This super soft, portable penis looking thing, which is actually a germ-resistant medical grade silicone. This is something you want to try at home over the toilet before you actually NEED to use this.  It comes with tissue; easy to clean and also comes with a mini-bag to put in until you get a chance to wash it out.

It was originally developed by an oral surgeon and medical device expert from Minnesota. It was created for general convenience and as an option for women with hip and knee surgeries and other conditions.

These types of things have been used in Europe for years, so it’s about time we had this luxury in the States. If you’re an active woman always on the go, loves outdoor activities, and road trips this device is for you.

Pros: Portable, small, easy to use, not messy at all, good price, high quality, comes with tissue and a little baggy, and fun to use!

Cons: difficult to find, most likely you have to order online depending on the area you live

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I’ve spent alot of time recently researching the trends in Plus-size fashion.  Even with the average woman now being at least a size 14, you think there’d be better alternatives to fashion than what’s force fed to the masses.  With amazing plus-sized women such as Monique, Queen Latifah, etc… I often wondered, how can you look as fabulous as them but with a shoe-string budget?

One of my favorite places to shop online has to be Alloy. Their jeans run from 0-25 in all fits, colors, and inseams.  You can often find good deals in their clearance section and they have sales all the time.

Alight boasts that it has “illuminating styles” for sizes 14-30. The prices are a bargain hunters dream. I’m not a big fan of the search engine but check out their clearance section and hopefully you can find something.

ShopTranslated has some beautiful ensembles that can be a bit pricey but well worth it.  Well crafted styles come in sizes 1x-3x.

Check out Size Appeal when you wanna get jazzy on them hoes. When the usual jean and t-shirt routine is not enough  to impress,  “be bold and sexy, because you can.”

How can I describe Evogues? Do you ever go shopping with a skinny friend and see all these wonderful clothes but they’re all like a size 2?  Well this store has those types of clothes from 10-20 (1X-5X) and the prices are to be rivaled.  Evogues sells accessories also. First time buyers get 10% off on their first order.

LA Fashion is an ebay store that lets you plus size clothing as low as $9.99.  I personally love their shrugs.

Big & Beautiful’s ebay store has alot of cute spaghetti strapped shirts and camis shipped to you from Thailand.

Great Glam – for when you need to get your club on.

Part 2 coming soon.

Tyra has met women willing to do almost anything to lighten the color of their skin … including the use of bleach, despite the negative or harmful side effects. What’s really scary is that you can buy bleaching creams in stores across the country. While these creams are intended to be used on small spots to reduce scarring, as we saw on the show, some women slather creams over their entire bodies. But is the result worth the risk — even if the risk is cancer? Read on for the scary side effects of these controversial creams.

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Please raise your BIG TOE and repeat after me: As a member of the Faux Paux Sisterhood, I pledge to follow The Rules when I wear sandals and other open-toe shoes:

I promise to always wear sandals that fit. My toes will not hang over and touch the ground, nor will my heels spill over the backs. And the sides and tops of my feet will not pudge out between the straps.

I will go polish-free or vow to keep the polish fresh, intact and chip-free. I will not cheat and just touch up my big toe.

I will sand down any mounds of skin before they turn hard and yellow.

I will shave the hairs off my big toe.

I won’t wear pantyhose even if my misinformed girlfriend, coworker, mother, sister tells me the toe seam really will stay under my toes if I tuck it there.

If a strap breaks, I won’t duct-tape, pin, glue or tuck it back in to place hoping it will stay put. I will get my shoe fixed or toss it.  No matter how much it hurts.

I will not live in corn denial; rather I will lean on my good friend Dr. Scholl’s if my feet need him.

I will resist the urge to buy jelly shoes at Payless for the low, low price of$4.99 even if my feet are small enough to fit into the kids’ sizes. This is out of concern for my safety, and the safety of others.  No one can walk properly when standing in a pool of sweat, and I would hate to take someone down with me as I fall and break my ankle.

I will take my toe ring off toward the end of the day if my toes swell and begin to look like Vienna sausages.

I will be brutally honest with my girlfriend/sister/coworker when she asks me if her feet are too ugly to wear sandals. Someone has to tell her that her toes look like they’ve been dragged behind her car on the way to work and no sandal in the world is going to make her feet look good.

I will promise if I wear flip flops, that I will ensure they actually flip and flop, making the correct noise while walking and I will swear NOT to slide or drag my feet while wearing them.

I will promise to go to my local beauty school at least once per season and have a real pedicure (they are about $15 and worth EVERY penny). I say spend another$15.00 and get a even better one.

And finally… I will promise to throw away any white/off-white sandals that show signs of wear…nothing is tackier than dirty white sandals…

Ever since we were little girls, we have been encouraged to keep secrets.

I was raised a good girl, like most women in America, where instinctively we knew that a secret was sacred, I was taught to never betray a trust. The fact that a mishandled secret could endanger someone was shown to me by my mother, my aunts, my grandmothers, so I knew to believe this. I remember feeling special when someone shared a secret, and choosing carefully with whom I shared my secrets. By high school, secrets between girlfriends were a big part of the picture; who had a crush on whom, how far someone had gone with her boyfriend, who had been out all night while her mother thought she was sleeping at a friend’s house.

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The Handscape ring collection from Netherlands designer Zelda Bauchampet turns your fingers into a pleasant little landscape. Some of the rings are buildings, others are animals or trees. They probably won’t help you punch through the window of your boyfriend’s car. They’re for sale, but no word on price.

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by Jane Framingham, Ph.D.
In addition to the major types of depression that affect men and women, women also suffer from unique types of depression due to their special physiology and hormones. Estrogen, the “female sex hormone,” affects more than 300 functions in a woman’s body including regulating menstrual cycles, protecting the heart and maintaining strong bones. The fluctuating levels of estrogen during menstrual cycles, pregnancy and menopause may impact mood and, in severe cases, trigger depressive episodes.

Unfortunately, these types of depressive episodes in women and girls often are blamed on “being moody,” “that time of the month,” or “the change” and go untreated. It is time to get beyond stereotypes that prevent women from getting medical help:

* Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can be treated or prevented — there is no reason why women need to suffer so needlessly and frequently.
* More than half of the women suffering from postpartum depression will experience it again with the birth of another child. It is critical to identify this danger and treat it early.
* Rates of suicide for women are highest during the perimenopausal years; these are tragically shortened lives, considering women now live a third of their lives after menopause.
* Recent research shows that women’s biology differs from men’s in many more ways than previously thought and these physical differences (such as different levels of estrogen, serotonin, cortisol and melatonin) are beginning to provide clues to why women are so much more susceptible to depression as well as a special type of depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder
* Stress plays a major role in depression, and it may be that women and men respond to stress differently — while women are more likely to suffer from “emotional ailments” such as depression, anxiety attacks and eating disorders, men are much more likely to act out aggressively and abuse drugs and alcohol.
* Women’s fluctuating hormone levels during menstrual cycles, after childbirth, and during menopause contribute to forms of depression unique to women including Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), Postpartum Depression, and Perimenopausal Depression. The good news is that research is helping us to understand the biological factors for depression in women and identify ways to treat and prevent it. A woman may suffer from depression at any point during her life. Like depression in men, the underlying cause of depression in women is a combination of changes in brain chemistry, stress, trauma and genetics.

The major types of treatment for depression are the same for women and men. Women who have suffered sexual traumas (such as rape and incest) may want to work with a therapist who has training and expertise in this area.

In addition, a woman’s unique biology may predispose her to unique forms of depression not found in men.

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The portrayal of Black women as lascivious by nature is an enduring stereotype. The descriptive words associated with this stereotype are singular in their focus: seductive, alluring, worldly, beguiling, tempting, and lewd. Historically, White women, as a category, were portrayed as models of self-respect, self-control, and modesty – even sexual purity, but Black women were often portrayed as innately promiscuous, even predatory. This depiction of Black women is signified by the name Jezebel.

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Have you ever found yourself in a dirty, unhygienic port-a-potty?

Have you ever had a full bladder with no bathroom in sight?

Have you ever been afraid to pull down your pants to squat and pee and risk being seen or peeing on your shoes?

Then the P-Mate is for you!

• The P-Mate is a revolutionary way for women to pee discreetly without having to pull down their pants and squat.
• The P-Mate allows women to pee standing up.
• The P-Mate is the most amazing female urinary device.
• The P-Mate gives women the freedom to pee like men.
• The P-Mate is clean and hygienic.
• The P-Mate is covered with a 4-leaf clover design as it is good luck to have one with you when you are in need.
• The P-Mate does NOT get all wet and soggy after use. You can easily slip it back into a pocket or bag for later disposal if you are outdoors where there is no garbage can.

P-Mate was invented by a creative Dutch woman. They allow girls and women of all ages the ability to neatly pee standing up.

The P-Mate is basically like a cardboard shoe with the toe cut off. You place the entrance of the ‘shoe’ directly under your urethra, between your legs, pee into the shoe and then make sure that the hole at the toe end is funnelling the urine out somewhere other than on your feet.

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This is a very moving poem by TY GRAY-EL about the beauty of a black woman’s smile.  Check It Out

there are many types of sexually harassing behavior, including:

• sexual teasing, jokes, remarks or gestures
• pressure for dates
• letters, phone calls, or material of a sexual nature
• sexually suggestive looks or gestures
• deliberate touching, brushes up against, leaning over, cornering, or pinching
• pressure for sexual favors
• actual or attempted rape or sexual assault
• mooning or flashing
• being the victim of sexual rumors
• having one’s clothing pulled in a sexual way
• being shown, given, or left unwanted pictures or notes
• being forced to kiss someone
• having one’s clothes pulled off or down
• being spied on while one dressed or showered at school

• they blame themselves
• they feel helpless, hopeless, and/or powerless
• they don’t know how to report the harassment
• they think that their complaint won’t be taken seriously
• they don’t trust their own perceptions of what happened — maybe they “misunderstood”
• they don’t want to “rock the boat”
• they are afraid of the harasser or others (such as the harasser’s friends or family
• they don’t trust “the system”
• they don’t think their school/workplace will support them if they report the harassment
• they don’t think their friends will support them
• they feel embarrassed
• they don’t think that reporting will make any difference; they don’t believe that anything will be done about they harassment or the harasser
• they don’t want to get the harasser into trouble
• they are prevented or blocked by sex role stereotyping
• they are prevented or blocked by victim behavior

The American Association of University Women released a study in 1998 that reported that 70% of girls experience verbal sexual harassment in high school and 50%, unwanted sexual touching.

Lauren London is a young actress and model who started her career in 2003, appearing in music videos by artists such as Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg, Young Gunz, and T.I..

Los Angeles native Lauren London possesses a small-town beauty with a distinctive smile and a slight city-girl edge. It was during London’s stint in the Los Angeles public school system that the aspiring actress first began dabbling in theater and drama, and though she would later be home-schooled for her last three years of high school, the desire to perform never went away.

In 2005 she landed her first movie role in ATL as “New New,” starring alongside T.I. who played her love interest.

With buzz around the rising starlet subsequently beginning to gain momentum. The movie was released in March 2006. London next appeared in episodes of Everybody Hates Chris playing Monay and also appeared in the HBO series Entourage while preparing for a role in the holiday-themed family drama This Christmas alongside Nia Long and Chris Brown due out November 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a 1/2 hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

3. Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine .

4. Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!

5. Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

6. That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That’s okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7. Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you’re welcome.

8. Whatever: Is a women’s way of saying F@!K YOU!

9. Don’t worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking ‘What’s wrong?’ For the woman’s response refer to #3.