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10 Jan

On TikTok, Silent Reviews Are the Recent Chatty ‘Get

BeautyTok has found its first fixation of 2024. Silent reviews — wherein users compile their beauty products and wordlessly convey their thoughts on each through exaggerated gestures and facial expressions — have taken the app by storm. The trend first originated amongst TikTok’s area of interest reader community — also known as BookTok — in mid-December, when popular creators like Kara Hansen (@karaahansen) and Haley Pham (@haleypham) uploaded videos silently reviewing their 2023 reads and popular authors’ respective oeuvres. Now the phenomenon has made its strategy to beauty, with creators silently reviewing groupings of viral products TikTok has influenced them to try, corresponding to Glow Recipe’s Watermelon Glow PHA + BHA Pore-Tight toner — often presented to the silent...
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27 Dec

Letitia Wright Says June Gibbons Has Given ‘The Silent

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18 Oct

Letitia Wright Says June Gibbons Has Given ‘The Silent

var playerInstance_HVwNjqWP = jwplayer("jw-video-HVwNjqWP").setup({ playlist: "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HVwNjqWP", autostart: false, repeat: true, mute: true, aspectratio: '16:9', sharing: { sites: ["facebook","twitter","email","linkedin"] }, cast: {}, floating: { dismissible: true }, autoPause: { viewability: false }, displaytitle: true, displaydescription: true, controls: true, related: { displayMode: 'shelfWidget' }, advertising: {"client":"googima","tag":"https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?correlator=&iu=/21698916284/ess/VideoEntertainment&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&output=vast&sz=1000x1&description_url=__page-url__&tfcd=0&npa=0&vpmute=0&vpa=auto&vad_format=linear&url=__page-url__&vpos=preroll&unviewed_position_start=1&v=HVwNjqWP&pmnd=0&pmxd=60000&ad_rule=1&cust_params=ttid%3DHVwNjqWP%26frnch%3D__item-franchise__%26environment%3D%26kwblock%3Ddis,clx,Bui,Abb,Microsoft,Wal,Air,DIS 2,CapOne2,CapOne3,Coca,UPS,VG,mcd,Targetbos,Buick,EFOC_Tar.,Toyota,dentsu,Johnson,jpmc","vpaidcontrols":true} }) In 1986, journalist Marjorie Wallace published a book titled The Silent Twins in regards to the lifetime of June and Jennifer Gibbons, equivalent sisters who only communicated with each other through their very own language. Born in Wales on April 11, 1963, the twins were sent to separate boarding schools as children to try to interrupt their isolating patterns. As teens, they were admitted to a high-security mental health hospital where they lived for 11 years after committing a series of crimes similar to petty theft and vandalism. During those years...
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