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The Best Beauty Advice I Ever Received
My parents divorced when I was young and my brother and I grew up living with our dad. Dad’s really loving and supportive in general, but sometimes I think he went the extra mile to try and bridge the Mom gap when we were with him. Out of the blue one day he announced that my grandmother had always had beautiful skin. He went on to add that she was religious about moisturizing. I didn’t know where this random thought was coming from, so I just listened. Then it got personal: “It’s really important, Aimee – you need to moisturize.” I didn’t know what to do with this new self-care directive, so I…
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When a Forgotten Seed Blooms in a Beautiful and Unexpected Way
Growing up, I absolutely adored fashion magazines. I waited eagerly for them to arrive each month, pored over the outfits, and saved the ads and articles that inspired me. Of all the details I took in, one photo especially stuck with me. It was part of a fashion spread featuring a tall, curvy girl next door in jeans and a chambray shirt, barefoot, outside, and looking like she was ready to host a picnic in her yard. What stuck with me most was that she had a fuller figure than I was used to seeing in magazines and the bottom few buttons of her shirt were undone, exposing a cute little triangle of…
