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Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Is Adorable In Annual Kentucky Derby Showing

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No matter who snags the crown Saturday, Dannielynn Birkhead and father LarryBirkhead have won for the sweetest dad-and-daughter appearance.


The 10-year-old daughter of the late model Anna Nicole Smith continued her annual tradition of hitting the Kentucky Derby red carpet with her father this weekend. Both were decked out in cream and pink outfits Saturday, with Dannielynn topping her outfit off with a headpiece perfectly suited for the festivities. 



The pair also made an appearance the night before, all dolled up in formal attire for the 29th Barnstable Brown Kentucky Derby Eve gala.



In an interview with the “Today” show last year, Larry explained that he’s not interested in pushing his daughter into the spotlight.


“People call me all the time and say can she be in a movie, can she model?” Birkhead said at the time. “I didn’t care about it, so I’d say no, she’s not interested. She’s just a regular kid.”


Dannielynn has been making the Kentucky Derby rounds with her dad since 2010, when she was 3 years old. Clearly, her love of pink hasn’t changed a bit. And neither has her close bond with her dad.


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Chris Pine Tries To Settle 'Hollywood Chris' Debate Once And For All

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Unless you’re a really dedicated fan of the Chrises in Hollywood, you have to admit it’s hard to keep them all straight. 


There’s Captain America, Chris Evans; Thor, Chris Hemsworth; Star-Lord, Chris Pratt; and Captain Kirk/Steve Trevor, Chris Pine


Got that? No? OK. Well, let Chris Pine help you out. 


During his opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, Pine performed a musical number set to Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” in hopes of helping viewers finally figure out which superhero Chris he is.







Pine sang, “I’m not that Chris / I look just like him, but I’m not that Chris / Not Pratt or Hemsworth / I’m a different guy / Not Evans either / I’m my own cool vibe.” (Nope, he’s not Ryan Reynolds, either.) 


Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon made cameos in the bit to keep the joke going before Pine finally belted out, “I’mmmmmmm Chris Pine!” 







Watch the full segment above.

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Farrah Abraham Sparks Controversy With Bollywood Outfit At MTV Movie & TV Awards

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Farrah Abraham caused a stir during Sunday night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards after she appeared on the red carpet wearing a Bollywood-inspired outfit, complete with henna art (mehndi) on her hands and a bindi on her forehead. 



Almost instantly, the “Teen Mom” star faced criticism from people on Twitter who called her out for cultural appropriation. As you may know, Abraham is not Indian, nor is she a Bollywood star. 














Abraham didn’t seem too concerned about the backlash though, telling TooFab that she wanted to “bring culture” to the red carpet and thought her look would “inspire others to embrace new cultures and have good experiences.”


She also said her outfit, which is admittedly beautiful on its own, made her feel “freaking amazing, Bollywood and sexy.”


Still, we can all agree that adopting another culture’s traditional dress and stripping it of context diminishes it to nothing more than a costume. (Has Abraham learned nothing from Selena Gomez or Vanessa Hudgens?)

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Note To Us Weekly: Lena Dunham Doesn't Have Any 'Diet Tips'

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Tip No. 1: How about we all just don’t. 


She’s said it once, and now she’s saying it again: Lena Dunham has zero interest in becoming the poster child for weight loss or dieting. 


In the latest round of media attempts to make Dunham into something she’s not, Us Weekly put a photo of the “Girls” creator on the cover of a recent issue with a teasing caption, “how she gets motivated,” next to a story promising “diet tips” in big, bold capital letters. 


Dunham took the opportunity to offer up some of her own suggestions over Instagram on Sunday with a list of tips ranging from “a quiet rage that replaces need for food with need for revenge” to “an election that reveals the true depths of American misogyny,” and “um, who the fuck cares?”


Our personal favorite? Dunham’s final tip, which sums up her thoughts on the issue: “I have no tips. I give no tips. I don’t want to be on this cover [because] it’s diametrically opposed to everything I’ve fought my whole career for, and it’s not a compliment to me because it’s not an achievement, thanx.”



20 slimdown diet tips! 1. anxiety disorder * 2. resultant constant nausea 3. an election that reveals the true depths of American misogyny 4. constant sweaty dreams of dystopian future 5. abdominal adhesions pinning ovary below uterus * 6. baseless but still harrowing threats to physical safety online and through smail mail 7. watching institutions you love from Planned Parenthood to PBS be threatened by cartoon mustache-twirling villains 8. finally realizing superheroes aren't real (specifically the X-Factor, really thought they'd handle this) 9. marching your ass off 10. a quiet rage that replaces need for food with need for revenge 11. sleeping 19 hours a day 12. realizing that even the liberal media wants dem clicks no matter whut 13. worrying ceaselessly about the health and safety of women you know and women you don't 14. realizing who ya real friends are 15. having to switch from Uber to Lyft (lots of calories burned trying to understand a new app, then even more trying to understand if the conflict was resolved) 16. bladder spasms, urinary frequency and urgency * 17. having your phone number leaked and violent images texted to your phone by randos under names like VERYFATCHUCKYBOY@creepz.com 18. keeping your back arched against the wind 19. um, who the fuck cares? 20. I have no tips I give no tips I don't want to be on this cover cuz it's diametrically opposed to everything I've fought my whole career for and it's not a compliment to me because it's not an achievement thanx * Star indicates a pre-existing condition

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Dunham has been the target of media fascination due to her apparent recent weight loss, which stemmed from her battle with endometriosis. The chronic disorder led her to seek out trainer Tracy Anderson, who helped counsel the actress in fitness to alleviate her pain and anxiety. 


After her appearance at one of Anderson’s fitness events triggered headlines around the internet about Dunham looking “happy and healthy” with before-and-after photos, she took to social media to reiterate how she doesn’t give the “tiniest of shits what anyone else feels about my body.”


“My weight loss isn’t a triumph and it also isn’t some sign I’ve finally given in to the voices of trolls. Because my body belongs to ME ― at every phase, in every iteration, and whatever I’m doing with it,” she wrote on Instagram in March. “I refuse to celebrate these bullshit before-and-after pictures. Don’t we have infinitely more pressing news to attend to?”

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The Best Looks At The MTV Awards Were Definitely The Wildest

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There’s nothing better than a red carpet full of risk-takers. Perhaps that why we look forward to an MTV awards show so much. 


The network’s always playful events bring out a fun side in our favorite celebs, sometimes to failure and sometimes to major payoff. We saw mostly the latter at the MTV Movie and TV Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night: Chrissy Metz looked amazing in bold red latex, Taraji P. Henson slithered her way into a backless silver stunner and Cara Delevingne made a strong case for the summer 2017 buzzcut, just to name a few of our faves. 


Check out the best looks from the event below. 



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Gabourey Sidibe To Fat-Shamers: I'll Police My Own Damn Body, Thanks

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Gabourey Sidibe has no time for body-shamers. 


The 34-year-old actress recently sat down with NPR to discuss her new book This Is Just My Face: Try Not to StareIn her book, Sidibe writes about her breakout role in the film “Precious” and her rise to stardom, along with the body-shaming she’s experienced along the way. 


Since her first big role in 2009, the actress has faced harsh criticism for her size. But Sidibe consistently shuts down haters ― and a chapter titled MYOB (which stands for “Mind your own body”) in her new book explains why. 


“It’s important because I don’t happen to have the kind of body that we usually see on television and in films,” Sidibe told NPR. “I am plus-size, I have dark skin and I am 100 percent beautiful, but I get a lot of flak. ‘Oh, you should lose weight.’ And now that I have lost weight ― I lost weight for health reasons ― I get, ‘You look good, but don’t lose too much weight because your face is starting to sink in.’” 


Sidibe said that it’s such an odd sentiment when people congratulate her on her weight loss. 


“Literally someone said, ‘Congratulations, I see you lost weight. Congratulations.’ And I say, ‘That’s a weird thing to congratulate me on because this is my body,’” she said. “And it’s not just the male gaze, it’s like the human gaze.” 


Her final response to haters? Perfection: “This has been my body since I was 5ish, you know? It’s been a 30-year thing of other people putting their own stuff on my body. But it’s mine, so I will police it, thank you.”


Well said, Gabourey. 


Head over to NPR to read the full interview. 

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Queen Elizabeth Drives Her Jaguar From Church

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Sweet ride, Your Majesty.


 Queen Elizabeth II was spotted driving her Jaguar back from church on Sunday.


The monarch had just attended a service at Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Park, The Telegraph reported.


She chauffeured a security guard as well.


According to the paper, the 91-year-old royal is the only person in the United Kingdom permitted to drive without a license. 


The queen first learned to drive as a mechanic in the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II, the Express noted. She’s sometimes seen driving her Range Rover around her Sandringham estate.


While Buckingham Palace announced last week that the queen’s husband, Prince Philip, was retiring from royal duties, it seems the queen still isn’t shy about a little DIY transport.


She’s no Sunday driver, even if she is driving on Sunday. 

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We Do Not Deserve Michelle Obama In This One-Shoulder Gown

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After what seemed like an eternity of abandonmentMichelle Obama and Barack Obama are officially back, both professionally and sartorially


The former president received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award in Boston on Sunday, and as always, Michelle was there to steal the show support her husband. 


She looked positively radiant in a one-shoulder royal blue gown. 



Mrs. Obama paired the look with a loose half-updo, matching blue earrings and that award-winning smile, which she flashed repeatedly as her husband sang her praises from the stage and we sobbed into our Cheerios. 



Blue has become somewhat of a theme for the former FLOTUS. The whole family matched in navy during Obama’s farewell speech in January 2017. 


Hey, when something works, it works. Go on, Michelle. Give us a subtle nod if you know you look flawless.





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France's Law Banning Underweight Models Is Now In Effect

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In 2015, France passed a law that banned excessively thin fashion models. Two years later, that law is finally going into effect ― and it has a few additional concessions. 


Fashion models in France will now need a doctor’s certificate to prove they are healthy. BBC reports that there will be a specific focus on a model’s Body Mass Index (BMI) ―  a measure of body fat based on height and weight ― though that will no longer be the sole determinator of a model’s health after massive protests from the fashion industry. Agencies that allow models to work without proper health certificates face a fine of nearly $82,000 and up to six months in jail. 


Additionally, any digitally-altered picture of a model must be labeled “retouched photograph,” according to BBC. This disclaimer will be required on photos beginning October 1. 


The legislation is intended “to avoid the promotion of unattainable ideas of beauty and to prevent youth anorexia,” according to a statement from France’s health minister. 


“Exposing young people to normative and unrealistic images of bodies leads to a sense of self-depreciation and poor self-esteem that can impact health-related behavior,” Marisol Touraine, France’s minister of social affairs and health, said on Friday via BBC. 


Spain and Italy passed similar laws regarding excessively skinny models in 2006, when the two countries banned super-thin models from the catwalk based on BMI. In 2012, Israel banned super skinny models without a certificate of health, proving they have a BMI over 18.5 (anything under 18.5 is considered underweight, according to the World Health Organization). 


If you’re struggling with an eating disorder, call the National Eating Disorder Association hotline at 1-800-931-2237. 

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Mother's Day Gift Ideas For Moms Who Have Everything

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Mother’s Day is near, and if you’re struggling to find that perfect gift ― or just realizing what day it is! ― don’t fret. We’ve got some ideas to help you bring your gift-giving A-game to Mother’s Day brunch.


Whether you’re looking to impress or just trying not to break the bank, we’ve got options for something fancy, just a thought and everything in between. [we’ve got options for every budget. Happy gifting!] 




A fun way to spend some quality time and your sugar fix. Groupon.com is a great place to find a cooking class in your area

Paint And Wine Night



Paint nights are a fun experience to give. Check Groupon or look for some local fundraising events in your area.


PERSONALIZED:
Custom Photo Phone Case



Personalize a phone case with your likeness and wow your mom completely. Hurry though, these orders may need a few days

Monogrammed Leather Sunglasses Case



Your mom may not have realized that she needed a monogrammed eyeglass case, but she does. Check out the many personalization options at Mark & Graham


HEARTFELT:
Funny Cards



Regular old greeting cards just won’t do the trick any longer. Browse through Etsy’s card options and find the perfect message to send to mom. 

 A Framed #TBT



Tug on her heartstrings with a sentimental throwback. Connect Framebridge.com to your Instagram account and easily upload and frame your latest #tbt. 


SOMETHING FANCY:
A Lovely Leather Satchel



A new bag is always a good idea. Get this Michael Kors satchel or one of the many other options at ShopSpring.com.


Blaze Smart Fitness Watch



This gift will certainly impress and may possibly require you to be tech support, but it will be a hit. And lucky you, this one is currently on sale.


SUMMER ESSENTIALS:
Aveeno & Neutrogena Sunscreen


 



Put together some summer essentials, starting with some sunscreen! Jet.com has just about everything you’ll need to put together an A+ gift.



SUBSCRIPTIONS:


A Gift Card Trunk Club


 




There are quite a few clothing subscription services out there, so take your pick. Trunk Club gives you the option to buy a gift card (available from $50-$2000) and let mom see for herself. 



 



Whether your mom is a big reader or not, offer her the option to listen to the latest and greatest books. Gift an Audible membership for three, six or nine months.  Next stop, podcasts. 


OLD STANDBY:
A Beautiful Bouquet


 





You can never go wrong with flowers and these farm-to-table flowers are especially great. Order a Bouqs.com bouquet and get free weekday delivery. 



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Chrissy Metz Destroys Body Shamers With A Single Tweet

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Chrissy Metz led our best-dressed list from the MTV Movie and TV Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night thanks to her ruffle-sleeved red latex dress and shimmery flat shoes. 



But just hours after she walked the red carpet, the “This Is Us” star fired back at people who apparently had something negative to say about her bold look.


“For the record, I wear what I want, when I want. News flash it’s MY body. #thankstho,” she wrote on Twitter. 






Metz has become one of our heroes, both for her style confidence and candidness about body image. But the fact that she felt the need to say anything at all about wearing what she wants is pretty absurd. 


To quote Metz, here’s a “news flash:” Policing what a woman should and should not wear because of her body is not acceptable. It’s not acceptable no matter what. 


Social media has made it all too easy for people to share such hateful rhetoric. For example, back in April, a swimsuit designer came under fire for commenting on a photo of Amy Schumer that “not everyone should be in a swimsuit.” 


Public appearances are part of the deal when you’re a celebrity, and of course everyone’s entitled to like or dislike a given outfit. But when it comes to limiting what a woman wears, that’s not up to anyone but a woman herself. To echo Metz again: Thanks, though.


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Celine Dion Ate A Hot Dog On The Street In Her Full Met Gala Look

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Celine Dion, our favorite source of style inspo and Rihanna impressions, wasn’t among the celebs caught lighting up in the bathroom during the 2017 Met Gala


But her night was still lit. And we know this because she spent it eating a hot dog on the street.  




Dion posted a shot of herself eating a street cart hot dog ― one of New York’s greatest delicacies ― while still wearing her Versace look for the gala. 


“Priceless! Late night hot dog in New York fully dressed in Versace!” she captioned the photo in both French and English.  


Her meal isn’t too far off the burgers that guests enjoyed at Rihanna’s Met Gala afterparty, but it’s decidedly more badass. 


Hot dog, we fall more in love with this woman every day. 


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Diddy Cropped Kendall And Kylie Out Of A Photo And The Internet Responded Perfectly

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Two members of the Kardashian clan faced a harsh crop treatment.


Over the weekend, Kylie Jenner posted a star-studded photo from the Met Gala to her Instagram page.



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The photo features Kylie, her sister Kendall, Diddy, Wiz Khalifa, Migos, Travis Scott and Jaden Smith.


Diddy shared it on his Instagram page as well — just with one tweak. He totally cropped Kendall and Kylie out of the photo and captioned it #teamlove #blackexcellence.



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It didn’t take long for people on Twitter to spot Diddy’s slick photo edit:






Soon after the shade was discovered, the hashtag #DiddyCrop and a meme was born:


















Kylie, Kendall, Diddy will not be missing you.

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Adorable Kids Recreate Met Gala Looks

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For over six years, photographer Tricia Messeroux has been recreating iconic style moments with adorable kids through a project she calls Toddlewood. Her latest photo shoot brilliantly tackles the incredible fashion at the 2017 Met Gala.


“I was excited but nervous to give the Met Gala the Toddlewood treatment,” Messeroux told HuffPost. “The Met Gala is the gold standard for high fashion and creative costumes by some of the most amazing designers.” 



Messeroux make-up artist Shameika Simmons, hair stylist Peta-Gaye Antoine and wardrobe designers Mo Glover and Quianna Mercurius to transform a group of kids, ages 3 to 6 into the standout stars of the Met Gala red carpet. 


The photographer said it took 48 hours to make the designs, and for the first time ever, she put her camera down to work on the costumes ― along with some help from Michaels craft stores and her daughters, Skylar and Sunday.



“Mini Rihanna’s dress was the biggest challenge, so I did it myself,” Messeroux said. “It was the best arts and crafts project my daughters and I have ever done.” Photos of “mini Rihanna” quickly went viral on Twitter.


Messeroux was excited to pay homage to Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons, especially because she plans to launch her own line of high fashion costumes called “Toddlewood Red Carpet Stars” just before Halloween.


“The line features costumes inspired by this year’s award season (Golden Globes, Grammys and The Oscars) as well as the mega event for fashionable costumes, The Met Gala,” she told HuffPost.



Messeroux said the kids had a blast wearing the costumes and posing for pictures. 


“The Migos boys were on cloud nine,” she told HuffPost. “We even put on the song ‘Bad and Boujee’ to keep their swagger going. Mini-Anna Wintour loved knowing that she was the queen of the night. Mini Janelle Monae loved the feathers.” 



Though the girl who dressed as Rihanna loved her outfit, she was admittedly happy to get out of it by the end of the shoot, as it wasn’t the easiest to walk in.


“All the kids had funny one liners and silliness like kids do,” said Messeroux. “Great day for dress up.”


Keep scrolling and visit the Toddlewood Instagram to see more of the Met Gala series and some behind-the-scenes photos. 


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The Anti-Aging Ingredient You've Never Heard Of That Will Transform Your Skin

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For W magazine, by Gillian Sagansky.



Two years ago, non-profit entrepreneur Leila Janah strolled into a small marketplace in Northern Uganda in search of a cure for her parched skin. She came across Nilotica balm, a cold-pressed oil which is derived from the locally grown Nilotica nut. Within hours she found her skin moisturized and glowing far better than any product she had ever tried. “I started using it and I fell completely in love with this ingredient,” she explains of her decision to start LXMI, her organic two-product line of Nilotica-based creams—one, a pure concentrated Vaseline-like balm, the other, a daytime cream.


Nilotica is the purest nut-based oil you can find, harvested exclusively from the 20-year-old trees that line the Nile River in an industrially untouched part of Africa. As a result, the nut maintains its purity and nutrients like essential fatty acids, vitamin A, and allantoin, an enzyme which promotes healthy cell development. She attributes much of her success to her knowledge of the people in the remote Northern Uganda region where she has worked for years, some of whom are local war widows who work with her as harvesters. “They earn at least three times the local wages so it is a win for the consumer, and a win for the community, who for the first time are able to earn an actual living,” she explained. Here, the beauty guru explains why this balm is all you need to get flawless skin.


First and foremost—what is so special about this nut? Why is it such a miracle worker for the skin?


Nilotica is a rare type of shea butter, but I don’t even call it shea butter. It’s as different as night and day from the shea butter that most people have. It’s special because it only grows at the Nile River, the only place the nuts grow wild. So the nuts fall to the ground and are collected by the women. It has 25 percent more oleic acid than traditional shea butter which is important because that’s the hydration component, so it’s packed with this essential fatty acid your skin needs. It’s good for acne prone skin, as opposed to products which strip your skin of natural oils and make your skin overproduce natural oils, which leads to acne. The texture is amazing, we add nothing to it, and we get a balm. It’s packed with vitamins A, E, and K, so it’s a great way to get these vitamins into your skin. The nut itself has natural preservatives, so it doesn’t require any other preservatives. Also we made the packaging black to avoid UVA rays from getting into the product and jeopardizing the ingredient.


Related: 10 K-Beauty Must-Haves for Flawless Skin


So why do you think it wasn’t discovered before? Why is this the first time? Other exotic oils like coconut and argan oil have totally swept the industry…


Our Nilotica has a special grading process, and we use a special extraction process which yields the best unique creamy texture and maintains nutrients. It’s also hard to do business in northern Uganda because it’s very off the beaten path. You take a 4x4 and you’re on the road for hours. It’s not something people are used to, and it’s hard to identify suppliers and build relationships you can trust. I had the advantage because I’ve been doing this my whole professional life, doing deals in Kenya and Uganda. It’s my greatest skill—being able to go into these places and scout. And then there was a civil war going on for twenty years, so it’s always been a dangerous place to go to on top of all of that.



So you harvest the nut in Africa, and then what happens?


We get the raw ingredients from Uganda. We would bottle it there but it would make it harder to get it to the U.S., so we use a great lab to put the raw ingredient in the jar, and make sure there’s no contamination. It’s part of our mission to have as few ingredients as possible, so there’s no preservatives in the Nilotica. It’s a nut that survives for years in the wild. In fact, if you leave the nut in a cool storage room without being shelled or processed, it will last for 20 years. We press it in order to keep the jar really pure, and make sure we’re doing it in a facility that’s extremely clean and regulated. The lab also specializes in developing natural formulas.


It’s great how committed you are to keeping it 100 percent organic and additive free. How did you arrive at this decision?


I was using these fancy creams I would buy at duty free, not knowing I was poisoning myself basically. If women are willing to spend $200 on a jar of skin cream, why wouldn’t you spend $200 on something that is the true definition of luxury? When I started researching Nilotica, I learned how toxic the other stuff was. Nilotica is completely pure and grows in the wild in an environment that has no industrial pollution of any kind, because there’s no commercial agriculture happening there. It’s the most pristine environment. So I figured, how do I build a business around this wild, truly pure single ingredient?


See the rest of The Anti-Aging Ingredient You've Never Heard Of That Will Transform Your Skin, including how you can eat this product straight from the jar on Wmagazine.com.


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Kendall Jenner’s Most Jaw-Dropping Looks


Throwback: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Domestic Bliss


Kim Kardashian Goes Fully Nude in W Magazine


Gigi Hadid Is REALLY Well Connected



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Is Happiness A Feminist Issue?

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In the American Declaration of Independence some of the most historic and lasting words are “all men are created equal” and that those are endowed the unalienable rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”


But what about those two tiny, seemingly unassuming words? All men.


If all men have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it begs the question: What about a woman’s right to pursue all three, specifically happiness? Feminist writer and author Jill Filipovic explores just that in her new book The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit Of Happiness.


“What I was interested in exploring in the book is not just how do we make women equal to men in a system that men have built for themselves, but what does the female pursuit of happiness look like?” Filipovic told HuffPost. “If women were writing that founding document, what kind of system and institutions would we build around it to make that promise possible for women as well?” 



What I was interested in exploring in the book is not just how do we make women equal to men in a system that men have built for themselves, but what does the female pursuit of happiness look like?
Jill Filipovic



In the book, Filipovic explores the intersections of feminism and women’s happiness over the course of American history: Why were women, quite literally, written out of the history of happiness? How does the notion of “having it all” effect women’s happiness? Has feminism doomed us to be unhappy in our pursuit of equality? Is happiness, in fact, a feminist issue?


For that last one, Filipovic responded that happiness is “absolutely” a feminist issue. “What we’re trying to do is create a universe in which women can at least have the ability to pursue happiness,” she said, “if not the ability to actually be happy every day.”




Filipovic spoke with HuffPost to expand on that response and answer more questions about the intersections of happiness and feminism. What she learned about women, happiness and feminism while writing The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit Of Happiness might surprise you.   


What prompted you to write a book about the intersections of feminism and women’s happiness?


The more that I reported on feminist issues, it became clear that a lot of what I was writing about underlined the bad experiences women have; so many of the ways in which our lives are made to be less good than they could be. It made me wonder: what does real hostility to female happiness and female pleasure look like? Everything from access to birth control and abortion rights, which seems really vested in this cultural disdain for the idea of women having sex for pleasure, to a lot of the advice that young women get about how to avoid rape, which is essentially saying don’t go out and have fun. There seems to be a real value in this hostility to women having good lives. So when I put those pieces of it together, it seemed like a ripe argument to make. And not just to say here’s the problem, but to at least attempt to make a real moral case for the good of female happiness.





In your chapter “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” you talk about how the concept of happiness, as written into the Declaration of Independence, wasn’t made for women. Can you talk to me a little bit about the history of happiness and how women were ― for lack of a better term ― written out of it?


When the founders were writing that all were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the only people that were actually entitled to those things at the time were land-owning white men. So it wasn’t even just men, it was a small subsection of the American male population at the time. The reality is that while men may not have been able to achieve happiness, they’ve had the ability to pursue it on the backs of free and invisible labor of women and people of color. The way that this system has been constructed, with this subgroup at the top of it, couldn’t exist unless you had the rest of us doing the legwork to make it happen.


What I was interested in exploring in the book is not just how do we make women equal to men in a system that men have built for themselves, but what does the female pursuit of happiness look like? If women were writing that founding document, what kind of system and institutions would we build around it to make that promise possible for women as well? 


In your introduction you write: “Women today live in a world of unfinished feminism, where we’re told we’re equal but see our basic rights up for grabs, where we’re told to push harder at work, or recognize we can’t have it all, or marry Mr. Good Enough.” Can you expand on this notion of “unfinished feminism” and how it impacts women’s happiness?


Obviously, the feminist movement has done incredible things for American women and women around the world, and it’s had massive victories. It’s obviously valuable to show how far we’ve come in such a short period of time, especially in the grand scheme of human history. But, it’s not complete yet. We’re living at this intersection of old cultural values that are really butting up against a more feminist world.


Most women do work outside of the home, most of us work for pay, we go to college and graduate college in greater numbers than young men. But our laws and policies ― not only have they not caught up ― but we have lawmakers who have intentionally blocked them from catching up as a way to essentially make it almost impossible for women to succeed in the modern world. And a lot of this becomes very individualized: If I feel overwhelmed by trying to raise children and have a job that must be my problem and my problem to solve. Rather than making it a collective, societal problem and creating collective mechanisms to actually make a more feminist life livable.



Women today live in a world of unfinished feminism, where we’re told we’re equal but see our basic rights up for grabs, where we’re told to push harder at work, or recognize we can’t have it all.
Jill Filipovic


You discuss the cultural definition of being a woman as always defining yourself in relation to others ― “she’s someone’s mother, sister, wife.” You coined this the “cult of female sacrifice,” which I really love. What are the consequences of this sacrifice?


I think what you see is that women are pushed into putting others before themselves, in terms of their sex lives, in terms of their relationships ― whether that’s a romantic relationship or a parental relationship or even a friendship ― I think it’s just ingrained in us. It’s almost an inability to get up in the morning and think ‘OK what is it that I want?’ It’s not just internal either, there’s this cultural expectation that women will do this. When women break that mold it can have really negative consequences. There’s been a lot of great studies that say that women don’t negotiate for more money and therefore they get paid less. But one of the reasons women don’t negotiate for more money is because when they do they’re perceived as pushy and aggressive and unlikable and they’re penalized for it. That to me is a pretty good encapsulation of a woman putting herself and her own needs and desires for fair compensation ahead of somebody else’s comfort. And we see women face financial consequences for doing that.


Another example is the advice young college women get about how to avoid sexual assault. Usually they’re told to not drink, to not go out ― basically, don’t do the normal things that everyone in your peer group is doing and that young men always do. If you don’t forgo this kind of pleasure, you may be punished for it. The punishment may be you get raped and the further cultural punishment is that everybody looks at you and says “What did she think was going to happen?” The consequences of this idea that women should always sacrifice their own pleasure or their own needs are pretty far-reaching and pervasive.




In your chapter about female pleasure and happiness you discuss sacrifice as a “central part of womanhood” that leads to a missing “road map for basic female demands.” How do you think this lack of guidance to demanding self-pleasure coupled with the “cult of female sacrifice” informs women’s happiness?


Obviously, one of the ways to be happy and to feel happy is through basic hedonistic pleasure ― stimulated in the five senses. Whether that’s eating a great meal or having a good sexual experience, all of these things are the kind of small things that add up to a life that feels good and happy and pleasurable.


Of course this does not apply to every single person, but for most people sex is one of the most pleasurable things that we do. For many women, sex is also a locus of fear and sometimes a locus of violence, and that obviously undercuts our ability to have happy and healthy sex lives. So does this idea of performative female sexuality and the idea that we’re sexual objects to be enjoyed by someone else. Women are told we’re not sexual actors to figure out what our enjoyment even looks and feels like.


You discuss how traditional “women’s work” remains undervalued and underpaid. How do you think this gap affects women’s happiness and pleasure?


One thing we know is that although money doesn’t buy happiness, economic instability does decrease people’s happiness. It’s only true that money doesn’t make you happy above a certain level. So when the work that women have traditionally done is both underpaid and undervalued the following happens: A) It makes someone economically insecure, which is a very quick route to unhappiness; and B) It means that women are less likely to derive the kind of identity and sense of purpose from their work that men long have. Certainly, for a lot of people care work can feel quite meaningful, but it becomes an issue when we send the message that that kind of work is not particularly valuable and is not valuable in part because women do it. We really undercut not only women’s paychecks but also our psychological and emotional health as it relates to our jobs.



Women are funneled towards certain options because our choices are constrained and then we’re told that we’re the ones doing the choosing and so it’s our responsibility. That’s the path that needs to be upended.
Jill Filipovic


In your chapter “Summer Sisters: Women And The Power Of Female Friendships” you write about the effects platonic female friendship have on women’s happiness and how, often times, they’re more integral to personal growth than romantic relationships.


Female friendships have always factored into the lives of women, but especially now when women are getting married later than ever before; when we live so much more of our lives outside of the nuclear family structure. Many of us leave our homes at 17 or 18 to go off to college or to go into the workforce and the average age of marriage for women now is 27. The average woman has a decade in there where she’s living at least semi-independently and where a romantic partner is not her primary outlet into the rest of the world. Even after we marry, women are much more likely to work outside of the home now than we used to. We have far more connection and especially in those formative years when we’re becoming full human beings in our 20s ― for a lot of women that happens surrounded by other women. 


And while female friendships are not new, the length of time that women spend single, living with other women and having them be our primary outlets is new. And that’s something we haven’t really caught up with policy-wise: how to recognize that often the chief person in your life is not a romantic partner.


It’s raised the bar for romantic relationships, as well. Most of my adult life I’ve lived with other women, so I know it’s perfectly possible to split doing the dishes and both take out the garbage. To be able to share space with somebody and have an equal division of labor, to love somebody and not only love them because you’re romantically attached to them, because you do have this enduring connection to both share the chores and share the emotional labor of the relationship: I think all of that leads to better romantic relationships later in life if that’s the path that you go down. It’s frankly one of the reasons you see women who marry after the age of 25 having longer-lasting, happier, more stable marriages. We learn a lot of these really valuable relationship skills from our female friends.


So, what does the female pursuit of happiness look like?


It looks like a policy landscape that opens up opportunity for women and doesn’t constrain our options and then tell us everything is about individual choice. I think by now our politics rely quite a bit on “choice” language ― it’s a choice to work or stay home, it’s a choice to have kids or not have kids, it’s a choice to eat what you want. This is all very individualistic. But because of certain policy decisions we’ve made, many parts of women’s lives don’t feel like much of a choice.


Women are funneled towards certain options because our choices are constrained and then we’re told that we’re the ones doing the choosing and so it’s our responsibility. That’s the path that needs to be upended. We need a policy landscape that makes real choices available for women. It has to be a collective, social and political effort to say that female happiness matters ― and male happiness matters, too ― and that one of the roles of government is to make people’s lives better. 


This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.



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Is Seltzer Bad For You?

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The Question: It is healthy to drink carbonated drinks like seltzer regularly?




The Answer: Be strategic with your La Croix obsession. 


Manufacturers add pressurized carbon dioxide to produce effervescence in a drink, which is essentially the process that makes those beloved seltzers bubbly and fizzy. This act of carbonation instantly makes the drink acidic ― and that acid can cause the tooth’s enamel to erode over time, according to Mark Wolff, professor and chair of the Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care at New York University’s College of Dentistry. 


Any and all acid in a drink can do this, whether it comes from seltzer, flavored sparkling water, diet or regular soda. Fruit juices, wine and coffee are all acidic, too, Wolff said.








Here’s the good news: Seltzer and flavored sparkling waters are better choices than fruit juice and soda. They are less acidic than other carbonated beverages and don’t contain added sugar. And, as you probably know by now, added sugar in beverages is not good for you when consumed consistently. 


While acid softens tooth enamel, the occasional consumption of acidic beverages is no big deal, Wolff said. Within a half hour after drinking, the mouth begins to heal itself as saliva actually hardens enamel back up, Wolff explained. 


But getting into the habit of nursing a carbonated drink could create a problem. 


“It’s only a big deal if [the carbonated beverage] sits and roasts on the teeth hour after hour after hour,” Wolff told HuffPost. “If I leave a bottle of seltzer next to me and I drink it for the next two hours, I’ve actually bathed my teeth in acid for two solid hours.” 


Wolff suggests to drink seltzer and sparkling waters in five to 10 minute bursts. This way, saliva can harden the tooth enamel again, a process that is disrupted if you’re consuming the beverage over a drawn-out period of time. Drinking through a straw can help as well, Wolff said.



Additionally, do not brush your teeth immediately after finishing an acidic drink. Brushing can further wear down already softened tooth enamel, according to The Mayo Clinic. 


So, seltzer and flavored sparkling sodas can be a better pick than other products as long as you’re careful. But it is just as good as drinking water? Nope. (But you probably already knew that.)


“It’s very clear that water has the distinct advantage that it rinses the mouth, does not add calories, does not add acid to the system and keeps us hydrated,” Wolff said.


However, we know plain water can get boring sometimes. Try infusing fruit or herbs into your H2O to mix it up. For example, this strawberry, lime, cucumber and mint water is a game changer.


And then have the bubbly good stuff here and there, rather than all the time. Your body will appreciate it.

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Dove Made Bottles Shaped Like Women's Bodies, And It Didn't Go Well

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No, no, no, no.


Dove recently decided to remind everyone that it is body positive and inclusive of all body types. How, you ask? By splitting women up into categories based on their body types. 


The brand is under fire for a campaign recently released out of the U.K. that features a “limited edition” collection of body wash bottles meant to represent different body shapes. There are seven shapes:



The phrase “beauty comes in all shapes and sizes” flashes across the screen along with images of bottles, some tall and thin, others short and curved. 


Perhaps Dove forgot that the very point of inclusion is to speak to women of all different shapes and sizes in the same way, and not based on what their bodies look like? 


Did the brand not realize that beauty is, in fact, one size fits all? Dove therefore has an opportunity and responsibility to not make women feel ostracized when they’re just trying to buy some freaking body wash.


It’s dark times like these that we turn to Twitter for answers. It did not disappoint. 






































Dove did not return HuffPost’s request for comment by the time of publication. For now, we’ll stick to our bottle-shaped body washes, thank you very much. 





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Your Nipples May Indicate Which Nude Lipstick Shade Is Best For You

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Finding your best nude might actually require you get nude. 


Dr. Travis Stork from daytime show “The Doctors” revealed on the boob tube recently that your perfect shade of nude lipstick may be the same color as your nipples


We’re not going to pretend like we didn’t immediately book it to the closest bathroom to investigate this theory. And from the looks of stories that have been written since, there does appear to be a pretty strong correlation between many lighter-skinned women’s nipples and nude shades that flatter them. 


But not everyone is convinced. Celebrity makeup artist Kari Bauce simply told HuffPost, “Ew, and that’s dumb,” and makeup artist Elisa Flowers explained to Refinery29 that a number of factors, including the fact that “the color or your lips and nipples will change with heat, cold and blood flow, not to mention hormone levels,” make this “more of a loose guide rather than a rule to follow.”


On top of that, many people have pointed out on Twitter and in comments that this trick doesn’t really work well for dark skin tones. “As a black woman. No. Just no,” one Youtube commenter wrote. 


This tit-alizing topic goes back at least to 2015, when Marci Robin at XOJane tackled the theory. She called upon her coworkers to give it a spin, confirming that while nipple-matching shades worked on some of her colleagues, they did not work for those with darker skin tones. 


Sigh. The search for the perfect nude lip continues. 


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Emma Stone Switches Up Her Look And Goes Back To Strawberry Blonde

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Emma Stone just traded in her red hair for a blonder ‘do. 


The “La La Land” actress was spotted rocking her new hair color at the Audi Polo Challenge in the U.K. over the weekend. Stone wore a gray and white patterned dress for the occasion with a black-and-white coat over her shoulders. 




Back at the Oscars in February, Stone had a much darker shade of red:




Even though she’s known for being a redhead, Stone is actually a natural blonde. In a 2011 interview with Popsugar, the actress said she dyed her hair red for one of her first major movie roles and it just stuck. 


“I had been blonde my whole life and I dyed it brown when I was 15,” Stone said. “Then when I went to the camera test for ‘Superbad,’ Martha MacIsaac, who was the other girl in the movie, had brown hair. Judd Apatow walked in and said, ‘Make it red.’”


Stone added, “They took me to a colorist and made my hair red. It’s just kind of been red ever since, except, you know, when it was blonde for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man.’ My mom’s a redhead. I think maybe there’s that, too; the coloring and the association with my mom being a redhead. I really liked that.” 


As Refinery29 pointed out, Stone’s new shade may have something to do with Stone’s latest movie role in “The Favourite,” which she’s filming in the U.K. We’ll just have to wait and see. 


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