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Why I Chose Non-Flat Top Surgery – & How It Changed My Life
Yassine Senghor
11 Feb 2022
Beauty
Do We Really Need A Body Care Routine?
Erika Stalder
1 Feb 2022
Body
The Truth About Young People & Varicose Veins
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
28 Jan 2022
Wellness
How Can We Know So Little About Clitorises?
wherever there is a gender health gap it is underpinned by a research and data gap!
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Sarah Graham
Living
Why Is It So Embarrassing To Fall Over In Public? A Very Serious ...
Channelling my inner Jane Fonda, I recently decided to partake in some mid-commute step aerobics and walk up an escalator for once – a rare outing f
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Elly Parsons
Health News
My Cervix Went Into Shock: How Painful Coil Fittings Are Causing ...
An unknown number of women are experiencing vaginismus after painful contraceptive coil (also known as IUD (intrauterine device)) fittings. Vaginismus is a
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Ella Glover
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TV Shows
You Are What You Eat
Should Have Stayed In 2007
There are three things you think of when someone mentions Gillian McKeith: her fainting spell on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Gemma Collins shouti
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Gina Tonic
Body
As A Plus-Size Woman, I’ll Never Be Comfortable With The Wo...
The other week, before I had even had breakfast, I was called ‘fat’ by three different people. Once by an internet troll (easily disregarded) and twice
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Rose Stokes
Relationships
“Just Because I Am Ill Does Not Mean I Love Less”: Wh...
My boyfriend washes my hair, cooks my dinner, cleans our home and collects the post. He is not some kind of superhero; he is just doing the things I can’
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Hannah Turner
Body
Pelvic Congestion Syndrome Is Ruining My Life – But Doctors Won...
When it comes to chronic pain getting the condition taken seriously, let alone identified, can be as draining as dealing with the pain itself. This is espe
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Body
Pale & Numb Fingers? You Might Have Raynaud’s Disease
Much in the way that Karen’s boobs in Mean Girls apparently know when it’s about to rain, I know when a cold snap is about to hit (or if the heating is
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Wellness
What Christmas Is Like As The Child Of An Alcoholic
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Jess Commons
Body
Can Access To Green Spaces Really Combat PMS?
I remember once watching my friend slowly slump to the ground, just like they do in the movies, and audibly wail because the ‘good’ pizza place
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Pema Bakshi
Body
What I Learned About My Friendships When I Became Disabled
It took an instant for my entire life to change. When I look back, the memory is always black and white; spring flowers poking hopeful heads through the ta
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Louise Jensen
Mind
TikTokers Are Raising Awareness Of Vomit Phobia
“There’s a name for that!” This is a frequent comment under TikTok videos in which the creator is discussing their all-consuming fear of
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Elly Parsons
Beauty
My Keloid Scars Went TikTok Viral. Here’s How I Really Feel...
Growing up, I found it difficult to escape the overwhelming, picture perfect, Instagram-filtered beauty standards that drowned out any semblance of reality
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Yasmine Summan
Mind
I Feel Increasingly Weird About My Face
I contain multitudes. Or rather, my iPhone camera roll does. If I click on the album simply labelled ‘selfies‘ which the pocket computer I carr
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Vicky Spratt
Sex
How Cancer Changed My Sex Life
When Rebecca, 31, was diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2019, her sex life with her partner was a welcome distraction. “We were like teenagers ag
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Elizabeth Bennett
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Beauty
What It’s Like To Work At The “Cult Of Lush” (By An E...
Walking into any Lush store is a bit like experiencing a fever dream: vibrant, loud and a total onslaught on your senses. That’s not a bad thing, of
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Jacqueline Kilikita
Body
The Truth About ‘Winterising’ Your Vagina
The idea that seasonal changes could affect vaginal health makes sense — kind of. Anyone who’s ever sat around for too long in a wet swimsuit
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Molly Longman
Beauty
‘Fat Freezing’ Isn’t The Only Beauty Treatment Disfig...
In a move that shocked us and reignited debate about the safety of cosmetic surgery procedures, legendary ’90s supermodel Linda Evangelista recently
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Amy Sedghi
Body
You’ve Probably Been Doing Pelvic Floor Exercises All Wrong
When was the last time you exercised your pelvic floor? And no, it doesn’t count if you gave it a quick squeeze as you read that last sentence. Experts r
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Sarah Graham
Wellness
‘You Don’t Trust Your Body Anymore’: How Breast Cancer Warps Surv...
For the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world, there’s still a lot of hushed whispers around breast cancer. Beyond diagnosis, surgery, and treatmen
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Maggie Zhou
Beauty
What Is A Comedone Extractor — & How Does It Work?
At Refinery29, we’re here to help you navigate this overwhelming world of stuff. All of our picks are independently selected and curated by the editorial
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Megan Decker
Wellness
How To Become A One-Drink Wonder
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Lauren Bravo
Wellness
It Took Me Years To Realise That Racism Was Fuelling My Eating Di...
Content warning: This article discusses disordered eating in a way that some readers may find distressing. I’m a 19-year-old Indian Australian who ha
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Varsha Yajman
Body
Your Hip Dips Are Not A Problem & They Don’t Need To Be Fixed
Like most people, I didn’t realise I had hip dips until I saw someone else freaking out about them on social media. In 2017 I joined a Facebook fitness g
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Diyora Shadijanova
Beauty
I'm A Beauty Editor & These Are The Only Products I'll Travel With
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Jacqueline Kilikita
Body
How To Stop Bum Spots
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Stevie Martin
Body
The Truth About The COVID Vaccine Changing Your Boob Size
Misinformation and medical myths have plagued the COVID-19 vaccine rollout since it began. Unfounded claims that the jabs contain toxic chemicals, can R
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Lydia Morrish
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