2022 Doodle for Google competition winner: “Not Alone”
The winner of this year’s Doodle for Google competition is Florida high schooler Sophie Araque-Liu, titled “Not Alone”:
Sophie Araque-Liu’s winning Doodle: Not Alone.
This year’s theme was “I care for myself by…” Sophie’s answer to go with her doodle:
“I care for myself by accepting others’ care for me. Often, I struggle to shoulder a burden on my own, and forget that I have so many people, like my mom, who care about me and want to help me. Opening up and letting others support me not only... Continue reading
Bride goes viral for rocking her natural gray hair on wedding day
Like Taylor Hicks, the American Idol winner of the fifth season of “American Idol” known for his prematurely gray hair besides his bluesy pop voice, Kadeja Jackson Baker started getting grey hair at the age of 16. Now 38, after dying her hair in her 20’s, because she thought she had to, starting from 7 years ago she decided she would go with her natural color. On her wedding day, she decided she was going to keep rocking her grey hair.
Miami-based makeup artist Tia Codrington posted behind-the-scenes bridal glam TikTok videos starring Baker and they quickly got over 1 million views with hundred of people praising Baker’s beautiful look for her wedding, and her amazing gray hair. In the video, Baker is getting makeup applied to her face while she has... Continue reading
Spain Says ‘All Bodies Are Beach Bodies’ – Enjoy life!
“Summer is ours too,” says Spain’s equality ministry in a creative summer campaign launch which aims to encourage all women to go to the beach and enjoy life.
The promo showcases five women with different body types. ages, and ethnicities, including a topless woman who has had a mastectomy, all having fun on the sandy beach by the coast.
“All bodies are beach bodies,” Ione Belarra, the minister for social rights in Spain’s Socialist-led Podemos party, Continue reading
24-year-old who can’t smile due to rare condition signs with modeling agency
Tayla Clement was born with underdeveloped facial nerves that control some eye movements and facial expressions, called Moebius syndrome.
She is known online now as “The Girl Who Can’t Smile” and is the role model she needed growing up, moving past her bullying days when she was made fun of for being different:
“My eyebrows don’t move, my eyes don’t track, and my upper lip doesn’t move, which means I can’t smile, hence the name, ‘The girl who can’t smile,'” she said. “People would bring plastic bags to school to put over my head because I was so ugly and didn’t want to be seen. I think when you grow up, being told that you’re different and you’re ugly and you’re worthless,... Continue reading
Be free spider!
“She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone, I hope I greeted with the same kind of mercy.”
-Rudy Francisco
We are in the “relocate the spider – don’t hurt them” club,
“I just relocate the spiders outside”
How about you? Vote!