Am I not pretty enough?

Tired of the way you look? Sick of feeling self-conscious/inadequate/not beautiful?

Maybe it’s time to start mirror-fasting!

Straight out of New York, this is the newest ‘diet’ (term used losely) craze to hit the homes of hundreds of women around the world.

Mirror-fasting New Yorker Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, says she started the trend because “I’d become aware that I had a mirror face.

“Whenever I saw my reflection I’d open my eyes a little wider, suck in my cheeks a little and tip my chin down in an effort to make myself look more like I wanted to. It made me feel really vain.”

Basically, the trick to the trend is to avoid mirrors all-together. This includes phone screens, shop windows and anything where any type of reflection can be seen.

Mirror-fasters claim it has helped them to separate their looks from their self-esteem and is “probably the most powerful secret to feeling beautiful.”

Guess you’d save a lot of money on makeup too!


More here & here

Sexy VS Skanky

Cut-out clothes are the norm these days. Designers seem to be taking a dress and snipping it for that ‘barely there’ look.

HOWEVER. Since I’ve been running around the town at 4am on a Sunday morning for a few years now (ha), I’ve noticed that cut-outs can be sexy...but only if you know how to do it right.

This is a prime example of ‘less is more’. No, not less fabric; less cut-outs.

According to Cosmo fashion guru ‘Glamo’ (yeah, wtf) girls should only be showing their delicate parts: back, shoulders, boobs (think peek-a-boob).

Side thighs and stomachs? N-O. NO.

And that crop top look? Yuck.

So basically, if a dress has the back cut-out – sexy. If the dress has the back, stomach and boobs chopped away – skanky.

And just a side note: always show off your sexy pins (just not in a thigh cut-out way).

Glamo says a delicate one-part-of-your-upper-body-showing is best, and sexier. Leave something to the imagination ladies.

Here’s Cosmo’s take:

A realistic reality?

Most of us have watched The Hills and we’ve seen Laguna Beach (and both series’ downhill spiral after the original girl-next-door said adios).

We fell in love with Lauren when she was just LC. We watched “Ste-PHEN” juggle two girls who were way out of his league. We witnessed man-juggling at its best with Kristin (who is now wifed up with a bub – who would’ve guessed). We saw Alex M fail to launch a music career. We watched “Jess-CAH” catastrophically fall from grace (whining and complaining the whole way). And we watched Heidi turn into Speidi.

We’re surrounded by a world that’s constantly giving us looks into other people’s lives. Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore, The Shire (lol), Big Brother, Teen Mom, 16 and Pregnant, My Super Sweet 16, The Life of Brian, The Real Housewives etc etc. – PS. special thanks to MTV for most of those.

But how real is ‘reality’ and why are we so obsessed with other people’s lives?

Do we need gratification? Are we better than them? Or, are our lives so boring that we have to watch the way other people live just for kicks?

But everyone knows The Hills was scripted. The Shire is definitely scripted. Big Brother is controlled by a bunch of people.

However, according to Psychologist George Gerbner ‘prolonged exposure to television can shape a viewer’s concept of the world’.

Cool.

So (providing that’s true) most of us see the world as a place where we should get drunk often, bang as many people as possible, always be on/getting ready for/setting up a date, have babies young (or perhaps don’t have babies at all), yell at people (particularly girls), fight with our boyfriends, attend glamorous events, and only concentrate on a social life.

Right?

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Snobby Salespeople

There’s been a lot of chatter lately (via Facebook) over the some-what rude/inconsiderate/lazy salespeople that cruise our local shops.

And no I’m not talking about customer service (yes, I too think customer’s are idiots), I’m talking about the way casual staff are treated.

So why do managers at dead-end jobs think they are so above everyone else?

Just recently a post was put on the Hungry Jack’s Facebook page (Burger King for most of you) that read ‘felt sorry for the poor girl working...who got absolutely blasted by her bitch of a manager in front of everybody...and from what I understand the girl was new!’

What.

Sass & Bide have also copped some Facebook hate with their page receiving an angry complaint about the salesgirls’ attitude problem recently towards another worker. Over 40 people commented on the status agreeing. The post has since been removed.

In fact, look on most company Facebook pages and many will include complaints about the way staff are treated. Sadly, most of these are deleted.

When I first started working at 15, I had people above me in a dead-end job who thought they were everything amazing and could treat the workers below them like shit.

So this is a post for all the people who’ve been in jobs where they’ve been treated badly by those above them.

And to those ladies who are still at the same job, in the same position, still saying ‘do you want fries with that?’:

Treat that little 15 year old well, because in ten years they’ll not only be making more money than you, but you’ll probably be working for them. Ha.

Rant over.

The legal speed

Recently I heard of the newest craze amongst the kids (lols) to get the most out of a night out.

Pre-drinking with pre-workout mixes.

You know those shakes they smash on Jersey Shore? Or those drinks people take instead of roids to get the most out of a workout? Kids are putting the pre-workout powder into alcoholic drinks and smashing them down like there’s no tomorrow.

Yeah sounds brilliant huh.

Apparently people are mixing things like E&E (energy and endurance), Craze, Jack3d and NO-Xplode with vodka, Jack Daniels and even whiskey before hitting the town just so they have to stamina to dance and stay out all night.

These mixes are designed to give you energy, endurance and strength as well as speed up your metabolism. They aren’t designed to be consumed alongside alcohol (obviously).

Why?

Let me explain:

The health risk is mixing a stimulant (pre-workout) and a depressant (alcohol). Duh. This is why Jaeger bombs are so bad for you. These mixes thin your blood, hence making you drunker quicker and not going to lie even if you think you’re a ‘tank’ and you decide to do this, you’ll probably blackout.

Plus these mixes dehydrate you (they contain so much caffeine), so have fun with that hangover.

Bitches on Instagram

I’m sure everyone’s familiar with this. The App that makes everyone a photographer and editor with filters that can turn images into sepia, olden-style and even ‘underwater’-style pictures.

But why is this even around and why the hell do we even care?

No I don’t care what meal you just cooked, no I don’t care about the outfit you are wearing and I definitely don’t care about some lyrics/random inspirational quote you wrote into your phone.

I get that it makes your images look cool and you want everyone in cyberspace to see how amazing and interesting your life is but WHY. Everyone knows what you show of yourself on the internet is a lie. We show the best because we want people to think the best of us. But if we’re constantly uploading photos of the things we’re doing, then how interesting can that life really be?

‘Hold on guys, stop talking. I need to Instagram this shit’.

Go away and cook that meal, wear that amazing outfit and live by that quote. But don’t be that bitch filling up everyone’s newsfeed with that shit, it’s unnecessary.

Or if you do use it, at least Instagram funny things. That shits hilarious.