Every girl’s period is different. No one has the exact same period as someone else. Some girls might have similar periods or their period might start and end at the same time but their flows are not exactly the same.

Some girls have a very light flow and some have a really heavy flow. There are also other girls that have an in between flow, its not light but its not heavy either. Every girl’s flow and period cycle are different, so there is no need to worry about yours since it will not be the exact same as your friend’s cycle.

There are tampons made for every type of flow. If you have a light flow use Light tampons. If you have a in between light and heavy flow use Regular tampons. If you have a heavy flow use Super tampons and if you have a really heavy flow use Super Plus tampons.

Having a heavy flow is not very different than having a regular flow. The only thing that is really different is that you have to have bigger tampons and more absorbent pads.

What can also occur is that one month your flow is very light and then the next month it increases and becomes a little heavier. This is totally normal. Another thing that can happen is that once you first get your period you might have a light flow but once you start to get older your flow might become heavier.

So if you do have a heavy flow and you are worried about it, don’t be. There is nothing wrong with having a heavy flow. Just make sure that you have very absorbent pads and tampons and you will be just fine. Don’t be self-conscious about your heavy flow because that wont help you in any way. Just make sure you are always prepared and you’ll do great.

No. Tampons are not to be used for discharge. Tampons are made to absorb the menstrual blood and not the discharge. It is totally normal for girls and women to get yellowish and greenish discharge on a daily basis. This is nothing that you should be worried about. Getting this discharge in your underwear can be uncomfortable and might make you feel weird. The solution for this is to wear pantyliners. Panty liners are very light and thin and are perfect for everyday use.

It is just not good to use tampons when you are not on your period. Not only are they unnecessary when you aren’t on your period they are also not going to be easy or comfortable to insert when there isn’t really something for it to absorb.

Pantyliners on the other hand are made to absorb discharge and are very comfortable to be worn all day. Pantiliners are the perfect solution for absorbing discharge. So if you want to have something that will be comfortable, light and easy to use against your discharge just grab a panty liner. It will do the job!

Since tampons were made and are intended for the use of absorbing menstrual blood, they should be used for that purpose.

It’s the same as if you used your toothbrush to brush your hair. The purpose of a toothbrush is to brush your teeth and not your hair. So using your toothbrush to brush your hair would not make sense and would not help make your hair less knotted.

Now using that same logic we can then see that using a tampon for something, which it is not, intended for, like absorbing daily discharge, would not make sense.

So remember, if you need something to absorb your daily discharge use a pantyliner.

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Makeup is such a fun thing to apply and experiment with. Makeup can be used for all sorts of things. Its main use is to enhance a girl’s features. For example, make your eyes stand out more, cover up unwanted blemishes, add color to your face and lips. Makeup has been around for a long time. In the ancient days of history women used to use charcoal for eyeliner and used certain berries to stain their lips. Since the ancient days makeup has become way more developed but its purpose remains basically the same. To enhance a girl’s or woman’s features.

There are all sorts of ways to apply makeup and all sorts of different things one can do with makeup. Some girls misunderstand the concept of makeup and they think that they have to wear makeup or else they will be ugly. This is totally not true. Yes, makeup does make one look prettier if applied right or to the right degree. But makeup can also make one look fake and very unnatural. Men prefer natural beauty versus overly done makeup.

Some people tend to apply loads and loads of foundation onto their faces. First off this isn’t good for your face because it can’t really breathe under all those layer of makeup and secondly it doesn’t look good, it just looks fake. Too much black eyeliner is another thing that a lot of girls do. This doesn’t look that good either. Since when a person looks at you their attention immediately goes to the pounds and pounds of eyeliner on your eyes.

One can still look good without piling on the makeup. There is a way to apply makeup where it enhances your features but at the same time doesn’t look fake. When putting on makeup choose one feature that you would like to stand out, like your lips, eyes or cheekbones. After you have chosen your feature, experiment with all different sorts of makeup styles and find the one that you like best. If you chose to make your eyes stand out then don’t apply a very out there lip color. Just make sure your face looks nice and balanced.

Makeup is supposed to be fun so if you ever get bored with your look try and change something up. For example my favorite makeup is mascara. I absolutely love it. I have over 25 different kinds. But I was getting a little bit bored of only black mascara so I tried out this amazing blue that makes my eyes totally pop. If you love eyeliner and you are getting bored of only neutral colors, have a little fun and get some color eyeliners! Don’t ever be serious with makeup, makeup works and looks the best when you have fun with it and when you don’t overdo it!

Have a blast!

One of the most discouraging things in regards to your body can be if it is overweight. It just totally makes you uncomfortable in certain situations, like going to the beach or swimming. It can be so irritating being overweight especially if most of your friends are super skinny. If you are overweight you can feel so self-conscious especially around boys. Even though being overweight sounds completely terrible, don’t worry! I have some great things that can help you get rid of your extra weight.

One of the most important things to do when trying to lose weight is to focus on eating healthy. This means, cutting out all those bags of chips, cookies, candy, soda, ice cream and other unhealthy eating habits that you may have acquired through the years. It might seem terrible not to be able to eat all those things, but in the end it will all be so worth it.

Another very important thing is to exercise. And by exercise I mean, running, swimming, sports or something that will really get your heart going and really moves your whole body. You don’t have to exercise everyday, if you don’t want to. But at least do it three times a week. Exercising might seem like a total pain but when you actually start doing it, it can be really fun. I recommend exercising with a friend or listening to upbeat music, that way it adds some more fun into it. Also after exercising you feel so good and refreshed. It’s very invigorating.

I know a main problem with people losing weight is that they do crazy diets with which they lose a lot of weight but right after that they gain it all back. I highly discourage doing crazy diets to lose weight. There is a way better way, which will help you lose weight as well as get you healthy and also will keep the weight off. The way to do this is all explained in a book called “ Eat to Live” by Joel Fuhrman. I read this book and after following what Dr. Fuhrman says to do I lost all my extra weight and now am totally happy with my body.

One more thing, the first step to losing your extra weight is realizing that you have extra weight and just acknowledging that fact, then deciding to do something about it.

I wish you the best of luck!

Acne is one of those things that can totally ruin your look or your mood. It can be the most irritating thing to have. There are just all those pimples that seem like they will never go away and no matter how many products you try the pimples just keep coming back. I used to be a hopeless girl and I thought that I would always be cursed with acne. But then I finally found something that made my acne disappear. It is a combination of three things.

The first thing I did was I changed my eating habits. I stopped eating sugar and unhealthy things. I started eating way more fruits and vegetables. I also started drinking lots of water. Changing the way I ate was the main thing that made my acne start disappearing.

Another thing I did was I started washing my face with tea tree oil face wash. Tea tree oil is an oil that makes blemishes fade. Right after I started using this face wash I noticed a tremendous difference.

The third thing that helped get rid of my acne was sunshine. I went to the beach a lot or just sat out in the sun for a little bit. The sun is good for your skin because it persuades your body to produce vitamin D. Vitamin D heals scars and blemishes. Of course too much sun isn’t that good for you. But a little bit will definitely do you good.

So just to summarize, my acne went away after eating really healthy, using tea tree oil face wash and going out in the sun.

Maybe yours wont completely go away after doing exactly what I did, since every body is different. But I guarantee that if you eat healthy and you use tea tree oil you will see a definite improvement.

Being on your period is not always a walk in the park. Sometimes it can cause you to feel very uncomfortable and it becomes very easy to be annoyed or irritated. When you are on your period your body doesn’t feel so great all the time. When you don’t feel well and on top of that someone is telling you to do something that you don’t want to do you can become irritated about it. It is not unusual for girls to become easily angered or irritated when on their period.

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Since you experience all sorts of discomforts when on your period it’s not that easy to be happy or relaxed. If someone comes at you with a wrong word or wrong comment it can easily lead into an argument that you wouldn’t get into if you weren’t on your period.

For example, you wake up, you realize you just started your period which now means you have to wear an outfit to school that will hide your bloated stomach and on top of that you have very sharp stomach cramps. You also notice when you look into the mirror that you just broke out with three huge pimples. Oh grand, this will be a lovely day. And not to mention, today just happens to be the day you are supposed to be performing in the school play alongside your crush. Isn’t life just awesome some days? And then when you get to school all your friends are like man you look different today..what happened? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? And that’s all it takes to just make you explode and storm out of class with all your friends thinking you are crazy. But guess what? The reason you got so annoyed by such a little thing is because you feel terrible and it’s hard to be happy and relaxed when your body feels terrible.

So don’t think that you’re crazy or that something is wrong with you when you get easily irritated while on your period. It happens to the best of us.

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For every girl the things that you can get while on your period are different. Some girls experience discomforts and some don’t experience any discomforts at all. One of the most common discomforts girls experience are stomach cramps. These are muscle spasms that occur in the lower stomach area due to the different things going on in your body during the menstrual cycle. A supplement that helps with stomach cramps which is completely natural is called Calcium Magnesium. This supplement relaxes your body, and can be bought in any regular supermarket as well as at Wal-mart.

There are a lot of other discomforts that can occur. Some include, lower back pains, nausea, hot and cold flashes, food cravings, headaches, sweating way more than normal, bloating, breaking out, bad hair days, side pains, feeling faint and possible blackouts.

Even though it may be hot where you are some girls will tend to get cold either right before their period or on their period. And if they are in a place that is cold they will get hot. This is normal and is nothing you should worry about, it will go away after your period is over.

Some girls experience lower back pains of all different sorts. Some pains are very sharp and last only for a little and some are not so sharp and last for a while. Something that helps with the back pains is doing some light stretching or swimming.

Some girls experience tremendous food cravings. For example, some girls must absolutely have chocolate. Its incredible, your body just wants some specific food. Some girls crave salty foods or ice cream. Its nothing bad and you shouldn’t worry about it.

There are probably more discomforts that one could experience in addition to the ones that I mentioned. But something to keep in mind is that sometimes you can have all the discomforts at once, or maybe you just get some of them and there are those times when you could get none of them. If you don’t experience any discomfort while on your period or before it, that is totally fine and is something you should be happy about.

One tip that I can give from experience is that while you are on your period you should get plenty of food and rest, also drink lots of water. I discourage taking any sort of medication to ease the pain from your period. If you just eat healthy and take Calcium Magnesium you should be fine.

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Your period will not always come on the same day as it did the month before. Sometimes your period might come a little earlier or sometimes it might come a little later. Some girls might not get their period for 2 months and then get it again.

If you didn’t have sex and your period is late than that is totally fine. There is nothing wrong with getting your period a little late. If you did have sex and you were supposed to get your period, but it hasn’t come. You should get it checked out and just make sure you aren’t pregnant.

Some girls have irregular periods, meaning that some months they do get their period and some months they don’t. Girls can be irregular and then switch over to being regular. It just depends on how you nourish your body and how your body develops.

Sometimes your period could come later one month due to a change in your diet. If one month you eat really healthy and then the next month you eat a lot of junk food your period could change when it comes just due to the different types of food you are eating. Also another thing that could affect your period coming late is if you travel to a different place that has a different climate.

So just remember that if you period doesn’t come right on the day you expected it to come, that is totally fine and it will still come. If you have your period and then you don’t get it for a couple months you should go see your doctor and just make sure that everything else in your body is running well. But just know that sometimes you wont get your period and that is nothing to be worried about because your body is still developing and is going through a lot of changes.

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Well thats a very good question. You have probably heard all sorts of things about what you should do when you first start you period. You have probably read loads and loads of articles and your head is just spinning with information which you don’t know what to do with. Or maybe you haven’t heard anything about periods. Maybe you haven’t read any articles and you really just have no idea what to do. Either way, I will give you some basic information that will help you out.

The first sign that you can see when a girl first starts her period is a brownish discharge that is a little slimy. This is completely normal. Soon after the discharge blood will come. The blood might look brownish reddish or it might just look red. One thing that you could experience is stomach cramps. Some girls get stomach cramps and some don’t. You don’t have to have to get stomach cramps, some girls get them and some don’t.

When you first get your period I recommend using a pad. Thats what I did. I used pads for the first couple of times and then switched over to tampons. If your flow is very heavy at the beginning you could use tampons since it might be uncomfortable to use pads with a heavy flow.

When you are on your period you wouldn’t want to just use a panty liner. You would want to pair it with a tampon, since a pantyliner is too thin to be worn by itself during the period.

It is really up to you if you want to use pads or if you want to use tampons right away. Most girls that I know used pads at first and then started using tampons. If you want to start off by using a tampon and you are unsure of how to use them, you can refer to our post “ How to Insert a Tampon”.

First off, don’t worry or be embarrassed about wearing pads. It is totally fine to wear pads and not tampons. Granted tampons do make a lot of activities easier such as, sports, swimming and dancing. But if you feel like you aren’t ready to wear tampons yet, than that’s okay.

Most girls start off with wearing pads and when they feel ready or they must for some reason wear a tampon they then switch over to tampons. Some girls wear pads for their first year of their period. Some girls just for the first week. It all depends on what one feels is right for them.

If you feel embarrassed about wearing pads and you really do want to wear tampons then you should just try out tampons. If you don’t know how to insert a tampon ask someone who you trust that can help you or refer to our post “ How to Insert a Tampon”.

Some people wear pads because they are scared to use tampons and they just are not ready. That is totally okay, you just need to know that tampons are nothing to be scared of. You do not need to be embarrassed about it. Every one is different. Also every one’s cycles are different. For some people pads just work better and for some tampons just work better.

One thing to keep in mind is that if other girls are making fun of you for not wearing tampons and still wearing pads, then you should just not pay attention to them and don’t go into agreement with them. Your period and what you wear doing your period is a very personal thing. And no one should make fun of you for it. Just keep your head up and be strong!

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