28 Photos Take You Inside The Beauty Pageant For Girls With Special Needs
Inspired by the Special Olympics and her own experiences in pageants, Jordan Somer founded Miss Amazing in 2007 as a local pageant for girls and young women with disabilities in her home state of...
View ArticleLas Vegas Survivor: "I Don't Know If I'll Ever Feel Safe Again"
On Sunday night, a man opened fire at thousands of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. With at least 58 people dead and more than 500 injured, the attack is considered the...
View ArticleWhat We Know About The Victims Of The Las Vegas Shooting, So Far
Details are emerging about the dozens of people killed in Sunday's mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival. An off-duty police officer, a 20-year-old college student, and a nurse from...
View ArticleThe First Gay Couple To Marry In Germany Had Been Together 38 Years
On July 21, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed a bill giving same-sex couples the right to marry in Germany. Several months later, on Sunday, October 1, the law went into effect. While...
View ArticleZendaya Explains Why She Doesn't Categorise Her Clothing Line By Gender
It's generally considered backwards to separate people by gender, yet for some reason, gender segregation continues to be accepted in clothing stores and styles. Not for Zendaya. Her line Daya by...
View ArticleAlexander McQueen Diversifies Its Casting For The First Time With 2 Plus-Size...
Diversity has been — and will continue to be — a hot topic during Fashion Month. This past New York Fashion Week was groundbreaking in terms of body diversity: It was the first time 90 plus-size models...
View ArticleI Dated A Polyamorous Guy & All I Got Was This Lousy Sense Of Exploitation
We met on a Wednesday down the pub. My friend recognised him from his university days and shouted at him from across the bar to join us at our table, where we and our other friend were eating fish and...
View Article31 Ways To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness, Just By Shopping
As you well know by now, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; a whole month dedicated to promoting awareness, raising money and funding research into the disease which will affect 1 in 8 women in...
View ArticleStrangers Is The Show Nailing The Hilarious, Sad Struggles Of Adulting
Aspiring writer Isobel isn't anywhere near where she'd hoped to be at the inglorious end of her 20s. Newly single — and with a rent too steep to manage without her ex boyfriend, Jamie — she's stuck in...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About Glossier's UK Launch
After months, if not years, of eager anticipation from Glossier devotees on this side of the pond, the New York-based cult beauty brand is finally launching here in the UK, next week on 9th October.The...
View ArticleKarl Lagerfeld Recreates A Waterfall For Chanel SS18 Show
It wouldn't be the last day of Paris Fashion Week without an awe-inspiring set and spectacle from Chanel as the grand finale to a month of shows. This morning, Chanel surpassed all previous...
View ArticleRead This Before Getting That Tattoo You Saw On Instagram
With so many rad tattoo trends as of late — including detailed dotwork, watercolour tats, and hyper-realistic 3D designs — it’s damn near impossible to scroll through Instagram or Pinterest without...
View ArticleHow To Stop Worrying And Slay Your Workdays
Not everything that happens is in our control, and that goes for both good and bad things.Nearly every individual success that any one person has can be attributed to someone else taking time to...
View ArticleTom Petty's Daughter Turned Her Instagram Into A Touching Tribute To Her Late...
Tom Petty passed away on October 2 at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. At just 66 years old, the legendary musician died after suffering from cardiac arrest. The already traumatic event was...
View Article"What Happens To A Society That Cannot Grieve Together?"
Yesterday morning I was standing barefoot in the kitchen when a news alert buzzed on my phone: another mass shooting. At that point, the reports were just starting to trickle in. We didn’t know how...
View ArticleThis Photographer Documented 4 Best Friends In The Bronx For 2 Years
Editor's note: This story was amended on 9th October. Certain quotes from the interview were removed.Renell Medrano might have taken your favourite photograph, you just haven’t seen it yet. Once you...
View ArticleAmazon Faces Backlash For Selling 'Irresponsible' Anorexia Hoodie
Amazon is facing criticism for selling a hoodie that appears to promote and downplay the seriousness of anorexia, describing the disease as "like bulimia, except with self control".Although the hoodie...
View ArticleMoney Diary On Holiday: A Writer's Week In Paris, Not Writing (Much)
Money Diaries is the regular R29 series where we tackle what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. And so we ask all different kinds of women to map out their seven days in money...
View ArticleWhy Less Than 7 Hours Of Sleep Can Shorten Your Life
So you think you get enough sleep, do you? Think you can exist on six, maybe seven hours a night? If, when your alarm goes off in the morning, you feel as though you could keep snoozing, then you’re...
View ArticleA Step-By-Step Guide To High-Shine Eyes
Glossy lids have taken over. With Pat McGrath creating a high-shine blush lid at Valentino this season, and over 23,000 #glossyeyes posts on Instagram, it's fair to say the latex-look lid is here to...
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