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[11 Nov 2009|10:13pm] |
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This is an odd little rant post...
But here it is.
I don't know if it's the birth control still making me all emotional-y (its still working its way out of my system i believe) or the fact that no matter how many people say I'm beautiful some days I just don't see it....but well.
For whatever reason for the past week I've been convinced that I have a mustache LOLLL. Now given: for the past year or two I used to pick at my upper lip with tweezers out of a weird hairlessness habit that I had, probably due to some stupid boy making a comment to me at one point in my life. Which is utterly silly honestly because the hair on my face is so translucent and blonde. But regardless I would pick at my lil peach fuzz.
I've decided to stop recently because I've read a few places that it could make it worse then constantly picking at it and if you pick too much and too far out that you'll eventually have a full on Heraldo mustache. (And I read the opposite- that it makes it thinner. But why take the chance if it's not super noticable. XD) Which honestly makes sense. You remove hair it grows back. So I stopped and maybe because I'm so used to it being completely bare there that it's odd to me seeing litlte blonde hairs, or maybe the years of tweezing did make it slightly prominent, but I was swearing there was something there.
But at the same time I'm thinking in my head, woman, you do not even have EYEBROWS. That's how light your facial hair is. You know women bleach that shit because they're dark-haired with noticable lip hair? So what if you have some tiny blonde furr on your face.
seriously me as of 20 seconds ago.  not even a tiny one visible. in the right lighting you see it but honestly...
And I sat and thought about why we're so obsessed with hair removal. I was facing a mini dilemna should i continue picking at it like a psycho, like the rest of the world, possibly making it more noticable over time or leave it go and just admit this is how a real woman looks.
Rob yelled at me, "WILL YOU STOP OBSESSING, THEY'RE LITTLE INVISIBLE HAIRS THAT ARE THERE TO KEEP YOUR LIP WARM DON'T TOUCH THEM."
And he's right. For God's sakes we are mammals.
So I googled all concerned about the subject and found in a bunch of forums girls as young as 9 years old saying that they want to wax their brows and tweeze their upper lips.
My goodness. Where does this stop.
9 years old? I've never seen a 9 year old with a mustache. OR A NEED OF BROW TWEEZING. You're still a baby!
I really think that our obsession with hairlessness is getting wacky. Look back at the 1980's. Half the ladies had beastly eyebrows. And a couple 'staches too. I want to know where all this stems from? Media? Saying this is how a woman should look completely hairless and bald except for brows and head?
I mean I won't lie, not like I'm a natural woman. I dye my hair AND brows and shape them. As well as pretty much shaving everything else. I just wonder why sometimes.
At work all day I was inspecting other girls. Everyone's different but beautiful all the same, with fuzz or without fuzz. (I won't comment on granny mustaches because face it, we're all gonna get old and have a mustache eventually lollll. But why fuss now.)
I don't know really. This is my random rant.
Do you tweeze? Do you not? Do you feel subconscious yourself? I could use input because I feel like it's just me driving myself up a wall about appearance.
It's like I fix one thing (my weight) and then I find another to nit pick about. XD
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| nanojoumo union |
[11 Nov 2009|10:53pm] |
 There's been a lot of discord in the online art journal community lately. I've been censored recently by another member. It sucks. I'm tired of it and so I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but life is too short to spend it angry at the stupidity of others and their misdeeds.
I first drew the image on the right, masked it out and used spray inks on the page.
The bombs were a stencil I cut of thick cardstock. I used liquatex black lava medium to make the image- scraped through the stencil to create the shape. I let them dry and then pained the body with silver metallic ink.
The face is done in the same technique as the sheep was- graphite with acrylic paint. The padlock was painting the same manner then given a thin coat of the metallic ink. The "blood" around the wounds is watered liquid acrylic.
The spatter was done in the same watered acrylic paint the liner brush was loaded up and tapped on another brush to spatter. To create a similar but less linear spatter use a wider brush
( stuff )
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| klonopin |
[11 Nov 2009|09:04pm] |
i was just prescribed this drug yesterday by my doc and have a pretty lengthy supply. its one of the few psychiatric drugs i havent been on and i know many people who use it recreationally. i took a few today at work and didnt really feel much but a general feeling of calm but i was really, really bored. i havent taken any since i came home and now im just annoyed at things. so the question is have you had experience with this drug and how much did you take? did it just zonk you out completey or were you able to function but be floaty and happy the whole time?
i just want some insight on the drug so i know how much i could take at work and how much i could take when i have the time to just veg out. they are 1mg tablets. any info is useful
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| ugh - im ripping my hair out |
[12 Nov 2009|01:39pm] |
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have any ladies in sydneysiders purchased themselves any fabulous evening attire lately?
i have a black tie function on saturday and have been searching high and low for a dress that's a little different -
any suggestions? xx
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fic, Supernatural: Doubt Not For Me (sorta Dean/Castiel), for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) deancas100 |
[12 Nov 2009|01:34am] |
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Because while I write stuff which I have a deadline for I end up trying to write drabbles. :/ And I shouldn't be up at one AM, but I apparently am and that's what comes out.
Title: Doubt Not For Me
Rating: PG
Pairing: past!Dean/future!Castiel
Words: 100
Summary: He doesn’t flinch when Cas’ grip tightens.
Spoilers: for 5x04.
Disclaimer: pfff, not mine.
A/N: title from the same Flogging Molly song I steal for past!Dean/future!Castiel fics. And, I haven't written a drabble in ages and I'm obsessed with 5x04. That'd be it.
( Dean gets it. )
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[12 Nov 2009|01:38am] |
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tell me something..
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| Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau |
[11 Nov 2009|05:33pm] |
Hello All!
I wanted to let you all know about a magazine I just started publishing...its called Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau, and we specialize in features/interests from 1900-1940! There are pieces on historical topics of the era as well as highlights of what's going on in vintage style culture today!
We have a great finger waving how-to in our premiere issue that you might really like...and a lot of our advertisers make great vintage-inspired/vintage remade hair accessories...we've even got a fedora piece for the guys...and lots of other fashion-inspiring greatness!
Find out more and order Zelda at http://www.zeldamag.com !
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| Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau |
[11 Nov 2009|05:31pm] |
Hello All!
I wanted to let you all know about a magazine I just started publishing...its called Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau, and we specialize in features/interests from 1900-1940! There are pieces on historical topics of the era as well as highlights of what's going on in vintage style culture today!
We have a great finger waving how-to in our premiere issue that you might really like...and a lot of our advertisers make great vintage-inspired/vintage remade hair accessories!!
Find out more and order Zelda at http://www.zeldamag.com !
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| Estet |
[12 Nov 2009|12:58am] |
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