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BAW 22 | The Girl Who Edited Her Way Into An Empire💄💋👸🏻🤳🏼👑 (opens the original)
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Enhance, Don’t Transform 🕶️🪩⭐️💋Faceapp — and Joséphine’s — entire philosophy. It’s the idea that you don’t need to become someone else, you just need to become the version of yourself that’s already in there — just pulled a little bit more into focus.There’s a million and one ways you can do this. In fact, “coming into focus” will mean something different to everyone — and that’s what makes us human. Joséphine, for example, def
from the baw-niverse | how i come up with a baw essay (opens the original)
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How Do You Come Up With a BAW Essay? I’ve been asked this question a few times in regards to how the heck I come up with my essay’s modern parallel topics. In truth, the real question (that I think at least) is what actually comes first: the chicken or the egg. It tends to depend — sometimes it is the topic first, and other times it’s the woman who I just can’t get out of my head.I’ll go through what each scenario looks like: 📲📈 Topic First ✨When it’s topic first — i.e., I already have my modern
BAW 21 | Meet The Queen Of Bugtok👩🏻🔬🔍🐛🪳🐜 (opens the original)
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a quick note from the creator 💌first off — hi everyone! just wanted to give a quick reminder (or introduction to those that are new here!) that this whole time, it's been just ME, Emma Hughes (hi to everyone that’s new here👋!), writing this blog. All of it: the editing, the Canva stuff, the sourcing, the reading, and everything else that comes along with it has not been a team or a couple of raccoons in a trench coat — it’s just been me trying to make this happen alongside a full time job!And so
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