young Archives - Maggie Semple

Jun

Kids say the darnedest things: The Young Generation

25th June 2018Harriet PattisonLifestyle, Uncategorized

I had the pleasure of seeing my 6-year old nephew this weekend, and although a common saying, it’s true when they say, kids say the darnedest things. He sat me down, told me to cross my legs and pray to God. I asked if he would mind going first – and while I won’t go...

Aug

Has Beauty Gone Beyond Skin Deep?

23rd August 2017Harriet PattisonBeauty

Surrounded by photographs and magazine adverts of women looking beautiful with their no-makeup-looks, we are now in an age where we are constantly reminded of what ‘beauty’, on the face of it, looks like. Even growing up, there were the popular and pretty girls at school, surrounded by puppy dog-eyed boys and envious stares. At...

Jun

Tick Tock, Tick Tock!

21st June 2016Sophie MaguireLifestyle

You can’t Botox your ovaries; it’s a sentence I read the other day that has stuck with me. It’s been playing on my mind and I can’t shake it. The article itself focused on the argument that women should consider starting a family soon after graduating from uni in order to diminish the risk of tackling...

Feb

When We Were Young

18th February 2016Hannah AlleyLifestyle

I was ten years old when I asked my friends to play ‘jump the cloud’ with me. This was a game I’d made up, where I pretended that the painted shapes on the playground concrete were clouds and imagined that the space around them was the sky. But my friends were going on eleven and they were growing...

Jan

Is Calvin fine, or on the decline?

16th January 2015Talia MaguireLifestyle

After Calvin Klein’s unveiling of Justin Bieber as the new face (and package) of the brand, it has seen an unrelenting backlash that many could have predicted. So is this a fatel mistake of Calvin Klein’s marketing masterminds or is it a clever publicity stunt? Justin Bieber for Calvin Klein © It’s often said that...

Sep

Grown Ups

25th September 2014SempleLifestyle

I don’t know about you guys but I am constantly getting pestered to ‘grow up’. Whether its by society or my parents, it is constantly shoved in my face that I am pretty much not at where I’m expected to be in my life. The pressures never end. Of course it would be ideal for...

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