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And here is the primary answer to the thread's question. If somehow I wound up in an alternate universe where MEN were the ones expected to paint pictures on their faces, I still wouldn't be able to convince myself it was worth the bother. Convenience and comfort are what I put stock in, not artifice.
The time I spent drawing eyebrows is time I could have spent doing something better.
The time I spent drawing eyebrows is time I could have spent doing something better.
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I have garlic chive out back. It flowers. It's a very pretty flower, like Queen Anne Lace in petite. But it smells like what it is -- a type of onion grass with raw garlic smell (and taste.) You say you like flowers? Would you like those flowers?
I do, but I have to do something before bringing them in. I have to wave off the flies on them and then wash off the dead flies that got stuck in-between the tiny little flowers. (And I can't wash them all off. Flies really like garlic chive.)
My reason why I used to wear makeup. I'd rather the guy be looking at me than the big honking zit at the end of my nose, on my chin, or forehead. (Worse yet, when there were two zits, instead of merely one.
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Now, please tell me you wouldn't be wondering what that black stuff was inside those pretty white flowers, if you saw a vase of them. (The dead flies.) And tell me you wouldn't be spending quite a bit of time trying to figure that out instead of looking at the flowers themselves.
Then tell me you'd actually want to rub a woman's face with a big honking zit on it.
Yeah, really. I'd rather a guy notice me then the dead flies/zits on me.
(Now I'm old enough not to have zits and I am a happy camper to have thrown out the makeup. BUT I truly get why women wear makeup, and don't get why guys don't sometimes.)
I do, but I have to do something before bringing them in. I have to wave off the flies on them and then wash off the dead flies that got stuck in-between the tiny little flowers. (And I can't wash them all off. Flies really like garlic chive.)
My reason why I used to wear makeup. I'd rather the guy be looking at me than the big honking zit at the end of my nose, on my chin, or forehead. (Worse yet, when there were two zits, instead of merely one.
)Now, please tell me you wouldn't be wondering what that black stuff was inside those pretty white flowers, if you saw a vase of them. (The dead flies.) And tell me you wouldn't be spending quite a bit of time trying to figure that out instead of looking at the flowers themselves.
Then tell me you'd actually want to rub a woman's face with a big honking zit on it.
Yeah, really. I'd rather a guy notice me then the dead flies/zits on me.
(Now I'm old enough not to have zits and I am a happy camper to have thrown out the makeup. BUT I truly get why women wear makeup, and don't get why guys don't sometimes.)
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In college, I had a roommate with dirty blonde/light brown hair who rolled up her h hair at night with an concentrated orange juice container. She said it was to stop her hair from curling.
15 years later, hubby and I were walking through a store, and a strange woman with short, dark curly hair looked surprised to see me and greeted me with great enthusiasm. Hubby recognized her immediately. Not a clue, and that registered enough that she said it. Same roommate. I'm always amused how a hairstyle can change what we look like that much. lol
15 years later, hubby and I were walking through a store, and a strange woman with short, dark curly hair looked surprised to see me and greeted me with great enthusiasm. Hubby recognized her immediately. Not a clue, and that registered enough that she said it. Same roommate. I'm always amused how a hairstyle can change what we look like that much. lol
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Really? The only way any women in my extended family ever gets even the slightest wave/curl in our hair is when gray hair doesn't behave like regular hair. I got excited at the first white hair, until I looked closer and saw it was white. (I was 21. Who thinks they'll have a white hair so young? lol)
Dad has naturally wavy hair. He had six kids and he only passed it along to one. That brother has a combination of some straight and a little wavy here and there. Two generations before my parents and two generations after, but we're all (but 1.5) straight haired. Where do you live that curly or wavy is so prominent? (We're mostly in the northeast now.)
Dad has naturally wavy hair. He had six kids and he only passed it along to one. That brother has a combination of some straight and a little wavy here and there. Two generations before my parents and two generations after, but we're all (but 1.5) straight haired. Where do you live that curly or wavy is so prominent? (We're mostly in the northeast now.)
Cause I'd end up looking like this....
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Of course, I'd have to buy a wig....
You know the old saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig....
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Of course, I'd have to buy a wig....
You know the old saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig....
Mind you in my wild days and after a good few points you'd actually be pretty attractive.
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Any hint of wave is considered wavy/curly. In order for hair to be considered straight, it has to be board straight with no wave at all. This web page from Stanford University explains it better than I can: Understanding Genetics
Basically, CC is curly, ss is straight, Cs would be wavy. In order for someone to have straight hair, they'd have to inherit two recessive straight genes from both parents. If your Dad had wavy hair, then is genotype would be Cs, but his phenotype would be wavy. He could give you the straight hair gene, along with your Mom. This means that two people with wavy hair could have children with straight hair, since the wavy genotype is Cs.
I hope I did not thoroughly confuse you,
Basically, CC is curly, ss is straight, Cs would be wavy. In order for someone to have straight hair, they'd have to inherit two recessive straight genes from both parents. If your Dad had wavy hair, then is genotype would be Cs, but his phenotype would be wavy. He could give you the straight hair gene, along with your Mom. This means that two people with wavy hair could have children with straight hair, since the wavy genotype is Cs.
I hope I did not thoroughly confuse you,
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Lenny Kravitz looked good in The Hunger Games.
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Ah! Cut me to the quick! I'm old enough to have a 30-something year old daughter? I don't even feel old enough to have a baby yet.
"Believe it or not?" Yeesh! I'm trying to live with the delusion everybody was a teen in the 70's. lol
Weird thing about the 70's. About 1970, all of a sudden it was okay to let your freak flag fly -- let your hair do whatever it does naturally. Horse combs became big for the kinky/super-curly crew. Indian Princess (long and straight) was in for those of us wavierly challenged.
Then, it changed again about 1972, and flat was back. (Flat-back is good, because no hassle with my hair. lol) And Jane Fonda changed it to layers.
Disco brought the Afro. (Billy Preston. My desire for the 'fro big way! And, yes! I did. Never could get it that big, but because my hair is straight, so it flattened out too quickly.)
[video=youtube;OuaG-TCpbtw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuaG-TCpbtw[/video]
And by the end of the 70s it was any which way you wanted to play it. (Granted, KC and the Sunshine Band played it as much as Billy, but just saying. lol)
The 70s brought something that just doesn't happen anymore -- drastic change in looks and music. I still miss the days when kids came up with something guaranteed for the parents to hate. Nowadays the kids are listening to the same music their parents listened to and wearing the same style. Right boring!
"Believe it or not?" Yeesh! I'm trying to live with the delusion everybody was a teen in the 70's. lol
Weird thing about the 70's. About 1970, all of a sudden it was okay to let your freak flag fly -- let your hair do whatever it does naturally. Horse combs became big for the kinky/super-curly crew. Indian Princess (long and straight) was in for those of us wavierly challenged.
Then, it changed again about 1972, and flat was back. (Flat-back is good, because no hassle with my hair. lol) And Jane Fonda changed it to layers.
Disco brought the Afro. (Billy Preston. My desire for the 'fro big way! And, yes! I did. Never could get it that big, but because my hair is straight, so it flattened out too quickly.)
[video=youtube;OuaG-TCpbtw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuaG-TCpbtw[/video]
And by the end of the 70s it was any which way you wanted to play it. (Granted, KC and the Sunshine Band played it as much as Billy, but just saying. lol)
The 70s brought something that just doesn't happen anymore -- drastic change in looks and music. I still miss the days when kids came up with something guaranteed for the parents to hate. Nowadays the kids are listening to the same music their parents listened to and wearing the same style. Right boring!