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1 week ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
Let's be honest: there's nothing quite as awkward as unwrapping a present in front of your mates and realising it's… well, a little bit rogue. You know the type — those "unique" gifts that leave you smiling politely while secretly wondering if you've missed the joke. (No shade to my lovely friends and family, but a bocce set? Really?)Watch: What type of friend are you? Post continues below. After years of receiving everything from bizarre bath salts to novelty socks, I decided enough was enough.
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2 weeks ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
In big news to brighten your week, KIC co-founder and CEO Laura Henshaw, 33, is expecting her first child. The health and wellness entrepreneur shared the news in a subtle but sweet Instagram Reel on Thursday afternoon, posting a black-and-white video of her ultrasound accompanied by her trademark wide grin — and not a single word. Just a red heart emoji.
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2 weeks ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
It was TikTok star Tinx who cracked the case. "I asked my shopaholic community, 'Where's it from?'" she said in a video. "They all said Hanes. I'm 99% sure it's a Hanes Boys Tank."Not some niche elevated label. No. A pack of children's singlets from Hanes, the American version of Big W or Best & Less. And yet… she looked so chic. Listen: Lucinda Pikkat on what makes brands 'cool'. Post continues below.
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3 weeks ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
However, I just don't think counterfeiting is the way forward. Yes, it's nice to carry around a label everybody knows, but it's even nicer to carry something that is made with quality and longevity in mind. As someone who has bought very cheap bags and designer bags, it's actually my mid-range options that I reach for the most. I'm not as precious about them, they last the test of time, and they're very chic with their quiet luxury style.
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3 weeks ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
It was February 2024 in Saldanha Bay, Cape Town, when Joshlin Smith was seen for the last time. The six-year-old mysteriously disappeared from her hometown, sparking a highly publicised search for her. It would take over a year to see justice served. On Thursday, her mother, South African woman Racquel "Kelly" Smith, was found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking Joshlin, alongside accomplices, boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn.
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1 month ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
We all know that feeling. When the moisture, pressure and heat build in the inner corner of your eye, you try to blink or look up to stop it from falling. We all cry at some point in our lives. Some of us cry at weddings. Others cry when they're tired, or stressed, or when a friend opens up about their heartbreak. It's a universal human experience, and yet, it can be so different from one person to the next.
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1 month ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
I sat at a table in a brewery in Sydney on Saturday night when my phone went off with a Mamamia Instagram notification. There was a new post, telling me and my Millennial friends that Anthony Albanese had been elected Prime Minister. I watched on throughout the pub as phone notifications went off en masse. A very new-age way to hear an election get called. But it was also very apt, as this was an election unlike any other.
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1 month ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
Michelle said she had been "living in fear for the past year". After being threatened so many times, she had no confidence that the police could help her. Michelle thought she'd be happy when she first married Torrens in 2022, but it didn't take long for him to turn. "I could see a change, and it would just flip. It would just change automatically, like I can never predict it when it was going to happen," she said. At Easter in 2024, the pair split when things began to get dangerous.
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1 month ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
"Historically, the term Dandy was used to describe someone, often a man, who was extremely devoted to aesthetics and approached it as a lifestyle," author Monica L. Miller told The Met YouTube Channel. "It was imposed on black men in Europe during the 1700s as the Atlantic slave trade created a trend in fashionably dressed or 'dandified' servants. Free and enslaved black people came to understand the power of clothing and style and signalling hierarchies of race class and gender.
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2 months ago | 
mamamia.com.au | Cassandra Green
Some people are more at risk of burnout than others. @nursesibs I legitimately called my boss after almost 6 weeks of mental health leave to quit… forever grateful she was accomodating of what I needed to come back to my passion 🫀👩🏼⚕️ #nurse #nursesoftiktok #registerednurse #burnout #nursinglife ♬ original sound - Nurse Sibs Wonder why some people seem to float through life without batting an eyelid? It could be because of their personality traits.
