Never wish for someone else’s body
I’ve suddenly become very anxious about my hair falling out. I check the shower floor obsessively for how much hair there is each time I wash it. If it didn’t sound so crazy, I might even start...
View ArticleLove Your Body
I’ve been reading loads of really cool things online recently. Huff Post’s women’s section seems to be a treasure chest of awesome, empowering articles recently, full of self-love, confidence, body...
View ArticleHow Bird’s Nest is Miraculously Closing My Pores
Let’s admit it. Although just about every Chinese person this side of the world will have had birds’ nest double-boiled and fed to them at some point of their growing-up year, the whole premise of this...
View ArticleHey, You’ve Put on Weight Huh?
This is a maddening thing. And while I purport to be all brave and strong and not give a shit about it, it still irritates the shit out of me when it happens. It’s this: The other day, I bumped into a...
View ArticleYou Are Not Stunning
I wouldn’t call myself a beautiful girl. Nor would I ever have considered myself the sort of beautiful child that grown-ups would coo at, click their tongues and make sweeping comments about me being...
View ArticleLet’s Play Dress-Up
One of my best friends is never without lipstick. It was something she was taught from a very young age, by her mother, to always have on a little bit of makeup. The suffragette, bra-burning women...
View ArticleThe Fat Days: Where I Hate Myself with a Passion
And so it happens, even for girls like me who write so much about body-confidence, self-love and redefined notions of beauty: days like today when I stand in front of the mirror and hate the way I...
View ArticleHow Fearless Beauty Became Effortless ~ Guest blog: Shirley Maya Tan
I’m super excited to be posting these words from a dear friend of mine, Shirley Maya Tan, the first guest blog on my wee humble blog. We’ve been through quite a lot together, ups and downs and all the...
View ArticleThe Beauty Myth
“Men are exposed to male fashion models but do not see them as role models. Why do women react so strongly to nothing, really—images, scraps of paper? Is their identity so weak? Why do they feel...
View ArticleHappy new year! (and a belated Merry Christmas)
Wheee! Happy New Year, beautiful people! Pardon the prolonged absences. I’ve been around, I promise, just not here. For now, here’s a present for 2015, a little vlog I’ve done with the splendid...
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