Natalie Gutierrez | Staff Writer FIU’s chapter of HerCampus is a magazine that merges pop culture and current socio-political realities. Made up of over 400 chapters in United States universities alone, the magazine includes chapters in Canada, the United Kingdom and Nigeria. President Priscilla Fernandez is a junior and English major. Her goal is to […]
Rina Factor/Contributing Writer Recently, I attended my cousin’s wedding, and to prepare for this event, my goal was to lose enough weight so that I could fit into my dress without any noticeable stomach fat. I have always been a size zero, but after dress shopping, I was shocked when I slipped on a size […]
Rina Factor/Contributing Writer Our first encounter with the concept of beauty starts when we are very young. For me, I realized how my perception of beauty was being shaped, when I asked my mother to buy me a Barbie doll during my elementary school years. Despite the fact that I am half-Asian and shared features […]
By Latricia Young There has been a problem with finding the correct shade when it comes to makeup for quite some time. For women of color, the challenge of finding a shade that matches their skin tone has been a reality for many years. Until recently, makeup companies did not create foundations deeper than “tan.” […]
Image by Courtney Rhodes via Flickr Meghan MacLaren | Staff Writer opinion@fiusm.com If someone asked you to look back over the past year and pick out something you were proud of achieving, what would you say? Making a 3.5 GPA? Completing a marathon? Re-establishing some family relationships? Even just starting something new? One thing that […]
