Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by the fake eyelash section in Target.

If you've shopped for falsies before then you're oh too familiar with the incredible indecisiveness that washes over you as you stare at the rows on rows of style choices. It's the inevitable feeling that comes with not knowing exactly what you're doing, but that's not your fault! It's just that no

“People hear about me, and they think ‘she must live in a tree and have armpit hair,’” Lauren Singer says. “But you don’t have to be a hippie to do this.”

Singer, who runs the lifestyle blog Trash is for Tossers, is sitting in her plastic-free, zero waste Brooklyn apartment eating a donut she got at the corner bakery. While she could easily be mistaken for a typical 24-year-old, she isn’t.