Over the weeks, us loyal viewers of This is Us have eagerly followed the seismic shifts of the Pearson family’s interpersonal relationships. Many of the watershed moments in these characters’ relationships have resulted in tears on the characters' end — and ours.

Why are we so susceptible to weeping at the Pearson family’s triumphs and travails? Unlike in real life, characters in This is Us have arcs perfectly designed to elicit cheers, tears, and empathy. Each of their moments leads to another. There is rhyme and reason and reward.

Nowhere is the perfectly designed character arc more irresistible than in the emotional climax that comes at the end of “Jack Pearson’s Son,” when Kevin and Randall’s story climaxes intersect and leads to a satisfying moment of relationship building.

From the start, Kevin (Justin Hartley) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) have a fraught relationship. During childhood, football player extraordinaire Kevin was jealous that his adopted brother received extra attention from their parents. Kevin responded by bullying and ostracizing his nerdy brother, which only exacerbated Randall’s feelings of being the odd sibling out.

By the time Kevin and Randall are adults, their adolescent frostiness still hadn't melted.

So when Kevin shows up on Randall’s doorstep following his move to New York, Randall can’t hide his annoyance. The brothers go through a series of passive aggressive actions, like a “friendly” race home and an awkward night at an expensive restaurant, that build in intensity.

Tension comes to a head in the episode "The Best Washing Machine in the Whole World," during which the brothers publicly confront each other with — gasp! — the admission of their feelings. Kevin’s hurt that Randall never watched the Manny, and Randall admits that all he ever wanted was to spend time with his brother. This all ends in a bang (literally) when the two throw punches in Times Square.

Since that low moment, Kevin and Randall’s relationship has been on the mend, even if Randall’s life hasn’t. While Kevin’s story line entailed love triangles and a New York play, Randall’s involved saying both hello and goodbye to his biological father. Juggling work, family, and mourning in real time takes a tremendous toll on Randall. Combined with his predisposition to anxiety, Randall is poised near the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Cut to the night of the Kevin’s show opening. As it goes in TV world, the culmination of Kevin’s journey coincides with the climax of Randall’s unraveling. Right before the show starts, a nervous Kevin calls Randall and asks him for a pick-me-up. But Randall doesn’t quite sound like himself on the phone. Gone is his self-assured tone; in its place is a quivering guy having a seemingly out-of-body experience. Randall tells him he can’t make the show, and we imagine him spiraling into darkness, all alone.

In a stunt that would never fly in the real world, Kevin sacrifices months of rehearsal, lots of money, and his own reputation to provide emotional support to his once-estranged brother. Kevin ditches his opening performance to run to his brother’s office, where Randall is staring blankly into space. Echoing an earlier scene from the episode, Kevin performs the same breathing exercise that Randall had done with Jack. Kevin helps walk Randall back to himself.

Of all the Grand Gestures on This Is Us(of which there have been too many to count), Kevin’s decision to choose Randall over his show has been the most earned. It took episodes of work to pull off the emotional viability of this moment.

With moments like this, This Is Us proves that it’s willing to put in the character development necessary to pull of the schmaltz. This is sentiment with substance.

In the This Is Us world, adult sibling relationships can grow, change, and evolve. In this way, the real world could learn a thing or to from TV land.

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There is a place for the Derek Zoolanders of the world to find love, and that place is Tinder — but not the Tinder you swipe and match on. There is a more exclusive, invite-only extension of the app where celebrities, models, CEOs, and other high-powered individuals can match, fall in love, and make beautiful, high-powered babies.

TechCrunch broke the news about Tinder Select, the name for the more restricted portion of the app. Earning admittance to Select may be based on your status (IRL) as well as the app’s internal ratings system, the Elo Score, which is comprised of factors such as how much info you provide and the number of swipe rights (and lefts) you’re receiving.

Screenshots show that the pinky-red gradient of the traditional app is replaced with a blue and purple gradient. Users seem to have the ability to toggle on and off Select — so, yes, a supermodel could still swipe with the rest of us non-Select folk. Those who are members of the elite Tinder club also seem to have a certain number of nominations for bringing others into the fold.

It's not clear how long Select has been in operation, but TechCrunch says that it has existed for least six months. With that timeline, it's possible that Select was inspired by events of this past summer, when Olympic athletes, including Ryan Lochte, were found swiping in Rio.

There is an inherent ickiness to Select, as its very existence implies that celebs, high-powered businessmen and women, and the rest of the beautiful people can only date among themselves. Everyone else just gets regular Tinder. But it's possible that Select was created to solve a problem that Zac Efron brought to light this summer: People are less likely to swipe right on photos of celebs because they think that the account is fake and that another user is trolling them.

Lesson learned: Looking for love is hard, even if you're one of the Zac Efrons of the world.

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Fans may salivate over everything Amy Schumer graces the world with, but we doubt people are paying attention to the credits as they roll on Inside Amy Schumer or Trainwreck. While you’re probably not missing out on anything there, the final shout-out of the comedian’s latest Netflix special is hiding something seriously emotional and illuminating.

In the last moments of The Leather Special, the words "In Memory of Mayci & Jillian" flash on the screen. The dedication refers to the heartbreaking murder of two young women — just 21 and 33, respectively — who were the fatalities of a July 2015 mass shooting during a showing of Trainwreck.

The man who opened fire upon Mayci, Jillian, and the nine other people who were shot in that Louisiana movie theater had a long documented history of mental illness and possibly domestic violence. Despite this fact, John Russell Houser was still able to stroll into a pawn shop in 2014 and purchase a .40 caliber handgun.

Since hearing of Mayci and Jillian’s avoidable deaths, Amy has become a vocal advocate for safer gun laws. The Leather Special is her stealthy response to everyone who says a celebrity like her has no business messing around with politics.

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The first 40 minutes of the Long Island native’s streaming special are packed with her signature blend of self-deprecation and graphic sex stories. Cum-plastered boobs, barn animal "pussies," and wine-edible blackouts are all described in lengthy detail, but something changes after Amy reminds us she’s a Peabody Award winner.

The comic delves into the confusing realities of buying a gun: people can purchase firearms while severely mentally ill, blind, or on the terrorist watch list thanks to loopholes. After laying all that out, the Comedy Central queen shares the most meaningful statement of Leather.

"You can catch a hot load all over your titties and still not want your loved ones to get shot in a theater," she declares, owning both her sexuality and smarts in 25 words or less.

That’s the secret mission statement of the hour-long special, as a send up to the lost lives of Mayci and Jillian. Being a sexy, silly woman and caring about the world around you aren’t mutually exclusive traits, and society needs to start recognizing that ASAP.

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Beyoncé's stepfather Richard Lawson turned 70 on Tuesday. His wife Tina Knowles (the couple tied the knot in 2015) documented his birthday dinner celebration on Instagram. And while under normal circumstances we might all be discussing how much Lawson does NOT look 70-years-old, the fact is that Beyoncé herself makes a cameo in the video her mom posted, which is, obviously, all people care about. And Bey's fleeting appearance is stirring up quite the ruckus in the comments section of Ms. Tina's Instagram post.

We see Bey at the beginning and end of the video, in which the camera pans around the table. In the first couple frames, you can spot the pregnant singer, expecting twins, reaching for her drink. From what we can tell, the beverage is in a low ball glass (the kind you drink an Old Fashioned from) and has something orange in it. Do not forget this important detail.

The camera then surveys the other guests in attendance — who, despite appearing to be lovely people, are NOT Instagram record-breaking goddesses pregnant with twins — before panning back to Bey in the last couple seconds. Here, we can hear a man, evidently Richard, asking his stepdaughter, "What you drinkin?" Bey responds, "it's a non-alcoholic orange—" and then the video cuts off. (WTF, Tina,?!)

That last crucial bit was not overlooked by amateur detective Bey fans, many of whom are sleuthing out what the mystery drink could be in the comments below: "if you listen closely richard asks her what are you drinking and she responds 'its a non alcoholic ...'" A less composed Beyhiver wrote, "Non alcoholic orange what??!! NON ALCOHOLIC ORANGE WHATT??!?!??!" Another observer noted, "She's so Texas, you could tell even if you didn't know by the way she said 'orange.' Judging by the glass, I'd say the last word in non-alcoholic orange would be martini." (That sounds like a reasonable guess to us, but due to lack of evidence we cannot draw a firm conclusion at this time.)

People are also laughing it up at Richard's basic dad behavior. "He checked her 'what you drinkin' such a dad," someone commented. "Richard on stepdaddy patrol... 'what you drinking?' So cute lol." Agreed.

And then, there are those still stuck on trying to figure out what the mommy-to-be is saying in the beginning of the clip: "I watched this video 13 times trying to read bey lips." Can we get a highly-trained lipreader up in here, please? Anybody? It's more important than whatever you're doing. Watch the video yourself and see what you can glean.

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Richards Birthday celebration! ❤️Ralph, Melba, Larry, Ricky,Richard ,Tina, Beyonce, Rodney, Glynn, Angie, Holly, Jo Ann, Kelly , Tim love all these folks❤️

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Roya Sadat is considered Afghanistan's first post-Taliban female director. Her work spotlights the ongoing struggles of her nation's women and girls, which in-and-of-itself is a feat, considering the fact that it is still considered taboo for women to appear in movies. Through films like Playing The Taar and Three Dots, Sadat has become a pioneering voice in international cinema, casting the stories of Afghan women fighting the Taliban's lingering political shadow across the global screen.

Forced to leave school after the Taliban takeover in 1996, Sadat began training as an assistant doctor at Kabul hospital — the last remaining place for her to find work. While working there, Sadat boldly wrote and organized a play with her fellow classmates, secretly staging the performance while the hospital chief was not watching.

Following the collapse of the Taliban, Sadat has gone on to achieve worldwide renown for her defiant portraits of Afghan women, who continue to strive for greater visibility in a world still scarred by the brutal regime. "Most of [Afghanistan's] young generation don't have a good education," she reflects. "It's easy [for them to] accept the Taliban's ideology." Spurred by her belief in film's revolutionary power, Sadat founded the International Women's Film Festival in Afghanistan to feature trailblazing female storytellers from around the world.

Want to know more Roya's incredible story? Check out this up-close look at the women of Afghanistan's ongoing struggle for equality.

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For 20-year-old Negin Khpalwak, music was never just a hobby. It was illegal to play and listen to music under the Taliban, and the regime banned public music-making and ordered the destruction of musical instruments. Following the Taliban's collapse in 2001, nine-year-old Khpalwak traveled to Kabul to receive an education in the hope of one day becoming a composer. Like many families, Khpalwak's relatives, who live in Afghanistan's deeply conservative Kunar region, have remained staunchly opposed to her studies.

Despite the fact that music is now legal, the Taliban's corrosive influence on the rights of women and girls has polluted their continued battle for education access. Just last year, a music hall that Khpalwak's classmates were performing in was attacked by those who opposed the concert.

Khpalwak isn't letting these obstacles silence her music, though. She has become one of Afghanistan's first female conductor and the leader of Zohra, a 35-member, all-women ensemble. While Khpalwak achieved her lifelong ambition of becoming a working musician, her story highlights the enduring social challenges that still stop many Afghan women from chasing their dreams beyond their homes and families.

Want to know more Negin's incredible story? Check out this up-close look at the women of Afghanistan's ongoing struggle for equality.

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Reporting on Taliban activities was a journalistic effort that was inherently dangerous. But for Afghanistan's Khaldea Khorsand, it was a life-or-death job that was deeply personal. A former correspondent for BBC Persia and Pajhwok—Afghanistan’s largest media outlet—Khorsand was one of the few women allowed to work during the Taliban's regime, and still had to play by its misogynistic rules while attempting to denounce them.

After the Taliban fell in 2001, Khorsand has studied the lingering effect that the regime still has on Afghanistan’s social, cultural, and economic realities. Today, she uses her unique position as a female writer and broadcaster to advocate for women’s equality, despite the constant threat of personal danger. Khorsand has been followed and threatened for her work, and endured three days of stalking after hosting a debate on the roles of religion and secularism in Afghan culture. But Khosand won’t let the specter of intimidation dampen her commitment to broadening the opportunities for her nation’s girls and women. “If we are afraid all of the time,” she says, “we wouldn’t be able to carry on.”

Citing the country’s enduring poverty, widespread illiteracy, and extreme violence as the three most daunting hurdles facing today’s Afghanistan, Khorsand spotlights stories that will help promote a more compassionate, peaceful future for all, especially the women long-silenced by the Taliban’s distorted interpretations of Islamic law.

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When eight-year-old Pashtana Rasoul left her home for a scholarship with the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO), she dreamed of playing women’s soccer for her country. Pashtana grew up mired in poverty, selling water on the streets of Peshwar with her siblings, but life turned dire after the imprisonment of her father by a Jehadi war faction, and the family found themselves in a refugee camp. With the help of the AFCECO, Rasoul pursued a career in professional sports and played with the National Football Team of Afghanistan against South Asian teams including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.

Women's sports were explicitly banned during the Taliban, and the Ghazi National Olympic Stadium was used for public executions and corporeal punishment. Today, Pashtana has played soccer within its walls.

Undeterred by the Taliban’s lingering influence on Afghan society, Rasoul now works as the executive director of the AFCECO. In a country where 60% of girls are married by 16, and 85% remain illiterate, she’s doing all she can to widen the horizon of opportunity for Afghanistan’s next generation of women. Rasoul now sponsors a team for the girls of the AFCECO, proving that her inspiring determination and resilience live on in their passion for the game.

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Whether you're feeling Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Nathan Riggs (Martin Henderson) or not — I mean, will we ever really get over Meredith and Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) ultimate love story? — there's no way Meredith can deny that she's into the doc. He may not be McDreamy, but he's certainly, well, dreamy — and always down to push Mer's buttons. Not that Meredith is any sort of pushover: the doctor was suspended from Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital when she refused to let Eliza Mennick (Marika Dominczyk) into her operating room. Meredith's insubordination may have gotten her booted from her own OR, but now she's back — at the request of Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.). And Nathan has something to say about it.

But let's be honest: Nathan just wants an excuse to talk to Meredith.

In this sneak peek from March 9's episode "Civil War," Riggs takes a jab at Mer for "folding" under the pressure to return to the hospital. It's essentially the equivalent of playground teasing — except that these two are high-profile doctors who have already made out aggressively on a car. Alex (Justin Chambers), of course, sees right through the doctors' flirtationship — even though Meredith insists she doesn't want to be with the cardio-thoracic surgeon. (Because yeah, okay.)

Look, I get it: it's not easy for Meredith to move on from Derek, and with the drama at her job, dating a co-worker isn't exactly the best idea. But... since when does anyone on Grey's Anatomy put not making things weird at work before attraction? The answer to that is never... and maybe it's time that Meredith put her hang-ups aside and goes for what she really wants. After the year she's had, she deserves a guy who's going to kiss her in the parking lot like Riggs will.

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It makes sense that celebrity kids look a lot like their parents — surprise, that's how genes work! Regardless, it will never cease to amaze us when a famous child looks strikingly like their well-known parent. (Previous examples include Ava Phillipe, Charlie Sheen's daughter, and James Lively.) And this one is no exception.

As E! Online reports, Drew Barrymore toted her daughter Frankie to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Bunny Hop, and the tot looks just like Barrymore did in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When the Santa Clarita Diet star appeared in the film, she was only 7 years old. Frankie Barrymore Kopelman is almost 3 years old — she's got four more years to go before she could star in a Stephen Spielberg film — but the resemblance is stunning. Perhaps it's the sweet pink bow. Perhaps it's the swath of angelic blonde hair. Perhaps it's because we're all skeptical of this whole "gene" thing, and so it's really cool when we find proof that genetics exists. Either way, we'll never stop being amazed.

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Look at those bows! Those cheeks! That blonde hair! If you, like me, have trouble distinguishing between the two, here's a handy guide: The little girl in the turtleneck is Drew Barrymore as Gertie in Steven Spielberg's alien flick. The little girl in the chic and fuzzy gray coat standing in front of the step-and-repeat is Frankie.

Frankie is one of two children Barrymore had with her ex-husband Will Kopelman, an art consultant. The elder, Olive, was born in June of 2012. Barrymore and Kopelman divorced officially in August of 2016 after four years of marriage. The split seemed to amicable, though — Barrymore and her two kids cheered on Kopelman at the New York City Marathon in November 2016.

And it's not all glamorous step-and-repeats for the tangentially famous tot. In early 2017, Barrymore brought her two daughters to Disney World for a fun-filled time.

"Frankie, every day since we've gone there, wants to go to Disney World," Barrymore told Seth Meyers in February. "I try to talk her rationally. I'm like — but we have to go to Delta, and get back on the plane..." So, maybe Frankie won't be going back to Florida's fun-filled playground just yet. How about an at-home reenactment of E.T. instead?

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Think back to your high school biology class. What stuck with you? If your experience was anything like mine, you probably remember all of two things: The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, and a lot of dead white dudes looked into microscopes for hundreds of years to figure that out. For many people — myself included — the intrigue of science is lost at an early age in heavy textbooks, dry lectures, and a cultural attitude that science is reserved for nerdy boys.

But if you ask Rachel Ignotofsky, that couldn't be further from the truth — and it's way past time to change the way we talk about science, especially in regards to women scientists who too often go ignored. Ignotofsky ’s upcoming book, Women In Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, aims to change the everyday conversation about science — where we access information about science, whose work we see represented when we do, and how we digest the facts we’re given. Through eye-popping, brightly illustrated pages, Ignotofsky tells the stories of 50 women — some well-known and some who were left behind in mainstream history books — whose research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics influenced the world through their respective fields. Not only did these women make incredible strides in science and medicine, but in doing so they shouted a huge "fuck you" to a society that, historically, has actively and purposefully discouraged them from pursuing their work.

An illustrator by trade whose work often focuses on scientific topics, Ignotofsky realized the power of her work after receiving a fan letter from a father of a young girl with a rare respiratory condition. “He was using an illustration I did to explain to his four-year-old-daughter why she would need a respirator,” she tells Refinery29. “I realized that this work is important; I’m taking information that’s super dense and complicated and making it digestible for kids and adults in a way that no one’s really doing.”

With the success of her scientific illustration — and frustration by male-dominated curricula in high school history and science classes — Ignotofsky decided that her work could help tackle women’s underrepresentation in STEM in an accessible format.

“I just kept saying over and over again, ‘Young girls are testing just as well as boys in these STEM subjects, but aren’t pursuing it as a degree. We’re not taught about women in our history classes. We’re not taught about them in our science classes. We need to be taught about these women at an early age, so that strong and powerful women are the norm.’ So I decided I was going to use my skill set to shape the conversation in a better way.”

The book includes the narratives of women such as Hypatia, a mathematician born in Alexandria, Egypt in 315 CE, as well as modern women like current Stanford University professor and 2014 Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani, giving the book a breadth of history while proving a point that, yes, women in science have always been around, even if our history textbooks didn't include them.

Ignotofsky also stresses the importance of scientific literacy for everyone: “To make educated choices in life, you need to know how the world works — whether it’s understanding global warming or understanding why your computer turns on,” she says. “There’s a fight for scientific literacy in this country, and if drawing a little happy face on a cell can help it, then I definitely want to be a part of it.”

Women In Science will be released on July 26, 2016 and is currently available for pre-order. Click through to see eight illustrations as well as the bios of women whose pioneering work changed the way we think about health.

Reprinted with permission from Women In Science Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Ignotofsky. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Contrary to his track record, it looks like Nick Viall (who is basic) will be leaving this season of The Bachelor with a fiancee. Us Weekly reports that while the finale isn't slated to air until March 13, a source has confirmed to the magazine that Viall does indeed make a choice between Vanessa Grimaldi and Raven Gates — but not without heartbreak.

“Nick was scared to death,” the source from the show told Us Weekly. “He said if he left alone, he’d be devastated.”

If you remember correctly, Viall has been rejected on air three different times, so you can't blame him for expecting the worst. That being said, he's also battling some guilt of his own.

"He could relate to the woman he was sending home more than the woman chosen,” the source added. “He had empathy for her. It was hard for him to let her go because it hit so close to home.”

Apparently, he pondered the decision all night before he was ready to film the proposal.

“He tells the ­runner-­up, ‘I’ve been so selfish,'" the source explained. "He told her his heart was with someone else."

The source did not reveal exactly who Viall is talking to in this heartbreaking discussion in order to not spoil the show, but if you've been on the internet recently, you'd know that Grimaldi might have already spilled the beans after posting a photo of herself at a bridal shop.

🌹A good way to end the week at the office! #thebachelor

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"A good way to end the week at the office!" she captioned the photo. However, TMZ reported that the contestant was there simply to discuss a possible partnership, and that she didn't try on any of the gowns.

Unsurprisingly, the source reveals that “the finale is very emotional.” But really, is The Bachelor ever anything but wild and unchecked feelings? We'll have to wait until the 13th to tune in.

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Lena Dunham has always been a vocal feminist, so it's not a surprise that she used her celebrity platform to speak out about International Women's Day, which is today, March 8. The actress posted an essay on LinkedIn about a "personal hero" of hers who's also an undocumented immigrant.

In the essay, Dunham explained that her friend "has cared for the dying, for the just-born, for people who can't care for themselves," and that she "is everything you could hope for from an American." Still, she apparently "doesn't travel besides to and from work" in order to maintain a "low profile."

One instance when her friend did venture into the public sphere, though, was to attend the Women's March in solidarity with female immigrants. Any fear of arrest or even deportation was overcome by her friend's desire to show her support her fellow women, Dunham explains.

Dunham also used the essay to reflect on her great-grandmother, Lena Simonoff, who's also her namesake. Simonoff, she explains, was a Russian immigrant who came to America in the late 19th century. Dunham hopes to emulate her "by taking action against silent injustice," just as her great-grandma would have.

"Feminists have always been emboldened by the acts of immigrant women," Dunham wrote. Following their lead will never steer us wrong."

Dunham also used the essay to promote several organizations that help female immigrants. She listed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), "so that those affected by Islamaphobia aren't denied their right to enter our country." (Dunham didn't specifically mention President Trump's immigration travel ban, but the implication is there.) She also suggested giving "food, flowers, or toys" to "a local center for Latinx immigrants" or "supporting Dreamers attending college." Dunham also suggested volunteering at Planned Parenthood or getting to know and help a refugee family near you.

We're glad to see that Dunham is taking the opportunity to speak out for immigrant women, who may not have the same platform she does. It's great to see women supporting each other today — let's hope the solidarity extends long past International Women's Day.

You can read Dunham's full essay on LinkedIn.

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From feminist nail art to glittering geode manicures, we'll never stop coming up with ways to express ourselves through our hands. And luckily, brands like Orly keep churning out the colors and products we need to keep up with our ever-changing looks.

We went behind the scenes of Orly's sprawling, paint-splattered factory to see how its bright, innovative polishes are made. And trust us when we say it is truly a sight to be seen. Imagine rivers of burgundy and neon orange polish being mixed, swirled, and poured into glass bottles and gleaming, electric purple paint pouring from 200-pound vats. It's like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, but for beauty nerds.

Today, Orly — whose founder Jeff Pink invented the French Manicure — manufactures 5 tons of tinted lacquer every day. But the history of nail polish dates back way before that. Watch the video above to see the entire, mesmerizing process. Warning: manicure appointments may follow.

Correction: We mistakenly state that Orly makes 5 tons of nail polish everyday. In fact, we dont know how much they make. But it's a lot : )

Correction: Jeff Pink is not makeup artist, he owned a beauty supply store, selling products to makeup artists.

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The skirt belongs to her mother, the scarf to a friend. The red necklace was a gift ("My grandma bought it for me from the market — it’s my favorite thing in the world"), and her shoes…well, her shoes are her own — but they’re about to be kicked off and discarded somewhere in the field. As Kusum, 15, scoops up the folds of material in her fingers and runs towards the makeshift photo studio, she stumbles and lands face first in the grass. Her friend, Hasina, makes a small noise and steps forward, but Kusum sits back on her heels and grins. Real life has been suspended for the next six hours, and you can see it all over her face.

Girls in Nepal are forced to grow up fast. Far, far too fast. Countrywide, it’s believed 41 per cent of all weddings take place to child brides, but in the time-frozen Terai regions bordering India, that figure may be even higher — local experts believe more than two thirds of teenage girls may be married off before they turn 18. School is dropped and swapped for motherhood, and aspirations buried: dreams tucked to one side as a deeply patriarchal culture reminds every woman, time and time again, that she doesn’t have the right to choose her own future.

Today, that changes, for a moment — and it’s why Kusum is in her (freshly-grass-stained) costume. As part of an ongoing photographic project created by 32-year-old Vincent Tremeau, and an international campaign to end child marriage by the UNFPA, we’re asking teenage girls from agronomic Kapilvastu to dress up like what they’d like to be when they grow up — if we took prospective husbands out of the equation. Entitled "One Day I Will, " the aim is to highlight the limitless potential of young women and illustrate the strength of their ambition.

That, and allow them to be teenagers again — at least for six hours of a single day.

Ahead, meet ten teens from the region and discover the futures they're dreaming about.

Join the UNFPA and DFID’s campaign to end child marriage all over the world at www.unfpa.org #EndChildMarriage.

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The best thing about ClassPass is also the worst: You can try a different class each time you work out and never get bored. It's a uniquely New Yorker problem to feel crippled by having too many options at your fingertips. That's why you can live in an apartment for years and still walk down the block and think, "Hey, I didn't know there was a restaurant here!" because you only order from the same three places on Seamless.

Branching out and trying a new spot outside your normal routine — whether we're talking takeout food or fitness classes — can be beautiful and adventurous, and it can also be the worst. Worst case scenario is that you spend a whole yoga class wishing it would end, wasting your precious ClassPass credits and time. Best case? You try something out of your comfort zone and end up actually liking the workout. Currently, there are upwards of one thousand studios on ClassPass in New York City, so you've got to do your research.

There's really only one way to find out if you like something (trying it), but we combed through the list and found the best of the best classes and studios on ClassPass. Flip through to find the class that sounds like it could be your thing — then go!

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Since the presidential election, thousands upon thousands of young women across the country have pledged to enter politics themselves.

But will they actually run? And soon? If one special congressional election in Southern California is any indication, the answer is yes.

At least eight women under the age of 40 have joined the crowded field of candidates vying to replace Xavier Becerra in Los Angeles' 34th Congressional District, according to bios published by The Los Angeles Times. In all, 12 out of the 23 candidates are female — more than half of the ballot.

The special election to succeed Becerra, who was appointed as the state's attorney general following Kamala Harris' election to the U.S. Senate, is set for April 4. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, the two with the most votes will compete in a June run-off.

The election of any of these women would give a small but crucial boost to gender balance in Washington. Currently, just 83 women serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, accounting for 19% of the body.

The young women in the race bring a range of backgrounds and experiences to the campaign, as the Times reports. Ahead, meet the eight under-40 female candidates for the seat. ß

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To coincide with International Women's Day and Women's History Month, Tory Burch (and her namesake foundation) has teamed up with all of your favorite celebrities on a new social campaign, aptly named #EmbraceAmbition, which aims to counter the double standard that exists around ambition, and how it's typically considered to be a positive trait in men, but a negative one in women.

Set to the tune of Sia's inspiring "Unstoppable," the PSA-style video brings attention to the discrepancies between men and women in the work place: Only four percent of CEOs in Fortune 500 companies are women, and women hold less than 20% of board seats; in government, women make up roughly 19% of Congress and account for less than 10 percent of top national leaders — globally. Which is why, among the celebrities (which includes Anna Wintour, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kerry Washington, Kate Bosworth, Chris Pine, and Jon Hamm), are also female athletes and CEOs, such as Laila Ali, Billie Jean King, Sheryl Sandberg, and Melinda Gates, among others.

“In one of my first interviews, a reporter mentioned the word 'ambitious,' and I commented that the word annoyed me," Burch said in an official press release. "A friend of mine said, 'You should never shy away from that word.' She was right. I realized that I had bought into the stigma that women shouldn’t be ambitious – that it was unattractive. That creates a harmful double standard that we must overcome in order to achieve equality."

Visitors to EmbraceAmbition.org are invited to use the hashtag (or "take the pledge") on their own social media channels. In addition, T-shirts and bracelets emblazoned with the call to action are available in Tory Burch and Tory Sport boutiques worldwide, as well as online, with 100% of the proceeds from sales going to the Tory Burch Foundation, which has been working to empower women entrepreneurs in the U.S. since 2009.

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The Bachelor in Paradise couple everyone was rooting for has some major news. Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert, who met on the Bachelor spin-off and later got engaged, announced to In Touch Weekly that they are expecting their first child together.

The couple married last year in Dana Point, CA. That same month, Roper and Tolbert sat down with Us Weekly to discuss wedding details and the possibility of building a family together. Roper, who had just turned 30, told the magazine that she would love to have a baby in 2017. It looks like her wish has come true. And like their unconventional love story — not many can brag about wedded bliss post-reality TV — Roper is hoping for an unconventional childbirth, too. In Touch reports that she's looking into a home birth.

"If the pregnancy is low-risk, I would love to have an at-home water birth," Roper told In Touch. In fact, the magazine reveals that Roper once considered a career as a doula. "But Tanner's a little concerned," she explained.

As for Tolbert, he's excited about the prospect of fatherhood. Minus one thing: diapers. He explained to In Touch that he's willing to do every other chore to avoid changing a dirty diaper. "I'll do every other duty if it means no poopy diapers!" he told the magazine.

Roper is fine with that. The former Playboy model said that she's more than happy to have extra time with the little one when he or she arrives. For now, the two are focusing less on who will do what and are just excited to be parents.

"He works a lot, so I'll gladly take on most of the responsibility," Roper said when asked about parenting duties. "I’m naturally nurturing, and I just can’t wait to have our baby."

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Can you lick your elbow? We're willing to bet Allison Schieler, a 25-year-old professional contortionist from Brooklyn, can. Schieler's flexibility is way more impressive than this childhood test.

She can actually touch her head to her butt... and she makes it look easy (kind of).

Cosmopolitan posted a video of Schieler's routines to Facebook, and we're obsessed.

Probably one of the most impressive things, other than her ability to twist her body into shapes we didn't know a body could make, is that she never had any formal training. Schieler is naturally flexible, she told Cosmo, and has been practicing as a contortionist since she was a kid. She learned from videos such as the ones she posts to her own Instagram page now, as well as from footage of circus performers.

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Though she has plenty of natural talent, Schieler trains hard to keep up the strength she needs to perform.

"I'm extremely proud of my contortion handstand variations, which have come a long way since I started training," she told Cosmo.

She told Cosmo that she loves performing, but — in case you were wondering — things do sometimes get awkward.

"I'm also pretty sure I had a lip slip performing a pole set in a very tiny costume once," she said. "I like to pretend that never happened."

Awkward moments or not, being a contortionist seems pretty amazing to us. Not to mention, beautiful. Some of Schieler's poses are downright striking.

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Needless to say, Schieler just gained several new fans.

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