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Fashion
Plus-Size Influencers On Why Their Industry Is Being Sidelined
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11 Oct 2022
Plus-Size Fashion
Plus Size Women Are Reclaiming Cow Print After Years Of Fatphobic Jokes
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7 Oct 2021
Beauty
Makeup Is Important To Plus-Size Women. Why Does The Beauty Industry Ignore Us?
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24 Sep 2021
Fashion
This Is Where Ethical Plus-Size Influencers Actually Shop
The year was 2011 and I was a journalism student in university. My studies led to a part-time role at the now-defunct iVillage.com, a self-proclaimed “fe
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Beauty
For Fetish Models, Makeup Is A Way Of Getting Into Character
In the days of yore — when Tumblr was the social media platform de rigueur and My Chemical Romance turned adolescent angst into a bona fide culture — I
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Beauty
What Growing Up With A Pretty Mum Taught Me About Beauty
As I waited for my ride home from an after-school newspaper meeting back in 2005, I heard my English teacher ask “Who is that?” in a shocked to
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7 Stress-Free Smart-Casual Outfits For Rushed Mornings
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Plus-Size Fashion
The Complexities Of Wearing Suits When You’re Plus Size
I was 21 years old when my mother bought me my first suit. The matching skirt and blazer were houndstooth print, terribly ill-fitting on my plus-size body
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Mind
The Pandemic Has Fuelled My Compulsive Shopping Disorder
Upon hearing the news that the UK would be entering its first lockdown in March 2020, my instinct was to check social media immediately. I hoped to see how
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Fashion
What The ‘Death’ Of Skinny Jeans Means To Fat Women
Much like the year that preceded it, little about 2021 so far has felt expected. Never could I have predicted that the UK would still be locked down nearly
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Beauty
Here’s Why Fat Babes Are Deciding To Reclaim “Tacky...
During my third year of university, I spent a semester abroad in Madrid. It was there that I first saw Daniela, an older woman who lived in one of the flat
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Fashion
The Catch-22 Of Plus Size Activewear
On 1st January, renowned plus-size blogger, advocate and influencer Callie Thorpe shared a photo of herself on the cover of Cosmopolitan. For its February
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Hair
For New Mums Like Me, A Drastic Haircut Is Much More Than A Beaut...
When I first saw my cousin after chopping my very long, curly hair from bum-length into a short back and sides, she said she wasn’t surprised I had done
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Modern Queer Family
My Life Raising A Queer Family In The Lesbian Capital Of The UK
To fresh eyes, Hebden Bridge might seem like any other well-preserved former mill town in rural Yorkshire. Factories-turned-flats are scattered throughout
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Bags Of Style
Plus-Size Women On Why Handbags Made Them Fall In Love With Fashion
If you had asked me what I wanted for any birthday or Christmas between the ages of 14 and 24, I would have definitely requested a handbag. My collection s
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Beauty
Pin-Up Makeup Allows Fat Babes To Reclaim Visibility, Boldness & ...
When I was 21, I found a tube of matte red lipstick under my bed, which my sister must have dropped the last time she’d visited. It was MAC’s Ruby Woo,
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Fashion
Why Are We Still Judging Mums For How They Dress?
When my firstborn was a few months old, I dyed my waist-length curly brown hair into a bright red hue reminiscent of a fire engine. Emboldened by the trans
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Fashion
Why Plus-Size Women Are Reclaiming Cottagecore For Themselves
In a scene from 2019’s Shrill, the television adaptation of author Lindy West’s feminist, fat-positive memoir, protagonist Annie (played by Aidy Bryant
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Pride & Beyond: 4 Bold, Bright & Beautiful Hair Transformations F...
If there’s one thing self-isolation has made universally clear, it’s the value of community. Of course, community is vital for most of us but it’s es
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Fashion
On Rediscovering The Glory Of ‘Shapeless’ Plus-Size D...
After discovering the worlds of plus-size fashion blogging and fat liberation advocacy in 2012, I began taking steps to reclaim my own fat body, one of whi
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Body
Lockdown Has Exposed How Embedded Fatphobia Is In Our Society
“How are you?” I texted a friend a few weeks into the UK’s lockdown. When we last chatted, she (a social butterfly by nature) had been strugg
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Fashion
I’m Plus-Size & Making My Own Clothes Helped Me Reclaim My ...
When Lydia Morrow was pregnant with her son, like so many people she gained weight fairly quickly. Faced with a “full-on wardrobe makeover project
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Relationships
Fetishisation & Feelings: The Fat Girl’s Guide To Plus-Size...
When it comes to dating, I was something of a late bloomer. Around the time my friends started losing their virginities and acquiring partners, I alternate
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Beauty
Why I Let My Daughters Play With Makeup (Even Though No One Else ...
“I never used to let my daughters play with that stuff,” my neighbour, a pixie-like 69-year-old woman with an eccentric mop of curly grey hair,
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Dedicated Feature
5 People On How Their Hair Shapes Their Identity
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Beauty
Giving Up Makeup As A Fat Woman Taught Me Some Difficult Life Les...
I saw them before they saw me. As I made my way across the street to the local Co-op, I watched as one of the boys elbowed a mate and pointed in my directi
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Fashion
The Sorry State Of High Street Shopping For Plus-Size Women
As a plus-size consumer, I am used to not being catered to in stores, but as the winter months drew in, I needed a size 26 jacket. I assumed it would be pr
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Beauty
Chopping All My Hair Off As A Plus-Size Woman Taught Me Some Diff...
As I watched my hair fall to the grey tiles in frizzy, scattered piles, I felt a sudden wave of panic. The stylist took scissors, then clippers, to the lon
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