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The 2025 Met Gala dress code was “Tailored for You,” but judging by the red carpet, it may as well have been “Tailored...but forgot the pants.” From crystal-drenched bodysuits to blazers bravely flying solo, this year’s Met carpet was a formalwear fever dream, with an unmistakable lack of bottoms. Now don’t clutch your pearls just yet (unless they’re part of your look). The pantsless aesthetic has been brewing for years. We first saw whispers of it in 2021, when sheer dresses paired with sparkly panties debuted as a refreshing twist on tired naked dressing. Zoë Kravitz did it best in a Saint Laurent silver slip, gleaming undies. Subtle? Not even close. Effective? Absolutely. Fast-forward a few years, and we’re no longer peeking through mesh to catch a glimpse—we’re looking underwear dead in the eye. By 2022, Kylie Jenner was proudly front row in Loewe briefs, and Julia Fox made a case for lingerie as loungewear... in the grocery aisle. Then came 2023, when Miu Miu de...

Gaslighting: The Silent Weapon of Intimate Partner Abuse There’s a reason emotional abuse is often called invisible. It leaves no physical scars, just a slow unraveling of a person’s sense of self. And one of the most damaging tools in an abuser’s arsenal? Gaslighting. Gaslighting is more than lying. It’s psychological warfare. It's a calculated (or sometimes unconscious) campaign to distort your reality, make you second-guess your memories, instincts, and worth. Over time, it chips away at your ability to trust yourself, and once that’s gone, the abuser doesn’t need to use fists or threats. Control has already been achieved. The heartbreaking reality is that some people are walking into relationships with a need to dominate. Maybe they don’t fully realize it, but their actions follow the same pattern: subtle control, isolation, emotional manipulation, escalating harm. And they often choose partners who won’t be believed. People with mental health challenges, or those without ...

How High-Fat Diets Could Be Aging Your Brain Faster Than You Think We all know high-fat foods aren’t the golden ticket to good health. But while most people worry about their waistlines, science suggests we should be paying just as much attention to our  minds . New research from  The Ohio State University  reveals that fatty diets may seriously damage memory, especially as we age. The study, conducted on rats, found that a high-fat diet didn’t impact the memory of younger rats. But in aged rats? The difference was clear - and alarming. Older rats fed a fatty diet showed significant memory problems, and researchers believe the reason lies in the aging brain’s immune system. The Aging Brain: Vulnerable and Inflammatory As we age, our body’s immune response naturally weakens, including the immune activity in the brain. This makes the brain more vulnerable to chronic inflammation, a factor linked to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s. Addi...

Anyone who has personal experience with mental illness knows that there is a frustrating amount of stigma surrounding depression and ailments and the treatments used to ease their symptoms. Too often, people experiencing clinical depression will hear, “Just try to be happy,” or, “It’s not that bad.”  While many people are still resistant to taking medication for depression (according to the NIH, 49% of psychiatric patients did not adhere to their medication regimen,)more people are open about their mental illnesses now than they were in the past according to a Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association. 87% of American adults said that having a mental health disorder is nothing to be ashamed of, while 86% believed that people with mental health disorders can get better. That’s why it’s easy to believe the CDC numbers that say the percentage of adults who had received any mental health treatment increased from 19.2% to 21.6% from the years 2019 to 2021. Nexium, Lunesta a...

Your thoughts are so distorted when you’re depressed. I know this from personal experience. I am going through a depression right now. I am losing weight. Sometimes I don’t take care of myself as well as I should. This all came to pass after I was forced to be taken off of a medication. This particular medication can cost upwards of $1500 per month for my parents (as I am simply too broke to pay for my own medication) and we needed to try stopping it because money was tight. Life is not pleasant while off of that medication. Generic replacements aggravate my parkinsonism horribly and don’t even work that well. We had to make it work with the expensive medication. I don’t know how. I don’t ask.   But now, just as in December of 2021, my depression is back. Did it ever go away? I have been mildly depressed all this time, but it has been manageable. As of February 2023 it has been raging like an unbearably cold snowstorm, muddying up my memory and my ability to think straight.   ...

Sometimes revelations come from unexpected places and sometimes they come from obvious ones. My mother is a font of knowledge. You become smarter just by being in the same room as her. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that she hit me with a nugget of wisdom, but there I was, in the car, riding in the passenger’s seat and putting on my makeup as she spilled out something that changed my feelings regarding my parkinsonian tremor and the application of cosmetics.   I have been doing the inner corner eyeshadow look since the 90’s began and my tremors developed. It was purely by accident. I kept doing it because I liked the look and it began to trend. Back to the car, as I shakily dabbed some lime eyeshadow on the inner corners of my eyes, my mom told me that she developed the look in a similar way but always thought of it as a mistake.   I thought to myself, how many times have individuals with movement disorders made glorious discoveries with their cosmetics simply because...