Congratulations on these exciting steps! I’ve had ear lobe piercings with a gun and cartilage piercings with a needle and they all healed fine as long as I followed the care instructions. Claire’s Accessories has the option of letting you buy a product called “rapid heal” if you get your ears pierced with them which…

I hear you. I’m Massage therapist/Estie. However I have 10+ years in the Spa industry and I’ve never worked anyplace where there wasn’t at least one toxic male lurking that never should have been given a license/certification. Once you are doing massages professionally in a couples suite with male therapists, I…

I’ve been a Massage Therapist for 15 years and worked with enough shitty men that I always request a female therapist. There are some gifted male therapists out there but a ton of dudes who came to the industry for the wrong reason.

I get a lot of things tailored because I’m short. A skilled professional could do that in prob less than a week for not that much $$.

Yeah they all seem evenly matched, and there’s a dark side to me that enjoys judging couples more than I should!

Right!?

Oh for a straight up dark spot corrector-there’s the Hydrafacial brand dark spot corrector. Very effective! Sorry for the the very long previous response I just love products!

Hey! Esthetician here! So sometimes those dark spots are straight up scar tissue, and those are harder to deal with and sometimes it’s just denser areas of dyer skin patches that give a darker appearance. Either way products with enzymes are your friends. Enzymes are like Mrs Pac Mac Man chomping the dead cells on…

Coming from Baltimore, so just a metro ride away, and I’m hosting two friends coming down from Vermont!

So I’m a Four Seasons employee and Prince Al-Waleed is a part owner of the company. Anyway this is not relevant to the article but kind of fun to know: whenever he visits a property he refuses to unregulate his body from “Middle Eastern time” and will make the hotel manager and general manager and all other relevant…

I’m coming from Baltimore, will prob protest the Inauguration the day before since it’s so close.

I’ll be there! Baltimore represent!

I’m not from Mobile, but I grew up in a smallish college town in a red Southern state and I have no doubt you’ll be able to find some good people. Look for fun things to do in the alt Weekly for starters. If you don’t already have a spiritual community, consider attending Unitarian services or Quaker meetings. Even if…

That’s awesome! I was raised UU and was a UU camp counselor for over ten years. UU kids are great!

Yay UUs! I’m raising my kids Quaker but was raised UU myself. It’s a great way to grow up!

I love love love the Rainbow Light brand multivitamin for women. I take Topamax for migraine prevention which is known to impair the immune system plus I have two small children who are always bringing germs home but this stuff helps me stay in mostly good health. And if you wanted to add something else do your daily…

Smashbox Instamatte is not cheap (I wanna say $24) but it does work. You can also try the grandma trick of just applying and blotting heavily with a tissue applying and blotting again. This method has served me well with the Mac amplifieds because they tend to be very color saturated and can be worn as a stain as…

It really looks like Dark Side by Mac except more matte. Dark Side is from their amplified line and pretty creamy. But there are products you can add to lipstick to give a matte finish if that's important to you.

I work at the Four fucking Seasons and a couple receptionists often wear their hair similarly and we have VERY strict grooming guidelines. I'm not seeing the problem?

I had a friend in high school who worked in a grocery store and his duties included keeping the restrooms clean and he swore the ladies room was always nastier. My theory was more women took small children into the bathroom and kids were the culprit. Now as an adult, I’ve seen enough menstrual blood smeared on the…