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Beauty
5 TikTok Beauty Trends Skincare Experts Want You To Avoid
Daniela Morosini
29 Mar. 2022
Fashion
Want To Try The Balletcore Trend? A Former Dancer Shows You How
Bec Oakes
24 Mar. 2022
LGBTQ+
Are You Straight Or Is It Just ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality’?
Maggie Zhou
15 Mar. 2022
Entertainment
There’s A New Generation Of Queer Storytelling & It’s Found A Hom...
Unfortunately, if you were an Australian teenage girl in the 2010s, you might have been subjected to the torturous regime of being added to a year level Fa
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Maggie Zhou
Style
How TikTok Hauls Are Taking Some Of The Mystery Out Of Plus-Size ...
When the pandemic put a hold on in-store shopping, one of the leading complaints about online shopping was the inability to try things on before spending t
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Eliza Huber
Fashion
Meet The TikTok Creators Wearing Victorian-Era Fashion Every Day
Ivy Thompson first started experimenting with her style in middle school. She embraced the Japanese Lolita street style before, at some point in high schoo
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Frances Solá-Sant...
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Entertainment
Nepotism Babies: TikTok Is Obsessed With Famous People Having Fam...
Encircle the ubiquitous, chiselled likes of Lily-Rose Depp, Zoë Kravitz and Brooklyn Beckham and beside the fact that they’re all deeply, disturbingly a
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Maybelle Morgan
Fashion
Inside TikTok’s Clowncore, The High-Fashion Aesthetic You S...
If you follow fashion creators on TikTok, you may have seen videos dedicated to #Clowncore. As the name suggests, the aesthetic is inspired by attire tradi
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Kristen Bateman
Beauty
TikTok’s ‘Ski Slope Nose’ Trend Makes Me Want A Second Nose...
‘Ethnic’ noses are under scrutiny everywhere
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Abbir Dib
Living
TikTok Just Clamped Down On Misogyny, Misgendering & Content Prom...
TikTok has announced it is updating its community guidelines to ban content that promotes disordered eating. The app already removes content explicitly pro
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Nick Levine
Work & Money
Bad With Money? Finance TikTok Is Surprisingly Accessible (& Help...
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Pema Bakshi
Relationships
My Platonic Life Partnership Went Viral On TikTok, & People Have ...
Last September, my partner Renee moved from Singapore to Los Angeles so we could start a life together — a grand and undeniably romantic gesture usually
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April Lee
Living
Is Anyone Actually Having A Hot Girl Summer?
The beginning of summer was full of so much hope: 92.5% of people over 16 had received at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia. For thos
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Michelle Santiago...
Entertainment
She Created Her Own Korean Disney Princess Musical & This Needs T...
When most people think of an Asian Disney princess, there’s often one go-to: Mulan aka the Chinese heroine who doesn’t need saving but instead save
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Katherine Singh
Beauty
TikTok’s Lipstick Blush Hack Is Ridiculous — But It Works & Here’...
At Refinery29 Australia, we’re here to help you navigate this overwhelming world of stuff. All of our picks are independently selected and curated by the
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Jacqueline Kilikita
Beauty
Euphoria’s
Makeup Has Evolved & TikTok Is Taking Notes
Euphoria is back in all its glam and gory glory. The HBO show continues its chokehold on Gen Z with its thrilling storylines, completely impractical but ic
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Maggie Zhou
Books & Art
BookTok Is The Last Wholesome Place On The Internet
View this post on Instagram A post shared by ✰ Ayman ✰ (@aymansbooks) At Refinery29 Australia, we’re here to help you navigate this overwhelming worl
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Alicia Lansom
Entertainment
TikTokers Are Dressing Like
Euphoria
Students & There Ar...
At Euphoria High, Binge’s fictional doss of a school – a place of education blissfully void of teachers, timetables or backpacks viably large enoug
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Maybelle Morgan
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Fashion
With ‘Avant Apocalypse’, The End Of The World Is Kind Of Chic
It’s often said that there’s nothing new left in fashion; that everything we see is just a recycling of the creativity of days past. And though there
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Pema Bakshi
IYKYK
What Does ‘Yassification’ Mean? A Brief History Of The Queer Term
What do you get when you put iconic celebrity and pop culture moments and FaceTune into a blender? Yassification! No one — real or fictional — is safe.
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Maggie Zhou
TikTok
Why The Word ‘Mid’ Is All Over TikTok Right Now
In recent months you’ve probably seen the word “mid” on TikTok a lot. It seems to be popping up all the time in videos, captions and comm
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Nick Levine
TikTok
Where Did The ‘Gorgeous, Gorgeous Girls’ TikTok Trend Come From?
Self-deprecation is out, shameless self-love is in. In the era of hot girl summer and main character energy, Internet users are embracing a newfound confid
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Maggie Zhou
Work & Money
#CorporateTikTok Is The Place For Bored Office Workers
For corporate workers, the frustrations of the remote office are well known, from hours of virtual meetings that could easily have been an email to that on
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Katie Bishop
Living
Can This TikTok Ice Hack Help You Fall Asleep In 15 Minutes?
Fellow insomniacs: the answer to our sleep deprivation has been sitting in the freezer all along. At least that’s what TikTokers like @heyfrankiesimm
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Elly Parsons
Entertainment
TikTok’s Peach PRC Treats The Internet Like Her Private Diary
When Peach PRC jumps onto our Zoom call, I get to see the inside of her bedroom. She’s sitting on a giant pink blob that looks like a blown-up bubblegum
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Maggie Zhou
Food & Drinks
I Tried 5 TikTok Kitchen Hacks & These Ones Are Worth Your Time
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Living
Why Being Called ‘Musty’ Is The Latest Insult On TikTok
Being told you’re stinky is pretty high up on the list of hurtful personal insults. Being told you look stinky – on social media, for the worl
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Elly Parsons
Fashion
What Trying To ‘Look Expensive’ On TikTok Says About Us
“Okay I’m gonna tell you why your basic outfit is super boring and it’s not working for you,” says Maddison Collinge, a 25-year-old influen
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Bethan Kapur
Beauty
I Tried TikTok’s Jade Roller Foundation Hack & Here’s...
Many of TikTok’s makeup hacks are game-changers. Take the eyeshadow brush trick that pulls together perfect eyeliner in seconds, or how purple blush
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Jacqueline Kilikita
Living
On TikTok, Everyone Deliberately Sounds The Same Now
Things in my downtown apartment that just make sense… My friends and I threw a party, and this is how it went… Welcome to a day in my life in t
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Olivia Yallop
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