stitch beneath my skin, the veins underneath my fingertips— need sowing back together again. the blood runs cold, too far from home, and all of the rivers start to look like oceans. build me a bridge out of thread, a life raft, life jacket, anything to traverse the stream, anything to traverse the ocean, anything…
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Skincare and travelling
Our skin is a very delicate protection layer of our body and requires a lot of tender loving care to keep it hydrated and happy. In the midst of the excitement of travelling, skincare is one aspect of our lives that we tend to neglect, alongside our health. With the change in climates, being exposed…
Fashion
Addicted to the glow
Over the past couple of years jelly makeup products have slowly but surely been making their way onto the makeup scene, and 2019 is set to be the year they really come into their own. The only issue is that the majority of these jellified products seem to be coming from the high-end makeup brands,…
Fashion
The best BB and CC creams
It’s a new year and you want a fresh and radiant glow to add to your everyday routine. Then you will be looking for a BB or CC cream. Time to know your acronyms; a BB cream is a beauty blemish cream and a CC cream is a colour correcting cream and depending on whether…
Fashion
Beauty Blenders: Is the brush outdated?
The ongoing debate of our times. Some people swear by them, others don’t buy into the fuss. Personally, I’m in the latter camp; I’ve dipped my toes in the murky, foundation coloured waters, but have not emerged a more aesthetically pleasing person. I do enjoy a good makeup routine, but certainly for my day-to-day look,…
Creative Writing
Loving Your Body
Kia is watching herself in the mirror and She doesn’t look like herself; She thinks she did once; She wishes she did now; She never will again. Kia is watching herself in the mirror and Where there was once the sharp jutting of rocks There is now ripe grassland, May green, lingering with soft sweet-scented…
Fashion
Face masks: are they worth the fuss?
Face masks, for me, have always been a sociable skin treatment option. I wash my face every morning and night with whatever sensitive face wash was last on offer in Boots. I make sure to cleanse after with some facial toner. And, when my face is feeling oilier than normal, I will sit over a…
Creative Writing
for Wonu
the light that comes in contact with her skin won’t change the fire in her heart light is meant to solidify to beautify but in this situation, it won’t temperate anything. Like Concrete on Facebook to stay up to date
Science
Skin cells programmed to hunt down cancer
On 24th February, a research group, led by Dr Shawn Hingten at the University of North Carolina, announced they had developed a method of using a patient’s own skin cells in order to hunt down and target cancer cells in the brain. This novel method transforms skin cells into brain stem cells, with the ability…
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