Category Archives: Highlights

Dating Don’ts: 7 Of The Most Unhelpful Pieces Of Dating Advice I Ever Received

Ami AngelowiczOctober 9, 2012 //
Dating Don'ts: Canceling
Don't cancel plans this way. Read More »
Dating Don'ts: Exclusivity
How not to approach exclusivity. Read More »
Dating Don'ts: Morning
Don't screw everything up the morning after. Read More »

I’ve only been off the market for two months and already, the dating world is like a bad, distant memory I want to put in a shoe box and hide under my bed.

I have to ask myself, Am I being melodramatic? Was it really that bad? When I distill it down, there was really one thing that made dating unbearable: other people’s advice.

Because dating can be overwhelming, confusing and wrought with powerful emotions, our instinct is often to seek counsel outside of ourselves. But trying to apply other people’s advice, even advice given by professionals, to our dating lives, which are extremely personal, is like walking around in a pair of shoes that don’t fit. You’re going to get blisters. The best thing anyone could have told me to do was figure out what was best for me and do that. If only I had been following my own gut, I might have had a better time dating.

Below are some of the most unhelpful pieces of dating advice I’ve ever received … Keep reading »

12 Crafty Ways To Waste Your Tampons

Ami AngelowiczOctober 9, 2012 //
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I don’t know about you, but I hardly ever have a spare tampon around. Actually, I always seem to be running out of them. If by some miracle you have tons of tampons laying around and you’re looking for an egregious way to waste them, here are some ideas courtesy of a website dedicated entirely to Tampon Crafts. Yes, tampon crafting is a thing that really exists.

This Halloween, you may want to consider making your decorations out of tampons. Try to control your blood-curdling scream when you behold this terrifying tampon ghost. BOO!

Click through for more tampon craft projects perfect for any time of the month … or year.

Period fashion
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Over It: Gel Manicures Have Ruined My Nails

Amelia McDonell-ParryOctober 8, 2012 //

I’ll freely admit to being a manicure addict. I own over 20 bottles of polish, always carry a bottle of whatever color I’m currently wearing so I can fix chips immediately, and generally feel kind of naked without a manicure. In an effort to make my manicures last longer, I’ve been alternating regular manis with gel manicures for the last eight months or so. I loved how long the polish would go without chipping (weeks!) and that it never lost its gleaming shine; the only flaw, I thought, was that the color options were a bit limited. Well, not having the perfect orange-y red shade is the least of my problems now — the fact is, gel manicures have ruined my nails. Keep reading »

Nail Salon Rudeness
How not to be an awful person at the nail salon. Read More »
Crazy Manicures
Check out these NYFW manicures! 9 Photos »
Runway Manicures
Simcha shows you how to get the hottest nail looks! 7 Photos »

True Story: I Dated An Ex-Pickup Artist

Jessica WakemanOctober 8, 2012 //
I Got Negged
Rachel got negged by a dude and lived to tell about it. Read More »
Men's Rights Activists
How men's rights activists (MRAs) get feminism wrong. Read More »
Dating Don'ts: Negging
Just say no to negging! Read More »
True Story
pickup artist

Rare is the woman whose adventures in dating — scratch that, in living — have kept her from a brush with a pickup artist. I guess I’ve got the equivalent of pickup artist herpes because I actually dated one. Well, a former one. Keep reading »

10 Life-Changing Things That Happen When You Date Your Opposite

Lauren PassellOctober 7, 2012 //

We’ve talked about “perfect boyfriend/girlfriend checklists” before, because they’re something that we pretty much all have, whether we physically write them down or not. Even an open-minded person is probably holding onto some idea that they whipped together in childhood about the kind of person they imagined being with forever. I always thought I would meet a lanky blonde Italian vegetarian dude with long hippie hair who loves Todd Rundgren as much as I do and is very simple and is extremely outgoing and loud. And that person … might exist? There might be one person in the universe who exists like that. But maybe he lives in Dublin or something, and never our paths would meet. Did you hear? The chances of meeting your one soul mate is like 1 in 10,000! Keep reading »

Marry, F**k Or Kill: “Dexter,” “Homeland” & “Revenge” Return!

Amelia McDonell-ParryOctober 1, 2012 //
Dexter's Going There
The show is totally going to pursue Deb and Dex's incesty love. Read More »
TV Shows We Miss
Reality TV Shows We Miss
We wish these 10 reality TV shows would get a reboot! 10 Photos »
Emmys: Worst Dressed
Yikes, ladies. 14 Photos »

Listen up friends and family members: if you’re interested in seeing me for the next few months, you’ll have to pick any other day but Sunday. See, every Sunday I have a standing date with my television to watch a trifecta of my favorite shows: the new seasons of “Dexter,” “Homeland,” and “Revenge” all premiered last night and it was basically the hottest and most exciting date night my TV and I have had in months. (No offense to one of my other favorite Sunday night shows, “Breaking Bad,” but even the most exciting episode of BB can’t be expected to trump three shows, you know?) After the jump, a key scene from each premiere episode. Spoilers abound, so proceed with caution! Keep reading »

4 Ways Owning A Pet Prepares You For A Relationship

Anna DavidOctober 1, 2012 //
No Cats Guys For Me
Ami has VERY good reasons for refusing to date cat guys. Read More »
Ask Me Anything!
A single dog owner will answer all your questions... Read More »
Dog Dealbreaker
He brought his dog on the date. Read More »

It’s time to throw those ideas about crazy cat lady spinsters to the curb. The fact of the matter is that owning a pet—whether it’s a dog, cat, bunny or goldfish (okay, maybe not a goldfish)—is actually the best training ground that exists for a relationship with another human. Don’t believe me? Consider this:

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11 Photos Of Dogs Surfing

Amelia McDonell-ParryOctober 1, 2012 //
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I can say with confidence that if I ever stuck Lucca on a surfboard and sent her off to catch a wave, she would never forgive me. “But Lucca,” I would say, “Look at how much fun all of these dogs are having at the 4th Annual Surf City Surf Dog event in Huntington Beach!” And then she would give me side eye and that would be the end of it. But still — look at how much fun these pooches are having hanging ten! Shaka brah!

my 15 favorite celebrity dogs
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17 Things That Will Absolutely Destroy Your Morning

Ami AngelowiczSeptember 25, 2012 //
Train Barf
Some guy puked on Jessica on the subway. Read More »
Our Weirdest Worst Fears
Birds, phone convos, and the Bermuda Triangle? 8 Photos »
Open Letter: Pigeon
Ami has something to say to the pigeon who pooped on her head. Read More »
What grosses you out?
Don't get me started on hairs in my food... Read More »
Let's Complain!

Hello, there. Full disclosure. This post is a thinly veiled excuse for me to complain about my really bad morning. I could have used an open letter format. Had I, it might have been titled “An Open Letter To The Broken Refrigerator That Ruined My Morning.” I would have ranted about my broken refrigerator and all the rotten food I had to discard. And how the delivery men destroyed my apartment getting the new fridge in/old fridge out. And how my landlord stopped by in the middle of the fridge chaos to tell me that I might have a gas leak and that he is raising the rent (all in the same sentence, mind you). I might have gone on to complain about how I spent a good portion of the morning cleaning melt-y, frozen, chicken juice off my hopelessly outdated linoleum floor.

But then I thought about how Jessica got barfed on while riding the subway yesterday and how comparatively, her morning mishap was worse than mine. And then I thought about all of you out there who’ve also probably had really unfortunate stuff happen to you in the morning and how you might feel better if we could all commiserate about it together. And then I determined that a listicle of awful morning shit was in order. For all of our cathartic pleasures, find below, a compilation of crap that will absolutely obliterate your morning (based on things that have really happened to us). Keep reading »

The 8 Most Love-Addled Tweets Between Aaron Paul And Lauren Parsekian

Julie GersteinSeptember 25, 2012 //
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Depending on your mood and romantic history, you’ll either find the love story of “Breaking Bad” actor Aaron Paul and his fiancee Lauren Parsekian to be hopelessly adorable or nauseatingly saccharine. During Paul’s Emmy acceptance speech Sunday night, he thanked his “beautiful, inspiring fiancée … Thank you so much for looking at me the way that you do, you truly saved me.” We love Aaron Paul, for obvious reasons, and  Parsekian, who is ridiculously gorgeous, seems pretty cool, too — she’s the cofounder of the Kind Campaign, which works with abused and bullied young girls. There’s, like, a lot of love between these two, and they’ve documented it in interviews, photos and endless Twitter posts about one another. We’ve captured the most, um, intense Twitter exchanges between these two lovebirds for your enjoyment. You tell us — is it too cute or too much?

"Breaking Bad"-icure
A meth-inspired manicure for "Breaking Bad" fans. Read More »
Breaking Bad Simpsons
If "Breaking Bad" and "The Simpsons" had a baby. Watch »
Celeb Love Stories
These are our favorite celebrity love stories of 2010. Read More »
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