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Jan 20, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
When I got home, after internally analysing why my immediate reaction to her statement was to be a straight up b*tch, I realised that it was coming from a place of bitterness. Casey wanted a future that I thought we weren't allowed to want.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Stacey Hicks |Emily Vernem
"I don't know when the cabana gang started, all I know is that cabana culture has ruined my life," she wrote. (For legal purposes, I must remind you she was joking… kind of.) "And I know what you're going to say, 'We're just practising sun safety and being sensible.' Yes, yes you are. But how much shade do you need? What happened to the good ol' beach umbrella? I'm sure she's feeling super left out right now.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
So here's the thing — my face likes to betray me on the regular by turning into what can only be described as a tomato-meets-heater situation. And after trying approximately 47,000 products that promised to fix my rosacea (spoiler alert: they didn't), I've finally found something that actually works. No, I'm not being dramatic (for once). If you've got rosacea, you know the drill.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
But it wasn't until Mel Robbins got hold of it in 2023 that this concept absolutely exploded, becoming everyone's favourite way to deal with, well, pretty much everything. Her TikTok video about the concept has been viewed more than 19 million times, and has more than 2 million likes. @melrobbins Stop wasting energy on trying to get other people to meet YOUR expectations.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
Feyre apparently hates money and being safe, so she escapes and goes back to the spring court to be with Tamlin — except no one is there. There's a lot of blood everywhere. Finally someone with sense… one of the court staff members Alis explains everything to Feyre. Thank God for women. She said that Amarantha cursed Tamlin and for the curse to break he needed a human woman who hated faeries to fall in love with him.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
I, like everyone else, learnt about my attachment style in the past few years. There are three, but we all want to be a certain one (and we rarely are) — anxious, avoidant and secure. If you're an anxious attachment type, you have a fear of rejection and abandonment in relationships. If you're an avoidant, you withdraw from people who try to get close to you. If you're secure, congratulations, keep doing what you're doing. My attachment quiz results told me that I'm an avoidant.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
I probably should protect myself here and say something along the lines of "not all cabana users…" but I'm certain that it is actually all of you. If you're a cabana user, it tells me everything I need to know about you, especially when it comes to your social life. I just want to say… we get it. You have friends. Congrats. Some of us are lonely beach-goers with our dusty microfibre beach towels taking up as little space as possible so we don't intrude on the regular beach-goers' turf.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
"Personal Trainer — I feel like I just count to 10 over and over," one person said. "Project manager — I ask people if they finished their task and send emails when it's completed," added another.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
Well, well, well, look who it is… It's a $100 million Netflix deal come to life. It's been a fair few years since we initially heard about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Netflix deal, but then we were given a late Chrissy gift: a fresh new TV show trailer that was posted on a fresh new Instagram page (I still want to know how much she had to pay to get the Instagram handle @meghan).
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
mamamia.com.au | Emily Vernem
The only issue I had was that my face didn't feel squeaky clean. Because the product also acts as a face mask, it feels like you're washing off a moisturiser which leaves an uncomfortable feeling, like I haven't scrubbed it all off. Putting that feeling aside, as per instructions, I mixed another pea-sized amount with a bit of water and cleansed my face with it. It turned into a milky texture which I vibed, as it felt like a normal cream-based cleanser.
