Emily Ratajkowski's blonde balayage in her bikini selfie is gorj
But most importantly, could we just take a look at Emily's effortlessly chic, sunkissed hair? Her natural dark colour is lifted with the prettiest caramel balayage, complete with halo highlights around the face - the perfect summery look.
And it's also a clever move for Emily - balayage doesn't need regular top-ups in the salon (i.e. it's suuuuper low maintenance), and it's also the perfect way to add texture to fine hair if you're seeking a volume boost.
'DWTS' Pro Lindsay Arnold Shows C-Section Scar in Bikini | Health.com
Dancing with the Stars pro Lindsay Arnold welcomed her daughter Sage via C-section in November 2020 and, since then, she's posted a few photos on Instagram of herself in a bikini. Apparently Arnold has received some comments about why people can't easily see her C-section scar—and she's speaking out about it in a new Instagram post.
The post features a photo of Arnold, 27, poolside in a strapless red bikini. She's wearing a floppy hat and you can see a faint C-section scar just above her bikini bottoms.
In the caption, Arnold shared that "there has been some speculation on my last couple posts about whether or not I have been photoshopping my scar out of my pictures." Arnold said that she usually doesn't "even give time of day to comments like this BUT I feel like this needs to be addressed as it's important to me that you all know that my C-section scar is now my favorite part of my body."
During a C-section, a cut is made through the skin and wall of the abdomen, ACOG explains. The abdominal muscles are separated and may not need to be cut. Another incision will be made in the wall of the uterus, and the baby will be delivered through the incisions. The umbilical cord will be cut, and then the placenta will be removed. The uterus will then be closed with stitches that dissolve in the body, while the abdominal skin will be closed with stitches or staples.
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Arnold said it's also "incredible" that "amazing doctors" are able to do a C-section and "have the scar be so low it is not even visible in a bikini (had to pull my suit down low for this) which is why you all are not seeing it in my pics."
Arnold stressed that she "would never and have never photoshopped any part of my body and wanted a dedicated post to my beautiful scar that I truly love so much ❤️❤️."
Plenty of people related in the comments. "I've had 3 csections 🙌 It's the coolest scar," one wrote. "I have had 2 c-sections and it brought my 2 biggest blessings into this world," another said. "I'm not ashamed of my scar, my babies are healthy and I love them 💕."
Arnold ended her post on this note: "So hahaha for those who care or even read this far, no I am not photoshopping my scar out of anything and in case anyone forgot WOMENS BODIES ARE INCREDIBLE 🤗🤗 #csection #birth #scar ."
Keep Your Bikini Line Smooth With These Ingrown Hair Tips
After washing your hands with soap and water, disinfect the area and your tweezers with a swap of antiseptic rubbing alcohol. The goal is to carefully unfurl the hair from beneath the skin without piercing the skin (which will increase your risk for infection and scarring) or pulling the hair out entirely.
Gently grasp the exposed hair with your tweezers to extract the ingrown tip from under your skin, but don't pull it from your body. "Plucking the hair out can lead to more ingrown hairs," said Dr. Wee. Each strand is very sensitive, and removal can distort the follicle, changing the direction of growth to be into (not out of) your epidermis.
Dry brushing with the MainBasics Natural Bristle Dry Body Brush with Massage Nodules ($8) before you shower is a great form of exfoliation. It's also a great way to give yourself a relaxing massage.
Spot treat certain areas with this Flamingo Ingrown Spot Hair Treatment ($10). It contains white willow bark, lactic acid, and glycolic acid. It soothes while exfoliating.
If you have dark spots and uneven skin tone as a result of ingrown hairs, these SweetSpot Labs Buff & Brighten Body Exfoliating Pads ($23, originally $30) are here to help. These pads contain blend of glycolic acid, papaya and pineapple enzymes to exfoliate and aloe vera to help soothe the area.
Use the CeraVe SA Body Lotion for Rough and Bumpy Skin with Salicylic Acid ($16) after your shower to help exfoliate and unclog pores. If you are dealing with body acn, this will help!
If you love the Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta Exfoliating Facial Peel, now you can get the skin smoothing benefits for your body with the Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta Exfoliating Body Treatment Peel ($58). It's a gentle yet powerful treatment that contains a blend of alpha and beta hydroxy acids, enzymes, and bakuchiol to effectively exfoliate and brighten skin's appearance.
With a powerful combination of physical and chemical exfoliants, the First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA ($28) is a fan-favorite for revealing smoother, even-toned skin.
Use the Nécessaire The Body Exfoliator ($30) once a week to give your skin a good scrub. It contains glycolic, lactic, and salicylic acids and bamboo charcoal.
My Body Got Me Through The Pandemic. It Doesn't Need To Be Bikini Ready | British Vogue
If I try really hard, I can just remember the days when summer meant abundance: fresh peaches dripping with juice, lobster rolls in warm, buttery soft buns, Mister Softee cones melting in the heat during long, lazy afternoons spent sunbathing on stoops around New York City. As I got older, though, I learned to associate summer with the bodily asceticism so common in teenage girls, pinching the excess skin of my thighs and gnawing on ice while everyone else ate Popsicles, hoping that one fewer serving of dessert or one more turn on the elliptical would make me into the kind of string-bikini-clad beach babe that was everyone's June-through-August fantasy.
A combination of body-positive Instagrams, genuinely cute plus-size swimwear options (thanks, Chromat), and Jennifer Weiner beach reads eventually taught me to pry my deeply ingrained fear of fat apart from the incandescent joy of summer. But it was a long and hard process to get there, and this year, as I sit with the quarantine weight gain that drove me up several bikini sizes, the temptation to revert back to my days of adolescent body insecurity sometimes feels overwhelming.
Intellectually, I know there's nothing wrong with my new body, just like there was nothing wrong with my old one. It was, after all, quarantine weight gain that made me eligible to get vaccinated based on my BMI, and I'm hardly the only person who's undergone body changes or experienced a flare-up in disordered-eating mentality since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. I'm committed enough to the no-diets principle of my own eating-disorder recovery to resist the temptation to chew ice and exercise obsessively again, but that doesn't mean I'm deliriously happy with the way I look 24/7, no matter how many defiant crop-top pics I post to Instagram.
For years, I've been telling myself over and over that I deserve to enjoy summer no matter what size I am, but this year, I'm acutely aware of what my body has given me outside of aesthetic appearance. Yes, I gained weight this year, but I also learned to deliver heavy bags of groceries to my neighbours, to run a mile without stopping for the sheer pleasure of it, and to finally, joyfully wrap my arms around my newly vaccinated friends. Are those physical achievements less worthy because I wasn't thin for them? In a year so indelibly marked by loss, am I really going to keep a T-shirt on over my swimsuit at the beach when I could be dipping every inch of my body in the cold water alongside my friends, exulting in the sheer bracing joy of being together?
There's been so much discussion in recent months about who we'll be when the pandemic finally ends for good. But I worry that not enough of us are giving ourselves credit for who we were during the pandemic and for how we showed up for ourselves during the largest public-health crisis in modern history. Does part of me wish I'd committed to a daily HIIT-workout-and-juice-fast routine that would have left me slender and toned by June? Yes, but come on. How realistic was that goal when, for most of the last year, I wasn't even sure when I'd get to see my family in person again? Looked at in that light, the weight I gained isn't an indictment of my willpower — it's a testament to the fact that I made it through.
When I really start to get stressed out about the impending summer season and the body anxiety it brings up, I think of what's commonly referred to as the pool-party episode of the Hulu series Shrill , in which protagonist Annie (Aidy Bryant) attends a poolside gathering specifically for fat women. Written by Samantha Irby and directed by Shaka King, the episode beautifully chronicles Annie's growing comfort in her own skin as she surrounds herself with people of all body shapes and sizes who have shown up for the express purpose of having fun; it's clear how badly Annie wants what they have, and it's genuinely beautiful to watch her set out on the process of finding it.
I may never be totally comfortable looking at pictures of myself in a bikini, and that's okay; nobody feels good about their bodies all the time, not even Sports Illustrated cover models. What I want for myself and everyone else in a physical form that doesn't fit the normative mould, though, is the freedom to celebrate our presence in the world and the wisdom to understand how hard our bodies work every day to keep us going. Some days, I honour that hard-working body with a kale smoothie and a long run; other days, I honour it with an equally long nap and a trip to Fort Greene Park for one of the Mister Softee cones of my youth. The ice cream tastes as chalky sweet as it did when I was a kid, and I feel good eating it in the warmth of the sun, and right now, that's enough.
Sommer Ray Destroys KFC Bucket In Bikini
Sommer Ray is plowing KFC chicken and the sides and she's doing it in a skimpy bikini. The 24-year-old fitness model, last year saying she was "slacking" on the diet and exercise front, yesterday proved her love of fast-food hasn't gone anywhere. In fact, it's followed the blonde on vacation to Antigua. Posting for her 26.1 million Instagram followers on Monday, Sommer showed off the famous figure in tiny swimwear, but this was all about the delicious finger lickin' good chicken. Check it out below.
Scroll for the video, one that brought Sommer at an outdoor bar and with a gal pal. The Sommer Ray's Shop founder, ensuring her brand received a little promo as she both wore a baseball cap from her range and mentioned it, was filmed in a super-tiny red two-piece with a very cheeky finish, with the menu clearly courtesy of popular fried chicken joint KFC .
Keep scrolling for the video. Sommer, not done with her corn and chicken, was even seen reaching into the paper bag for more as she was already surrounded by buckets bearing the chain's logo. "Thriving," Ray wrote, adding: "Get your SR hat 😍😬☀️ @shopsommerray."
Sommer, last year making headlines for ordering everything off the menu at Chick-Fil-A and even eating both In-N-Out and Chick-Fil-A in the same day, just doesn't stop with the food headlines. Her birthday sundae was quite the story. More after the video.
Calories in, calories out. Ray, who has been promoting her brand's new fitness bands, has also been delivering bikini beach workouts, with a recent one clocking over 4 million views.
"There's so much fake fitness on the Internet. I was just a breath of fresh air — all the way natural without fake boobs or a fake butt. People like authenticity. They caught on to what was doing and liked it," she's said regarding her body. Scroll for more photos below.
Sommer's 2020 is now making 2021 headlines as she accuses ex Machine Gun Kelly of cheating on her with now-girlfriend Megan Fox. Scroll for Sommer celebrating her larger chest size during "that time of the month."
Lindsay Arnold Responds To C-Section Scar Questions With Bikini Pic - The Inquisitr
In the caption of her Instagram post, the mother of one revealed that some of her followers had accused her of photoshopping a few of the pics that she recently shared on the app. They included a number of bikini photos snapped during Lindsay's beach vacation with her husband, Sam Cusick, and the couple's 5-month-old daughter, Sage . In a family photo and a solo snapshot, Lindsay was pictured wearing low-rise bottoms, but her C-section scar was still not visible.
In response to the solo shot, one of the professional dancer's IG followers suggested that she was digitally erasing her C-section scar. Lindsay fired back with a perfectly reasonable explanation for its absence.
"I would NEVER photoshop it out of anything and it is actually so low you cannot even seen it in a bikini," she wrote. "Crazy what doctors can do these days! It's not faded yet or invisible it's very much there just lower than my bikini line."
In the follow-up photo below, Lindsay proved that she was telling the truth by rocking the same bikini with her bottoms pulled down a bit lower to show off her slender scar.
In the caption of the above post, Lindsay described her C-section scar as "my favorite part of my body."
"I seriously want to show my scar to everyone I see cause I think it's so insane and crazy cool that Sage came out of that little cut in my belly?!" she wrote. "I mean come on how incredible is that?!"
Lindsay also expressed amazement that the doctors were able to perform her C-section low enough that her scar can be hidden by her hip-hugging swimsuit bottoms.
Shortly after Sage was born, Lindsay shared some details about her baby girl's birth. According to the Season 25 DWTS champ, Sage was a breech baby and progressing quickly, so the first-time mom didn't have much time to mentally prepare for her C-section . Lindsay confessed that she was "terrified" when she learned that she would be unable to give birth vaginally. To make things worse, she didn't know anyone who had undergone a C-section before, so she "felt very alone and scared."
Luckily, the procedure went smoothly, and now Lindsay's fans are celebrating her C-section scar right along with her.
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