The Girlie Glamour Topic

[kitkatz]

I cannot wear it, even the hypoallergenic make up give me a reaction. Better take me as I am.   

[Mimi]

I went to Beauty School when I was 37 and I will tell you it is a fun way to make a living.  I did hair for the next 20 years until my Mother had a horrible stroke.

[jbeany]

Okay, someone shoot me now.  They recalled all of my favorite brand of hair dye.  I finally found one that matched perfectly; only covered the gray without changing the rest of my color; washed out gradually in a month so I never had a root line; and looked great even if I goofed and left it on too long.  And it's GONE!

Everything else brings out all the red in my hair.  I look like Little Orphan Annie now that mine has soooooo much more curl.  Uggh.  Really, I'm perfectly content with my natural light brown.  I don't want to be a ginger!

[rsudock]

I went to Beauty School when I was 37 and I will tell you it is a fun way to make a living.  I did hair for the next 20 years until my Mother had a horrible stroke.

I always thought it would be fun to be a beautician!

xo,
R

[Riki]

I have a confession to make.

I have gotten so tired of burning my face with Nair, that I've just plain stopped.  My mother keeps bugging me to do it.  She says that it looks dirty, but I do not want to burn my face anymore.  Every day, I look more and more like my father, who has a full beard.  The only thing I've done lately, is cut the little hairs around my mouth with a pair of scissors so that they wouldn't go in my mouth when I was eating something

[gothiclovemonkey]

try wax... u can buy the stuff to do it urself...
or treat ur self once a month or something to having it done prof.

[Riki]

I've done sugaring, but I've never done wax... I had the sugaring done by a friend who was in a beauty school.  My face was red and looked irritated afterwords, but I don't remember if it burned like the Nair does

I tried to take a picture of it, to show you guys, but I ended up with far too many pictures looking up my nose... *L*

[jbeany]

Riki, the idea that a woman can't shave her face because the hair will grow back thicker is total bunk.  Get a nice woman's electric razor.  It takes only a minute to defuzz and it doesn't irritate anything. 
As a Greek woman on prednisone, believe me, some days you just don't have the energy for all the plucking and fussing the other methods involve.

[Riki]

This is really thick.. it's not "a hair here and a hair there" it's a full beard.  It's dark, and my mom says that it looks dirty.  She's right, but I'm just so tired of burning my face with creams

btw, I didn't know there was a such thing as a woman's electric razor

[jbeany]

Yup, although I'm not sure there's much difference between the man's and woman's version except the pink or purple plastic!  But they do make them specifically for women.

[Riki]

ok... I'm wondering something now. I stopped shaving my legs about a year after I started, because I didn't like the numb, tingly feeling I had on my skin afterwords. It lasted a few hours.  I"m wondering if I was to use a razor on my face, if it would do the same thing

[monrein]

I've been shaving my face (well, sides of chin and upper lip) since 1885, date of my first transplant.  I use a man's electric razor, first a Braun and now a Phillips Sensotouch 3D.  I prefer a wet shave razor so I use a good face wash cleanser in the morning and shave with the lather from that.  This way I avoid any extra products on my face that could irritate the skin.  I find that a wet shave results in less tugging on the skin which is made even more delicate than usual by the meds like prednisone.  I am blond but the hair is quite coarse and over time the texture of my skin has changed somewhat but no one can tell that I shave and I'm very comfortable with this solution.  I went for electrolysis at one point but found it painful, time consuming and not very effective anyway.

[gothiclovemonkey]

I've been shaving my face (well, sides of chin and upper lip) since 1885, date of my first transplant.

LOL 1885?

[monrein]

LOL 1985, but sometimes it feels like 1885.   

[Ladystardust24]

I personally wax for face.

I shave the rest. I'd suggest using conditioner (like for hair) for shaving, it works wonders.

Beauty wise. I prefer to keep it at minimum most days. But this is my usual:

NYC black eyeliner
Covergirl mascara
Covergirl blush (can't remember the name)
Cover girl lipstain
Carmex Strawberry lip balm.

I tend to wear eyeliner and the carmex most days no matter what.

Hair, I like to let my natural "jewfro" roam free. So I usually use

Biotien Hair and conditioner from WF
Paul mitchell hair serum.

And I have a variety of body lotions.

I'm big on perfumes if anything. My favorite right now is a all natural gin blossom one from WF.

I do like to get my nails done. Occasionally. I'm just really bad at keeping up hair appointments and all that fussy stuff. So I do a lot at home. I do get glammed up on occasion. I tend to like to look nice, but would not know for the life of me whats "hot" or "not"

I do have a severe weakness for cute things/dorky things. Especially on Etsy. Oh, and VS. That's a huge weakness.

[MooseMom]

Ooooh, I'd never heard of using conditioner for shaving.  That's a great tip!!

[willowtreewren]

Last year for Mother's Day my daughter took me out for my very first spa pedicure! I LOVED it and got my toenails done in red RED! Now I reward myself with a pedicure for every 10 pounds I lose. 

Another pedicure is coming up soon.

As far as makeup, a bit of blush and a touch of shadow and I'm done.

[MooseMom]

Last year for Mother's Day my daughter took me out for my very first spa pedicure! I LOVED it and got my toenails done in red RED! Now I reward myself with a pedicure for every 10 pounds I lose. 

Another pedicure is coming up soon.

What a wonderful way to reward yourself!  I used to have a facial once a month when I lived in England, and I always so looked forward to it.  I haven't done that since I've been back in the US; maybe I should start.  It was always a nice way to reduce stress.

[jbeany]

Ooooh, I'd never heard of using conditioner for shaving.  That's a great tip!!

I've heard that, but never tried it.  Have to remember it for my next trip, so I don't have to drag along the can of cheap men's shaving cream I usually use.

Now I reward myself with a pedicure for every 10 pounds I lose. 

Another pedicure is coming up soon.

 

[Riki]

I started trimming my facial hair with a pair of scissors.  It makes it less noticeable, but if you really want to see it, you will.  I've noticed that I've no hair at all on my upper lip, but going towards the corners of my mouth, I do.  I think this is because I burned myself pretty badly on my upper lip with nair.  It was that bad that there were blisters.  I fear doing that to the rest of my face with nair, which is why I'm reluctant to use it

[MooseMom]

 

We all take an awful lot of meds that can cause havoc with hair.  Do any of you use any special kind of clarifying shampoo or restorative hair treatments?  My mind's eye can see all sorts of crap polluting my follicles.

[jbeany]

I've had the best results with the Biolage shampoos and conditioners.

Although, honestly, if I've got good conditioner, I can use the same bar of Dove soap I use on my face and get the same results as I do with $16 buck a bottle shampoo.

[cariad]

I used Aveda when I was on the hardcore drugs, the one for color-treated hair. I thought it was great, but I also used two leave-in products. Now I use Paul Mitchell, also for color treated, and 3 leave-in products, but I am less happy with results as of the last six months or so.

Could my hair miss being on drugs? For the life of me, I cannot get rid of the frizz, even with flat ironing it.

This reminds me that the boys and I need haircuts. We are about a 1/4 inch from hearing Aren't you lucky to have 2 daughters?

[MooseMom]

Thanks for that, jbeany and Cariad.  I'll check those out.  What I really need is a haircut.  That's my mission for next week if I get clearance to drive.  I haven't had to take narcotics since before leaving the hospital, and I get my staples out on Thursday, so maybe after that, they'll give me permission to drive.

[jbeany]

If you're curly, sulfates are supposed to be the worst for causing frizz.  Supposedly, you can also just rinse with conditioner several times and not shampoo at all - but I couldn't hold out the 4 weeks they say to do it in order to get the best results.  My hair is too greasy for that.