ♥️
Every time I open my phone, there seems to be another chart explaining how men and women supposedly choose a partner. They all look like they're trying to be scientific. Neat little graphs. Colour-coded priorities. Men, we're told, place physical attractiveness at the top of the list. Women, meanwhile, are said to prize kindness, intelligence, … Continue reading Women Are Visual Too 👀
Spend enough time online and you'll hear the same refrain repeated as though it's an unquestionable gospel: women are at their most desirable in their twenties. The implication is rarely subtle. After that, a countdown begins. Every birthday becomes another step away from relevance. Every laughter line becomes evidence of decline. Every passing year is framed as another reason to compete with younger women who simply happened to be born later.
Written for others who also didn't get their lives back. There was a time I felt unstoppable. Not in a loud way. Not in a superhero way. Just quietly certain. Certain that if I worked hard enough, stayed kind enough, tried long enough, life would open. I’d travel. Build my business. Fall in love. Create … Continue reading How to Love the Limited Version of Yourself ❤️🩹
In the age of Instagram filters and TikTok trends, beauty is no longer just about what you were born with — it’s about what you can create, sculpt, and present. The so-called “TikTok Face” has emerged as a global aesthetic: high, lifted brows; perfectly contoured cheekbones; a button nose; pillowy lips; and a smooth, poreless … Continue reading Natural Beauty vs. Curated Beauty — The Rise of the “TikTok Face”
Milestone moments navigate us. We don't know what matters to us until experiences come along that offer us a way to get to one of them. Perhaps you're in a pursuit of knowledge, so want to achieve goals in the shape of qualifications and a career to match. Or maybe a family is something you're … Continue reading Choose Yourself.
One of the most painful emotions a human can undergo is not knowing whether to have hope or to simply give up. How long do you hold on for? What action(s) are specifically needed in order to have faith that things will "get better"? And...what if they don't last? Or worse, don't happen. Because when … Continue reading To Hope or Not to Hope? That is the Question ❔️
Isn't it ironic that, when we want to find ourselves, we choose to get lost in something - books, music, film, art, nature. There's something intrinsically valuable about letting go of everything inside just to see if you can trace what it is you lost along the way, using these endeavours like a compass. They … Continue reading How Societal Ideals Affect our Personal Realities 🗣
The internet is a cesspit of opinions, saturating the online world with contrasting views delineated as truths. To say things get confusing is an understatement. From the moment you have a burning personal question you desperately want to ask but aren't ready to share with your loved ones, you load up a tab, secretly enter … Continue reading Self-Love Begins with Acceptance 🫶
Sacha Kurucz 