Growing up, I lived in a culture that shamed periods. I remember being teased by my peers as a packaged tampon fell out of my jacket in the hallway at school. I was 11 years old. As an adult, I became savvy at stealthily transferring a tampon from my handbag to my pocket, or slipping it up my sleeve, without anyone seeing. Waving around a tampon was like showing off a gun — making people, at the very least, highly uncomfortable. But things have changed.

I feel like I have a fairly healthy balance between going totally bare and dressing up my face. I have no problem going out in public with air-dried hair and a face with nothing on it but some serum and moisturizer.

I’m obsessed with skin care. Give me all the toners, all the serums, all the face masks! Recently, I’ve become a bit overzealous with getting professional facials as well. Is it the idea of someone massaging my face?

Putting the words “beauty” and “feminist” together was once kind of an oxymoron. Women have, for longer than we can likely account for, been told by men what being beautiful is supposed to look like.

I’ve recently fallen in love with a new MedSpa in my home of Newport Beach called SkinSpirit. But it got me thinking … Do people even get the concept?