I've thought about volunteering to do one of these but everyone who has done them so far is like, so gorgeous even before makeup and someone I know told me yesterday that my skin looks good "for my age."

Considering that these dang dresses cost about a year's rent and only get worn for the equivalent of one shift at work, WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS BREAKING?

V. true. remember that Marya HOrnbacker book, Wasted? That became a how-to manual at my high school/college.

“My dad dated a lot of supermodels.”

Why didn't he just change the pseudonym he used at hotels?

Seems like a lie. If not, Russell Crowe should hire me so I can explain to him that if you're staying in a hotel under one fake name, and Michael Jackson learns it and uses it to contact you repeatedly in a way that you do not appreciate, you can as easily stay in the next hotel under an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FAKE NAME.…

Ohhh my husband has also recently started falling hard for all our friends' babies, when we've previously said we would not become parents. We're still young enough to change our minds and have sort of started talking about it. He would be a great dad and I would be a good mother, but I would have to work harder at…

I don't like 'childfree' because while I don't have kids by choice, I am not 'childfree' and I think very few people truly are. I have friends with kids, and I have relationships with those kids. My neighbors have children and I have to interact with them on a regular basis. I work with adults who have children, and…

1) I used to work at a place where we had one regular who would order his toast completely burned through, like charcoal. He'd specify that he wanted it "so burned it is probably a carcinogen"

Oooh smart. Do you recommend any in particular?

Thank you for mentioning that the beauty store can be a vulnerable place! That insight is new to me and makes so much sense. I have often been frustrated at myself for being so intimidated about this, because it's really irrational and I am confident in my ability to learn new skills generally. It really does tap into…

Thank you! Follow up question -

Minimum purchase? How much?

Same. I am intimidated as hell by sephora but want to go look at every single color sooooo bad.

Probably irrational but: I don't wear a lot of makeup in general, and feel pretty inept at it. Nevertheless I find it fascinating and wish I were better at it. Are the fancy Sephora ladies judging me when I go in there and but my one little rollerball of perfume or a lipgloss? If I ask them really basic questions (ie:…

YUP. My 'moon time' (trying it out) started this morning and now I'm weeping and watching this on repeat.

I'M SO HAPPY FOR HER!

I don't think that's true of all my male friends, it just happened to be in this case. And it majorly bummed me out. He had never done or said anything overt to indicate it to me so I had no real reason to think it but should have credited my partner's instincts more.

You're so right. I've had several men I consider friends or at least colleagues tell me they don't know any woman who has been sexually assaulted. I have been sexually assaulted myself, and while I don't necessarily want to disclose that to them I tend to assure them that yes, they do, they just aren't privy to that…

I appreciate this, because I'm generally a very rational person and it's kind of rare for my emotions to overcome that, but jealousy is definitely where that happens for me and it makes me feel crazy sometimes. It helps to have a strategy.