I don't like the tone of this article. I feel like it's passively suggesting that online dating is something to be ashamed of. It isn't and I didn't tell my mom that I met my current boyfriend (who is, quite frankly, one of the best people I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know) through a "friend of a friend",…

Same here. I think I've asked all of my friends - black, white, Japanese, Mexican, Vietnamese - if I can touch/play with their hair. My moms always cropped their hair short when I was a kid, so I was deprived of playing with it, and I've definitely taken that in to my adulthood by *needing* to braid my friends' hair.…

You know, I actually like this commercial for a couple reasons. For one, I think it fits well with Libra's ad style, which is campy and fun ([www.youtube.com]). This ad in particular I felt was very tongue in cheek, highlighting a playful exchange between two strangers. The fact that the competition of femaleness…

I know that I needed a prescription for it when getting it for an IUD insertion at Planned Parenthood. I was prescribed two pills to take sublingually in order to soften my cervix and allow the Paragard to enter my uterus more easily. I got serious cramps with it, and I guess because I was finishing my period, I…

I just bought Bobbi Brown's gel eyeliner in Espresso Ink (a dark brown-black) and I'm in love with it. I like doing heavy cat eyes, and black was too heavy for my coloring (the brown side of copper blonde hair, blue/green eyes, and light skin). Like murasaki said, dark brown will read as black but appear softer than…

Silicone implants are still bad for you, but these are the ones filled with a jelly silicone - jelly because it's pumped full of petroleum products. The medical grade silicone that surrounds jelly silicone or saline is okay for your body - it's used in other medical implants as well because of its non-porous quality.…

The ultra high def thing, I get that, too. Or I used to when I had panic attacks. It was like everything got really bright and crisp, but with a little bit of softening around the edges, like the beginning of tunnel vision. And I wouldn't be able to breathe. It felt like all the oxygen had gone out of the air. Being…

I'm 20 and I know I want kids of my own one day (both adopted and biological), but certainly not now. Not for maybe another decade. I know because I like kids, of course, but also because, I don't know, my body tells me I do. That sounds totally bizarre, but I physically yearn to have kids. Thank god for birth…