Pink Gloves is a fitness program that delivers an amazing workout and emotionally rewarding experience to small communities of empowered women. The program is unique because it puts a great deal of focus on the social and emotional growth as well as physical growth of its members.
(slang) A condom. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.
So a decade later, they launched Pinky Gloves—a product to be used specifically to avoid getting menstrual blood on one's hands while swapping out products and to hide tampons from any sensitive souls who might look in the trash bin after them.
Those dark red, jelly-like balls you describe sound like blood clots. Having menstrual blood clots during your period is pretty common, and most of the time they're nothing to worry about. Menstrual blood clots are a mixture of coagulated (semi-solid) menstrual blood and tissue from your uterine lining.
Another common practice among sportswomen is taking birth control pills. In one study, about half of athlete respondents revealed that they were using hormonal contraceptives. Doing so helped them control the frequency of their cycle, its timing, and the intensity of menstrual bleeding.
Turn-of-the-Century Gloves
Women began to wear short sleeves around the 18th century, and therefore, they had a need for longer gloves that could cover much of their arms for the sake of modesty. Women still could not show that much skin, so very long gloves became the norm, even for daily wear around town.
The KinkLab Vampire Gloves have little metal spikes all over them (except on the palm). Depending on how you use them, they can either leave a tingling feeling on the skin or actually leave scratch marks and draw blood.
To handle or treat something with kid gloves is to do so with special consideration or in a tactful manner, often due to a perceived sensitivity. Kid gloves are simply gloves made from kid leather—in other words, the skin from a young goat.
Colored Medical Gloves
This helps staff differentiate between latex and non-latex gloves. A shade of blue is the traditional nitrile color of choice in medical facilities. But in recent years other colors such as gray, purple, and pink have become common. Glove color can be useful in identifying glove failure.
Check for red gloves. People wearing them believe in miracles, and they believe it's better to give than to receive. Local volunteers wore red gloves when they gave bicycles away to needy kids before Christmas. They wore red gloves after sewing hundreds of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls for special children.
Stacy recalls the day a big box came in the mail — the pink boxing gloves. “There were these beautiful pink boxing gloves with a 'fight' message. They were a symbol of what I was going to do and beat the breast cancer.”
/ˌwaɪtˈɡlʌv/ uk. /ˌwaɪtˈɡlʌv/ providing a very high level of service, or involving a lot of care about small details: The cruise company does not want to risk alienating the other passengers who don't get the white-glove treatment.
(slang) A condom.
informal. your younger brother. As a lad I had to take my kid brother to school every day.
Vampires were first sexualized to strike fear into people of the taboo and sinfulness of sexual behavior, but later, this sexualization became a metaphor for repressed desires, until finally their sexualization caused them to be humanized.
The process of slapping someone with a white, preferably lacy glove is in itself so polite and dignified that it somehow seems socially acceptable that the natural outcome of the slap is a Duel to the Death.
A common use in crime dramas is to use gloves to conceal the race and/or gender of the villain while showing the crime being committed.
We wanted to have one arbitrary contribution to vampire lore. Tilda does have the ability to sense things by touch, but [we decided on gloves] more because it looked cool. We thought they protected their hands when they are not in their own home.
Fingerless gloves generally offer better breathability and ventilation in hot climates, while full-finger gloves keep your hands warm and functional in the cold.
to be working very closely with another person or organization, often in order to do something dishonest or immoral.
Any changes in normal hormone levels can lead to menstrual dysfunction, especially in athletes. This can be caused by overtraining, stress, dieting and weight loss. Typically, menstrual dysfunction occurs when the amount of energy used by athletes exceeds the amount of energy taken in through nutrition.
And the stress increases when it comes to runway shows: Because the models are required to wear thongs, tampons are the only option when walking down the catwalk. Victoria said that her worst nightmare would be leaking on the runway, or having her tampon string pop out while walking.
You'll need to wear something for protection, and you pretty much have three choices nowadays: a pad, a tampon, or a period cup. A lot of dancers find it most convenient and comfortable to wear a tampon, but some girls, especially younger girls, opt to wear a thin pad.
The black glove and raised clenched fist were meant to symbolic black power. The athletes did so in the Mexico Olympics 1968 to signify the discrimination faced by the black people. With this gesture they tried to draw international attention to racial discrimination in the United States.