Keep Your Blonde Looking Bright
We bottle blondes go through a lot to maintain our strands. From expensive highlights to choosing a shade, being blonde isn’t always so fun. Use these tips to make being blonde a whole lot easier!
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How To: Breast Self-Exams
While October is used as an opportunity to remember those who have lost their lives to breast cancer, to give congratulations those who have beat it and to support those who are fighting it, we must also focus on prevention throughout the whole year. In order to protect ourselves from becoming another statistic, we have the ability to give ourselves at-home breast exams.
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Halloween Pumpkin Seed Recipe
Fall is synonymous with pumpkin everything. With any and every product available in pumpkin, Valley decided to share a pumpkin recipe using no artificial pumpkin flavoring. Pumpkin seeds are not only super easy to make, but they’re also a healthy and delicious snack!
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Halloween Chex Mix Recipes You’ll Crave Before You’re Done Reading
We don’t know what it is about the Original Chex Mix exactly, but all we know is that once you start eating it, you cannot stop. You either shovel it in by the handful or pick out your favorite parts, but either way you never want to stop munching.
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Halloween Makeup Without the Break-Outs
With a little bit of patience and creativity you can transform yourself into your favorite monster, goblin, or zombie. However, before you break out the paint brush, make sure the tools you’re using are actually safe. Costume makeup can have some not-so-safe ingredients, so we have some tips to make sure you look cool and breakout free.
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The New Trend: Pumpkin Spice Hair
If you love fall and consider yourself the poster child for all things of the season, consider this: pumpkin spice hair. Yes, it’s here and it’s raging through salons everywhere.
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Eat This, Not That: Halloween Candy Edition
It may no longer be socially acceptable to trick-or-treat, but just because you can’t go door to door begging for candy doesn’t mean you should stop eating it, right? Before you find yourself in a sugar coma, Valley is here to help you choose the “healthiest” candy options.
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Halloween Nails: 5 Spooktacular Designs
These nail designs are as simple as they are spooky — we’re talking 3 steps or less — and you don’t have to be an artist to pull them off. All you need are a few basic colors, a handful of toothpicks, some tape and a little patience.
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Gingersnap Crust Pumpkin Pie
Are you looking for a new Fall treat? This indulgent pumpkin pie will surely have your tastebuds going wild for pumpkin.
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Feelin’ the Flu
If you’ve sat in any Penn State class ever, you’ve probably heard at least ten people with a cold sneezing and coughing like crazy. These symptoms travel campus quickly, coming and going throughout each semester. These little head colds have even earned themselves the famous title, “The Penn State Plague”, even though they’re not that serious.
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Weighing In: Intermittent Fasting
“Don’t skip breakfast” is one of the most redundant phrases heard around the world from doctors and mothers alike, but there’s a large population of people skipping breakfast each day— on purpose.
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Ways to Cut Calories on Your Next Night Out
Friday and Saturday nights are typically designated cheat nights when it comes to dieting. Valley asked students around campus to share their most efficient ways to cut calories over the weekend.
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Why I Only Wash My Hair Twice A Week
One of the most entertaining things I can do is tell people, “I only washed my hair once this week,” and watch their reactions. I know it sounds crazy, but less washing has made my hair and life so much better.
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Got Milk?
The underrated star liquid— milk. Whenever you sit down for a bowl of cereal or want something to go with that delicious Insomnia cookie, you reach for milk. But which one? There are so many milks that exist it’s almost unbelievable!
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Dirty Habits To Keep You Clean
Squeaky clean ladies and gents, listen up! Do you shower every day? Are your friends sick of you bragging about your constant cleanliness? Does greasy hair scare you?
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How to Create the Perfect Elastic-Free Messy Bun
Messy buns are wonderful things. They are the perfect combination of casual and functional. They make you look easy going, yet ready to work.
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How To “Pumpkin” Your Entire Day
If you’re all about pumpkin-ing everything, listen closely because we have the dish on how to spice up (pun intended) your meals. Check out these recipes for an entire day filled with pumpkin-inspired meals. Enjoy!
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Ramen Noodle Salad: No Flavor Packet Needed
Valley is taking a healthy, fresh spin on ramen noodles in this Asian salad recipe filled with fresh fruit, vegetables and your beloved ramen noodles. No flavor packets needed.
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A Nutella Recipe for Every Meal of the Day
If you’re as obsessed with Nutella as we are, then why not indulge yourself all day, everyday. That’s right, we’re talking celebrate everyday like it’s February 5— National Nutella Day — and eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
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The 4 Supplements You Should Be Taking
Audrey Fleck, MS, RDN of Functional Origins, recommends that women (and men!) take four supplements— a B-Complex, Vitamin D3, Omega 3 Fatty Acid, and a probiotic— and here’s why.
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