Touching on a range of issues from cosmetic surgery and makeup, and unhealthy attitudes toward eating, to sexuality and teens’ impressions of their own and others’ bodies, these stories challenge stifling mainstream notions of beauty and femininity.

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The snowball effect by deb loughead