Month: December 2022

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Are you headed out to party for the New Year? Or are you chilling in the house with your friends and loved ones. If the latter, then have we got the perfect collection for you! The Rebdolls “Soft Life” Lounge collection is perfect for those of you who have been wanting to upgrade your plus size home attire that will always keep you ready for whatever or whoever pops up!

As we take inventory of the year and its lessons, or as we prepare to bring in the new year with a renewed sense of self and style, the Rebdolls Soft Life Lounge collection is here to make sure we do it in comfort and style.

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It’s that time of year once again! The horrible time of year when everyone talks about their weight loss goals, how “bad” they were during the holidays, and how they plan to repent come January 1st.

Diet culture is exhausting, but while the weight loss and fitness conglomerates rub their hands together in anticipation of their yearly boost in sales, we’ll be taking a different approach: prepping our minds and our bodies to face this diet-palooza without fear or temptation. 

Right now, every single weight loss company is going to hone into your insecurities so that you will buy their product. So here are some easy ways to prepare and boost your confidence so when Weight Watchers come knocking on your door, you can give them the middle finger (0 points).

5 Tips to Help You Face Diet Culture In the New Year

Anti-Diet Culture Tip #1.

As The Curvy Fashionista editors, we write about stuff we love, and we think you’ll like too. We often have affiliate partnerships, so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase.

Do you find yourself admiring the matching family pajamas, wishing that you and your family could score a cute holiday look, as well? Well, over the past few years, we have had more options in the family pajama trend, and guess what? We’ve found a few places and ideas for you and YOURS to rock matching plus size family pajamas for this holiday!

While we recently shared a few fun plus size pajamas for the winter, today we are sharing the matching family pajamas options in plus sizes and Big & Tall! Because, well… plus size people have families too! And with the options increasing across various retailers, we only thought it perfectly timed to share

Have you thought giving a holiday boudoir photo to your loved one? As a boudoir photographer, you’d be surprised how many clients I have shot for their very own holiday boudoir gift!

Boudoir for the Holidays? Oh Yes!

If you are NOT familiar, boudoir is different from other niches because it is more intimate. You will be more vulnerable and forced to see yourself in ways other photography experiences can’t compare.

This usually results in loving yourself in a new and uncritical way. All of a sudden, confidence is boosted and body critiquing becomes a distant memory.

What to Know BEFORE You Book Your Holiday Boudoir Shoot

The best boudoir experiences include professional hair styling and makeup application, use of a client wardrobe, and a fabulous shoot with multiple wardrobe changes.

Cost varies based on your region but the entire experience including keepsakes could cost

Although the majority of pop-culture depiction of the holidays leaves a warm, fuzzy, and connected familial feeling, it is important to acknowledge and validate that the holidays can be hard for many of us; the overwhelmed, the anxious, the lonely, the othered, the depressed, and even those with the most loving of families. Don’t worry, there are therapeutic tools that can help so you don’t face this alone. 

The good part of that sometimes difficult truth is that if you are reading this now, it means you already survived the start of the holiday slide that is Thanksgiving (or Thanks-taking as my Micmac family cheekily calls it).

Congratulations to you, and quite frankly to me too; we did it!

No matter what iteration of an experience you had at Thanksgiving, you are now on the other side. But with no shortage of Christmas carols blaring at every