The hair bun, is an up-do born in the Ballet because of it's ease, gracefulness and ability to contain unruly locks. It graduated to social status when worn by SJP during the mid-series of Sex and the City. Today, it gets passed off for a top-knot often because they are very much one-and-the-same, although the top-knot tends to be more messy and laid-back and the bun looks more to the opera born, meaning it exudes high levels of sophistocation. In any case both are wild-weather friendly and wearable come casual or otherwise.

I was 13 when I did my first 40 Hour Famine. I got a bunch of my girlfriends and we hunkered down for the weekend with a heap of chick flicks, a ton of gossip and what felt like a thousand barley sugars. Not only did we raise a bunch of money for a great cause but we had an awesome bonding weekend too!

You know you’re taking it too far when you update your Facebook status with “I miss my [Insert ex-boyfriend’s name here] sooo much” to your 942 friends.

Case in point? My friend recently broke up with her guy but only to, an hour later, flood the newsfeed with “Stacey*: wants everything to go back to the way things were” and “ Stacey: doesn’t know how I’m going to get through the next hour”.

Have you ever been so obsessed with a movie or TV show that when it ends, you feel all kinds of sad?

Let me explain...

Okay, so I was cruising through the paper last week when I spotted a story about a teen that had gone missing after meeting up with a guy she met on Facebook. A couple days later they found her dead...

I read an interesting spot of research this morning. Apparently Monday is the second happiest day of the week (followed by Sundays … mmm sleep-ins).

At first I was dubious. As much as us DOLLY girls all LOVE our jobs, there’s something particularly painful about the pre-dawn buzz of the alarm on a May Monday morning that doesn’t exactly make us jump for joy...

Is it sad that as soon as I discovered I’d be flying on an overseas holiday to Europe on the same day as Beyonce’s I Am… concert – a little part of me died inside? I suppose it is. But really, I was bummed. I am a huge B fan. She’s had me shakin’ my booty and wagging my finger from her early days workin’ it in Destiny’s Child all the way

As DOLLY staffer Kim and I found out when we donated blood yesterday, helping out a charity doesn’t have to cost you much money or require much effort – in fact, it can even be fun!

Aside from offering up our plasma and platelets to the Blood Bank, this week the DOLLY girls also wore our sunglasses at to work for a good cause. Think that couldn’t possibly be helping out a charity? Think again!

Why hello there kind readers and HAPPY-ON-SALE-WEEK-TO-US here at the FUNNEST-TEEN-MAG-IN-THE-PUBLISHINGVERSE!