This guy’s outfit is totally trash-y!  

Environmental activist Rob Greenfield is collecting every single piece of garbage he generates in a month ― from his morning coffee cup to his grocery bag ― and wearing it.  

By walking down the street donning huge bags of trash, Greenfield’s goal is to get people to open their eyes to how much waste a person generates in daily life and how it harms the environment.

“My main focus is trying to educate and inspire people to make less trash,” Greenfield told The Huffington Post. “Some people have zero idea. For them, once they toss something, it’s totally out of sight, out of mind. They don’t get the serious environmental problems it causes.”

On Monday, Greenfield, pictured below, was on day eight of the 30-day journey.

The average American generated around 4.4 pounds of trash per day in 2013, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. While some of the trash gets recycled or composted, most of it goes to landfills, where it decomposes, releasing greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Greenfield, who is a contributor to Outspeak ― which has a publishing partnership with the Huffington Post ― is hoping to make more people aware of the problem of everyday waste, and ideally get some to change their ways.

“It’s not about going zero waste tomorrow,” Greenfield said. “It might just be that tomorrow you decide not to use plastic cups anymore, and carry your own reusable cup. That could be around 300 fewer cups tossed in a year... If all of us do small things, it adds up to a bigger change.” 

Greenfield is partnering with filmmakers from Living On One film studio to document his project, called Trash Me. They will be posting videos of his progress on Facebook and YouTube through mid-October.

Greenfield wasn’t always this environmentally conscious. Five years ago, aged 25, he was a self-described “typical” guy working in advertising sales.

“I lived in a three-bedroom apartment, had a nice car that I shined every Sunday. I was very materialistic,” Greenfield said. “Then I started reading up on these issues, watching Netflix documentaries. I started making little changes ― and here I am.”

Now Greenfield is a full-time environmental activist, living an almost zero-waste life. His previous projects have included going a year without showering to save water, and only having 111 possessions to live more sustainably.

“To exist for me costs about a couple hundred dollars a month,” Greenfield said. “For food, I often get it from grocery store dumpsters, which raises awareness about food waste. And for shelter, I’m mostly traveling for projects, so I stay with whichever project I’m helping out with.”

This month’s project will mark a departure from Greenfield’s usual waste-free lifestyle, as he will have to consume and toss garbage as a typical person would.

On the upside, the trash he’ll generate won’t go to a landfill, as he plans on keeping his garbage-filled suit for future public speaking appearances.

“My goal in life is to do things that get people to think about how their actions affect the world,” Greenfield said. “I would love people to transform their lives, to live out the things they believe in and are sharing on Facebook ― and not just share it, but actually do it.” 

To learn more about the project, check out Greenfield’s website.

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As part of HuffPost’s “Reclaim” project, HuffPost Style will focus the month of September on simple ways to educate yourself on becoming a better consumer.

The average U.S. consumer will throw out 81 pounds of their clothes this year, according to a recent survey by the resale company Savers, and 95 percent of all that waste should instead by reused or recycled. Donating our clothes seems like an obvious solution to this problem, right?

But how do we know what we can or can’t donate to big chains like Goodwill, The Salvation Army or Savers? Turns out it’s not that complicated.

Here are the clothes you shouldn’t donate:

1. Wet, moldy or contaminated items.

“If you are thinking about donating something to Goodwill that is too worn or damaged for anyone to wear, most Goodwill organizations would recommend repurposing those items at home,” Charlene Sarmiento, the public relations program manager for Goodwill Industries International, told HuffPost in an email. 

Tasha Lewis, a faculty fellow at Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, pointed out that “it’s kind of nice not to give wet things or greasy things that can mildew,” adding that she would “hesitate to throw it in the trash, because there’s a rag market where they’ll tear it up. ... Overall it’s better to donate it so it gets sorted than just directly dispose of it in the trash or landfill.”

AND THAT’S IT.

That dirty old T-shirt? Totally donate-able. The pants with the mysterious pocket stain? Yep. They’ll take that, too.

Big box thrift stores take just about any dry, non-moldy piece of clothing ― even if they don’t end up putting it on store shelves.

There’s “a whole distribution channel for things that can’t be worn as clothing” anymore, Lewis said, describing a system run by rag traders and unseen by many consumers, that helps divert clothing and other textiles away from landfills.

And the system works for you:

“The overwhelming majority of people donate clothing and textiles that are still wearable,” Sarmiento said, and Goodwill’s lengthy sorting process gives clothes plenty of chances before finally getting cut up and sold in 25- or 50- pound bundles of “Good Wipes” (the company’s term for industrial cleaning cloths), or baled and sent to overseas buyers, which is what happens at Goodwill stores in Portland, Maine.

Still, of course it’s best to donate clothes people would most likely wear. As Goodwill puts it, “Donating items that are in working condition, contain all of their pieces and parts, and are free of stains and rips is the best way to ensure that your goods do the most good.”

Just don’t throw it out.

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The royal tour of Canada is in full swing, and for every missed high-five opportunity, there’s been a fashion-forward moment in its place.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge looked absolutely spectacular at a reception in Victoria, British Columbia, Monday night, wearing a bold red Preen gown with matching shoes and a diamond maple leaf brooch.

The former Kate Middleton regularly makes the best-dressed lists, but there are many reasons to love this look in particular:

1. It’s Preen, an unexpected label she has not worn a million times.

2. Hello, it’s red!

3. She paired it with matching red heels (her second pair of red shoes this week!), and we’re just so thankful she didn’t trot out yet another pair of nude pumps. 

4. Apparently, the dress has pockets. 

5. While the dress was brand new, Kate still managed to get a repeat in there. She wore the queen mother’s maple leaf pin a few times during the couple’s previous trip to Canada in 2011. 

6. Just look at it. 

7. The dress appears to have been worn by one of our favorite underrated style stars, Emmy Rossum, right around the same time. 

Killin’ it, Kate. 

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For centuries, a group of women known as ama have participated in an archaic, almost fairy tale-like profession.

The Japanese term “ama” translates literally to “women of the sea,” and refers to the female free divers who’ve worked to gather seaweed, shellfish, and, most importantly, abalone and pearls, for thousands of years. Traditionally, ama dove in the nude, often wearing nothing but a small loincloth to help them gather their bounty, diving to depths of 30 meters and holding their breath for upwards of two minutes. Like mermaids, the naked ama passed on their skills to later generations, sustaining a magical profession still dominated by Japanese women (now in neoprene suits) today.

Prints made by well-known artists like Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro give contemporary audiences a glimpse back in time, to the days when these 18th- and 19th-century women swam the seas in search of abalone. Their Edo-era prints are but one aspect of a captivating exhibition at the Musée Guimet in Paris, France, titled “Mirror of Desire: Images of Women in Japanese Prints.”

”Mirror of Desire” can be interpreted as a survey of the Japanese artists who worked in woodblock prints, producing a wide array of iconic images, including great waves and cherry blossoms and even a few cats. However, the Parisian show has a more narrow focus. The exhibition is dedicated to the ways in which famous figures like Hokusai and Utamaro represented women in particular, taking viewers on a tour of Edo Period art and the female characters that inhabit it.

From ama to geisha to courtesans, the prints on view demonstrate the tendency of ukiyo-e ― the Japanese style of art popular in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries ― to focus on women at home, at work and at play. Mostly male artists depicted the female subjects picnicking, powdering their bodies, fixing their hair, engaging in sex on a boat, and diving for pearls in the middle of the ocean.

The artworks, sometimes referred to as bijin-ga or “images of beauties,” are almost always filtered through the eyes of a man. Yet the Musée Guimet’s prints, filled with mundane expressions and banal activities, focus just as often on the interactions between women, or the subtle moments of introspection, as the sexualized shunga scenes prevalent at the time. The artworks give us a tantalizing peek into lives lived hundreds of years ago, even if it’s just to see a woman strategically using two mirrors to spy that unreachable wisp of hair on the back of her head.

The scenes, beautifully familiar, prove just how modest and illuminating a handmade image from 1795 can be. Check out a preview of the exhibition below.

“Mirror of Desire: Images of Women in Japanese Prints” will be on view at the Musée Guimet in Paris, France, until Oct. 10, 2016.

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With the 2016 presidential election right around the corner, it’s important to look back and remember how much it matters that women are engaged in the political process. 

On August 18, 1920 the 19th Amendment was ratified, which granted white women the right to vote. In some states, black women weren’t able to vote until the 1960s, due to voter registration restrictions put in place to deny voting rights to people of color. 

Since then, women have fought for our rights to obtain a safe and legal abortion, fight on the front lines and marry the people we love. Much of this progress was achieved by using our power to vote.

Women were instrumental in determining the outcome of the 2012 election ― and we’ll most likely do it again this November. There is a lot at stake for women this year and, thankfully, women have a say in who sits in our oval office for the next four years. We are 51 percent of the population so let’s vote like it. 

Below are 14 rights women have gained since earning the right to vote to celebrate the power of women’s voices, and remember that our vote counts this election year ― and every year after. 

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Of all hundreds of items to choose from at a cosmetics store, the brush section may be the most difficult to navigate. The sheer number of brushes that look exactly the same is overwhelming, so it’s easy to understand why you might just give up and use the brushes that came with your makeup.

But fear not, flustered brushers. Thanks to celebrity makeup Kari Bauce, who assured us that many brushes you see “are for advanced makeup artists that you don’t need, and will just confuse you,” we now have a better handle on things.

Why use brushes at all? Well, for a few reasons. First of all, your fingers could be contaminating your product with bacteria. And if you’re already going into a makeup store like Sephora and spending money on your makeup, only to go home and apply it with your fingers or a cotton swab, Bauce says “you’re not doing your justice to your products.”

Luckily, synthetic fiber brushes offer an affordable way to stock your beauty cabinet. Here, we’ve rounded up five Make Up For Ever brushes (but you can choose whichever brand you like best) that everyone should have in their routine ― many do double duty (more bang for your buck!), and they all range between $24 and $44. 

1. A fluffy brush for both blush and powder. You can also use this brush for bronzer. The reason Bauce favors a fluffy brush is for its ability to diffuse the product more evenly over your face. “If you have a shorter, denser brush, you’re going to get a bigger deposit of color. If you have a fluffier brush it’s going to diffuse ― most people want a natural application,” she said.

2. A flat nylon brush to use for your crease eyeshadow, and to apply concealer. A dense, flat brush is perfect for depositing more color in the crease of your eye, also making it perfect for dabbing and blending concealer beneath your eye. Bonus tip: If you want even more color, get this brush a little bit wet before use.

3. A fluffy eyeshadow brush for all over eyeshadow and powder. “If you like to do one wash of a neutral color over your whole eye, this is a great brush,” Bauce said, adding, “you can also use it as a highlight brush, or to set the powder under your eye and around your nose ― the small, creased areas of your face.” Just be sure to wash your brush between uses if you’re multitasking with it.

4. A crease brush. This one, Bauce said, does all the work for you, creating a totally blended and natural eye look. “Dip it into whatever color you want in the crease of your eye, right at the socket, and starting at the outside corner drag across in a windshield wiper motion,” she said. This type of brush deposits a little bit of product at a time, making it look super blended.

5. An angled brush. Arguably the MVB (most valuable brush), an angled brush serves not one, not two but three purposes. Use this one for eyebrow products, applying eyeliner and even as a lip brush. “The angle on it makes it interesting for you to draw the cupid’s bow on your lip,” Bauce said. 

And what about once you’ve used these brushes and need to wash them? Bauce explains synthetic brushes are better for that than natural fiber brushes, too. They tend to last longer, dry faster after being cleaned and are also easier to get clean ― something Bauce suggests you do once a week. 

Check out all the brushes in action in the video above. 

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Sometimes it seems neck tattoos get a bad rap, but we found 22 ink masterpieces that will make you wonder why. And who knows, maybe you’ll even feel inspired enough to get one yourself. Or at least try out a temporary version in the meantime. 

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In a move that is causing many parents to rejoice, Target has pulled its kiddie shopping carts from stores. 

Last year, Target introduced kid-sized carts in 10 stores, expanding to 72 locations this August to more broadly test out the amenity. Target spokesperson Kristy Welker told The Huffington Post that the carts were present in 50 stores in Minnesota and 22 in New York.

Reactions to the carts from parents were mixed, but a particularly vocal contingent issued a clear demand: Get rid of them.

Many parents complained of bruised ankles, overflowing mini carts and general chaos.

Opposition to the carts gained steam earlier this month when Minnesota mom Laura Rinas expressed her loathing for the carts on her blog, Laughing Without Limits.

“This tiny, red thing, with wheels and a really cute flag that makes it look innocent but it’s actually there (admit it) to warn everyone close that whatever is at the bottom of that flag is bringing DANGER AND PAIN AND STRIFE and that they should run in the opposite direction,” she wrote.

Rinas said she initially thought the image of her son pushing the tiny cart “might have been the cutest thing” she’d ever seen. But things quickly went awry, as the kid moved throughout the store with his “Vehicle of Mass Destruction.”

In response to her experience and those of the parents around her, Rinas launched a movement called “Moms Against Stupid Tiny Carts” (MASTC). The post and movement quickly went viral.

As the complaints persisted, Target eventually removed the carts from the 72 locations. 

“At Target, our guests are at the center of everything we do, and we value their feedback,” Welker told HuffPost. “We briefly tested kiddie carts at 72 Target stores, and after reviewing guest and stores feedback, we have made the decision to stop the test.”

The MASTC supporters celebrated.

However, other parents did not share their reaction.

Clearly, the lesson here is twofold for Target: “Don’t mess with parents” and “Can’t please ‘em all.” 

H/T Business Insider

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A new campaign is reminding everyone how important body diversity truly is.

On Sept. 26, Refinery29 launched The 67% Project, a multi-media initiative promoting body positivity and plus-size visibility, both across R29 and the general media and fashion landscape. The campaign’s name refers to the 67 percent of American women ― or the “invisible majority” ― who are plus size but are so rarely seen in ads, on billboards, in stock photos, in magazines and on runways. 

“67 percent of U.S. women are plus sized, but only 2 percent of them are represented in the mainstream media,” a R29 press release reads. “The project seeks to close the gap and ultimately represent women of a size 14+ at the same rate they exist in reality.” 

In order to more accurately reflect the way women look in real life on R29 ― and to encourage other media outlets to do the same ― R29 and Getty Images partnered to create a collection of stock photos that truly represent the 67 percent. The photos show women of all shapes, sizes and colors doing everyday, ordinary tasks, like going grocery shopping, talking with friends, taking selfies and hanging out at home. 

R29 has also partnered with Aerie, Lane Bryant  and “Orange Is The New Black” actress Danielle Brooks to spread a message of body love. Brooks will serve as the guest creative director for the 67% Project, while Aerie and Lane Bryant will sponsor events alongside R29. 

“Our goal is to ensure that when you slide open your phone in the morning and click on a link into our world, that you see yourself reflected back,” R29 co-founder and global editor-in-chief Christene Barberich wrote on HuffPost’s contributor platform. “And not just the physical ‘ideal’ that’s been a systemic part of the female experience since the beginning of time, but true, authentic, and accessible likenesses of your own experiences.”

Scroll below to see more of the stock photos from R29’s 67% Project collection:

Head over to R29 to read more about the awesome body diversity campaign. 

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As part of HuffPost’s “Reclaim” project, HuffPost Style will focus the month of September on simple ways to educate yourself on becoming a better consumer.

Giving away used clothes may sound simple: You drop them off at a donation center, and then they’re sold to somebody who can re-use them. Right? 

Not quite. In reality, donated clothing often takes a much longer journey before meeting its ultimate fate. In the end, it may get re-sold. But it also may end up in the trash, joining the more than 12 million pounds of American textile waste that was sent to landfills during 2013. And that benefits no one.

Goodwill is one of the biggest U.S. landing points for donated clothes: Stores in New York and New Jersey alone collected more than 85.7 million pounds of textile donations last year, Jose Medellin, director of communications for Goodwill NY/NJ, told HuffPost. And his Goodwill region is just one of 164 regional Goodwill organizations across the U.S. and Canada.

As you’re probably starting to realize, it takes a ton of effort to guide your clothes from the Goodwill donation bin to their final resting place. Knowing how Goodwill works can help you make smarter decisions when deciding if another jeans purchase is really worth it for you, for the donations staff and for the environment. 

Step 1: The Goodwill retail store

Goodwill operates more than 3,200 individual stores, Kyle Stewart, director of donated goods retail, told HuffPost. When you donate a bag of clothing at a store, workers most likely parse through it to determine what can be sold and what can’t: Wet or mildew-y clothes are eliminated, but everything else is fair game. 

Ray Tellez, the vice president of retail operations for Goodwill Southern California, said stores in his region track how long each piece of clothing has been on the retail floor. If an item doesn’t sell within four weeks, it’s sent onward in the process.

Step 2: A Goodwill outlet

Yup, even Goodwill has outlets. Whatever doesn’t sell on the retail floor goes to a separate “Buy the Pound” outlet store or a 99 cent Goodwill store. Prices are kept ultra-low to encourage purchases, Tellez said.

At these stores, “the goal is to liquidate,” he told HuffPost. “We want to try and keep as much out of the landfill as possible.”

Step 3: Auction

Whatever isn’t sold in outlets moves on to Goodwill auctions, live events where attendees bid on bins of donated items without knowing precisely what’s inside. An auction bin might sell for as low as $35, which is a stellar value, according to Tellez.

Step 4: Textile Recyclers

Then comes the big move: If clothes weren’t able to sell in those first three stages of the process, Goodwill sends them to textile recycling organizations, Stewart said.  

S.M.A.R.T., for example, is a trade association whose independent member businesses work to recycle textiles. On average, 45 percent of clothing that makes it to S.M.A.R.T. is either re-sold into the U.S. used clothing industry or sent overseas into markets with more demand, spokesperson Kathy Walsh told HuffPost.

But this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Obviously, re-selling clothes into the U.S. secondhand market just encourages them to make the cycle all over again. And sending clothes overseas can majorly hinder the textile industries in developing countries, robbing locals of jobs and income.

Beyond that, 30 percent of donated clothes at S.M.A.R.T. get cut into rags for industrial use, and 20 percent is processed into a soft fiber filling for furniture, home insulation, car sound-proofing and more.

But what about landfills?

If S.M.A.R.T. recyclers find clothes that are wet, moldy or contaminated, they send them to landfills, Walsh said. The amount they send is small ― just five percent of all donations ― but it all adds up to the ridiculous amount of clothing waste in landfills nationwide. 

According to Walsh, nearly 95 percent of all clothing waste could be reused and recycled. We just aren’t disposing of it properly.

For starters, you should never, ever throw your clothes in the garbage, Medellin says. Instead, take them to a Goodwill or other donation center. If they’re wet, moldy or otherwise hazardous, then contact your city’s sanitation department and ask how best to dispose of them. 

Of course, the easiest way to prevent clothing waste is to avoid buying clothes you don’t need. Keep a clean closet, and a cleaner planet will be waiting for you later.

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Gwyneth Paltrow, the great polarizing health juggernaut of our times, turned 44 on Tuesday.

We’re sure she plans to celebrate by looking perfect in a completely hellish outfit and by drinking a cocktail of vodka mixed with the hair of fellow consciously uncoupled couples. But first, she took a no-makeup selfie.

Perhaps she has Goop’s organic skincare line to thank for that effervescent glow. Maybe it’s the $55-per-jar healing “moon dust” she mixes into her $220 breakfast smoothies. Or maybe she has finally started to wear sunscreen. Either way, we’d like to load her secrets into a $285 tote bag and run for the hills.

The selfie may be an indicator of more makeup-free moments to come from Paltrow. She explained to The Huffington Post in a statement that as she’s gotten older, she’s come to feel more comfortable with the skin she’s in, and has been “very inspired by the #nomakeup movement” making headlines recently thanks to fellow badass babe Alicia Keys.

“One of the most interesting things about being a woman is that around the time you turn 40, you get what I like to call a software upgrade,” she said. “Along with it comes some amazing new features, the roadmap to true self-acceptance, real insight into you are, and kind of not giving a s#*t about the things that are unimportant. You find yourself investing in relationships that give as much as they get, you start to get a sense of the true size of your worth (immeasurable), you start to like yourself for who you really are (warts and all). The future suddenly has scarcity to it, and the past is all over your face.

“I have been very inspired by the #nomakeup movement as the message behind it says, ‘Here I am, this is me. This is what I look like, this is where I am in time, and I embrace it.’” 

We’ll drink moon dust to that. Happy birthday to one naturally beautiful boss. 

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Mandy Moore has long been one of Hollywood’s sweethearts, but stayed largely out of the spotlight until recently. 

Now thanks to a starring role on NBC’s new drama “This is Us,” our ‘90s crush is back on the red carpet and our best-dressed list, too.

Moore has an affinity for classic looks in solid colors. And as the press tour for her new show powered through, so did her wardrobe. We’re looking at you, marigold Prabal Gurung gown from the Emmys!

We shouldn’t be all too surprised by her style savvy. After all, you did see the “Candy” video, didn’t you?

Take a look at some of her most recent fashionable moments below. 

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Let’s face it: You can have too much makeup.

Between the palettes, the lipsticks and the limited-edition releases, it can be next to impossible to resist picking up the latest and greatest beauty product. But, despite our obsession, sometimes it gets to be too much.

Our vanities and countertops appear to almost buckle under the weight.

So what’s the answer? Channel Marie Kondo and get to organizing, ladies and gents!

Trash the stuff you’re not using anymore or the stuff that’s old (check those expiration dates, y’all) and clean up what you’re keeping. Trust us, we’ve got some tips to take your makeup habits from garbage to ‘gram-worthy.

1. Get a Lucite or clear organizer with drawers.

You’ve probably seen Icebox on Instagram before ― their units are gorgeous and celebrities from Bachelorettes to Real Housewives have them. These are great because they’re the marriage of both organizing and functionality. A major reason makeup is often out and all over the place is because if it’s in sight, you’re way more likely to actually use it. The Icebox (prices start at $365) makes it so you can see your stuff, but also keep it contained. And, hey, this is what buying stuff for the packaging is all about, right?

2. Magnetize!

This one’ll take some crafting, but it’s way easier than you think! Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of how to make a magnetized makeup board of your own.

3. Put your perfumes on a cake stand.

Cake stands are lovely to look at and you can usually find them on the cheap at places like Target or HomeGoods. They also make your beauty collection look positively gorgeous. We love the beaded edging on this one.

4. Repurpose mugs and cups to hold your brushes.

Sure, mugs are great for drinking out of, but sometimes they’re too pretty to ruin with coffee stains! Anthropologie has quite a collection of vintage-y and/or detailed mugs that scream “put me on your dresser!” 

5. Make the most out of your candles, too!

Diptyque candle containers have long been used as holders for makeup, cotton swabs and the like. Which makes sense, because look how damn pretty they are. It’s also a great way of repurposing something you’d otherwise throw away.

6. Put your palettes in a basket.

Copper anything looks pretty, but a basket like this one does the same thing that the Icebox does ― you can still see all your stuff and you suddenly have a palette-bookcase. The small version of this West Elm basket gets an A+ from us.

7. Use mirror-plated or mercury glass trays to consolidate.

Mirrors and mercury glass are both super shiny, instantly adding glamour to any surface. They also look stunning in photographs. Wayfair has a ton of great trays to choose from.

Happy organizing!

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When “Clarissa Explains It All” first aired in 1991, it was, in at least one way, the first show of its kind.

It had all the qualities of a sitcom geared to younger viewers: an admirable, if sometimes irreverent, lead, and a moral lesson embedded in each episode. But unlike other shows of its time, “Clarissa” starred a young woman as its quirky, scrunchie-wearing heroine.

The year it debuted, the show was nestled among Nickelodeon’s otherwise dude-centric slate, which included “Doug,” “Rugrats,” “Ren and Stimpy,” “Salute Your Shorts,” and “Hey Dude.”

In a phone interview with The Huffington Post, Melissa Joan Hart, who played Clarissa, explained, “It was very much an industry standard. Women will watch men as a lead. And women will watch women as a lead. But men won’t watch women. So you lost half your audience. And I think ‘Clarissa’ proved them wrong on that.”

Although Clarissa is Hart in the eyes of fans, she said she narrowly landed the part, because the executive producer was opposed to casting a blonde.

“He thought blondes just instantly mean ‘airhead’ and all these other things. I was able to prove him wrong,” Hart said. “He wouldn’t let me audition, and finally he gave in, and fell in love with me.”

It was very much an industry standard. Women will watch men as a lead. And women will watch women as a lead. But men won’t watch women. So you lost half your audience. And I think ‘Clarissa’ proved them wrong on that.

And so did viewers. “I get a lot of men that remember that character, and loved that show,” Hart said, “men who loved watching her as a lead.”

The actress, who’s moved on, for now, to less comedic roles like the Christian drama series “God’s Not Dead,” said, “I love putting on hats, being different people, diving into different personalities. A little of it is playing dress-up, of course.” 

She’s not just being figurative about dress-up. Hart keeps a theater closet in her basement full of her favorite outfits from both “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”

“Anytime there was a Betsy Johnson piece on ‘Clarissa,’ I kept it,” Hart said. “I got rid of all my Dr. Martens, but I recently invested in some new Dr. Martens. Those were my favorite shoes to wear for, like, a decade.”

She’s been revisiting other ‘90s staples, too. Now a mother of three, Hart recently watched an episode of “Sabrina” with her kids.

“A few weeks ago, they were watching a show called ‘The Thundermans’ on Nick. It’s about a superhero family. I decided, hey, you know what, you guys should really watch ‘Sabrina.’ So I put on an episode, and they liked it,” Hart said. “They asked to watch it again. They watched the whole episode, all three of them. It was the first time I’d watched it, maybe ever.”

Hart ― who is currently promoting LiveHealth Online, a health care accessibility site ― also spoke about balancing her career with her role as a mother.

When asked whether she felt comfortable talking about her family life in interviews related to her work as an actress, Hart said, “Oh, I think it’s so important. You have mom-guilt that just runs rampant. If you have children and you’re working, you feel guilty that you’re not home. If you’re home, you feel guilty that you’re not participating in the workforce.”

She continued, “I’m just one of those people, I love to work. And I want to show my kids that work takes priority. It is a priority. My kids come first, but work comes second, and it’s a close second. I think it’s important to instill a good work ethic in our children.”

If that’s not a powerful lesson à la “Clarissa Explains It All,” what is?

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These babies are taking coordinated costumes to the next level. 

Jeremy and Ali Hynek are parents to 6-month-old Penelope, Ethan and Alejandra. The Utah parents call their triplets PEA (a combination of their first initials) or Sweet PEA and love to document their adventures together. As Halloween approaches, the fun is centering around costumes. 

“I’m a new mom and was really excited about dressing the babies up for their first Halloween,” Ali told The Huffington Post. “But I couldn’t decide which costumes to pick since there were so many things we could do in groups of three!”

Ali reached out to her friend Brittany Jepson, who owns a small DIY-focused business called The House that Lars Built, and the two ladies decided to work on a series of costumes for the triplets to give parents some Halloween inspiration. 

Drawing ideas from pop culture and traditional baby themes, Ali and Brittany put together the costumes through a combination of DIY and store purchases. 

“The most important thing to me was that we use a lot of pajamas since thats what every mom already has in stock,” Ali said. “I wanted to make costumes that other moms felt like they could make at home or at least would invest in the PJ’s and feel like they could use them afterwards!”

With the help of photographer Anna Marie Killian, the women documented their work and posted pictures of the triplets in their costumes on Ali’s Instagram and the House That Lars Built account. Brittany also put together blog posts that explain how to make each costume.

As for the babies, they “did beautifully” throughout their dress-up days, Ali said. “When you have triplet babies you have to be very organized so that everyone keeps their sanity, so I have very specific times that I was able to dress them up and change them so that they didn’t get to irritated,” the mom explained.

Ali added that her babies are used to being photographed because she likes to take daily pictures of them lined up in “PEA” order to track their growth and take note of little things that happened each day. “The idea was to use Instagram as a memory book for our family and then have the photos printed with Chatbooks as we go along,” she said. “I mostly want to create fun memories for PEA as the grow up and look back at their life.” 

As the photos reach more eyes, the mom simply wants her babies to bring others joy. “I hope people get a bit of a laugh at the very least and that it brightens their day!” Ali told HuffPost. “If they get some inspiration to make their baby a superhero or a ghostbuster, even better.”

Keep scrolling and visit Ali’s Instagram and The House Lars Built to see the triplet costume fun.

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Michelle Obama is a true fashion icon. From floral dresses to killer gowns to trendy jumpsuits, the first lady can do no wrong.

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, often gets the short end of the stick. Suits just tend to be less exciting than dramatic gowns, and standing out next to Michelle is a nearly impossible feat. So we decided to take on the herculean task of narrowing down President Obama’s all-time best suits.

The verdict? President Obama has sneakily become the most stylish leader of the free world yet. Here are President Barack Obama’s 26 best suits:

IT’S.

THE.

MOTHERF**KING.

TAN.

SUIT.

When Obama ran on the platform of “change we can believe in,” he was talking about this suit. Bravo, Mr. President.

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Senior pictures are something almost every high school student looks forward to, and for Kendel Divarco, it’s an experience she’ll truly never forget. The 18-year-old’s photos, taken by a local photographer, Lisa Campbell Schaas of PG Photography, were entered into a national contest ― and won. The prize? An all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas for a photoshoot with professional photographers.

Not too long after, Kendel’s dad, Vince Divarco, found out his company was having a conference at the same Sin City hotel, the Green Valley Ranch Resort, and the self-confessed practical joker knew there was something he had to do.

With his wife Shelly behind the camera, Vince decided to recreate his daughter’s photos to hilarious effect.

“We had been thinking how funny it would be to recreate it,” Vince, 53, told The Huffington Post.

The photos were supposed to be an inside joke but after Kendel shared them on Twitter, they were retweeted over 4,000 times.

“We’re so serious in our everyday lives we just try to have a little fun sometimes,” he said. “We’re always pulling something like that. Maybe we’ve outdone ourselves. I don’t know what we’re going to do to top that.”

Luckily, Kendel was a good sport and wasn’t too embarrassed by her dad. She even went so far as to say her father did a better job than she did. 

“When my parents sent me the pictures, I thought it was so funny. I was considering telling him he should start investing his time in modeling because he’s really good at it ― definitely better than I am!” Kendel told The Huffington Post in an email.

Seriously, Vince. We think you could have a second career. 

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