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Q: does anyone know if there's going to be a new season coming out soon?
Yeah there is. About September 19th or 20th i think.

Q: Okay im 13/f i need a way to loose a little belly fat b4 school starts im not fat but i have a little belly fat any quick ways i can get rid of it before next MONDAY!!??
run.
Situps.

Q: well ive tried to go back-to-school shopping, but i cant find anything that looks good on me! all the styles are so unflattering! like the shirts are all so tight and long and come down past your butt. and unless you're built like a runway model, it makes your hips and gut look huge. either that, or its those babydoll tops that poof out and make you look 8 months pregnant. im not fat at all, but none of these things look good on me. or on anyone else i've seen wearing them (besides my one friend who's practically anorexic). i just dont understand why people think these clothes look good? and who comes up with this stuff? and why do people buy it when it looks so bad on them? no offense, but cant they see what they look like? is being "in style" more important than looking good?
For those long tight shirts. if you like the color and style. Get a size(or two)bigger. and when your wearing them scrunch the bottom up and make the shirt stop at you hips/waist.

Instead of this:

(******) top
|****|
|****|
|****| Bottom

Do this:

(******)top
|****|
|****|
^^^^^^ Rolled/scrunched up

Q: Well I hang with a group f 5 including myself. We're all best friends and we always have a ton of fun. One of my friends, let's call her Madi, thinks she is fat. She is not fat! She only has a bigger structure! Big boned, a bigger frame. Some people would like to be like that and she's just convinced that because she is a little bigger, and stronger, she just thinks all that is fat. Example, We were at a sleepover, and we were talking about stuff ( I don't remember) but the subject was brought up, and she started complaining about herself, and how she's "fat" and "how she needs to lose 15 pounds by the end of the school yr" we AlWaYs tell her and reassure her that she is not fat, and we always list her good qualities and all the good things she can do with the body she has! We are all really getting sick and tired of this! What can we do to support her and help her realize that she is a special person who needs to realize she is special and should be satisfied with her body. She does vb, and basketball and softball each yr too. She's sporty, but she just isn't convinced. Please do not give answers like "just keep telling her she's not fat" or "just keep talking to her." I know that, we need to do that, but we also need something further to help her since she won't listen! Thank you!
well first off you need to check her BMI(body mass index) to see if she really is fat. you can go to: www.am-i-fat.com

if she isn't "fat" then she could be the type of person who LOVES to be complimented and so in turn she says put downs about her self like "i am fat" or 'my hair looks like crap today" or even "my feet are HUGE".
Because they know that if they say that someone will say "no your not" or "you hair is pretty" or "my feet are bigger than yours!"

She also could have an eating disorder 'in-the-making' she may be really uncofortable w/ her body. I am gonna guess you a teenager and that is the HARDEST time for girls because you body goes through SO many changes and one day you hips will look huge and you arm will look too long. then the next day you hips look tiny and your arms look too short for you body. It is just a fact of teenage girl life. You are just going to have to point out that everyone looks out of proportion and shes not alone.

The best advice i can give you is to deal with it. and if it bother you ALOT sit down w/ her ALONE and say "i don't like it when you call yourself fat,because your not. And no matter how much you think you are, you're not! Believe me Madi, you ARE NOT FAT."


Q: Hi,im a 14/m and i live with my grandmother uncle and mom..and not too long ago my aunt left my uncle..my uncle was with this girl for 8 years..never married..and she had her own appartment but she was here most of the time and she pulleed off some stuff but it was left go (like their money wasnt even together like she knew what he made but no one knew about her) and then a week ago she just left (with her daughter)..and she found a new man and stuff and she was useless and now my uncle is hopeless wont do anything wont even move..and the worst part there is hardly any money coming in and they (my mom and uncle) go and buy dope pills.which leaves the little bit of money there is gone and i never get anything.idk if this is right or not but i cant take it anymore ever week they go and spend all their money on pills and stuff and i dont get a penny.what should i do??
I think the simplist way would be to go live w/ another relitive(or a friend) for awhile. And also you could tell you rents that they aren't paying enough attention(or money) on you.

Q: well i have a twin sister and our parents told us we could each get a dog. she really wants to model herself after paris hilton so she wants one of those small yippy dogs. but the truth is i cant stand those dogs and i would hate to have it in our room yipping the whole night away! i want to ask her for another choice but i dontknow how to break it to her since we both really care abou the others feelings and she could take it two ways- one, be all defensive, ending in a big fight or two, get upset that she feels were growing up and growing apart. help?!
I think you should comprimise. If she want a small yippy dog and you want a bigger one(that doesn't yip) get a non-yippy medium sized dog.
I recomend going on this site and enter your "qualifications" into the search box on the left side and both of you can deside together which one you prefer:

http://www.puppyfind.com

Q: 17/f
I was dating my boyfriend for about a year and half when he cheated on me. He didn't just kiss another girl or hang out with her but he had sex with her at a party after we had had a fight. He didn't even tell me and i had to find out from the girl herself. She didn't even know i was hius girlfriend and she asked me to give him his ring back.( the ring was a promise ring we gave to eachother awhile ago) up until this happened i thought i could spend the rest of my life with him. I haven't talked to him since but he is always with my brothers. I just don't know if he went so far that i should throw away everything we had. Where is the line of going to far to be forgiven? Do i just give up and say let's be friends?
I THINK HE DID. But don't freak out and say that he doesn't know what to do and needed someone to tell him what to do. I gave him advice but w/e he says, I didn't put any of the words in his mouth w/e he says comes from the heart! not from me.

Q: Ok, you may think this question is really weird, but how do lesbian girls have sex? I know that's really weird and thanks to anyone who is willing to answer this.
They either finger eachother OR use a sex toy and do it to eachother.

Q: Ok could I be a lesbian or bisexual if naked girls turn me on. I am a girl, but I like guys. But when i watch a t.v. show or movie and it has boobs or naked girls in it, i get horny. do u know why?
Well you could be Bisexual. But if you are still in your teen years and haven't had sex yet you may just be horny because you see sexual things and you have never felt it before.
*If you are Bisexual it is NOT a problem and is perfectly fine*

Q: i have been dating my girlfriend Caitlyn for two years in October. She is the most amazing girl i have ever met and about 7 months ago i gave her a promise ring and i know Cait is the girl i want to spend the rest of my life with. Sometimes we get into little fights and blow them way out of proportion. About a month ago we had one of these fights and she wouldn't come to a party with me that night. I was pretty upset with her and At that party, i got pretty drunk and slept with a girl from another school. I didn't tell her about it and everything seemed like it was fine until this girl i slept with showed up at my baseball game and just so happens to sit down next to Cait and her best friend without knowing it was them. They start talking and pretty soon Becca, the girl from the party, has to go so she asks my girl friend if she could give me a ring back that i had left at her house (the promise rings we gave each other. i guess i left it there that night) of course my girlfriend gets curious why this girl has my ring and so she asks becca about it and she told her the whole thing. After the game Cait brought the ring up to me and said that my "little friend Becca" thought i would want it back and asked her to give it to me. I was totallly shocked and had no idea even what to say. Cait broke it off right then and there. I need to find some way to make it up to her. She is the love of my life and i totally regret what i did but she won't even talk to me which is really awkward since i am at her house all the time since her brothers are my best friends and her dad is my football coach. How can i get her back?

You really need to just call her or go to her house and talk to her about what happened.
Stress the fact you LOVE her and that you NEVER ment to hurt her and am SORRY!!!!
Just tell her how it went down. Start from the beging.

"When you said you wouldn't go to the party w/ me i was angry but i got over it before i left for the party. At this party i got drunk and i know it was a really bad idea to drink but it did. After the fact that i was drunk i fooled around w/ the girl that you met, becca. I have no feelings for her at all. It was a mistake and i am really sorry. I love you and would never want to hurt you. I am really sorry."

She probly won't forgive you right away but if she really loves you and you mean EVERY SINGLE WORD you say like sorry, and i love you. She will forgive you. And don't drink(to the point of drunkeness) agian because it will most likly lead to sleeping w/ another girl again and you don't want that to happen agian do you?

Q: okay, well i want to be more outgoing. i mean like when i'm with my friends i feel sort of left out because i'm not that outgoing, like i recently just went to a sleepover and there was me and three other girls and they like, the didnt leave me out but it sorta felt like i was out of place. but then when we were just talking i didn't feel like that at all. like we were all laying on the couch and one of my friends got up and went to the bathroom and when she came back she came and jumped on the couch, and i was on the end so she just had her feet on me. i mean i really dont care that she didnt want to sit on me but like i like being in the middle of things. it's really hard to explain.
and plase don't say try talking to the about how you feel, because i just want tips.
please& thank you.
I am the exact way you are. I feel really uncomfortable around people in genral. But i recently just said "the hell w/ what other people think. At the party i am going to hang around my friends and we are gonna have FUN!"

*i don't know if you mean your uncomfortable around all people. or wht people think about you but they sort of go hand in hand*

So i recomend just at the next socail event you go to have fun and block out everyone(except your friends) and just hang out w/ them and just be ttly CRAZY! Let loose and do w/e!!! you need to let YOURSELF know that you are able to be confortable around your friends and you will be. I know it sounds strange but your brain will recive this thought as extreme confidence and allow you be open and out w/ your friends.

Know if that doesn't work. You may just need to have a sleep over and play truth or dare. It will allow you to share secrets and also show your "wild" side. You may just not be confortable because sub-consiously you belive that your friends don't REALLY know you and you need to know that your friends really love you!

*****hope i helped*****
------Katie------

Q: I already have natural curly hair (not spirals, but still really curly) and the only way I can seem to keep them in control all day is through hairspray which often leaves my hair crunchy. Help please...I want soft hair!

This is my hair care:

At night I shower, and comb Aussie mousse through it. Then I put it in a large hairband in a ponytail, and then sleep on it.

In the morning I dry it , use Aussie hairspray and Aussie 12 hour dehumidifier.

Help?

Do curl conditioners and shampoo actually help, especially even if I use mousse afterwards?
a couple words of advice from a fellow curly haired girl.

*take a shower in the MORNING*

*put a specific 'curly' mousse in you hair*

*and curl shampoos and conditioners don't really work unless you take like 2 showers a day every single day of the week for like 2 months.(personal expiriance)*

Q: why was the simple life canceled? and why didnt they finish the season first?
Paris went to jail and Nicole is a prego!
There lifes are WAY to hectic to continue with that stuff anymore!

Q: i went out of town sunday and just got back today. well this guy and i have liked each other for 2 years and we went out for 6 months then broke up but continued being friends and this summer weve been extremely romantic..telling each other we love each other and hanging out alot and weve both loved it because we feel very strongly about each other and come to each other for everything and the night before i left he told me that he cared about me too much to hook up with other girls and that made me feel really good. WELL i just got back and he had sent me a long message telling me how much he loved me, etc..and then i decided to log onto his myspace (i know its bad but ive known his password and i get curious) and i found A BUNCH of messages with this girl he hooked up wiht a long time ago..she wants to have sex with him..(hes a virgin and so am i but hes not waiting till marriage like i am) and he sent her a message inviting her over and they were planning to do stuff..he was like "i can show you my bed :)" blah blah and then the last message he sent her said he couldnt hang out anymore cause of football..well it REALLY REALLY hurt me BAD..he had just told me he cared about me too much for that but the DAY i leave thats what he does? what i want to know is should i tell him i logged onto his myspace and just tell him everything so he'll understand why i'm mad? im not gonna pretend i'm not hurt because i am. so what should i tell him when i talk to him tonight? thank you so much!
I think you should ask him whats going on. Remember that you need to stay calm and non-angry when you ask him. say something like:

"(boys name) i was visting your myspace page the other day and i saw some messages from you and a girl talking about having sex. Are you planning to actually do this with her? I would apriciate it if you just came clean. I am not going to be mad, i was just really hurt when i saw this. I figured i should ask you before i asumed too much."

Hope that helps. I know it is alot to say but you need to break it to him slow and make sure you emphisize that you AREN'T going to be mad if he was. Just stay calm if he says "yeah i was" he will probly say he was sorry and go into a speech why he did it. Just be understanding.

remeber everyone messes up sometimes!

Q: Im going to take my premit test soon. And I was woundering what should I study? What kind of questions do they ask you? I wanna know what to study and what to do. I go on the site to take the quizzes but what else can help me? And I also have the book. (By the way I live in New York). I just dont want to fail and look like an idiot. Examples of questions would be nice. Thanks in advanced !!
They ask questoins about "how far away should you turn off you high beams" and "when should you start stopping" and "how far does it take to stop going 'this' fast".

The answer to these questions depends on your state. I recomend going to the court house and getting a book that has driving laws in it and look up that stuff. I am sorry but i cant just give you the answers scice i am not an expert on ALL 50 STATES and there driving laws.

STUDY THE SIGNS(like ped crossing/yeild/stop/ect.)
that is where i messed up...

Q: i am 23 and im concerned about my little cousin shes 14. shes changed so much it just feels so different. her friends her clothes and how it seems like she just doesnt love me as much it just is all changed. we went to the mall and i was trying to find her different clothes she dresses like a grunge and all darks. she refused it all but a black and red bikini. then her phone rang and her ringtone gave me the chills and later on we went out to eat and she wouldnt eat and she seems so mad. so i asked her if shes haveing any issues and if she was gothic or anything. she got so defensive and angrier. i just wana know what happened to her does anybody think she got raped or is abused or anything else whats wrong i ask her she gets all mad.
I honestly think it is the NORMAL teenage rebelion thing. Nothing to be too concerned about.

Q: 14/f

my parents are giving me the opportunity to take music lessons. my options are guitar (acoustic or electric) or piano. the thing about piano is i took lessons from when i was 7-11. and my brother is studying to be a piano teacher in college, and he really wants me to take piano. when he comes home on the weekends, he gives me random ben folds songs or classical pieces to play. then the next weekend, he expects me to have them memorized.. i don't want to let him down so i try to work on them. so i'm decent at the piano, but i REALLY want to play the guitar. so i'm in between.

PLEASE help mee?
personal experiences,
like you took piano or w/e
thanks in advance
Really it is what YOU want and think is gonna be the funnest and don't do it just because your brother says to or w/e. if you really like the guitar go for it! Same w/ piano.
I would chose guitar(after a while piano lessons get boring and guitar there is always something new.) i took both and i liked guitar better. But that is my personal expiriance.

Q: what shoes would you wear with white fishnet socks?
black ones. I am thinking from a Goth/punk/emo point of veiw. Generly black clunky ones.
Hope i helped

Q: so im pretty sure i have a heart shaped face. School is starting up soon and im tired of my bangs. they're semi annoying and i just think there is a diffrent style of bangs that will work with me.

I have dirty blonde hair with blonde highlights.
ive tried layers in my hair before but it doesnt work. now i just have the type of layers that frame my face. i part my hair on the left and i have side bangs. which my bangs arent totally noticeable until my hair is in a pony tail. but u can sorta tell. my hair is 3 in. under my shoulder, when i straighten it. so i need a haristyle that will look good straight and curly. i wear my hari both ways equally.

so im open to any suggestions as to bangs and whatnot. but im also growing my hair out for locks of love so would really like to not cut it.


thanks so much in advance.!
You have a pointy chin that tends to be the focal point of your face. Draw attention to your eyes and cheekbones instead with sideswept bangs (these act almost like arrows to your eyes or cheeks), brow-grazing fringe, a strong part and hair that falls at or below your jawline.

Have short hair? Keep top layers soft and long.

Long hair? Go for wavy layers that graze your cheekbones.

Celebs who share your face shape: Katie Holmes, Jennifer Lopez, Rachel Bilson, Reese Witherspoon, Ziyi Zhang

Avoid: Blunt-cut bangs and harsh, choppy layers.

Q: i cant find a prom dress that meets my details. how hard is it to find a light pink dress with a sweetheart neckline? that is not made of satin
Here is a few i found:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EE5HVO/ref=nosim/?tag=dealtime-app-20&creative=380333&creativeASIN=B000EE5HVO&linkCode=asn

http://www.edressmeprom.com/dresses3328.html

http://www.cbslimited.com/prom-dresses/prom_me

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