Hey, we get it. Kissing a face full of gloss and powder is no fun. RELATED: 10 Signs He’s A Genuinely Nice Guy, Not A Jerk But as natural beauties also know that the natural makeup looks your boyfriend says he digs takes a little time … and a little makeup. Here’s how to get the au natural beauty look that men love: 1. Prep your skin A great natural look starts with great skin....
Finding a long-term partner is the most important decisions you will ever make in your life. It’s actually a good thing to question it. Learning how to know if he’s the one allows you to look at your relationship in a new light. After all, you’re planning to spend the rest of your life with this person. So, you want to get this right, even with the best of efforts, it can go wrong....
This week has been a struggle because I have been negative about the cards life has dealt me. I know what you are thinking: “But Kristen, you are this little ray of crazy sunshine! You can’t have bad days!” Oh, the contrary, my friends; even I sometimes struggle with staying upbeat and positive. Especially when it comes to my health. RELATED: How To Overcome Setbacks & Get Back On Track After An ‘Off’ Season When I was 19, my life changed....
How do you manage overwhelming feelings? You can’t just make them go away or decide not to feel them. Feelings don’t work like that. The trick is to make room for them. RELATED: 5 Steps To Motivate Yourself When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed Your instinct is to do the opposite — you want to squash painful feelings, but when you try, they tend to get more intense. If you make room for them, you can get distance from them so they’re not so in your face....
We all know that energy can’t be created or destroyed, but can it be moved? One of the big trends to hit #WitchTok is moving crystals with energy manipulation. Crystals are popular for healing and other spiritual purposes, while energy manipulation is the ability to generate, control, and manipulate various forms of energy. This trend has users posting videos of themselves manipulating their energy to move these spiritual items paired with fun music....
Fear of intimacy is the main reason people do not open up, emotionally, with another person. But it’s not a life sentence — you can absolutely learn how to open up to people, even in romantic relationships (where it can sometimes be an even greater challenge). I define intimacy as feeling safe with another person when you expose who you are to them. Intimacy involves protecting your loved one rather than exploiting their vulnerabilities....
Let me give you the good news first. Fixing things doesn’t require that you both jump in and dissect your issues. When you change any part of a system (in this case, your relationship), the whole system reacts and thus changes. RELATED: 10 Critical Lessons I Learned About Marriage From The People I Love Most Every marriage goes through difficult times which can drive you to question whether it is even worth sticking it out....
Don’t worry! this guide on how to swallow after a blowjob will help you get over that fear and swallow his semen like a champ! RELATED: The Truth Behind Why Some Guy’s Semen Just … Doesn’t Taste Good Thankfully there isn’t actually that much to this oral sex act. Just follow these 6 simple tips. How to Swallow Cum 1. Talk to him. Before getting to the “how to” part, it’s crucial that you read this section....
The thought occurs to you that you could always search for him on the web. A quick investigation reveals his social media profiles, and again, he looks too good to be true. Still, there’s something about him that makes you curious about his past. If only there were a way that you could learn everything available online about him. You can. Just use a website called TruthFinder. I’ve been there....
They have survived a war, being poor, abusive relationships, incredible grief, the patriarchy, life-threatening diseases, capitalism. No matter what life threw at them, they kept their chins up, marching into the future. They were invincible. Until they weren’t. And this glorious illusion of resilience was broken into pieces. The Day That Changed Everything My grandmother learned how to use WhatsApp last year, during the pandemic, when she could not see her sisters or her two sons in person....
Ten years ago, my friend Kevin and I reconnected and started dating after he came home from living in Italy for seven years. Six years later, he proposed to me in Montreal. A year later, we got married and had a fabulous honeymoon in Europe. Three months after that, I found out I was pregnant. January 5th, I had a miscarriage. We found out I was pregnant on October 13th....
I knew, both times, that pregnancy wasn’t the end of our breastfeeding journey. My sons were both very young to quit nursing, and from what I’d read, tandem nursing (nursing two children at the same time) can help a mom ease her child into big brotherhood. So, I found myself tandem nursing with both a one-year-old and a three-year-old at the breast. RELATED: I Breastfed Another Woman’s Baby — And Have Zero Regrets Mention nursing on the internet and the trolls come out....
There is Taylor Swift song called “The Moment I Knew.” She sings about being at party, with all her friends around, but the one person who she wants to be there isn’t. Obviously, this is her beau. This happened to me last Saturday; I had a big competition and my boyfriend wasn’t there. He could have made it happen, but he choose not to RELATED: If He Doesn’t Make An Effort, He’s Not Interested (Let Him Go) This was a tough pill to swallow because I have given so much up for this sport....
My older sister Catherine warned me. She had picked me up from the airport a week before Christmas in 2006. As the dusk gave way to dark and the Texas horizon rolled out before us, we rode in silence — until I confessed. I had come dangerously close to cheating on Nathan (some names have been changed), my boyfriend of four years, with a friend of mine. Everything was confusing save for one devastating confirmation: I wanted to break up with Nathan....
I think of nutrients after the fact. Sometimes I check my tongue for cracks because I read somewhere once that can be a sign of diabetes. No cracks, so I keep eating. I take part in emotional eating. You’ve seen my kind portrayed on film and television screens. You’ve seen emotional eaters sob into half-bolted containers of pad thai. You’ve seen dumped chubby girls singing along to torch songs, using their ice cream spoon as a microphone....
“If you want to get pregnant, you will likely need to use an egg donor,” my OB/GYN cautioned after running some preliminary tests before I even started trying to get pregnant. A pretty cruel joke, I thought. After several years of hemming and hawing, I had only just come to terms with having a baby solo. What I had assumed to be my “fertility window” was closing and I didn’t have a partner yet, so it was time to move forward alone....
It’s been not so much a dream, but just a guarantee. I’d grow up, get a job, meet someone cool, and start having children. I never obsessed about it, I never worried about it, I just kind of figured it would happen. I remember one particularly bad poem I wrote to my future daughter when I was in college. It was bad in the way that only really earnest, honest, and poorly written poetry can be....
Even though I’m married now, my thinking is still whatever I make is my money, and if I hold up my end of the financial bargain in this relationship, my partner doesn’t need to know that the cashmere sweater I just purchased actually wasn’t on sale for the bargain price of $75, but, in reality, way more. RELATED: Why Lying About Money Is As Bad As An Affair (& 5 Ways To Recover) And while I know I’m not alone, as plenty of my friends have “secret” credit cards, it never occurred to me that I might be doing something wrong or committing financial infidelity, but apparently, I am....
Growing up, I got picked on constantly. My teeth were not straight, my tummy wasn’t flat, my thighs would jiggle when I walked, and I had acne on my face. People liked to call me fat, or ugly, so naturally, this made me so self-conscious, and ultimately it made me hate everything about myself. I saw all these girls around me that had perfect, clear skin, beautiful smiles, and fit bodies, and I thought, that would never, ever be me....
Not only would he callously share his sexual conquests with me after far too many drinks, but even when he wasn’t cheating, he always had at least a couple girls around as some sort of back-up. His actions had such an effect on me that I’m still recovering. It was with this particular guy that I was pushed to an unthinkable level of jealousy. And I can’t even count all the times I snooped through his phone looking for further proof of just how awful he was....
