I’ve always been a bit shy when it comes to talking about sex. This might surprise you – I co-host a podcast all about sex and gender in which we talk in depth about the ins and outs (pun intended) of the sexual knowledge we gain and awkward experiences retold in the books we read. The girls on the podcast joke that I’m a prude – whilst I’m happy talking…
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It’s currently 9:54pm on Sunday evening. There’s a festival going on down the road from my house and I can hear the music from a mile away and the drunk people wandering down my road. I don’t know if it’s because of the festival, or because it’s the first day of my period, or for no reason at all, but I have been sweating and panicking and crying all afternoon. I…
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I’ve never been the type to have a small circle of friends. I’m not quite sure why, but I’ve always been drawn to having a lot of friends, acquaintances and random people you see at the pub when you come back to your parents’ house for Christmas each year. Having different people suited to different situations, having many small-talk acquaintances, and knowing people for years on end but only speaking…
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Love Island Like most eighteen to thirty-year-old British adults, I have been watching Love Island since the new season started four weeks ago. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a fan of a well-crafted, slightly trashy television show; after I’ve spent the day working, I want nothing more than to curl up in bed and watch rich, beautiful people live out a not-too-deep, semi-reality on my laptop. Like…
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So my spring wardrobe has been having a bit of a moment. I’m so happy with how it’s turned out, after a month or two of planning I think I’ve finally got it honed. And you know what, there was one piece of inspiration in particular that really sped up the process – watching Call Me By Your Name. Tired, bored and unassuming, my old housemates and I sat down…
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Oh, Milan Last weekend, I went on a short trip to Milan. I’d made it to the city once before, on a work trip with an ex-boyfriend. It was an overnight stay, which went something along the lines of – plane, taxi, coach, taxi, a strange scooter that takes you from one part of the venue to another, taxi, plane – which as you can imagine, didn’t enable me to see much…
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About a week ago, my wonderful friend Hannah wrote a blog post about her dislike of skincare products. She had actually been asking me for recommendations a month or so before, which led to me writing this blog post and to her going to Boots to drop some sweet pennies on Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish. But she remained unconvinced, and so she wrote a piece about why she thinks…
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Following my blog post on the products I miss using since going cruelty-free, I’ve had a fair bit of feedback from people asking me to recommend the products I like that they can purchase. Totally fair shout; I definitely want to be celebrating the products I love that are cruelty-free and ten out of ten in my eyes. So I figured it would be great to start with the basics,…
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You know what? Over the past couple of months, I really feel as though I’ve found my feet with my work/life balance. After the, quite frankly, trainwreck of a year where I gave myself no down days and made over a hundred videos, I realised I needed to get a handle on my schedule and my free time. Not only is it important for getting my eight hours a night…
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I’ve been cruelty-free for nearly two years now; it all started, as many great things do, from a series of angry YouTube comments on a makeup video I made in 2016. I hadn’t heard of the cruelty-free movement before, so I took to Google to do some research and within the day I decided that I needed to change my purchasing habits. Before that day, the closest I’d come to…
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