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Britney Spears already has magical mermaid hair, but now she has a tail to match.

The singer shared a photo on Instagram of herself dressed in a shimmering mermaid's tail while hanging poolside with her adorable sons. The performer paired her blue tail with a striped blue-and-white bikini top, and her pastel blue locks are seen cascading over her shoulders. 

The mother of two captioned the pic "The mermaid life." 

Brit is just the latest celebrity to try a tail on for size. Kim and Kourtney Kardashian recently shared photos of their little ones, North West and Penelope Disick, donning similar mermaid outfits while on vacation in St. Barts.

The magic of mermaids transcends age.

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Mickey's got competition.

The @manbunsofdisneyland Instagram account is definitely worth a follow... and then some. It's one continuous, swoon-worthy feed of men who sport all kinds of buns at Disney parks nationwide.

Man Buns of Disneyland is not dissimilar to #ManBunsOfMontauk, the hashtag that highlights hairstyles in one of New York state's famous summer getaways. Both are proof that for better or for worse, man buns are taking over the planet, one destination at a time. Take a look at some of our favorite shots below. 

Oh look! A man bun near the park entrance!

And another, just yonder near Cinderella's castle!

But HOW is that bun gonna stay intact on Mickey's spinning Fun Wheel?!

Have man bun, will travel.

The Sword in the Stone is clearly a man bun magnet.

Was this even taken at Disneyland?! Do we even care?!?!

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Halloween is still two months away, but there's already a horribly offensive new costume looming on the horizon. 

The retailer Spirit Halloween plans to sell a Caitlyn Jenner costume at its pop-up stores in New York City this year, according to the New York Daily News. 

“Caitlyn Jenner has proven to be the most important real-life superhero of the year, and Spirit Halloween is proud to carry the costume that celebrates her," Trisha Lombardo, the company’s head of PR and marketing, told the Daily News. She offered no further details about the item, which will go on sale within the next four to six weeks. 

Lombardo rejected the notion that the costume was problematic in an email to The Huffington Post. "At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes. We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that," she wrote.

Still, Vincent Villano of the National Center for Transgender Equality expressed his concerns. 

"There's no tasteful way to 'celebrate' Caitlyn Jenner or respect transgender people this way on the one night of the year when people use their most twisted imaginations to pretend to be villains and monsters," he said in a statement to HuffPost on Friday. 

We couldn't agree more. 

This story has been updated to include an additional statement from Trisha Lombardo.

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Forget about bright makeup, it's all about the nude. 

The actresses on this week's best beauty list glowed and glowed some more. We had Connie Britton radiating like the goddess she is, with subtle shimmer on her eyelids and a light pink flush that brought out her natural freckles. Then there's Gabrielle Union, who is fiercely continuing her glimmering red carpet reign with an almost gradient flesh-toned lip. 

See these two ladies and the others who are convincing us to go nude for the rest of summer. With our makeup, we mean. 

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Kensington Palace announced earlier this week that Prince Harry is visiting the United States at the end of October. HOORAY!

The prince will be stopping by Washington, D.C. to attend events related to the Invictus Games, a sporting event he started in 2014 for wounded, injured and sick service personnel. The next games will be held in Orlando, Florida in 2016, the palace said. 

When Prince Harry previously visited D.C. in 2013, he caused quite the stir as congressional staffers packed the halls and even outdoor walkways to catch a glimpse.

The most recent royals to cross the pond were Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, who visited the U.S. back in March. The pair also toured D.C., meeting with President Obama and checking out the usual tourist hot spots, like the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Vernon. 

Fingers crossed Prince George and Princess Charlotte come visit soon! 

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Nick Jonas and Kendall Jenner's relationship has officially been downgraded from taking it "very slowly" to a figment of our imaginations. 

Earlier this month, sources told Us Weekly that the 19-year-old model began dating the 22-year-old singer after she was introduced to him by mutual pal Gigi Hadid, who is dating Jonas' brother Joe. And just this week, sources told E! News that the pair were keeping things "pretty light as of now."

Awww, cute, but that's a not how Jonas sees it. In a story published Friday, he told E! News, "We're not dating," 

He added, "Kendall is great and naturally with her being good friends with Gigi and with Joe and Gigi dating, there are times we'll be in the same place and we all hang out." 

As for Jenner, she's been way too busy soaking up the sun in St Barts to clear up dating rumors: 

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Kourtney Kardashian soaked up the sun in St Barts while her ex Scott Disick was thousands of miles away in Mexico. 

Kardashian was photographed in a color-block bikini walking along the beach with children Mason and Penelope and sister Kendall Jenner Thursday, enjoying the last days of her family vacation. 

Meanwhile, Disick was over 2,000 miles away at Joe Francis' Casa Aramara in Punta Mita, Mexico. He shared a photo on Instagram Thursday from a hot tub. 

Kardashian and Disick split in July after nine years and three children together. Disick's "partying" was apparently part of the issue. 

Kris Jenner opened up about the breakup in Haute Living, saying: “[Kourtney's] kind of my hero right now -- she makes good decisions. She always puts her children first and is accepting, loving, and dedicated to her family -- she doesn’t get easily ruffled. This situation has made me realize how strong she is." 

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"No shaming please. No hate speech please."

That's what was written in the About section in a new "skinny acceptance" campaign called Project Harpoon before it was taken down from Facebook. The "campaign" photoshops images of plus-size women to make them look skinnier.

And yes, it's wildly problematic. 

The creators of Project Harpoon describe the project on Instagram as a "movement" that asks people to support "being in shape and not feeding into obesity." The images include plus-size celebrities, models and everyday people.

It's fat-shaming at its ugliest. 

Under the misguided mission that the project is showing everyone's "#ThinnerBeauty," Project Harpoon's now-defunct Facebook page described the campaign as being "dedicated to showing both sides of modern day beauty."

"In current societal fashion, a recent trending surge of ‘pro-obesity’ and ‘fat acceptance’ have paved the way for many people to renounce exercise and personal healthcare in general," the page's description read. "The page aims to only show that being skinny is okay as well! Skinny shaming is not okay."  

(Quick reminder: No one is shaming skinny people by highlighting fat or plus-size bodies. We highlight fat and plus-size bodies because they're rarely represented in pop-culture and are stigmatized in real life.) 

Before the campaign's account was removed from Instagram, the photoshopped posts included horrible captions beneath each image.

"From runaway freight train to fashion week NYC runway model, she's got some potential," one caption read beneath an image of a plus-size woman on a runway next to the same image photoshopped to make the woman look much slimmer. 

Another Instagram post featured a photoshopped image of a plus-size woman wearing a feminist t-shirt, with the caption: "If you're a feminist, you should at least be in shape so you can attend the protests, not get stuck in the parking garage!"

The campaign was originally discovered on Facebook on Aug. 19, but it looks like both Facebook and Instagram have removed the project's page. Before being removed from the two platforms, Project Harpoon had over 2,500 Instagram followers and had gained momentum on Facebook after Facebook Newswire posted it on their page.  

Instagram confirmed to The Huffington Post UK that Project Harpoon's account was disabled for violating their bullying policy. 

After being kicked off the other two social media platforms, Project Harpoon moved to Twitter and Reddit to photoshop images of women (and a few men) without their permission. 

The images include celebrities such as Melissa McCarthy, Rebel Wilson, Meghan Trainor and plus-size models Tess Holliday and Ashley Graham.  

Many people have criticized the project as peak fat-shaming and blatantly offensive. Among those horrified by the project is plus-size model and outspoken body love activist Tess Holliday who's own images were wrongfully photoshopped.  

"It's abominable that this [Facebook page] is using my image without permission to promote themselves," Holliday told E! News. "This kind of hit piece is exactly why I started #EffYourBeautyStandards. I am asking my followers to boycott this [page] and any others like it. Loving yourself is the most powerful message we all need to stand behind."

We couldn't agree more. 

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If you feel like you really want to define yourself, and you have the ability to articulate those parameters and that in itself defines you, then do it. But I am an actress, man. I live in the fucking ambiguity of this life and I love it. I don't feel like it would be true for me to be like, 'I'm coming out!' No, I do a job. Until I decide that I'm starting a foundation or that I have some perspective or opinion that other people should be receiving... I don't. I'm just a kid making movies.

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Former "The Hills" star Heidi Montag has recreated one of Kim Kardashian's most famous bikini photos.

Why? Could it be an attempt to stay relevant? Was it born out of a constant need for attention? 

Well, according to Us Weekly, the 28-year-old posed for the Kardashian-inspired pic in honor of her husband Spencer Pratt's 32nd birthday.

That's love, guys. That, right there, is love. 

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James Shamsi is on a mission to free the nipple on Instagram -- or at least point out the social platform's murky policies when it comes to "acceptable" nudity. Like many women (and a few good men) before him, Shamsi noticed the double standard applied to men and women's nipples on Instagram. Namely, women's nipples are censored, while men's are not. 

"I realized the absurdity in the over-sexualization of the female nipple," Shamsi told The Huffington Post via email. "I wanted to show Instagram just how silly their own policies were by showing them how easily male nipples could be interpreted as female -- and with the greater aim of highlighting the fact that the only real difference [between men's and women's nipples] are the weighting we choose to give to female nipples according to labels we arbitrarily assign to them as a society." 

To test out Instagram's policies, Shamsi posted the below, cropped photograph of a man's chest on Instagram.

Since the nipples look as though they could be those of a woman, he suspected that if reported, Instagram would remove the image. He even asked his Facebook friends to report the image so he could test his theory.

Unsurprisingly, it worked. Instagram removed the image for being in violation of its Community Guidelines a few hours after it was posted. Shamsi then contacted Instagram, alerting them that the chest they had censored was actually a man's. Soon after, the post was reinstated. "Instagram reinstated the photo because these were male #facepalm," Shamsi wrote in a subsequent Instagram post (below). 

Shamsi's nipple experiment follows a similar campaign first started by Associate Professor Micol Hebron in June 2014. She brilliantly suggested that women simply paste male nipples over their own scandalous lady ones. Problem solved! 

Instagram seems to realize that creating guidelines for nudity is a seriously fraught process. In a statement to The Daily Dot regarding Shamsi's photograph, an Instagram spokesperson said:

Standards around nudity vary greatly by culture, country, age, and other factors. Our goal has always been to find a balance between enabling people to express themselves, while also making sure that our large, diverse, global community feels comfortable. Striking the right balance is hard -- and examples like this highlight the complexity of this issue. As always, we continue to analyze our policies to make sure that we’re listening to people and meeting the needs of our global community.

In January, Instagram told The Huffington Post that they "recognize that we don’t always get it right" when it comes to nudity on the platform. It looks like they are still grappling with where to draw the line.  

H/T Mic 

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Given the ready availability of alternatives, there is no compelling reason to continue using outdated animal testing methods that cause tremendous animal suffering. So many companies are already using non-animal tests for shampoos, makeups and other products sold around the world, and the United States can help accelerate that trend.

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It's no secret -- society often associates beauty with Eurocentric ideals. Even a Google search for "beautiful skin" renders mostly images of white women. Because of this, people with darker skin complexions often go unnoticed and uncelebrated -- but that's changing now.  

A group of black women decided to redefine beauty on their own terms with the hashtag #FlexinMyComplexion.

Women (and a few men) of color showed off their photos on social media, flaunting their brown skin. Though the hashtag has been around for a few months, #FlexinMyComplexion amassed more than 85,000 tweets after POCBeauty asked it's more than 26,000 followers to use it and submit photos of themselves embracing their darker skin, according to Clutch. 

"I think it’s important for women of color to know if they’re brown/dark they’re beautiful too and deserve to be noticed," the woman who runs POCBeauty told Clutch."Dark skin, in all backgrounds, is beautiful and should be recognized as so.” POCBeauty is a Twitter account that celebrates people of color. The creator remains anonymous because she's constantly harassed for highlighting non-white women, Clutch wrote. 

Ironically enough, white women used the hashtag to express that they didn't like that it excluded them. Go figure. 

Users, including writer Maisha Johnson, clarified the hashtag's purpose.

"It's not about exclusion, it's giving some space to people who usually don't have space," Johnson told BBC in the video above. "It's not about saying we're more important and you can't participate because you're not beautiful, it's about saying we don't hear nearly enough that we're beautiful and that's what this is about."

Despite the criticism, the powerful tweets show off the beautiful and various shades of melanin. Take notes, mainstream media: 

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