Cashie Rohaly, Author at Pucker Mob

5 Summertime Looks That Are Hotter Than The Weather

Ladies, it is time to show some skin and soak in the sun (with properly applied sunscreen on, of course.) Having some trouble with what you should wear out this summer? Here are some tips to having a fun and frugal wardrobe during the hot season.

Corporate Chic

Finding professional-looking clothing that works for the summer heat can be difficult. You don’t want to show too much skin at the office, but you also want to have fun with your wardrobe. Quick fix: printed pants. Wear a solid colored blouse to avoid catastrophic clashing and match with simple heels to get the full effect. Remember, the pants are your statement piece, no need to go crazy on accessories.

Beach Bella

You don’t have to show off a bunch of cleavage to be considered sexy. This flattering bikini will give you confidence that you will want to show off without showing off too much (if you know what I mean.) You can also use the beach as an excuse to bust out the floppy hat! It will protect your skin from the sun and it will make you look absolutely fierce.

On Wednesdays We Wear White

If you are like me, your summers can be defined by lots of sweat. White is a great color to wear because it does not attract the sun the way black fabrics do, allowing you to feel breezy and beautiful. Adding a statement color will be a great way to make sure you don’t look like a giant bedsheet, but you can also neutralize with a pair of jeans and neutral accessories.

Backyard Bonfire

Stay cozy while you sit by a hazy fire with your pals. This sweater will be the perfect amount of warmth for a cool summer night, but it won’t be too thick and suffocating. Make sure you don’t get any S’more stains on it!

Sunday Brunch Blues

This romper is both sleek and sexy, which is perfect for some mid-morning food with your best friends. For a casual look, pair with flats or sandals. To spice it up (and give you some height) throw on a wedge. Whichever shoes you do decide on, aim for a nude color: it will automatically make your legs look longer.

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11 Reasons To Listen To Country Music In The Summertime

True life: I only thoroughly enjoy listening to country music in the summertime. To me, country music is like a nice pair of high-waisted shorts; no matter how cute they are, you shouldn’t be wearing them in the winter (only exception: country singers who put out holiday albums, those are acceptable.) There is just something about country music that can completely enhance your summertime. Plus, I don’t want to hear a song about having your toes in the water and ass in the sand in the middle of a bitter Midwest winter. That, and the following reasons, is why I only play country music when it is 80+ degrees outside.

The sound of somebody tickling the strings of a banjo will make you want to find the closest county fair.
The key words of every country song are all summer related: beer, fishing, lake, tractors, sunshine, blonde girls in short shorts, etc.
It is the perfect soundtrackk for when you are stomping around in your cowboy boots.
There is no better soundtrack for when you are cruising around with your friends.
It makes wearing a cowboy hat totally excusable, so you’ll protect your skin and be able to rock out to some country music.
Country ballads about summer love are some of the best songs ever written.
Get yourself a Corona and Lime, turn on the Luke Bryan and bask in the sunshine.
Studies have shown that country music fans are hardworking and outgoing, so if you want to kill it in your summer job and be the life of the party on summer nights, just turn on that country music.
Because you can daydream about dating Hunter Hayes while you’re tanning and listening to his music.
You can make every Shania Twain song your power anthem while getting ready for a night out under the moon and stars.
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8 Must Haves For A Perfect Summer Love Or Summer Hook-Up

The idea of summer love is one that everybody wants to experience for themselves at least once in their lives. But I have come to find that in this day and age, it is much more realistic to experience a summer hook-up, which is all the fun of a summer love, just without the legitimate love.

First and foremost, you can have a summer love if you want to. In fact, if you and your summer love can find me a summer love of my own then we can totally double date. But until that day comes, I will just stick to the basics, which are defined by a beautiful, open, physically driven relationship. In order to make sure that your summer hook-up goes over swimmingly (pun absolutely, positively intended) then be sure to keep a few things in mind before diving in (again, that pun was incredibly and undoubtedly intended.)

Spontaneity

The whole purpose of having a short-term hook up is to be a little bit wild and daring. Feel free to mix it up with your summer FWB and do not be afraid to try new things. Of course, you can set your limits, but odds are you will not become the subject of a new “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” plot if you just so happen to have sex on the beach.

An Expiration Date

If it is going to be a summer hook-up, then it must die when autumn starts to make its appearance. You have to ensure that you will not extend your relations once you both go your seperate ways or else it will not be as fun anymore. The cool think about a summer hook-up is that they aren’t supposed to last forever; they are simply a quick and enjoyable fix.

Air Conditioning

If things are going to get hot then you better find a guy who has an air-conditioned home. If not, get ready to sweat more so than you already do in the hot season.

Spontaneity

I cannot stress this enough, but I can add it to the list one more time to assure you how important it is to be daring in this affair.

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To My Crippling Fear, I'm Breaking Up With You

You've really have had a hold on me. Over the years you have consumed and controlled me. You have debilitated me and kept me hostage in my own mind.

Not anymore. I have thought this over long and hard and I believe that it is best if we go our separate ways.

Fear, it's not you, it's me.

I'm sorry to sound cliché, but let me explain myself. I am growing up and I am starting to realize that you are a toxin.

After years of succumbing to your demands that have kept me from living my life to the fullest, I think it is about time that we part so that I can finally indulge in experiences.

They may have terrified me once, but I won't allow them to do that anymore because you will be out of the picture.

You hate change and you taught me to hate it, too. When we were together you would come in full force any time I was about to go through a change.

You had this way of making the inevitable adjustment in my life seem like it was the end of the world. You made me cry tears of doubt whenever a change would arise.

Breaking up with you is a change that I want and need to go through, because once we are done I will look at all of the changes to come in the future with faith instead of doubt.

Even the littlest things you disallow me from reaching my potential. You never encouraged me to take little risks or leaps of faith.

Sure, it wasn't going to be the end of the world if I didn't try that new restaurant or cut my hair in a different style, but because you always insisted on keeping life as consistent and safe as possible I have yet to take even the slightest of risks.

Now that we are no longer a we, fear, I would like you to know that I am going to be all right. I'll take baby steps with my risks, and I won't go overboard.

You weren't all that bad. In fact there is one thing about you I will keep with me forever. I'm thankful for what we had because sometimes you were right.

When we were in an uncomfortable situation and I tried to brush it off in an attempt to "be nice," you challenged me and you would give me a little nudge, I acknowledged it.

Whenever I get that feeling in my gut that something is truly wrong in a situation.

When I look back I will cherish our time together, because without it I would never have known how much more I can do without you controlling my life.

Don't be afraid to reach out every now and again, but only when you really find it appropriate.

17 Things Perpetually Sarcastic People Know To Be True

Sarcasm is like a fine wine: in moderation, it is appreciated and enjoyable. Give somebody too much of it, though, and you might make them cry uncontrollably. Sarcasm can also be like hard drugs: once you use it once, you can't stop.

Wherever you personally lie on the sarcasm spectrum may vary, but you will almost undoubtedly come across a perpetual saracasmo at least once in your life. People who are perpetually sarcastic are dealing with both a blessing and a curse, because with heavy sarcasm comes both hilarious and unfortunate encounters with other people.

1. You are a gullible person's worst nightmare, but you love them because they provide you with such good material

2. Self-censorship is not your strongest characteristic.

3. There are times when your friends rely on your sarcasm and other times where they want to rip your head off because of it

4. Texting can be one of the biggest challenges because nobody. can. sense. your. tone.

5. Everybody comes to you when they need a dry but comical Instagram caption…

6. …But then they get disappointed because, again, nobody. can. sense. your. tone. in. writing.

7. You know you've found a keeper when somebody can keep up with your sarcasm

8. You get mildly offended when people assume you are a bitch because you are sarcastic. They aren't mutually exclusive, people

9. Feeling feelings is… incredibly difficult to say the least…

10. …Seriously, you've met pieces of toast with more emotion than you

11. You're used to hearing, "you're kidding right?" and "are you serious?" and "are you being sarcastic right now?"

12. You can tell when people are pretending like they understand your humor but sincerely have zero idea what is going on

13. Interviews, first dates and first impressions in general are tricky

14. When you've tried to go a certain amount of time without being sarcastic you realize that a life without sarcasm is a life not worth living

15. Nothing annoys you more than when people ask if you can "please be serious for a minute." Of course you can be serious for a minute, you just choose not to.

16. Your best friends are able to throw sarcasm back at you with perfect ease and you love it

17. You figure that life is too short to be taken seriously, so you take it sarcastically

We Need to Stop "Wanting It All"

I have spent countless hours on Instagram envying the lives of strangers who are richer, more famous, more fit and more fabulous than me. I am not ashamed to admit it because I know that I am not alone in this. It can be so easy to fall into a trap of “wanting it all.” We simply cannot daydream about one thing.

We want stellar boobs, butts and bellies but we don’t want to go to the gym. We yearn for the perfect career but we just want to sit around and watch Netflix all day. We want to have incredible friends and hot, thoughtful lovers, but we also want to focus on ourselves. We want our own reality shows but we also want our nosy relatives to stop commenting on our Facebook posts.

We want it all and we want it now… Is that so much to ask for? Of course it is. Yet it is still a common goal to one day “have it all.” Having it all is not only impossible, but it is impractical and debilitating.

Nobody can have it all, it’s as simple as that. Even the people who seem like they have everything they could ever want can think of a thing or two that would make them feel truly “fulfilled.” Despite the impossibility of having everything we could ever dream of, we still fight the good fight of getting there. It’s a waste of energy that could be put to actually adding more substance to our lives.

That being said, I am not proposing that we throw our hands in the air and banish all of our aspirations. We simply need to refocus our view in simpler terms. If we had it all, it would take away all of the perseverance and strength we have built for ourselves throughout our years of determination to reach one goal at a time.

Think about it: the genie only gave Aladdin three wishes because he knew that countless wishes would turn Aladdin into a selfish, ungrateful d-bag. That’s what would happen if we had it all. We wouldn’t be capable of being thankful and humble.

Having everything you have ever wanted would mean your love life wouldn’t be the occasional frustrating whirlwind. But it would also take away the butterflies you get in your stomach when you finally find somebody you care about. It would devalue the hard work you put into getting those killer abs.

You will get everything you deserve if you work for it, but you do not deserve to have it all. As twisted as it sounds, you deserve to have more than “having it all.” That would make life far too easy, and I believe the only thing that should be made easy for us in life is cooking.

Nobody deserves easy. You deserve chaos and sob sessions in the shower. You deserve early mornings and late nights. You don’t deserve these because you are a bad person who should experience bad things: you deserve them because they will make you better, stronger and more determined. So while sweat, tears and hardships are a bitch to deal with in the now, they become memories that we can look back on and take pride in all the effort it took for us to progress and succeed.

Stop wanting it all and start challenging yourself to get what you deserve, whatever that may be, because when you start doing that it’ll be your Instagram that everybody fawns over.

12 Stages of Your S.O. Meeting your Brother

It is intimidating enough to bring your boyfriend home to meet your parents because face it; that is a pretty big step in your relationship. But if having your SO and your ‘rents meet is considered a big step, then having him meet your brothers is an entirely. different. story.

1. Whether they intend to or not, they are each going to size each other up. The more discreet the better, but let’s be honest, we’ve all seen guys checking out our asses at the gym: their idea of subtle is not always that great.

2. Luckily for both parties in the situation, they don’t have to worry about whether or not they should go with a firm handshake or go straight in for the hug.

3. While you nervously bite your nails and twirly your hair, you watch them converse. It’s like Real Housewives but your life has much, much more at stake in this scenario.

4. Your brother is automatically going to want to kick his ass. Because in his mind, you have never seen, touched or had any interaction with a man, and your boyfriend is evidence in the flesh that he may be wrong. (He is, but let him keep thinking what he wants).

5. Your boyfriend is going to do everything he can to convince your brother that he hasn’t seen you naked (good luck, dude).

6. Having your boyfriend meet your brother is worse than meeting your dad because your brother is “hip with the times” as some might say. AKA he knows that thanks to Snapchats nudes are ever so easy to send. So you try to avoid all conversation about social media, just to be safe.

7. There is an awkward silence. Your eyes dart from one important guy in your life to the other faster than Taylor Swift sends an emoji-filled dinner invite to her squad’s group text.

8. You begin racking your brain to think of something (read ANYTHING) that the two of them have in common. Suddenly, you remember: they both love *insert whatever they both love here* (acceptable fillers: sports, Star Wars, weed, beer, Kendall Jenner, Will Ferrell movies… you get the idea).

9. And thus begins a spark of sorts. They begin communicating with each other as if they could be… you guessed it… bros!

10. You sigh with relief as they converse, but in the back of your mind you know your brother is setting up landmines with every question and remark he makes. With each correct response from your S.O. you feel like you just successfully executed an Apollo 13-esque mission.

11. Somehow, someway your boyfriend survives. It wasn’t easy, but it sure was entertaining to see him that nervous.

12. When you’re alone with your brother, he makes some remark about how your boyfriend seems “fine.” But he doesn’t hesitate to mention that if your BF makes one wrong move he is going to hunt him down and kick his ass.

You gotta love your brothers for always looking out for you, even if it does induce some short-term anxiety in your S.O. And you gotta love your S.O. for puffing his chest out and making the best impression he can to impress one of the most important men in your life.

Why I Cannot Wait to be 26 Years Old (As Told by a 20 Year Old)

Everybody my age is looking forward to his or her next birthday. It makes sense, seeing as 21 is the age where we can legally do what we do every weekend anyway. We can finally spend outrageous amounts of money and time at those magical places that are more commonly known as bars. I cannot wait until the big 2-1, but let’s be honest here: 26 is where it is at.

When you turn 26 you are not only still in the best decade of your life, but you also have a bit of an edge to you. Being 26 means a lot more things than being able to legally imbibe…

You are old enough to be considered mature, but you are still young enough to get away with stuff.
What’s the phrase? Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway? That’s it. That’s exactly what 26 looks like to me.
Being 26 means you have survived four years postgrad, which is incredibly impressive, seeing as everybody says college is the best time of their lives.
You probably have established some credit at this point in your life, meaning you can buy cool shit…
…Okay, you may not have enough money to buy cool shit, but at least you are more financially stable than you were in the past six years.
You start seeing the bigger picture when you are older, giving your actions more purpose.
26 is a perfect age to be a crazy, ambitious dreamer.
If I get pregnant at age 26, most people won’t look down on me and I won’t have to raise the baby in my sorority house.
You’ve lived enough life that is perfectly acceptable to start settling down at 26…
…But you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
26 is to weddings as 13 is to bar and bat mitzvahs: they are endless.
You and your remaining college friends are old enough to look back and notice how far you’ve come.
You and your remaining childhood friends can safely say you’ve seen just about everything together.
You’ll have your feet on the ground, your head on your shoulders and the ability to throw all that grown-up bullshit away for a night out on the town.
Your friends will still be amped about drinking, but it won’t be the only thing that your social life is focused on.
People will stop asking what your plans are and will focus more on the awesome things you are currently doing.
You’ll be able to appreciate the little things in life, like waking up without a hangover.

8 Lies 'Sex and the City' Told Us

As I spend my days completely sexless in suburbia, I always hold on hope that E! will have one of its ‘Sex and the City,’ sprees. A show that has a spirit animal for any twenty-something gal who is just trying to make sense of her life and the roles that love and sex play in it, SATC is a great watch and even has some wisdom within Carrie Bradshaw’s horrendous puns. I’ve been watching the show from a young age with my Mom (don’t judge my parents, I still turned out pretty decent) and I thought that everything that was said and done on the show rang true in the real world. As I am getting older, however, I have learned that there are a few dramatic lies that have been told by Bradshaw and her clan. It’s not their fault, since it is a fictional show, but you can never believe the following things if you want to make it in the real world…

There is no way in hell that Carrie’s weekly column in a newspaper could allow her to live the luxurious life she had. Unless she had a trust fund that the writers failed to incorporate into the script, then it is impossible to own a spacious apartment in Manhattan, buy a shit ton of Manolo’s and still have enough money to pick up the bill when you get lunch with your girlfriends, which leads me to my next lie…
You and your girlfriends will never be able to be free as often as the gals of Sex and the City are. I wish that I could have lunch with my three best friends every day, followed by drinks and clubbing at night, but with conflicting schedules and intervening relationships, I have to imagine that a realistic version in the show would have had at least a season’s worth of the girls just trying to find a day where they are all available to grab brunch.
Samantha would have most definitely had an STD. Hands down, case closed, enough said.
While we all want a gay BFF that is as flamboyant and fabulous as Stanford, that is not the ultimate definition of what a gusband is and looks like.
As much as I wish this were the case, the one that got away (like Big and Steve) will not always come back to the much-deserving Carrie’s in the world. Most exes stay in the past, no matter how much we want to reincorporate them into our lives.
Even once you have hit your 30’s, your parents do still exist… no matter how shitty they were when you were growing up, there is no way you will go six years without seeing them unless it is for their funeral (RIP Mrs. Hobbes.)
No human, with the exception of Beyoncé, can actually wear high heels 24/7 without serious health issues following it. Carrie would have needed massive foot surgery for the amount of times she wore stilettos during her casual strolls through Central Park. Come to terms with the fact that sometimes you are going to have to wear shoes for their comfort rather than their style, and move on from this lie.
New York is much smellier than the show makes it appear to be. Just saying.

14 Things You Know To Be True When You Have A Serious Relationship With Cereal

Some people believe in God, many people believe in themselves, but I – well, I believe in cereal. It is single handedly the most underrated food out there, yet it is the one that we all grew up knowing and loving. I have come to terms with the fact that an apple a day may keep the doctor away, but I am always going to choose cereal instead. I guess you could say I’m committed to cereal. People like me who are in a relationship with this classic breakfast food take what life throws at them one spoonful at a time…

Cereal is the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning and it is the last thing you think about when you go to sleep at night.
Just the thought of it helps you get out of bed, even on the days where you feel like you could sleep for centuries.
Don’t get me wrong, you’ve tried many different types of cereal, but there is that one that you just can’t get enough of, the one you stay completely loyal to.
When you found out your cereal BAE was no longer being produced, you felt like a stranger in a scary, scary world. Moment of silent for Product 19 (and if anyone knows if there is a black market that still sells it, please e-mail or Tweet at me).
You have fallen asleep with a bowl of cereal in your hands, and you are not ashamed of it whatsoever.
You can’t just have one bowl of cereal…
Your milk to cereal ratio is always on point.
You may or may not have had a sex dream about any of the following: Tony the Tiger, Lucky the Leprechaun and or the cuckoo Coco Puffs bird.
Forget Taco Bell, when you are drunk or stoned all you want is a nice big bowl of Lucky Charms.
You could eat cereal for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert and be completely content with your life.
You contribute all your academic achievements to Mini Wheats.
It is only natural for you to roll your eyes when somebody argues that pancakes and waffles are the best breakfast food out there.
You don’t just eat cereal: you are cereal.
The creation of the cereal bar restored your faith in humanity (and made you gain a shit ton of weight.)
Whenever you stay at a hotel, you are sure to snag all the individual cereal bowls they have at a continental breakfast. You know this is a problem, but you also can admit that it is not going to change at any time.