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We've found the best shoes for women with wide feet.

Any person with bigger feet knows just what a nightmare it can be to shop for shoes. We all want to feel confident with what we wear — and that includes what we put on our feet — but unfortunately, finding sandals, sneakers, flats or heels that look cute and feel comfortable is about as easy as winning the lottery when you have feet that are on the wider side. Watch: Mamamia reviews non-friendly fashion. Post continues after video.Luckily for those of us with big hooves, the world is changing —...
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'This is the list I followed that helped me decide whether to quit my job.'

It can sometimes feel impossible to know decide whether to stay in a job or leave.For Alisha Burns, the decision was made for her when she had a baby by herself, with the help of a donor sperm."I had changed so much in the year I took off after having my daughter," she tells Mamamia. "When I returned to work, it was made even clearer that she was my priority and I wanted her to only see me in a job that gave me joy. I didn't want to be stressed and miserable in front of her."Watch: How to tell i...
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Daisy Shelton was murdered 61 years ago. A death bed confession led to finding her killers.

Daisy Shelton's murder puzzled police for more than 60 years.The case surrounding the disappearance and killing of the 43-year-old mother began in June 1964, when a man fishing at a gravel pit in Western Ohio caught a human arm.The next day, divers found the other arm, and a full-blown recovery effort was launched to pump water out of the pit.Watch the trailer for Mamamia's podcast True Crime Conversations. Post continues after video. Daisy hadn't yet been identified when search boats, pumpers a...
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Connie Converse wrote a letter to a friend saying she wanted a 'fresh start'. Then she vanished.

In the summer of 1974, Connie Converse was getting ready to turn 50.She packed up her Volkswagen Beetle, sent off letters to family and friends, and drove away from the Michigan town of Ann Arbor — the place where she had lived and spent more than a decade remaking herself into an editor, scholar and activist.Disillusioned by a life that she did not want, Connie left — and would never be seen again.Watch the trailer for True Crime Conversations. Post continues below.Born in 1924 in Laconia, New...
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The 7 best foundations for the full-coverage girlies.

I've never personally been able to nail the 'clean girl', 'natural', 'your skin but better' makeup.Rather, I've always preferred a 'cake-face', 'excessive', 'heavy' look. Call me what you like, but you have to agree my skin looks pretty flawless. In saying that, I've had to go through a lot of trial and error in testing out full-coverage foundation. Read: Sometimes I look absolutely ridiculous. I've bought so many different types of foundations over the course of my 25 years that I now have a st...
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'I've moved 23 times in 25 years and learned one thing.'

I'm the child of serial renters.My family would plop down in one suburb, in one city, in one state and make a life there until a year or two had gone by and then, for some reason or another, we'd pack up everything that mattered and move somewhere else. All in all, over the past 25 years, I've lived in 23 houses. Sometimes in two places at once.Watch: Formerly homeless people share what you can give to really make a difference. Post continues after video.I'm grateful I've always had somewhere wa...
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'The 3-step method that transformed my frizzy hair.'

I've been a frizzy-haired girl since the beginning of time. I may live in one of the most beautiful places on earth here in Sydney, but that means I'm at the mercy of what I consider to be merciless weather. Read: Humid, dry and (for the most part) indecisively hot and cold. If you are already frizz-inclined like me, you already know that doesn't exactly spell out good news for deliciously brittle locks. As someone who has been in the haircare game for long enough, I've tried my fair share of pr...
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'He bought my toenail clippings for $3700': Inside the world of a financial dominatrix.

The first time Minki Minna heard about financial domination was on a podcast years ago. The 23-year-old knew instantly it was something she was interested in and when she started OnlyFans two years ago, her foray into the kink happened rather naturally. "People would find me," she tells Mamamia. "Financial domination is a submissive kink where people get off to giving money to a financial dominatrix who will spend their money. These people might get aroused from giving their bank details to some...
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'If you do this with your bins, it tells me one very specific thing about you.'

We smelt it before we saw it. The soft, mushy outline of disposable nappy after disposable nappy, haphazardly dumped in our red rubbish bin — so many that the lid could not close properly. My housemate gagged at the smell of old pee and baby poop that travelled up to his window and permeated his entire bedroom.With days to go before bin collection, the smell clung to the air. Our nostrils were on fire.Our neighbours, god bless 'em, had (mistakenly) thought we wouldn't notice their half-a-dozen s...
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'The men I'm dating aren't on social media. I think I know why.'

For the last two months, I have dated someone who isn't on social media. No Facebook. No active Instagram account. No Snapchat or even a LinkedIn. We met by accident and then a few days later, we met up on purpose. But in the time it took for him to ask me on a date, I scoured every corner of the internet to find out whatever information I could on him.Apart from a Soundcloud profile from eight or nine years ago, I came up to naught. If I'm being honest, I was terrified to begin with. Never in m...