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Freezing My Eggs Felt Like Spinning a Slot Machine With My Ovaries

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The cost of medications, testing, retrieval, and storage involved in egg freezing is just one series of numbers in a process and procedure that feels like a combination of math, alchemy, and luck.

Ask Ugly

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Should you be getting Botox? Welcome to Ask Ugly, our new beauty column!

You won’t get suggestions for the best new niacinamide serum from Ask Ugly. Just eat a sandwich. I won’t recommend some celebrity-loved surgery for sucking the fat from your face – it needs fat. Instead, I want to dig into capital-B Beauty here: what it is, what it means, and how it’s been industrialized and assembly-line machine-squeezed into billions of plastic bottles.

Best Costumes from Japan’s “Mundane Halloween”

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Best Costumes from Japan’s “Mundane Halloween”

Person who makes it easy for restaurant workers to clean up.

Best Costumes from Japan’s “Mundane Halloween”

Person who tries to reach for subway handle without taking eyes off their phone and misses.

Best Costumes from Japan’s “Mundane Halloween”

Person who wants to photograph their pets, but cannot reach their phone without disturbing the pets and thus ruining the shot.

Japan’s hilarious Jimi Halloween (jimi means “mundane”) event is where participants dress up in “costumes” that illustrate boring everyday situations.