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Dorothy

Nov 10, 2018 in Beauty

Re: The Beauty Trap from Dear Alyne

I stumbled upon a video on Facebook, a shared video of a friend from Dear Alyne's page. It focuses on how we women do everything just to meet beauty standards, and this started years ago. Below is the video. I get her point. But, how can we change something that is deeply embedded in how we live today? Plastic surgery companies, tanning salons, beauty salons, make up companies are all establishmentz that scream "YOU SHOULD TRY THIS TO MAKE YOU BE PRETTIER". And of course, media companies also partake in this problem since they scream "YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS TO BE ACCEPTED." To be honest, I don't think we can achieve that goal of taking off the standards of beauty because it's not...

Dorothy

Nov 9, 2018 in Books

Book Reviewing: Starting Out

It's hard to be a book reviewer. Sometimes you run out of words, sometimes you can't even properly explain what you feel with the book, sometimes you even dislike the book but don't know how to be constructive about it. As I am starting out on all this book reviewing thing, I find it hard to list down priority books and which to read for another time; especially when the deadline or release of the book is months away. How do book reviews work? Well, for many reviewers that are starting out, we accept copies of books in exchange for an jonest book review. But for some who are with organizations/associations that hire reviewers, they are getting paid a certain amount. As for me, I am...