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1 week ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
“You can tell immediately when a bra is actually designed for a larger bust.” At Fashion Journal, we’ve published a lot of stories about big boobs – showing them off, giving them support, getting them reduced, protecting them from disease. You name the boob topic, we’ve covered it. But there’s one question that’s always on our minds: Which Australian and New Zealand brands are fashion people turning to to find bras for bigger boobs?
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1 week ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
No Dyson needed. I’m a victim of beauty burnout. After the daily hair straightening and mascara applications of my teenage years and the routine waxes and photoshoot preparation of my modelling years, I’ve become exhausted with the effort it takes to be beautiful. Recently, though, I’ve been dipping my toe back in with one caveat – anything new I add to my routine must have an acceptable results-to-effort ratio. Last night, I decided to see if overnight heatless curls fit the bill.
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1 week ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
IMAGE VIA @CAPYBARA.BATHING/INSTAGRAMWORDS BY MARYEL SOUSA Wash your worries away. There is a reason the bathhouse tradition has endured for millennia. According to the BBC, bathhouses are a cultural fixture that have outlived empires, belonging not to a single country but to all people. We gather at the bathhouse for relaxation, spiritual renewal and connection with others. Over the past year, we’ve seen a surge in the bathhouse’s popularity, which isn’t exactly a surprise.
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1 week ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
“I don’t want it to simply transport me but to totally transform me.” Capturing intangible, sensory details in words is one of a writer’s greatest challenges. Scent is just as valuable as sight – it evokes powerful emotions, memories and personas – yet it’s so much more difficult to describe. And finding a scent that captures the essence of who you are, all your beautiful complexities, can be an equally monumental task.
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1 week ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
27.05.2025 PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON FITZPATRICKAS TOLD TO MARYEL SOUSA To the happy couple. One of the Fashion Journal team is in the throes of planning her nuptials, so it’s only natural that some of our office chats lately have centred on cake tasting and dress shopping. We love weddings! However, there’s one aspect of a wedding that strikes fear in my heart: that moment when you clink your glass of champagne, all eyes turn to you and it’s time to deliver your wedding speech.
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2 weeks ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
Your boobs are bigger, your acne is back and you’re losing hair. What’s going on? Period pimples. Cortisol face. Second puberty. No matter what’s ailing you, hormones have become the internet’s scapegoat for every change we see in our bodies. Sometimes, it’s more complicated than that. Other times, hormones are, in fact, the culprit. For those entering their mid to late twenties and beyond, changes in your body can be somewhat jarring. In the past two years, I’ve gone from an A cup to not an A cup.
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2 weeks ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
“With the right tools, vision alone can open doors and shape the future of fashion.” For Sydney-based brand Amiss’ founder and designer Vanessa Gray, design inspiration has come from unlikely places. After a pandemic-related hiatus from her fashion studies in New York, Vanessa found herself surrounded by researchers and engineers at a medical device company. Here, she realised that the problem-solving techniques used in STEM could completely change how she approached design.
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2 weeks ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa
“If something holds historic value or is genuinely interesting, I’m chasing it.” Few people are as dedicated to their craft as Daniel Cumbo, founder of Melbourne’s newest gem, Salon Archive. Daniel’s something of a collector, a fashion historian and a stylist. They’ve hosted Julia Fox for a personal shopping appointment, given a talk on Jean Paul Gaultier at the NGV and, most impressively, Daniel has Cher Horowitz’s iconic yellow Clueless blazer in their very own personal collection.
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2 months ago | 
qnews.com.au | Maryel Sousa
After a six-year hiatus, Northside Bizarre is making a long-awaited comeback in October. What can we expect from the community fundraiser? Written by Maryel Sousa. For nearly a decade, the kink-and-fetish event hosted by The Laird was a favourite among locals. As the community rallied together to raise money for Thorne Harbour Health. In the later years, the Folsom-inspired fundraiser had expanded from the confines of The Laird.
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2 months ago | 
fashionjournal.com.au | Maryel Sousa |Lara Daly
Deep and meaningful. Throughout my nearly a decade of dating, I’ve been drawn to emotionally avoidant people like a Fitroy fashion girlie to a pair of Margiela Tabis. Maybe I think I can fix them, maybe I’m addicted to the chase. Whatever it is, I can’t seem to escape the curse of the avoidant partner. I’m not – and never have been – the kind of person who struggles to express emotions. If anything, I’ve struggled to control them. My boyfriend is the opposite.
