“Vagina wig.” Never forget.
It's safe to say many of us feel some sort of way about The L Word.
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Can You Remember These Scenes From "The L Word"
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The Floral Afro Is The Perfect Summer Wedding Style
Because it is the PRETTIEST.
Wedding season is here and that means you're probably going to need to look fancy at least once in the next few months.
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And for anyone rocking their natural curls, a floral-topped afro is a pretty (and simple!) way to look celebratory for summer events.
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Stylists Roxie Hunt and Corrina Yu told BuzzFeed Life that floral afros "will be major this summer."
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You could opt for a classic and romantic style...
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9 Feature Stories You Can't Miss This Week: Roots, Rivals, And Revolutionaries
This week for BuzzFeed News, David Peisner finds out what happens to a revolutionary after the revolution is over. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
Ramy Essam Needs to Stay Famous So He Doesn’t Get Killed — BuzzFeed News
In 2011, at age 23, Egypt's "singer for the revolution" was widely credited with helping to overthrow a dictator. Four years later, a brutal military crackdown has all but destroyed the country's youthful protest movement. Meanwhile, its hero is biding his time in a faraway country undergoing its own right-wing uprising, wondering how — or if — he can still help the cause. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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The Boy Who Burned Inside — The Boston Globe
Marco Flores was just nine years old when a neighbor in his East Boston neighborhood began sexually abusing him. Maria Cramer discovers how, after years of suffering in silence, Flores took matters into his own hands — and radically reinterpreted what it means to be a victim. Read it at The Boston Globe.
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This Is What It’s Like to Fall in Love With a Woman Who Doesn’t Exist — BuzzFeed News
Leah Palmer was a high-flying fashionista with a jet-setting lifestyle and a host of admirers on social media. But, as Patrick Smith finds, her entire existence was a fraud – a multiyear hoax that depended on stealing someone else’s life. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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Under the Skin — Los Angeles Magazine
Greg Nichols chronicles how the competition for business between Dawn DaLuise and Gabriel Suarez, two Hollywood aestheticians, turned very, very ugly. After being deluged with a slew of increasingly graphic and harassing behavior, was DaLuise's idea to "take Gabriel out" an offhand comment, or an indication of a much more sinister plan by a woman who'd had enough? Read it at Los Angeles Magazine.
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"Mad Max" Fans Are Swarming An Amazon Listing For Edible Silver Spray And It's Hilarious
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19 Vicente Fernandez GIFs For Absolutely Any Situation
The king has arrived.
When you think you're opening a love letter from your crush, only to realize it's just a piece of paper with a dick drawn on it by one of your friends.
When you're eating a burrito from Chipotle and a piece of aluminum foil gets stuck to the tortilla, but you don't notice it, so you bite on it with your molars and it hurts real bad.
When you walk out of the house like a boss, but you quickly realize that you forgot your keys.
That moment when the shrooms finally kicked in.
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If Men Had Periods, The World Would Be A Very Different Place
Manpons!
Wateraid wants to raise awareness to the 1.25 billion women who do not have access to toilets during their period. They surveyed 2,000 people about how different the world would be if men had periods instead of women to help promote their cause.
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Of the 2,000 people surveyed, many believed that if men had periods, they would be considered a sign of virility.
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Manpons would obviously be designed by NASA and would be XTREME.
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#imonmyperiod would probably trend regularly on Twitter, and tampon adverts would be fronted by celebrities.
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People Try A Smart Ring That Controls Your Phone
“Does this mean I’m marrying a machine?”
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Memories Of A Chinese Restaurant Childhood
Being one of the few Asians in my school was hard enough. Working at my parents’ Chinese restaurant didn’t make it any easier.
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Snot gushed from my nostrils as I heaved giant sobs and tried to steady my breathing. I felt so ugly propped on a barstool inside my parents' dingy restaurant. My Chinese textbook laid open on the counter before me, mocking me. In between sniffles, I continued to read aloud from it, jumping slightly every time my mom interrupted.
"Cuo le!" she barked. That means "wrong." I was used to being wrong. At 13, I'd sort of accepted that I'd never be right in my mother's eyes. My fastidious, self-sufficient mother, who'd immigrated to the United States at 20 after marrying my dad and leaving behind her family in Hong Kong.
It was a Sunday, the only day of the week I had neither regular school nor Chinese school. I went to Chinese school, an hour away from my house, every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. My classmates and I spent most of that time reading through a passage with help from our teacher. I hated waking up early on a weekend, commuting, and spending what felt like every second of the day with my mother, but Sundays weren't all that better. At 11 a.m. that day, I'd gone with my mom to China Inn, the restaurant my parents opened when they first moved to Pennsylvania in 1983. Now, 21 years later, as she made all the necessary provisions for lunch, my mother also used this time to quiz me on what I'd learned in Chinese school the previous day.
"How do you still not know this?" she spat in Mandarin, furiously circling all the words I couldn't read from that week's lesson. Although she hadn't said anything particularly cruel, her tone was scathing so every word felt like the lash of a whip. "If you don't learn these words by the end of today, don't even think about doing anything else!" Resentful but too tired to resist, I wrote and rewrote the characters, while also devising mnemonics for remembering them so that I'd pass inspection at the day's end. This scene was repeated pretty much every week.
But as strict and demanding as she is, my mom is not and has never been a ruthless tiger mother. After marveling over what a sensitive kid I was, she would feel sorry for me and explain that all of this tough love was for my own good. "One day you'll understand and thank me" were how the conversations always ended, as she pushed a bowl of rice porridge and shrimp dipped in soy sauce near me. "Eat!" No matter how frustrated she got, she would never let a child go hungry.
Although it's been over a decade since China Inn closed down, I can still vividly recall every detail about the place, especially that taproom where I'd spent so many years of my childhood. An ornate mirror hung on the wall of the stuffy room, which reeked of cigarettes. The surface of the L-shaped bar was usually sticky and lined with an old red cushioning that I'd pick at for hours while pretending to study.
And when I wasn't studying, I was working. Over the years, more Chinese families moved into town, opening up their own businesses. Due to the increase in competition, my parents were forced to lay off employees and put me to work.
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At China Inn, I was terrified of seeing anyone from school, especially those with whom I'd never interacted but was forced to greet. I thought it was unfair that I had to be in a smelly Chinese restaurant serving others while all my friends were out doing whatever typical teenagers do. It only made me feel more alienated from my mostly white peers — some of whom were my friends but no one I could relate to 100 percent. Whereas the other kids in school had grown up familiar with classic pop culture like The Beatles and The Brady Bunch, I knew all the words to popular Chinese folk songs and watched dramas set in Imperial China with my mom. My friends whispered secrets and giggled over jokes that I'd often miss, because conversation was harder for me as a kid who thought first in Mandarin and then in English. And football was their religion. Family was mine.
I'd known that I was different since a friend pointed it out to me in first grade. She'd tapped me on the shoulder, and when I turned to look at her, pulled the corners of her eyelids into slanted slits. From that point on, I dodged anyone's questions and avoided conversations about my ethnicity as not to draw attention to my differences. It wasn't that I wanted to blend in with my peers or erase my culture. I just didn't want my heritage to be the only thing that defined me.
But as I grew up, things only got more confusing. I wanted to be accepted by my peers, and I wanted to appease my parents. But there was a part of me that wanted to be my own person, which meant disappointing my parents. Instead of a disciplined, studious child and dutiful daughter, they got a kid who was content to slack off and scribble absentmindedly on the backs of placemats. The ones at China Inn had the Chinese zodiac on them.
According to those placemats, I am a goat — creative, timid, reserved, "compatible with boars and rabbits, but never the ox." The description was actually quite apt. Carefree and contemplative, I was a dreamer, not a doer. I quit ballet after just one recital, which is a lot longer than my stint in gymnastics and violin lessons. In school, I did what I could to get by with no desire to be the best, much to my mother's frustration. And though I never outright disobeyed my mother, I often fought with her.
Through tears, I would protest: "Why do I have to learn Chinese and study so much? I'm an American. I live in the 'States, and here, people speak English, and they go out." She would remind me that like her, I had yellow skin and slanted eyes. Because of that, nothing would ever come easy for us. "We've got to work twice as hard to get ahead!"
To my mom, there was always something I could be working on, if not refining my Chinese then working on SAT practice questions to raise my score. Her idea of constant improvement terrified me, as I had grown content with being average. More than anything, being average was something I could claim as my own. It was my personal way of quietly countering against a mother who wanted so badly for her kid to be an obedient, refined, and high-achieving daughter.
It was also my way of standing out as the middle child. My brother, who is 8 years older, had already lived through those tumultuous years of fighting with my parents. I doubt he wanted to relive them through consoling me. Then there was my younger sister, who was something of a child prodigy in my parents' eyes, so it's not like I could turn to her for comfort. But even if I had someone to talk about this with, I'm not sure I would have had the words for it back then.
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Oh My God, Johnny Depp's Daughter Is So Gorgeous
And probs cooler than all of us.
So you probably know that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are ~married~.
Good lookin' couple right there.
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But before Amber, there was Vanessa. Vanessa Paradis, that is.
They dated from 1998 to 2012.
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Johnny and Vanessa had two kids: Lily-Rose and John III (but he goes by Jack).
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Can You Guess How "Lil" These Rappers Actually Are?
Lil did you know!
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Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid, And Martha Hunt Accidentally Re-Created The "Bad Blood" Music Video
~oopsies~.
Have you seen Taylor Swift's music video for "Bad Blood"?
You probably should, because it is awesome.
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So lemme ask you a question: Does this photo remind you of anything?
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You sure? Just Gigi Hadid and Martha Hunt walking next to Tay?
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Here, let the pop star help you connect the dots.
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People Are Angered By What They Say Is A School's Sexist, Fat-Shaming Dress Code For Graduation
“We don’t want to see your ‘sausage rolls,’” the dress code memo told female students.
Many students at Biglerville High School in Adams County, Pennsylvania, are upset about the language used on a memo detailing the dress code requirements at their upcoming graduation ceremony.
Biglerville senior Brianna Burtop posted the note on Facebook highlighting some of the choice language.
"Choose modest attire. No bellies showing, 'keep the girls' covered and supported, and make sure that nothing is so small that all your bits and pieces are hanging out. Please remember as you select an outfit for the awards assembly that we don't want to be looking at your 'sausage rolls' as Mrs. Elliot calls them. As you get dressed remember you can't put 10 pounds of mud in a five-pound sack."
Burtop was angered at the stipulations, which she saw as insulting. After she posted the memo to Facebook, others also voiced their displeasure:
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21 Totally Underrated Places To Shop For Bathing Suits Online
You’ll wish you knew about these secret-weapon shops sooner.
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$80
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Can You Spot The 33 Velociraptors Hiding In This Photo Of NYC?
“I love New York in the spring!” - velociraptors
Here is the breakdown of how many times each velociraptor variety appears in the photo. If you give up, scroll to the bottom!
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Click below for Level 1 Answers:
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Click Below For Level 2 Answers:
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27 Easy Dessert Dips That Anyone Can Make
Baked goods are such overachievers.
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Samoa Dip
Unlike the cookies, this dip is available all year long. Recipe here.
Copycat Auntie Anne's Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Bites with Cream Cheese Dip
Mallrats rejoice. Recipe here.
4-Ingredient Nutella Cheesecake Dip
Three supporting cast members, one irresistible ~superstar~. Recipe here.
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Can We Guess Your Age Based On Your Opinions About TV Love Triangles?
Two is company, but three’s a crowd.
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Meet The Men Currently Taking The Longest Flight Ever Powered Only By The Sun
When asked what would happen if there wasn’t enough sun to power the plane over the Pacific ocean the pilot responded, “We have a life raft.” BuzzFeed News spoke to the pilots just before taking off on the longest and most dangerous part of the journey.
They began in Abu Dhabi and will fly over Asia, America, Europe, and Africa before returning again to the Middle East.
When BuzzFeed News talked to the pilots, they were exactly halfway through the epic trip in their plane, the Solar Impulse 2.
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The upcoming flight is the longest and most dangerous. It's also the furthest a solar-powered plane will have ever flown, and the Solar Impulse 2's first cross-ocean journey.
"The six legs we've done so far have been great, but we've done them all before," 62-year-old pilot André Borschberg, who will be single-handedly flying the plane over the seventh stretch, told BuzzFeed News. "This is the exciting part, this is the proof. This is the unknown."
The seventh leg of the journey will last five consecutive days and nights, from China to Hawaii, most of which will be over the Pacific ocean. The other pilot, Bertrand Piccard, 57, will meet him in Hawaii and take over for the flight to Phoenix.
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21 Wedding Photo Backdrops You Can Make Yourself
Set one up at your reception and let your guests go crazy. Ranked from easiest to hardest.
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Fresh Flower Wall
You can order flowers from your florist, or buy them at the grocery store the day-of. See how to make it here.
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Giant Balloon Heart
This heart is so simple to make that you could set up a few hearts in different colors and at different heights. Get the step-by-step here.
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The Hardest Game Of "F&^%, Marry, Kill" For Anybody Who Is Attracted To Hot Ladies
Can you make it all the way through?
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Which Celebrity Is In The Box?
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