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  • Beauty & Health
    • Alter Your Energy
      Alter Your Energy
    • Winter Skin Survival Guide
      Winter Skin Survival Guide
    • Rise Above Your Station
      Rise Above Your Station
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
      Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
    • GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
      GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
    • Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
      Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
  • Campus Culture
    • Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
      Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
    • Virtual Reality Showcase
      Virtual Reality Showcase
    • Greek Sing 2025 Recap
      Greek Sing 2025 Recap
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
      What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
    • 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
      2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
    • Wrong Pants Theory
      Wrong Pants Theory
  • Self-Improvement
    • Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
      Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
    • Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
      Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
    • Selective Sinners
      Selective Sinners
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • The People’s Voices
      The People’s Voices
    • NYC Marathon 2025
      NYC Marathon 2025
    • Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media
      Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media

Ginger Lyons

Ginger Lyons is currently a senior at Penn State majoring in digital and print journalism and minoring in English and French. Other than writing, she enjoys working out, listening to music and rewatching the same three movies over and over again.

Campus Culture

A Toast to VALLEY

By Ginger Lyons

Dear VALLEY Magazine,  Wow, my very last VALLEY article. I have looked at this laptop so many times, with an “Untitled document” open and staring…

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Self-Improvement

You Can Still be Something New at 22

By Ginger Lyons

With graduation coming up, there are many emotions surrounding it –– excitement, fear, nervousness. The uncertainty of life after college is daunting, which Taylor Swift…

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Campus Culture

Hozier’s Yell at Penn State

By Ginger Lyons

A new TikTok trend has users posting videos of a big moment in their lives with the song “Northern Attitude (with Hozier)” by Noah Kahan…

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Fashion

Mastering the Knot: Women Who are Redefining the Tie

By Ginger Lyons

If you haven’t already heard, ties are experiencing a feminist takeover. This historically male accessory is beginning to make its way into women’s fashion ––…

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Campus Culture

An Accurate Illustration of the Career Fair (According to VALLEY)

By Ginger Lyons

Twas the night before my first career fair, so I laid out my thoughtfully picked, business casual outfit. My top, which looked like a crumpled-up…

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Self-Improvement

The Sun and the Moon Coexist in Us All

By Ginger Lyons

The sun and the moon live in one universe together – allowing darkness and light to coexist.  A recent TikTok trend is showing how users…

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Beauty & Health

Movie Makeup at the 2025 Academy Awards

By Ginger Lyons

At the 2025 Academy Awards, many of the films that were nominated had eccentric sets, costumes and most especially makeup. Makeup became a huge factor…

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Beauty & Health

How to Incorporate Lindsay Arnold’s Positivity Into Your Routine

By Ginger Lyons

While you may know Lindsay Arnold from her time in the ballroom on “Dancing with the Stars,” or from her sister Rylee Arnold’s recent addition…

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Self-Improvement

The Reflection of Your Room

By Ginger Lyons

Since Valentine’s Day just passed, a TikTok trend has been circulating where users write “a girl’s room is a reflection of the boy she loves.”…

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Beauty & Health

Aspyn Ovard’s Eye & Cheek Palette Relaunch

By Ginger Lyons

Aspyn Ovard has officially relaunched her Tarte eyes and cheek palette. While on the #TrippingWithTarte trip with Tarte Cosmetics, she finally showed off her revamped…

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Entertainment

Chappell Roan’s Grammy Speech and the Conversation of Health Care in the Industry

By Ginger Lyons

On Sunday, Feb. 2, Chappell Roan won her first Grammy for “Best New Artist.” This win followed her over-the-top performance of one of her hit…

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Fashion

Reintroducing the Headband

By Ginger Lyons

How is anyone to “get the job done” with their hair down and in their face? Between hair getting stuck in your lip gloss after…

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Self-Improvement

Paige DeSorbo’s Advice on Being Single as a Young Adult

By Ginger Lyons

Navigating single life in your 20s and 30s can sometimes feel like there is a ticking clock above you at all times. The “have you…

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Campus Culture

Every Last Sip of Senior Year

By Ginger Lyons

Happy New Year, and happy last semester to all the seniors reading this who may be tearing up. The spring, for those of us graduating…

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Fashion

Skinny Jeans are NOT Back (Even if Alix Earle Says They are)

By Ginger Lyons

Welcome to VALLEY’s manifesto against skinny jeans. There is some unsaid rule in society that originated in the last few years, since the global pandemic,…

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Self-Improvement

The Windy Road to Indifference

By Ginger Lyons

When a relationship comes to an end, people feel a variety of emotions: sadness, angry, disappointment. There are different periods of time in the journey…

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Self-Improvement

The Other Half of My Friendship Necklace

By Ginger Lyons

To my (and anyone else’s) childhood best friend,  It’s been years since we’ve talked. Since the middle school drama and the “fights” that I don’t…

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Entertainment

How Lucky is Bri: Breakup, BFFs and Behind the Instagram Stories

By Ginger Lyons

After over a year of dating, Brianna LaPaglia, known online as “Brianna Chickenfry,” and Zach Bryan split, shocking both groups of fans. While the couple’s…

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Fashion

Reinventing the Ballet Flat

By Ginger Lyons

The ballet flat has come back with vengeance. They have become a new staple for both a business casual outfit as well as a way…

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Self-Improvement

Your Real Life Flat and Round Characters

By Ginger Lyons

Back in language arts class in elementary school, one of the lessons that we learned was the difference between flat and round characters in books….

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