My arms are pretty flexible so I just use my hands & a washcloth.

Sorry I’m late to this thread - I haven’t been online as much recently. But makeup is one of my favorite things!

If you want simple basic makeup for everyday wear, try Angela Bright. She’s great about explaining exactly what she’s doing, which products and brushes she’s using, and lately she’s in kind of a neutral, simple makeup phase, so her looks are pretty approachable.

For simple makeup, people also seem to like Jen Phelps and Hannah Louise Poston.

And then if you’re feeling adventurous and want to try colorful fun makeup, try Angelica Nyqvist. I really love her tutorials and even if you’re not so into bold colorful looks, her techniques are still useful to apply to more simple neutral looks.

These are all white women, which is helpful for me because I’m Casper the Ghost pale. But if your skin is deeper in tone, their techniques might not show up so well on your skin. Here are some channels by women of color that I see mentioned pretty often. I can’t vouch for them because I haven’t tried them, but maybe you’ll find them helpful.

• Cynthia has loads of step-by-step beginner-friendly tutorials for women with dark skin
• Smitha Deepak for those with hooded eyes
• Alexandra Anele for women with an olive undertone
• Monica Ravichandran does makeup reviews and discusses color theory for brown skin

Aging does help! It’s pretty freeing to care so little what others think.

I have the opposite problem: I have a hard time letting others get close to me. I’m very emotionally closed-off and as a result most of my friendships have been pretty surface-level. How the heck do you figure out who is safe to be emotionally vulnerable with?

I was intrigued about Sweet Almond Blossom, so I went and read the description. It says:

A fruity, floral, gourmand perfume. A blue sky natural high, all year round. A daydreamer’s fantasy. A fragrance for the enchanting, ethereal, sensuous and hypnotic.

Smells like… Mouth-watering natural pomelo and juicy passionfruit float over clouds of delicate apple blossom. Creamy vanilla, sandalwood, and nutty tonka bean are beautifully balanced with explosions of other-worldly crisp green matcha tea.

… none of those words are almond, which is a surprise. From the name, I’d imagined this would smell like a floral marzipan, but the description doesn’t sound like anything almond at all. Do you think it smells like almond? Because if yes, I’m intrigued to try it, but if no, I’ll skip it.

I love indie makeup! A few suggestions for brands who have colorful palettes and whose formula I think it’s pretty good:

• Cosmic Brushes
• Bella Beauté Bar
• Lethal Cosmetics
• Nomad Cosmetics
• Unearthly Cosmetics
• Clionadh Cosmetics

For fragrances, I hear good things about Replica but haven’t tried anything of theirs for myself. I’ve tried a bunch from Ellis Brooklyn and have really liked some of them (Scifi, Miami Nectar, Super Amber), but they’re not as long-lasting as I’d like, so I find that I need to reapply once or twice during the day. Some of their scents are really nice for layering (Super Amber and Marshmallows, for example). Nice thing about Ellis Brooklyn is that you get two free sample vials with each purchase. Other fragrance brands which seem to be pretty popular are Kayali (their Yum Pistachio Gelato is soooo good) and Phlur (I love their Mood Ring scent).

For Doc Martens I do Bushwalk; everything else just gets normal lacing

This is a really interesting take - I hadn’t considered socioeconomic class as a covariate!

Yeah, I agree. I’ve said something similar in the past - I think women are raised to be adults by 18, whereas boys are raised to be overgrown tweens by 18, and their parents call it “good enough”, leaving the rest of the job to future girlfriends and wives.

It does everybody a disservice, and it perpetuates this idea that girls mature faster than boys. We don’t. We’re just forced to grow all the way up and boys aren’t.

Wait so t-tex and steggy never hung out? :'(

Maybe you’re in a long-term committed relationship with the ghost?

Or if the ghost comes from a candle

Straight to jail.

Oh no, that’s a bummer! But that exchange policy is very cool, especially because toys can be so expensive.

Oh puhlease. Go watch an Angelina Jolie movie ;)

Yesterday my husband and I had dental appointments. We moved last year but wanted to keep our dentist since we both like him so much, but we’re much farther away now and it took us about an hour to get there.

When we walked in the receptionist told us we came a day early. 🤦🏻‍♀️

You guys, when we got back to our car, I just broke down crying. I never used to make mistakes like this - I’m normally so organized and on top of things - but my brain fog has gotten so bad with peri. It’s so embarrassing. My hubby comforted me, said it was OK and told me not to be so hard on myself, but I felt really awful about wasting his day off. And I just feel like an idiot all the time.

Shit like this keeps happening. The other day I was microwaving something, only to realize that I forgot to put the food in the stupid microwave. I stood in front of the microwave and watched it run and even though I could see inside, it just didn’t register that I hadn’t put anything in there. I keep misplacing things or stopping in mid-sentence because my train of thought disappeared. I keep forgetting to finish tasks.

I have a GYN appointment in a few weeks to talk about HRT because I can’t go on like this.

I think I just needed to vent, thanks for reading.

Haha new vibe day is the best day!

'90s style: crop top and a t-bar, with high top chucks and maybe one clip undone

Oh I haven’t seen house of dragons, is it good?

I’m starting a veggie garden! Cucumbers, green beans, yellow squash, cherry tomatoes, basil, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries :)

Aww :) my doggo was a longgirle and she was fantastic 🤍

Nice, enjoy! What are you watching?

I’m doing a bunch of housework today and then having my folks over on Sunday for Mother’s Day. It’s absolutely gorgeous out so I might try to get a little gardening in too :)

Goddammit so true…I just had my first colonoscopy today 😬