In December, Photographer Sheiva Glover asked students and teachers around her high school to pose for a project. Once she starts recording, she tells her subject “I’m taking pictures of things I find beautiful”. Their reactions are priceless.
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There are some things guys do that make girls melt. TAKE NOTES! Often it’s not the big, romantic gestures that leave the most lasting impressions on us, but rather the small tokens of affection. Most of the time, these moves are subconscious and an expression of your man’s feelings towards you. Who needs bouquets of roses and fancy dinners when you can have passionate kisses?! It’s often the little things that are guaranteed to make you swoon.
Body negative thought patterns can start when you’re super young, and as girls we’re taught and encouraged to nit-pick our bodies. Our bodies are to be seen as projects we’re always improving, which can turn into really unhealthy behaviors and internalized false beliefs about our self worth.It’s hard to undo the damage wherein we tie up our worth and potential for success in the same bundle as our body image. Even worse, the damage from thinking, “My body needs to be [fill in the blank] or I won’t find love and I’ll be worthless.” These demons are real and they can steal years of happiness, money, and health from you.
One Instagram celebrity is finally speaking out in a very bold way. User Essena O’Neill, an 18-year-old from Australia, is sick of the false facades she and other Insta stars have been putting up. She is so sick of it that she’s speaking out, editing all of her captions to be more truthful, and deleting images. Essena, who currently has almost 600 thousand followers, has said she’s been living a fake life to look good online – and she’s been completely unhappy doing it.
So, she’s speaking up. Like I said, she has changed the captions on her photos to reflect the truth behind them. She’s shattering the “perfect” and unattainable views we all have of Instagram bloggers who have a lot of followers, and it is beyond interesting. It’s also inspiring. So, want to know how to become Instagram famous? Here are 16 secrets no one ever talked about – until now. And just to be fair, we (the gurl team) added in the fake photos we’ve posted too, alongside Essena. This will make you think of Instagram totally differently.
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I'm 14 years old, 5'8 and 136 lbs. do you think it's possible for me to lose 20 pounds by August or September?
Hi there,
With a BMI of 20 you’re already at the lower side of a healthy weight. We really don’t recommend you lose 20 pounds, which would make you underweight. Losing a lot of weight very fast disrupts your hormones, especially if you are already thin. You are beautiful, just the way you are. Please stay healthy.
xo
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Keep things in perspective - instagram is curated and filtered to show people/things at their best and most radiant. It's the in-between, everyday moments that define our beauty and who we really are. Don't be phased by how other people intentionally 'look' in framed technology.
