My friend and her husband argued up to the minute their first daughter was born about what to name her. As soon as they saw her, they immediately agreed on a name neither of them had even considered up to that point, because she “looked like” that name. And damn if she didn’t! She may as well have been born wearing a…

Colour Pop’s liquid lipstick isn’t that great though. My friend has one of the mauvy shades and it was not good. The Lip Liners were though. I’ve seen some colour comparisons that seem decent but the formula is different. If I really wanted to save the Milani ones would be where I’d go. Or I would go to a slightly…

Same factory. The formula is apparently different. They generally seem to be a fairly decent product. But I think they are way too expensive especially with the prices for shipping it out and tarrifs making it worse.

Yeah, the comparison doesn’t hold up however you slice it. Plus I would argue that Colour Pop is a much cooler brand in its own right.

the doc. ‘the short game’ about child golfers was SO FREAKING CUTE and endearing and everyone should watch it on netflix.

Yeah I didn’t want to get into a fight with anyone, but I use a lot of Korean skincare and “whitening" is about cell renewal and hyper pigmentation spot reduction. It's an odd translation but isn't to bleach out skin per se. I don't know about other parts of the world of course. Also, lancome and other US companies…

Which is the actual point of most of these products - spot correcters to help eliminate freckles, hyper pigmentation from scarring, and other discolourations. I think it is super important to acknowledge the cultural context of these products (colourism, etc.) but I am also not willing to demonize all lightening spot…

When I was 10 I took the city bus home from the shopping center on a bright, sunny day in late August. As usual the bus was super crowded so I wasn’t sitting which was fine with me because I like to stand. Suddenly, I faintly smelled these wonderful scents : a perfume and aftershave as a couple passed behind me. The…

Wow and I thought it was bad that my toddler takes my phone and spends all of my gold fish in Neko Atsume and fills up my camera roll with awkward selfies and pictures of her stuffed animals.

Thank you for this. I moved to Oakland in 2014 and recently moved back to Austin... largely because I couldn’t afford to live there on a teacher’s salary, but the constant harassment didn’t exactly endear me to the city. I literally could not walk outside without being harassed, yelled at, hit on, cussed at, etc. It…

Wow, an actually balanced response! This guy deserves to be trashed because he’s an entitled punk douche canoe. However I find that people are so quick with the criticism and “They need help” platitudes without really grasping how bad this homeless problem in SF is...probably because they don’t live there and have to…

I have lived in SF my entire life (except when I went to college very nearby) and that in my lifetime it has ALWAYS been the case that certain people do not feel safe going through certain parts of the city. When I was a kid white people didn’t go to the Mission, for example, unless they wanted Mexican food or to get…

Thanks for this rational response. I too live in SF, and have for more than 30 years. In the past 3 years it seems that all hell has broken loose with the homeless situation. Despite our city spending $250 million a year on the 6,000-7,000 homeless, we have no viable solutions and the encampments grow. I won’t go near…

It’s one thing to point out crisis level homeless and poverty levels. We have a very similar problem here in Seattle, which recently resulted in a mass shooting at a homeless encampment called The Jungle. It involved three underage boys trying to collect on a $500 drug debt owed to their mother. Everything about this…

Things about time that may or not be true, ranked. 1. Time is a human construct to mark the days between heavy drinking. 2. Dancing can help give you the time of your life. 3. 121 Jigawatz 4. Parsely sage rosemarie and time. 5. Donald duck used an old times clock and was still late to all his social get togethers.…

The baby does not receive any nutrients from the mom for the first few weeks.

I have found my people! I only remember the emotions I felt while reading a book. I keep the ones I like and whenever someone points and asks if a particular book’s any good I can answer definitively but cannot give a synopsis to save my life. All I know is that they HAVE to read it because “it’s so good.”

Exactly.

imagine the horrendous jokes at a grown pair: the south has invaded the north at last. or the south has risen again.

I don’t want to root for a revenge baby, but a Miranda Lambert/Anderson East baby would be an angelically beautiful music force of nature. And they could name it South to totally mess with Kanye. And it could be a boy and grow up to marry North, and break the brains of whoever is hired to make celebrity couple…