Let’s all examine the following Instagram photos from Icelandic beauty pageant contestant Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir for a minute and then come back together to discuss our first impressions. Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Exhibit C: Exhibit D: Ok, now that you’ve picked your jaw up off the floor and brushed the green demon of […]
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Artist Offers Free Tattoos to People Brave Enough to Stick Their Arms Through a Hole and See What Happens
When is the last time you stuck a part of your body through a hole in the wall and hoped that the stranger on the other side would give you something awesome? That’s exactly what happened recently at Milk Studios where tattoo artist Scott Campbell conducted a four-day tattooing project […]
Burn Survivor’s Beautiful Maternity Photos Go Viral
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Andrea Grant of Jacksonville, Fla. was only 9 years old when she and her brother were injured in a gas explosion. Burns cover much of her body, including her abdomen. Because of the significant scarring, she was told she’d never be able to carry a […]
Just in Time for National Breastfeeding Month: Breastmilk Jewelry
If you’re of childbearing age and have a social media account, chances are you have heard it is National Breastfeeding Month–and people are damned sentimental about it. We are all familiar with the movement to normalize breastfeeding, but if you want to take your lactation appreciation to a whole new […]
As If Women Didn’t Have Enough Reasons to be Self-Conscious, Vagina Contouring is Now a Thing
Lingerie retailer Ann Summer is offering tutorials in vagina contouring, leaving women everywhere self-conscious of their lady parts. At first, vagina contouring (or vontour) sounds as if you’re supposed to paint your crotch into an optical illusion, which made me hesitate because the last time I did DIY vagina grooming I […]
FU, Skinny Jeans! You’re Out.
They were everywhere for what felt like an eternity. They clothed the cool and fashionable mom at school drop off, the one who always seemed so together and had the impossible measurements of a Barbie doll. They looked equally as fabulous on the twenty-something who helped you pick them out, […]