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 ❔️
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 🫶
As hard as it is to believe, if you've spent the festive period on your phone, trawling through Facebook, thinking, "Why is my life not as good as everyone else's?" it's important that you realise YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Society pressurises us into thinking that, once we hit a certain age, milestones have to be … Continue reading A Curveball Christmas Message 💌
In 2020, the clichés have been soaking up the atmosphere between people's 2m distance. Stay Safe. Take care. Be strong. But, in a world where there's no real time to facilitate these practices, how do you know what to do? What's the best action to take, when you have no lucidity in their meaning? Especially … Continue reading Being “Strong” and What it Really Means
Nothing is more scary than experiencing a world which, on the surface, remains identical to the last, and yet, at its core, you know that everything about it has been changed forever. No one else knows what's happened, though. To the passers by and random others, it's just the same old town doing its same … Continue reading Coping with Life After Loss
My New Year's Resolution was about focus. Life is never going to be perfect, granted, but I wanted to believe that every crack in the surface could be put to good use. After all, as long as light can pour through, then there's hope, right? Since then, the lockdown has really tested my power of … Continue reading Lockdown Views – From The Inside
No perfect words come to mind. My mind has drawn a blank. For every emotion I once had has been destroyed by the carelessness of others - their disbelief, their mocking, their absence - and now, the tears don't even come. Where once they would flood and my mind would race, inside me now it's … Continue reading #BeKindAlways – 10 Ways To Do It Better 💙
Wouldn't it be nice to just one day wake up and see good news for a change? This constant cycle of opening my phone in the morning and seeing an abundance of miserable headlines clog my screen is enough to completely ruin the rest of my day. Not only is it utterly depressing, but it's … Continue reading Is a Life of Tech Blocking Our Happiness?
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